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Apr 28 2024
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Mike Max tries out MIORA to help fight aging ahead of his 60th birthday
MINNEAPOLIS — Mike Max is going to turn 60 years old this year and he's been thinking a lot about how to make the next ten years healthy years. He started with MIORA — an extension of Life Time Fitness — and a goal to find out his deficiencies and how to fight aging. The program starts with vials of blood. They're testing 95 biomarkers to find out more, like what it is you need to change, then
CBS News (Online)Apr 29 2024
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Tapping into the heat beneath Nevadans’ feet
With highly fractured, permeable ground, the Great Basin’s geology makes it one of the most geothermally rich areas in the world. Hot fluid rises easily toward the surface, ideal for driving power plants, and present-day Nevada is the second-largest producer of geothermal energy in the nation behind California. Tapping into hot fluids below the ground to spin turbines in power plants that
Raw StoryApr 29 2024
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China's BYD shows effects of price war with weaker profit growth
BEIJING, April 29 (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD (002594.SZ) posted its weakest quarterly profit growth since 2022 on Monday, hit by slowing EV demand and a bruising price war in the world's largest auto market.
First-quarter net profit was up 10.6% at 4.57 billion yuan ($631.08 million) while revenue grew by 4% to 124.94 billion yuan, BYD said in a stock market
ReutersApr 29 2024
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Fears over AI killing labor demand are ‘probably overblown,’ researcher argues in new Google report
Good morning. Economists use the label “general-purpose technology” to describe innovations that can affect an entire economy, such as the electric motor in the 1800s—or generative AI today. Andrew McAfee, the inaugural visiting fellow for technology and society at Google and a principal research scientist at MIT, discusses the concept in a report, “Generally Faster: The economic impact of
FortuneApr 29 2024
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US regulators investigate fatal crashes involving Ford’s Blue Cruise hands-free driving technology
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is formally investigating Ford’s Blue Cruise hands-free driving system following two fatal crashes. Blue Cruise was first introduced in the 2021 model year and is now available in several models from Ford and Lincoln, the carmaker’s luxury vehicle brand. The investigation specifically involves Blue Cruise in 130,000 Ford Mustang Mach-E
CNN DigitalApr 29 2024
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Tesla Semi’s impressive performance on ice marks another major triumph
For skeptics of the Tesla Semi-Truck, performance across less-than-perfect conditions is near the top of their list of questions. Sure, this all-electric truck can handle perfectly controlled environments, but truckers know that things are rarely perfect on the roads in the real world. After we wrote about how the in acceleration, even on steep grades, our readers still had plenty of questions
Fox News DigitalAug 17 2023
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Texans Asked to Voluntarily Use Less Electricity in Preparation for Sizzling Heat Wave
The top electric council in Texas is asking residents and businesses to voluntarily conserve energy as temperatures continue to scorch the Lone Star State. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) issued the voluntary conservation alert Thursday morning as demand on the power grid is expected to increase, possibly creating a “potential for lower reserves," officials said. The council
The MessengerApr 29 2024
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WEC Energy to acquire majority stake in Dallas solar project
April 29 (Reuters) - U.S. electric utility WEC Energy Group (WEC.N) said on Monday it will acquire 90% ownership stake in a solar project located near Dallas, Texas for about $459 million. The 300-megawatt solar project Delilah I is developed by Invenergy to generate renewable energy under a long-term power purchase agreement with a global automaker. WEC said the investment is eligible for
ReutersJul 06 2023
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Volkswagen to start testing self-driving electric vans on streets of Austin
Volkswagen AG will start testing its autonomous vehicles on public roads for the first time this month in Austin, Texas.
Volkswagen XE:VOW said Thursday the test program will start with two vehicles this July, and expand to a fleet of 10 ID Buzz electric vans by the end of this year. The program plans to broaden its scope in Austin over the next three years, and eventually expand to at
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