According to the Wall Street Journal, Kodak will soon play a role in curbing the US’ reliance on medicines from outside sources like China — starting with producing ingredients for generic drugs like the Donald Trump-touted hydroxychloroquine. Kodak chief exec Jim Continenza told WSJ he expects basic pharma ingredients to eventually make up 30% to 40% of the company’s overall business. Kodak took a $765 million loan from the US International Development Finance Corporation to power the shift, which is effectively a government bank....

— Xerox (@Xerox) February 19, 2020 In 1973, Tesler joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he worked with Tim Mott to create the Gypsy text editor. It was within Gypsy that he created the modeless method for copying and moving parts of text, which we now know as cutting, copying, pasting. You can still view his modest-looking CV on his website here, in which he talks about the work he did while at the company....

I can personally see the use for a dual-screen phone without the durability concerns of a flexible screen, but reviewers found the device to be too weak, too expensive, and too buggy at launch to be worth recommending to most people. But perhaps one of its biggest sins was the lack of a competitive camera. There was no camera on the outside of the device, and users were stuck using the middling 11MP selfie cam for all their photos....

That’s from a photo sent to XDA by a leaker who did not wish to be named; it shows the boot screen of the device, with the moniker ‘Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5G.’ The company is expected to reveal this model along with the rest of the lineup at an event on February 11 — less than a month away. From the other pictures, it’s also evident that there’s a circular hole-punch camera at the top of the screen (similar to the one on the recent Galaxy S10 Lite, shown at the top of this story), and four rear cameras in a rectangular patch....

According to photos of controller packaging posted by twitter user Zak and confirmed by The Verge, Microsoft will release a cheaper version of the Xbox Series X and it’ll be called Xbox Series S. The company hasn’t yet announced any details related to this. [Read: Stream Game Pass games to your Android with xCloud in September] The controller mention in photos was sold on an ecommerce site, and the packaging mentioned that it was compatible with both Xbox Series X and Series S....

It’s a cliche to say the world is transforming. It’s always transforming, especially in the tech realm. But it’s no exaggeration to say the explosion of growth surrounding the Python programming language over the past 30 years is not a transformation you see every day. Fueled by its indispensable position as a cornerstone of computer science, using the easy-to-learn, resourceful, yet powerful Python as part of coding projects is a skill set that can’t be ignored....

If it works so well for UPS, should cities seek to eliminate left-hand turns at intersections too? My research suggests the answer is a resounding yes. As a transportation engineering professor at Penn State, I have studied traffic flow on urban streets and transportation safety for nearly a decade. Part of my work focuses on how city streets should be organized and managed. It turns out, restricting left turns at intersections with traffic signals lets traffic move more efficiently and is safer for the public....

Perhaps feeling the pressure, a group called the Center for Consumer Freedom — a PR group that has done work food companies, restaurants, and other special interests (including the meat industry) — has taken out full-page ads in the New York Post and Wall Street Journal highlighting the chemical additives in the plant-based burgers. Another important item of note is that the Center for Consumer Freedom, run by lobbyist Richard Berman, previously argued against lowering the blood alcohol content to 0....

The Lucy spacecraft had arrived safely at the space center, readying for its upcoming historic mission. This vehicle, designed by the Southwest Research Institute, will be the first to visit the Trojan asteroids which accompany Jupiter on its orbit around the Sun. If everything goes according to plan, an Atlas V 401 rocket will lift the Lucy spacecraft into space, sometime between 16 October and 8 November. Lucy, Lucy, Lucy… Lucy (the spacecraft) was named in honor of Lucy, an early hominid found in Ethiopia in 1974....

The survey of more than 14,000 people in 16 countries showed views vary widely between different demographic groups. People in southern Europe and Morocco — the only non-European country in the survey — were far more open to the prospect than their northern neighbors. A whopping 81% of Italians said they’d consider human augmentation — despite more than half thinking it’s dangerous for society — compared to just a third (33%) of Brits....

Surely people cried when Aeris died in Final Fantasy VII, others might have cried when Mario found out that the princess was in another castle. All that is to say that everyone has different emotional responses to works of art, and mine is comparable to that of an unfazed cow. I’m not sure if cows can feel emotions at all, but I am sure that a piece of media never made me cry....

The goal of any marketing campaign is basically the same: grab attention with a message or product that inspires enough interest to activate your audience to spread the word. You can boil all that down to one basic objective — go viral. That’s the core concept behind Viral Loops. Right now, you can get lifetime access to their unique approach to turn-key messaging campaigns right now at over 90 percent off their regular price, only $49 from TNW Deals....

The Nevera was released by the automaker yesterday and is everything that its name signifies in Croatian: quick, powerful, and unexpected, as the homonymous lightning storm that races across the Mediterranean Sea off the Croatian coast. Powered by a 120kWh battery pack, the Nevera uses four electric motors — one for each wheel — to produce an impressive 1.4MW of power, which Rimac says is equivalent to 1,914 horsepower. The hypercar’s quad-motor setup and aerodynamic design enable it to sprint to 60mph in just 1....

Today, the company released its full, 35-minute-long press briefing of the device — featuring none other than surface head honcho Panos Panay — offering a public view at the smaller-scale briefings the company sometimes holds for product announcements. Though there is plenty of information about the Duo on Microsoft’s website now, the briefing gives us a closer, more intuitive look at how the device operates in practice. Notably, the video was recorded live, so the demos are happening in real-time....

Ever since home computers started showing up on everyone’s desks back in the 80’s, personal finance software has been a cornerstone component. While most software can easily help you balance your checkbook, today’s top financial apps have advanced by light years, linking automatically with banking institutions around the globe and running seamlessly across virtually any device. Developed originally for Mac users, the world’s most advanced money software app MoneyWiz 3 Personal Finance is now available for both Mac and Windows users at 60 percent off its regular price, just $19....

It’s called the Claravox Centennial, after Clara Rockmore, one of history’s best theremin players — and one who helped showed the instrument could be used for more than creepy music. You can watch her perform here: For those not familiar, the theremin is essentially a musical proximity sensor in which one antenna controls pitch and the other controls volume. The instrument creates an electrical field that is altered depending on how close your hands are to the instrument....

DataReportal analysis shows that 3.96 billion people use social media today, accounting for roughly 51% of the global population. Put simply, this means that more people now use social media than do not. This milestone is all the more impressive when we consider that most social media companies restrict the use of their platforms to people aged 13 and above. In fact, the latest numbers indicate that nearly two-thirds (65%) of the world’s total ‘eligible’ population now uses social media....

Discounts will be automatically applied for contactless Troika Card holders using daily, monthly or annual passes. Local authorities will analyze results throughout the eight-month trial and passengers will receive progress updates on special screens at select metro stations. Maksim Liksutov, Head of Moscow’s Department of Transport, said he hopes the program will improve passengers’ experience and boost social distancing. “This is especially important in the current epidemiological situation,” he commented....

The manufacturers of these devices certainly want consumers to believe that tracking fitness or health-related behaviors will spur them to increase their activity levels and make them healthier. Our analysis of research published over the past 25 years suggests otherwise. We are professors of kinesiology – the science of human body movement – at Boise State, the University of Tennessee, and the University of North Florida. To learn whether and how physical activity has changed in the years since fitness trackers became popular, we analyzed more than two decades of research from several industrialized nations – all conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic....

[Read: Pro and amateur cyclists meet in VR amid coronavirus race cancellations] In the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the NASCAR race calendar has been postponed until May. But broadcaster Fox Sports and the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (aka NASCAR) have taken the unusual step to launch the first ever eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series to keep viewer figures up during the season’s pause, Engadget reports....