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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Moral dilemmas—balancing one right action against another—are a ubiquitous feature of 21st-century life. However unavoidable, though, they are not unique to our modern age. The challenge of accommodating conflicting needs figured as prominently in the lives of our human ancestors as it does for us today.…

Like many patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS—also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease—Layne Oliff didn’t have any time to waste.Even before the drug Relyvrio was approved late last month by the Food and Drug Administration, he has had his own do-it-yourself method: he gets sodium phenylbutyrate in liquid form from a New Jersey pharmacy and taurursodiol online from Amazon. That costs him over $7,000 a year, but he says it has been well worth it because he feels the combination has helped stabilize a…

McKinsey & Co., the consulting powerhouse that advises not just Puerto Rico’s government but also the primary contractors and vendors for the island territory’s energy system, is facing scrutiny in the wake of the power grid’s continued dysfunction. Since McKinsey was hired as the top consultant to Puerto Rico’s financial-oversight board, which oversees public spending, the firm has helped officials shape efforts to overhaul the territory’s electricity system through a privatization process that…

Hyundai Mobis, South Korea's leading auto parts maker, said it will promote an advanced in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system jointly developed with a Swiss company for next-generation vehicles.Hyundai Mobis and Luxoft are "at the final stage" of developing the IVI platform for future vehicles and will introduce it at the International Suppliers Fair to be held in Germany on October 11, Hyundai Mobis said in a statement.Read AlsoThe two companies' IVI platform, named Mobis Infotainment System (MIS), can fully control six…

Google has begun rolling out the Google System updates for October 2022. The first batch of updates adds a reminder dialog for pending system software updates to Android TV or Google TV device. This feature is available with Google Play Store version 40.2 rolled out a few days back. It will ensure you don’t miss out on critical updates for your TV. This is a timely addition ahead of the Android 12 update for the original Chromecast with Google TV.The initial release of the Google System updates for this month also fixes…

Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: Blizzard will require Overwatch 2 and Modern Warfare 2 players to use SMS Protect, a 2FA system, to combat toxicity, but won't accept prepaid and VOIP numbers — Just like Overwatch 2, you'll need to attach a phone number to your Battle.net account to play Modern Warfare 2—and prepaid phones aren't allowed. Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: Blizzard will require Overwatch 2 and Modern Warfare 2 players to use SMS Protect, a 2FA system, to combat toxicity, but won't accept prepaid…

When the next Call of Duty arrives on , fans will need to connect a phone number to their Battle.net account to play the game. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, newly created Overwatch 2 accounts, and newly created Call of Duty: Modern Warfare accounts require a phone number,” says a recently spotted by . News of the requirement comes following a week of controversy around , the phone-linking system in use by Overwatch 2 and soon Modern Warfare II. After a that saw a prevent many from playing Overwatch 2 on its release…

The hydrogen-diesel direct injection dual-fuel system developed at UNSW enables a traditional diesel engine to be retrofitted to run as a hydrogen-diesel hybrid engine. Credit: Prof. Shawn Kook Engineers from UNSW Sydney have successfully converted a diesel engine to run as a hydrogen-diesel hybrid engine—reducing CO2 emissions by more than 85% in the process.…

A simulation of the planet from the DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model, one of the large-scale models incorporated in the Earth System Grid Federation led by DOE's Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. Credit: LLNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy The Earth System Grid Federation, a multi-agency initiative that gathers and distributes data for top-tier projections of the Earth's climate, is preparing a…

You probably never saw the NES as a productivity machine, but some clever developers beg to differ. Hackaday and Ars Technica note Inkbox Software has released a graphical operating system, NESOS, for Nintendo's console. The mid-'80s technology restricts the OS to two apps (a word processor and settings) and eight 832-byte files, but you have an honest-to-goodness pointer, movable icons and customizable interface colors. Inkbox primarily had to overcome the NES' very limited memory and storage. NESOS fits into just 48K,…