People in Brazil's Amazon rainforest again reel from floods

For the second straight year, inhabitants of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are being overwhelmed by flooding, with hundreds of thousands of people already affected by waters that are still rising.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-science-news/people-in-brazils-amazon-rainforest-again-reel-from-floods

To use rather than collect, the second coming of NFTs

NFTs have been called everything from fads to outright scams, but early adopters see a future for them as uniquely useful tools for business, health and the arts that goes beyond mere digital collecting.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-technology-news/to-use-rather-than-collect-the-second-coming-of-nfts

TikTok lets creators charge monthly subscriptions

TikTok on Monday said it will start letting some popular accounts at the video-snippet streaming star charge subscriptions for live streams.

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Airbnb stops booking stays in China: source

Home rental service Airbnb is shutting down its business in China as a pandemic lockdown shows no sign of ending there, a source close to the company told AFP Monday.

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Boards for Meta, Twitter face backlash from NY pension fund

A major New York pension fund that has invested in both Facebook's corporate parent and Twitter believes it's time to shake up the companies' boards of directors because of their inability to keep violent content off their influential social media services.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-technology-news/boards-for-meta-twitter-face-backlash-from-ny-pension-fund

Easy as an inkjet, a new soft printing technique has opened the way for pixelated elastics

Borrowing a technique from inkjet printers, researchers at Princeton Engineering have rolled out a pixel-by-pixel method to program and manufacture soft structures for use in robotics, biomedical devices or architectural features.

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-technology-news/easy-as-an-inkjet-a-new-soft-printing-technique-has-opened-the-way-for-pixelated-elastics

Girls' chance of success at school in Sub-Saharan Africa shaped by language they are taught in

Millions of school children across large parts of Sub-Saharan Africa are sat silently in classrooms, struggling to follow lessons, and not progressing in their learning due to an insistence that all lessons should be taught in English, say the authors of a new report. 

source https://www.lifetechnology.com/blogs/life-technology-science-news/girls-chance-of-success-at-school-in-sub-saharan-africa-shaped-by-language-they-are-taught-in