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Air Force Commits $60M to Supersonic Air Travel

It is designed to carry 65-88 passengers at speeds twice as fast as any airliner today.

Railroad, Shipping Companies See Uptick in Looting

Empty boxes and packages from UPS, FedEx and Amazon have been found alongside railroad tracks.

Jeep's Odor Problem; Sinking Building; EV Gets 752 MPC | Today in Manufacturing Ep. 50

Also on the podcast, the "Great Resignation" not so great, Ring targets suspicious people, finding human faces for robots, wishcycling and ultra-luxury automakers have banner year.

$3.4M in Fraudulent Relief Funds Generates $16M Forfeiture of Tesla Stock

Amazon Texts Tell Employee with COVID-19 He’s Losing PTO

VW, BMW on Opposite Ends of 2021 Sales

Company is Paying Employees to Quit

One ‘mechanical tree’ is about 1,000 times faster at removing carbon dioxide from air than a natural tree. The first is to start operating in Arizona in 2022.

These Machines Scrub Greenhouse Gases from the Air

An inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works.

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Airlines Again Warn of Potential Disruption from 5G

The nation’s largest airlines say that interference with a key instrument is worse than they originally thought.

Nanostructured wrinkled Teflon surfaces were developed by the team to effectively trap a lubricating layer.

Nanobubbles Provide Path to Better Medical Devices

Tiny gas bubbles could reduce liquid drag within microdevices.

Retired teacher Aydan Arat in Istanbul, Sept. 23, 2021.

Bloomberg Funds Programs to Solve Cities' Problems

They range from using technology to support tree maintenance to creating new farm models.

In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, taillights trace the path of a motor vehicle at the Naughton Power Plant, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyo. While the power plant will be closed in 2025, Bill Gates' company TerraPower announced it had chosen Kemmerer for a nontraditional, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor that will bring on workers from a local coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.

In Tiny Wyoming Town, Bill Gates Bets Big on Nuclear Power

TerraPower is planning a nontraditional, sodium-cooled reactor.

The Activision Blizzard Booth is shown on June 13, 2013 the during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, for $68.7 billion to gain access to blockbuster games including Call of Duty and Candy Crush. The all-cash deal will let Microsoft accelerate mobile gaming and provide it building blocks for the metaverse, or a virtual environment.

Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7B

It will accelerate mobile gaming and provide building blocks for the metaverse.

A woman wearing a mask to protect from the coronavirus walks past parcels gathered near delivery tricycles in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Chinese state media say parcels mailed from overseas may have spread the omicron variant of the coronavirus in Beijing and elsewhere, despite doubts among overseas health experts that the virus can be transmitted via packaging.

China Says Omicron May Have Spread Via Packaging

Though health experts doubt that is possible.

A drone attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people on Monday and sparked a fire at Abu Dhabi's international airport.

Satellite Photos Show Aftermath of Abu Dhabi Oil Site Attack

Fears over new disruptions to global energy supplies after the attack pushed benchmark Brent crude to its highest price in years.

Visitors walk past a booth for Chinese online retailer JD.com at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. JD.com Inc., China’s biggest online retailer, and Canadian e-commerce service Shopify launched a venture Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, to give independent U.S. merchants access to JD.com’s 550 million customers.

JD, Shopify to Help U.S. Merchants Sell in China

The service will take advantage of JD’s network of 1,300 warehouse and 200,000 delivery personnel in China.

Steel and concrete containers used for dry storage of spent fuel at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah nuclear plant near Chattanooga, Tenn., are shown to the media during a Friday Jan. 13, 2012 tour. As climate change pushes states in the U.S. to dramatically cut their use of fossil fuels, many are coming to the conclusion that solar, wind and other renewable power sources won't be enough to keep the lights on. Nuclear power is emerging as an answer to fill the gap as states transition away from coal, oil and natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst effects of a warming planet.

Race to Cut Carbon Emissions Splits States on Nuclear

Nuclear power could help fill the gap as states transition away from fossil fuels, but it comes with its own potential problems.

Taste Test: Oat & Hemp Gelato from Wonderlab’s Doozy Pots

See what our crew thought of the vegan frozen dessert.

An Amazon distribution center is heavily damaged after a strong thunderstorm moved through the area, Dec. 10, 2021, in Edwardsville, Ill. The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the central Illinois Amazon facility where he worked filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday, Jan. 17, 2022 in Madison County.

Tornado Victim's Family Sues Amazon Over Warehouse Collapse

It is believed to be the first legal action taken in response to the deaths.