Health

Frito-Lay plans to deploy a fleet of more than 700 electric delivery vehicles in the US by the end of the year. Its first pilot Ford eTransit truck “arrived just in time for Earth Day” last year. To be clear, electric vehicles are much better for the climate than their gas-guzzling counterparts.

It’s been a long week after Texas and Washington issued conflicting rulings on the abortion-facilitating pill mifepristone, and the Supreme Court is offering a brief time-out while it considers the next move.

Film Twitter™ loves to work itself into a frenzy over Hollywood’s aversion to making movies featuring characters who enjoy having sex, which makes it seem like Neon’s upcoming thriller Sanctuary is going to make quite a splash when its first trailer arrives tomorrow.

Judge Edward Davila denied the Theranos founder’s request to go free while appealing her fraud conviction(s), according to a report by NPR.

Cigna has been denying patients’ claims without actually looking at them, ProPublica reports.

iOS 16.4 may let state health officials turn off the exposure tracking system launched in September 2020, according to 9to5Mac. Warnings that you’ve been near someone who had covid seem like a good idea, but the reality of an opt-in system that only some states used pretty much doomed it from the start. Still, I hope my home state keeps it on.

Musk’s latest claim was said about three months ago, but this Reuters report about the FDA rejecting Neuralink’s application has skepticism the issues can be worked out in another 90 days.

In November, a fake (but Twitter Blue verified) account said Eli Lilly would make its insulin free, highlighting a situation Cory Zapatka explained in 2019 about the rising prices for something many people need to stay alive.

After cutting 20 percent of its workforce in October, the telehealth company is now reportedly laying off another 15 percent. The company is under investigation for how it perscribed controlled drugs like Adderall or Xanax.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says the company’s hit some “major milestones” with noninvasive blood glucose monitoring for the Apple Watch. Namely, that it’s reached the “proof of concept” stage with an iPhone-sized prototype in the works.

Smart contacts are a cool idea but a big technical challenge is combining low-power displays with a high-contrast color material to see information. South Korean researchers say their solution is to 3D print micropatterns without needing any kind of voltage, making it ideal for smart contacts.

It’s been six months since Natural Cycles began letting users import Oura Ring temperature data for its FDA-cleared digital birth control feature. There are a ton of privacy concerns with fertility tracking in the post-Roe era, but it appears the partnership is going well. The companies say 200,000 cycles and 6 million temperatures have been logged, with 98 percent of surveyed users saying they’ll continue using the integration to track their cycles.