Walmart will soon start using robots to pick and pack shoppers' online grocery orders. The company is building a 20,000-square-foot extension to one of its stores in Salem, New Hampshire, that will house robotic grocery carts and hundreds of products. The automated carts will rapidly pick and pack products according to customers' orders, then deliver... Continue Reading →

Public schools in Pittsburgh are now joining the growing number of forward-thinking educators by bringing mindfulness practices into the daily schedule for students. As more observe the beneficial outcomes from the practice of meditation rather than what many feel to be archaic methods of disciplinary tactics, the more we begin to see these practices catch... Continue Reading →

Boeing wants to make a passenger plane that can shuttle customers around the globe at five times the speed of sound. Boeing says the jet could get you anywhere in the world in just one to three hours. With top speeds exceeding 3,800 miles per hour, the trek from New York to London, for example,... Continue Reading →

Bernie Sanders is old. Even in a Congress where the average age of a legislator is about 60—closer to 58 in the House of Representatives and almost 62 in the Senate, this being one of the oldest congresses ever—the 76-year-old senator from Vermont is, well, up there. So it's a bit ironic that he owes... Continue Reading →

According to a recently released survey from salary, jobs and career database, PayScale, holders of these bachelors degrees said they felt they were unemployed. To complete its study, PayScale collected data from 962,956 workers between 3/21/2014 and 3/21/2016. 1) Physical Education Teaching % Underemployed: 56.4% 2) Human Services % Underemployed: 55.6% 3) Illustration % Underemployed:... Continue Reading →

The Chinese are not taking the United States' latest tariff threat lightly and vowed to retaliate if the U.S. moves forward with it. "China is fully prepared and will have to retaliate to defend the nation's dignity and the interests of the people, defend free trade and the multilateral system, and defend the common interests... Continue Reading →

Jane Hardy, the chief executive of a company that makes lawn-care equipment, says she had to lay off 75 employees this summer because of President Trump’s trade war. As she fights to keep her southern Indiana business going, Hardy is one of several manufacturers warning the White House that, unless they see relief from the... Continue Reading →

From prostate surgery to gallbladder procedures, robots are already mainstays in the operating room. Now, they’re coming for your eyes. In 2016, researchers from the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences kicked off a clinical trial to test the PRECEYES Surgical System, a robot designed to perform surgery on the retina, the surface... Continue Reading →

Labour is set to include a plan for the radical policy of a universal basic income in its next manifesto for a general election, John McDonnell has told The Independent. The shadow chancellor - one of Jeremy Corbyn 's closest allies in Westminster - said a Labour-commissioned review into the policy, which aims to transform... Continue Reading →