Masimo Announces Full Market Release of Stork™ Smart Home Baby Monitor
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 23, 2023--
2023-08-23 20:23
Mortal Kombat 1 narrates deaths with bizarrely calming voice
'Mortal Kombat 1' gives players the option to have fatalities narrated.
2023-08-23 20:15
Options Appoints Former TNS and ICE Executive, Scott Feagans, as SVP of Sales Engineering
LONDON & NEW YORK & HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 23, 2023--
2023-08-23 19:57
Sasol Takes $1.9 Billion Charge on Coal Unit as Emissions Rise
South African fuel and chemical maker Sasol Ltd. took a 35 billion-rand ($1.9 billion) writedown on a facility
2023-08-23 19:57
Nvidia set the market alight last quarter. Can it repeat the trick?
Artificial intelligence darling Nvidia's upcoming earnings report could be a boost or a drag on a market already mired in the summer doldrums.
2023-08-23 19:54
iShowSpeed impersonator gets millions of views by showing old streams
iShowSpeed has been in the news an awful lot recently and he’s one of the most popular streamers on the internet. So popular, in fact, that an impersonator is racking up millions of views by showing his old streams. An IShowSpeed fan account has been posting screenshots from the account, which is restreaming old content. The old streams were being picked up by plenty of fans, too. One grab showed that more than 18,000 concurrent viewers were tuning into old footage of the streamer playing Roblox. Other restreams have also been flagged by fan pages recirculating old footage. IShowSpeed hasn’t responded to the old streams yet, though – and at the moment, he’s probably got other things on his mind. The 18-year-old ended a recent stream suddenly after accidentally exposing himself to fans live on air last week. The hugely popular figure was broadcasting to 24,000 people when he accidentally flashed the camera, looking shocked after realising what he’d done instantly. The streamer, real name Darren Watkins stood up, showing his crotch, not realising that his penis was exposed The streamer has since returned to the platform and addressed the "embarrassing moment," and how it's impacted him mentally. "These past days and hours, I've been suffering very mentally, genuinely," he told viewers. "At the end of the day, I'm still a human being." He said it was "one of the worst fears" that has happened and that it's "just depressing." "You guys are joking, you guys can crack your jokes – but you're genuinely not looking a the bigger picture," he said. "Do you all know I have family, little siblings?" "I don't know what to do anymore, bro," Speed continued. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-08-23 19:50
BlackRock Backs Fewer Climate, Social Shareholder Proposals
BlackRock Inc. backed fewer shareholder proposals on environmental and social issues over the past year as it stressed
2023-08-23 19:47
IntelliGuard Appoints Robert Howard as CEO and Thomas Koning as President to Execute on Strategy of Continued Growth
SAN DIEGO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 23, 2023--
2023-08-23 19:27
Scientists discover that plants make sounds when hurt that you can hear
Plants make sounds when they’re distressed and humans are only hearing them now for the first time, scientists have found. New research has discovered that sounds are used by plants to communicate with their ecosystems – and they could be studied and used to improve growing conditions for plants in the future. Itzhak Khait of Tel Aviv University led the research, which involved studying tobacco and tomato plants. As the findings showed, the plants made high-frequency noise which could be detected five metres away. The study was published in the journal Cell, and the results “can alter the way we think about the plant kingdom, which has been considered to be almost silent until now”. Not only that, but by studying the sounds emitted by the plants experts could tell whether they were in need of water or suffering from cuts. Lilach Hadany, an evolutionary biologist at Tel Aviv University, told Vice: “We started this project from the evolutionary question: why are plants mute? It appears that plants could have a lot to benefit from acoustic communication.” “We were particularly happy that the sounds turned out to be informative – containing information on the type of the plant and the type of the stress.” The findings could change the way plants are grown and communicate with their environments in future, given that we now know information can be conveyed via the sounds. Hadany went on to say: “What we do know is that there are sounds in the air, and they contain information. “Thus, natural selection may be acting on other organisms (animals and plants) to whom the sounds are relevant, to be able to hear the sounds and interpret them. That includes animals that can hear the sounds and can use the information to choose a food source or a laying site, or potentially plants that can prepare for the stress.” The team said in the study: “Plant sound emissions could offer a way for monitoring crops water and possibly disease states—questions of crucial importance in agriculture. “In times when more and more areas are exposed to drought due to climate change, efficient water use becomes even more critical, for both food security and ecology.” Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-08-23 19:27
Nvidia Earnings Are High-Stakes Event for AI-Crazed Markets
Big Tech’s earnings season is wrapping up with a bang: Nvidia Corp., at the center of the artificial
2023-08-23 18:54
SpyCloud Raises $110 Million Growth Round Led by Riverwood Capital to Accelerate Identity Threat Protection
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 23, 2023--
2023-08-23 18:46
Children's advocates ask FTC to investigate Google for targeting ads to kids
Children's advocacy groups including Fairplay and Common Sense Media are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google, saying the tech giant serves personalized ads to kids on YouTube despite federal law prohibiting the practice
2023-08-23 18:18