Evicted — electric tractor company Solectrac hasn’t made rent in months

  • April 10, 2024
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Ideanomics-backed electric farm tractor builders Solectrac offered farmers quiet, clean, and reliable operation with mountains of torque – but the latest news out of California is all bad as the company faces eviction and its dealers abandon the brand. Despite an injection of cash from Ideanomics in 2021 and seemingly strong demand for electric tractors in […]

Evicted — electric tractor company Solectrac hasn’t made rent in months

  • April 10, 2024
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Ideanomics-backed electric farm tractor builders Solectrac offered farmers quiet, clean, and reliable operation with mountains of torque – but the latest news out of California is all bad as the company faces eviction and its dealers abandon the brand. Despite an injection of cash from Ideanomics in 2021 and seemingly strong demand for electric tractors in […]

Health

The History Behind Arizona’s 160-Year-Old Abortion Ban

  • April 10, 2024
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The 160-year-old Arizona abortion ban that was upheld on Tuesday by the state’s highest court was among a wave of anti-abortion laws propelled by some historical twists and turns that might seem surprising. For decades after the United States became a nation, abortion was legal until fetal movement could be felt, usually well into the […]

Oil prices rise 1% as traders brace for possible Iran strike against Israel

  • April 10, 2024
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Iranian people are standing in front of an anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli banner during a rally commemorating International Quds Day, also known as Jerusalem Day, and attending a funeral for members of the IRGC Quds Force who were killed in an Israeli air strike in Syria, in Tehran, Iran, on April 5, 2024. Morteza Nikoubazl | […]

Health Technologies

AI-based adaptive optics takes retinal imaging to ‘next level’, finds study

  • April 10, 2024
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health applied artificial intelligence (AI) to a technique that produces high-resolution images of cells in the eye. They report that with AI, imaging is 100 times faster and improves image contrast 3.5-fold. The advance, they say, will provide researchers with a better tool to evaluate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) […]

World

The Sober-Curious Movement Has Reached an Impasse

  • April 10, 2024
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At Hopscotch, Daryl Collins’s bottle shop in Baltimore, he happily sells wine to 18-year-olds. If a customer isn’t sure what variety they like (and who is, at that age?), Collins might even pull a few bottles off the shelves and pop the corks for an impromptu tasting. No Maryland law keeps these teens away from […]