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ANIMAL RESEARCH Lab pauses monkey imports Charles River Laboratories, one of the largest U.S. importers and suppliers of research monkeys, announced last week it is suspending shipments from Cambodia after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice. In November 2022, the agency indicted members of a smuggling ring that was illegally exporting cynomolgus macaques caught in the wild in Cambodia, labeling them as captive-bred. Charles River said the…

Lock screen platform Glance is planning to expand in Indonesia and launch its live platform Roposo in the next quarter, Piyush Shah, co-founder of InMobi Group and president and chief operating officer of Glance, told ET. Once launched, Roposo will add creator-driven live content on lock screens, he said.“This will provide creators multiple, differentiated opportunities for monetisation, wide scale reach, and unique engagement,” Shah said. The Google- and Reliance Jio-backed firm also plans to offer more gaming and live…

In a major push for the government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), ecommerce giant Amazon on Friday committed to joining the platform with its logistics and SmartCommerce offerings. This and more in today’s edition of ETtech Top 5.Also in this letter:■ Cricketer Deepak Chahar, wife Jaya float sports tech venture ■ Glance surpasses 30 million users in Indonesia, Roposo launch soon■ IMF lays out crypto action plan, bats against legal tender statusAmazon to board ONDC with logistics, SmartCommerce offerings…

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ASTRONOMY Chile radio telescope array gains keener vision ALMA, one of the world’s biggest radio telescope arrays, is getting hardware and software upgrades to allow it to collect much more data and produce sharper images. Announced last week, the latest modernizations to ALMA—officially the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, which sits high in the Chilean Andes—will cost $37 million and take 6 years to complete. Workers will upgrade the data…

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SPACE FLIGHT Nuclear rocket eyed for Mars trips NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plan to launch and test a nuclear-powered rocket engine in space as soon as 2027, the agencies announced last week. Such engines promise higher thrust and efficiency than conventional ones, enabling faster travel times and bigger payloads for human missions to Mars, the agencies say. Although NASA has experimented with nuclear engines since the 1960s,…

Many Pixel users are using the Pixel At a Glance widget, which proved to be quite useful. Back in July last year, that widget got Air Quality (AQI) alerts feature. Well, now you can turn on/off Air Quality alerts in Pixel At a Glance, which was not the case from the get-go.You can now turn on/off Air Quality alerts for Pixel At a Glance widgetDo note that Air Quality alerts appear on both the lock and home screen as a color dot and numerical value. That info appears next to the temperature in the Pixel At a Glance…

GEOLOGY AI helps find missed meteorites Antarctica is famously good at preserving meteorites, burying the rocks in snow and ice until they resurface. They often become concentrated in regions of compacted “blue” ice that make up about 1% of the Antarctic surface. But finding the meteorites within those tracts has been an ad hoc affair. Now, researchers have a new tool for the hunt: an artificial intelligence algorithm that predicts their location. A team of…

CLIMATE SCIENCE In 2022, Earth set new records for warming Temperatures continued to rise at an alarming pace in 2022, which became the fifth- or sixth-hottest year in modern history, U.S. and European science agencies reported last week. Earth’s average recorded surface temperatures were some 1.2°C warmer than preindustrial times. Nearly 30 countries set individual all-time heat records, and some 850 million people experienced the warmest temperatures of their…