Category Archives: Science
Italy fines Amazon $1.3B, alleging harm to outside sellers
MILAN (AP) — Italy’s anti-trust authority on Thursday fined Amazon 1.13 billion euros ($1.3 billion), accusing the company of exploiting its dominant position against independent sellers on its website in violation of European Union competition rules. ...
EU plan to boost gig economy workers is latest blow to apps
LONDON (AP) — A new European Union plan to improve conditions for the growing number of gig economy workers could mean millions more of them are classified as employees entitled to benefits, the latest setback for digital platforms that rely
EU’s ‘roam like at home’ system is extended for a decade
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union reached a political agreement Thursday to extend cuts to costly mobile-phone roaming costs in the bloc for another decade, affecting travel for tens of millions of EU citizens.
New Zealand’s plan to end smoking: A lifetime ban for youth
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's government believes it has come up with a unique plan to end tobacco smoking — a lifetime ban for those aged 14 or younger.
Group: Pandemic tech tools raise risk of everyday tracking
LONDON (AP) — Tech tools like digital contact tracing apps and artificial intelligence that European governments rolled out to combat COVID-19 failed to play a key role in solving the pandemic and now threaten to make such monitoring widely accepted,
California pushes composting to lower food waste emissions
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in January.
Australia’s deputy leader tests positive for virus in the US
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce said Thursday he'd tested positive for the coronavirus while traveling in Washington D.C. Joyce, who is
Quebec committee says Alzheimer’s patients should get access to doctor-assisted death
QUEBEC — A Quebec committee of elected officials says anyone diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease should be able to sign an advance request for medical aid in dying. That is the main recommendation in a multi-party committee report tabled Wednesday looki...
Senate rejects Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate narrowly approved a resolution Wednesday to nullify the Biden administration's requirement that businesses with 100 or more workers have their employees be vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to weekly testing. ...
Health officials in New Brunswick report 111 new cases of COVID-19
FREDERICTON — Health officials in New Brunswick say 10 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed today in schools and child-care facilities in the province, with the majority in the Moncton region. They say 80 per cent of active cases within schools
