Mercedes has unveiled an electric car that it claims can travel more than 1,000km on a single charge, in an attempt to convince customers that a lack of charging infrastructure need not be a barrier to buying a battery-powered vehicle. The range, which far exceeded the industry average of about 300km, was calculated using internal…
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The internet has a long memory. Our digital legacies comprise years of search requests, images and comments. US start-ups want to turn that data into something more purposeful. Silicon Valley’s version of immortality does not involve transforming brainwaves into binary code, another subject of this New Year Lex column on blue sky thinking. Instead, start-ups…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services officially tossed out a Trump-era policy that would have prevented Medicare from paying more for certain outpatient drugs than the lowest price paid by other wealthy countries, according to a final rule released last week. All but one of the 34 commenters on the proposed rule supported rescinding…
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Medical imaging service in a hospital in Savoie, France. A technician monitors a brain MRI scan session. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A whistleblower spoke to The Guardian about a mysterious neurological disease in New Brunswick, Canada. They spoke of their concerns about the disease, saying that it was spreading rapidly and that the cases…
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Clydebank, home to big shipyards during Britain’s industrial revolution, lent its name to the declaration on green shipping that emerged from COP26. Countries including the US and UK agreed to create zero-emission shipping corridors. Disappointingly, the agreement lacked clear targets on emissions. These are needed to encourage a new era of low-carbon sailing whose technology…
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Omicron, by far the most contagious coronavirus variant to date, is so rampant around the world that it is easy to feel despondent about the prospects of the pandemic easing — let alone coming to an end — in 2022. But there are good reasons to think that Covid-19’s toll on global health and its…
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“The Lex writer had always loved busy Wall Street.” So begins “The Pink Ballpoint”, an auto-generated short story about a fictional Lex writer. Programmers hope computers will eventually write fiction and play music as skilfully as people, the second blue sky idea we examine in today’s thematic column. If they succeed, Artificial intelligence would have…
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From Gilgamesh onwards, quests for the fountain of youth have not ended well. That has not deterred Silicon Valley billionaires such as Peter Thiel, who once described death as “a problem that can be solved”. The quest to extend longevity radically is the first blue sky idea Lex is examining in our annual focus on…
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