‘Red gold’: Why saffron production is dwindling in India

RUNNING IN temperate seasons like spring and fall is easy. The discipline gets harder in the summer, when just being outside causes sticky sweat to fill my body’s nooks and crannies, but it’s not impossible. You just have to force yourself out of bed earlier. Come December and into January, however, I find jogging through…

Portable X-ray equipment that can take high quality images is transforming healthcare in remote areas.

For instance, lamppost electric vehicle (EV) charging is expanding. A big advantage of repurposing existing lampposts is that cities don’t have to dig in order to lay new cables, says Artis Markots, the chief executive of the Latvian start-up SimpleCharge, which is focusing on Central and Eastern Europe.

Blockchain technology is revolutionizing future financial systems by enhancing transparency, security, and efficiency. It enables decentralized transactions and reduces fraud. Blockchain’s role in financial systems is transformative. This technology ensures secure and transparent transactions by creating immutable records. Banks and financial institutions are adopting blockchain for faster, more reliable transactions. It reduces the need for…

Amazon is laying off hundreds of employees at its studio division as well as its subsidiary Twitch to reduce costs, the latest in a wave of new job cuts hitting the tech industry. Twitch, a video streaming platform, will cut just over 500 roles, or 35 percent of its work force, according to a blog…

For OpenAI, which has become the face of the booming AI industry thanks to popular consumer products such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, the last few days have been a crisis with no clear end in sight. But for competitors in the frothy AI sector, it’s an opportunity. More than 700 employees at the artificial intelligence…