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Microsoft is overhauling Teams to make it faster and easier to use. In a published Monday, the company said Teams users can look forward to a redesigned app that is up to two times faster than the current release, with tasks like launching the program and joining video calls taking half as much time. The overhauled app also offers smoother scrolling while avoiding the use of placeholder assets. At the same time, Microsoft says the new Teams uses 50 percent less memory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7nnXej2K4…

Harley-Davidson Inc. HOG 9.09% posted higher revenue in the fourth quarter as the company shipped out more of its bikes and continued to bounce back from a production pause earlier last year.  The Milwaukee-based motorcycle company said Thursday that global shipments rose 18% from a year before, sending total revenue up 12% to $1.14 billion, above analysts’ expectations of $917.8 million.  Global retail sales were flat in…

is rolling out two new modes for that are designed to make the browser on your system's battery and memory. It says that, with the Memory Saver mode, Chrome will reduce its memory usage by up to 30 percent on desktop. The mode frees up memory from open tabs that you aren't using. Google says this will help to give you a smoother experience on active tabs. Chrome will reload inactive tabs when you switch back to them. As for Battery Saver mode, Google says that can kick in when you're using the browser and your device's…

Harley-Davidson Inc.’s HOG -0.51% LiveWire LVWR 2.88% subsidiary is off to a rough start as a public company, as its electric motorcycles struggle to attract riders and investors.Shares of LiveWire Group Inc. have fallen about 15% since the merger in late September with a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. The deal yielded about half the cash proceeds Harley anticipated, with most of the SPAC investors withdrawing their…

A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 378, Issue 6618.Download PDF Des Moines, Iowa—At 4:30 a.m. on 16 June, the last morning of the National Swine Registry’s Exposition, a weeklong hog show at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Andrew Bowman and his team began winding through massive, open-air barns housing some 2000 pigs. Large fans blew across the pens to cool the pigs and ease the pungent ammonia stench of urine and feces. But Bowman,…

Harley-Davidson has struggled to stock dealerships in North America. Photo: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg News…

Two brain-dead individuals received genetically modified pig-heart transplants, part of growing efforts by scientists who want to improve tests on pig organs for pig viruses and gather data that could help launch clinical trials of animal-to-human organ transplants.Scientists at NYU Langone Health, where the research studies took place in June and July, said the pig hearts were flown from a facility hundreds of miles away and then transplanted into two recently deceased individuals, Lawrence Kelly, 72, a former welder…

A few years ago, a friend said he had spotted river otters just outside of Fairfield, a small town in southeast Iowa where I grew up. This was big news to me. For most of my life, I thought Iowa was boring. It’s the land of cornfields and hog farms. One of the state’s only claims to fame is that it’s home to the world’s largest truck stop (with 900 truck parking spots, 24 private showers, and an onsite chiropractor and dentist). And while my hometown is something of a spiritual paradise — it’s a hub for disciples of…

Image via Disney Plus. Apparently, superheroes are old hat by this point as the MCU is currently obsessed with the gods of the Marvel universe instead. Moon Knight just introduced the Ennead of Egyptian mythology and next month’s Thor: Love and Thunder is set to throw even more deities into the mix, too, as Christian Bale’s Gorr the God Butcher wages war on the franchise’s divine beings. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the makers of Moon Knight had to coordinate with the minds behind Thor: Love and Thunder in…

Smithfield Foods Inc., the largest pork processor in the U.S. by volume, is closing an 1,800-person plant in California and shrinking the size of its hog herd in the region, saying the cost of doing business in the state wasn’t worth it. Smithfield, owned by Hong Kong-based pork conglomerate WH Group Ltd. 288 -2.60% , said Friday that it would close the plant in Vernon, Calif., just outside of Los Angeles, in early 2023, citing higher…