Alaska Airlines nudges passengers to mobile boarding passes

A traveller stands at an Alaska Airlines kiosk at San Francisco International Airport during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco, Dec. 22, 2020. Alaska Airlines is pushing passengers to load…

EasyJet CEO ‘confident’ after last summer’s travel chaos

EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren expects a ‘better’ summer for travellers after last year’s chaos. The aviation sector has endured chaos at airports after the end of Covid restrictions, high inflation…

Surface steers signals for next-gen networks

Computer science Ph.D. student Kun Woo Cho is the lead author of a study on mmWall, a new device that steers higher-frequency 5G signals, or mmWave signals, to get around…

Study Explores Prosocial Behavior Within and Between Religious Groups

Summary: Regardless of affiliation, religious people were more likely to act in a generous manner toward strangers when asked to think about their God. The level of giving increased equally…

Scientists point the way to a sustainable circular economy for plastics

Turning Gray: Stuck Stem Cells Turn Hair Gray

Summary: A new study sheds light on why we tend to go gray as we age. Researchers found melanocyte stem cells get stuck as we grow older, losing the ability…

Microsoft looks to buy $50m Foxconn parcel in Wisconsin

The Microsoft company logo is displayed at their offices in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Local leaders have approved plans for a massive Microsoft data center in a…

Mapping the Psyche of Extreme Altruists

Summary: While more altruistic people can be distinguished from typical adults by their unselfish traits and actions, they are generally not different in other ways. Altruistic people are no more…

Canada public broadcaster CBC quits Twitter over ‘government-funded’ label

The CBC said Twitter’s new label for the Canadian broadcaster puts into question its ‘impartial and independent’ journalism. Canada’s public broadcaster CBC and its French-language version Radio-Canada said Monday they…

Computer scientists create ‘believable’ human interactions in AI world of Smallville