Coverage by Axios, and they named Nutrisense, which is cool! “Glucose monitoring tech could become even more widely used by nondiabetics after the Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first over-the-counter device.” ~ learn more
One of two big settlements this month that’ll eventually trickle down to impact consumers. This one will make credit card acceptance more fragmented and complex, but potentially save merchants money. ~ learn more
Here’s another major settlement that will possibly end up driving commissions lower for real estate transactions. It seems that brokers will no longer be splitting commission by default. Time will tell how this one plays out! ~ learn more
“We uncovered a set of apps and fake experts cheating the performance metrics. We found those practices in almost 15% of extensions that promised one-click optimizations. This means that a large number of merchant sites are affected.” ~ learn more
“Scientists achieved this effect by changing each animal’s ‘epigenome’, one feature of which is a collection of chemical tags that are bound to DNA and affect gene activity. After the treatment, activity of the targeted gene dropped and remained low for the 11 months over which the mice were studied.” ~ learn more
A win for machine learning algorithms. The article does quote a critic who says this is not yet good enough to be a legit test. “The proteins were able to predict all-cause dementia as well as particular types, including Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, and could also open avenues for new research into novel treatments, according to the researchers.” ~ learn more
“We work with a multidisciplinary group of top scientific experts to help us evaluate promising carbon removal technologies.” The group’s backers have committed to spending $1 Billion on this critical work. They are bridging the early demand gap to get carbon removal projects built before the economics are market-ready. ~ learn more
Do you ever wonder who’s taking on that hurricane risk for insured homeowners in Florida? “When thousands of homeowners in Florida and Louisiana purchased their hurricane insurance, they probably had no idea that John Seo stood to make a big profit if their properties got through the next three years unscathed.” ~ learn more
It turns out that even the government is prohibited from misleading the court, at least sometimes. “In Monday’s decision, Shelby denied the SEC’s request, citing multiple instances of “bad faith” conduct and finding the agency responsible for a “gross abuse of power.” In the 80-page filing, Shelby imposed a sanction in the form of a requirement for the agency to pay for DEBT Box’s attorneys’ fees and costs related to…
The biggest challenge for offshore wave power is the occasional yet inevitable humungous storm. “CorPower says it's a novel phase control technology called WaveSpring that sets its huge C4 buoys apart. An internal pneumatic cylinder is pre-tensioned to pull the buoy downwards, such that in the absence of active control, the buoy simply sits still in "transparent" mode no matter how high the waves get. This acts as a safety…