Two companies working to bring ketamine therapy to patients with PTSD, depression, and other mental health conditions are teaming up to grow the reach of psychedelic-assisted mental health care. Field Trip, which has a network of clinics for ketamine-assisted therapy, now offers therapy via Nue Life, a telehealth mental wellness company launched in 2021. Two-year-old Field Trip, which went public on the Nasdaq last summer, has opened 11 clinics in North America, as well as one in Europe, built a
Since the Apollo days, astronauts have experienced an existential overwhelm through their reframed view of Earth as a fragile planet against the harshness of space and the vessel of all humanity. It’s an event so profound that it’s come to be known as the overview effect, a term coined in 1987 by author and space philosopher Frank White. For civilians, it’s reserved for a rarified few who can shell out $450,000 to $55 million for several weightless minutes at the edge of s
As the world’s need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace current battery technology with something better. Italian physicist Alessandro Volta tapped into fundamental electrochemical principles when he invented the first battery in 1800. Essentially, the physical joining of two different materials, usually metals, generates a chemical reaction that results in the flow of electrons from one material to t
As the cryptocurrency market burns through its worst crash in years, Twitter is ablaze with charts streaked in red, suggesting that a new crypto winter is here. The great downturn came during a bearish week for Wall Street stocks, a correlation that didn’t escape notice:
I never wanted to see this, but if you check the charts it's obvious:#Bitcoin never had a bull run without #Nasdaq support. Actually, if correlation goes down, it's even a bearish signal, since this has happene
The first time Major League Baseball jumped into NFT-based fantasy sports, it was too early. MLB Champions, launched in 2018 with a company called Lucid Sight, was a fantasy baseball-like game and marketplace for bobblehead-looking NFTs that users could buy, sell, and trade to build a team roster. It shut down two years later, after failing to gain traction. The league is now taking another swing, along with the MLB Players Association, this time via a multiyear deal with Sorare, the Paris-based
Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting, help scientists track environmental degradation and play a huge role in modern military technology. Nations that don’t have their own satellites providing these services rely on other countries. For those that want to develop their own satellite infrastructure, options are running out as space fills up. I am a research fellow at
If you’re like me, you’re constantly looking for ways to save time. I’m not all that busy, mind you: I’m mostly just lazy. And the less time I spend doing stuff, the more time I have to not do stuff. Enter Google Assistant. It’s very good at setting timers, which must be among its most oft-requested tasks. But it can do a whole lot more, some of which can result in real time-savings each day. Here are a handful of Google Assistant commands that I use every day
Google opened its I/O developer conference with a grab-bag of a keynote. Over two hours Wednesday, a cast of characters from the Mountain View, California, tech giant covered everything from AI-assisted ukulele lessons to the company’s carbon-free ambitions for its data centers. There wasn’t always much new to the event, but four I/O items stood out as surprising. Augmenting AR searches Google’s upcoming upgrades to its search features will include “scene exploration,
At its I/O developer event Wednesday, Google said it will release its own smartwatch, called the Pixel Watch, this fall. Until now Google had provided the operating systems for smartwatches, but never the watches themselves. The Pixel Watch is built “inside and out” by Google, as Rick Osterloh, the company’s senior vice president of devices and services, put it during the keynote address. It’s also the first Google product to fully embody the technology the company pu
The already-crowded world of voice assistants is getting some new competition, with Sonos announcing today it will launch its own voice assistant on June 1. While a number of Sonos speakers already support Alexa and Google Assistant, the company’s new voice assistant will focus on audio playback. “Hey Sonos” voice commands will work with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, Pandora, and Sonos Radio to start, with more audio services to come in the future. In a twist, the initi