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The 95-Year-Old Japanese Man Who Is the World's Oldest Speedskater
 Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a kamikaze mission during World War II.
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Editor's Note: The collection caps a remarkable near-century of life. Mr. Marumo survived World War II despite volunteering to fly a kamikaze mission, was awarded by Japan's emperor for teaching other farmers how to profit by growing celery, and he publishes a short monthly magazine dedicated to traditional Japanese poetry.
WorkWorkUkraines embrace of drone warfare has paid off - The Economist (No paywall) IT HAS become a clich to note that the war in Ukraine is a drone war. But two recent studies shed light on what that means in practice. In mid-February the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a think-tank in London, published the latest in a series of papers taking stock of tactical developments in Ukraine over the preceding year. On March 6th the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released another paper looking at Ukraines capacity and plans for war specifically involving artificial-intelligence (AI) tools. Together they paint a picture of a battlefield that is increasingly saturated with and dominated by the presence of uncrewed machines. WorkWork
WorkWorkAlphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara Light-based internet project Taara is exiting Alphabet's "moonshot" incubator X, spinning off into an independent company. Taara's tech uses lasers to transmit data, and is envisaged as a rival to Elon Musk's Starlink when it comes to connecting rural areas to the internet. WorkWork WorkChina Made a Spy Camera That Can See Faces from Space Chinese scientists have built a surveillance camera with unprecedented resolving capabilities. The powerful laser-based delivered millimeter-level resolution from 100 kilometers (62 miles) away, an achievement previously thought impossible. WorkWorkWork WorkDo sperm really race to the egg? Egg fertilization is often described as an epic swim meet: Millions of sperm swim as fast as they can toward the egg until one -- the fastest, strongest, healthiest sperm of them all -- wins the race and wriggles into the egg, with the prize of passing its genes to future offspring. WorkLeBron James Cracks Down on the Press It's embarrassing for everyone involved. I need you to watch this 13-second video of ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith walking to his courtside seat at a Los Angeles Lakers game. WorkWhere U.S. Measles Outbreaks Are SpreadingMeasles continues to spread in West Texas and New Mexico, with more than 290 people infected -- many unvaccinated school-age children. Four cases in Oklahoma have also been linked to these outbreaks. WorkThe Violent Rise of 'No Lives Matter' The kids are all grown up. In the face of international law enforcement pressure, dozens of prosecutions, and worldwide disrepute, the network of young sadists, misanthropes, child predators, and extortionists known as Com and 764 has not shrunk away into obscurity. WorkWorkWorkSteve Jobs Syndrome and How to Identify It - Mert Bulan In 2009, when I was 15, an Apple Premium Reseller opened in my hometown. Before that, I didn't really know much about Apple. I had heard of it a few times, but nobody in my circle owned an Apple product. The main reason for that was the high price of their products. Work WorkWorkThe head of a Biden program that could help rural broadband has left Evan Feinman has stepped down as the director of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, reports ProPublica's Craig Silverman in a Bluesky post today. BEAD aims to bring high-bandwidth internet to underserved areas of America, much of which is rural. WorkWork WorkWorkWe Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. WorkScale AI is being investigated by the US Department of Labor The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating the data labeling startup Scale AI for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, TechCrunch has learned. That's a federal law that regulates unpaid wages, misclassification of employees as contractors, and illegal retaliation against workers. WorkChewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year ... from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers - similar to the plastic material used in car tyres. WorkWorkWorkWorkAmerica is facing a beef deficit - The Economist (No paywall) THE WEST LOOP in Chicago was once the citys meatpacking district. That is long gone, but the neighbourhood is still a place where people come from miles around to buy beef. At Au Cheval, a fancy burger joint where tourists queue up for hours, the signature dish is a double cheeseburger served with a fried egg. It is reputed, at least among Chicagoans, to be the best burger in the world. Yet the price of such a delight is rising. It is not only that eggs now sell for $6 a dozen, thanks to bird flu. More quietly, beef has been rising in price for years now too. And thanks to Donald Trumps proposed tariffs, it may be about to get much worse. WorkTrump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families Most of those families previously detained were Central Americans who had recently crossed the southern border, and many were expected to be swiftly deported, unless they sought asylum and expressed credible fear of returning to their home countries. WorkForever 21 files for bankruptcy in the US Its inexpensive, trendy clothes and accessories became increasingly popular with young people over the next few decades and the brand became a competitor of fast-fashion giants such as Zara and H&M. WorkIrish company to unveil world-first quantum computing server Equal1, the Irish quantum computing company that was spun out from University College Dublin (UCD), is set to make history on Monday as it unveils the world's first silicon-based quantum server at a conference attended by about 15,000 physicists in California. WorkWork'I'm a little angry': Canadian firms boycott US products He says that Canada should focus on "those industries where we have a comparative advantage", which he says include renewable energy and processing steel and aluminium. Those two metals have now been hit with a 25% tariff if they are exported to the US. WorkWorkStudy finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy deserts A study published in JAMA Network Open found that pharmacy deserts are significantly more common in counties where patients are experiencing high social vulnerability. They said 46 percent of all counties studied had at least one pharmacy desert, and that 15.8 million people in the U.S. WorkWorkThis startup just hit a big milestone for green steel production This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review's weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Green-steel startup Boston Metal just showed that it has all the ingredients needed to make steel without emitting gobs of greenhouse gases. WorkTrump Says He Will Call Putin to Discuss Ending Ukraine War Mr. Putin had demanded on Friday that Ukraine’s troops in the Kursk region of Russia surrender. But by the weekend, after fierce fighting, the Ukrainians had withdrawn from most of the region, leaving them controlling a sliver of land in Russia. WorkWorkWorkWorkNASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-9 Return, Splashdown NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the vestibule between the International Space Station and the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. Clockwise from left, are NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. |
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