Northern Italy is in the midst of a severe drought. The region is home to the Po River, which flows from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. Farmers in the area rely on the river to feed their crops. However,…
Fast food chain Dairy Queen recently lost a court battle over the use of its trademarked name for its ice cream product, Blizzard. The lawsuit sought to stop the office supply company W.B. Mason from selling its bottled water product…
Two companies, Lunar Outpost and AstroForge, just received a combined $25 million to develop technologies for off-Earth mining. Lunar Outpost is developing lunar rovers to retrieve minerals from the Moon. AstroForge is looking to mine elements from near-earth asteroids. The…
Retail giant Target has announced plans to reduce an excess stock of inventory. At the end of April, the company had $15.1 billion in inventory, which is 43% higher than a year earlier. The increase in inventory is a result…
In the wake of rising oil and gas prices globally, Saudi Aramco, the company that manages the oil supply of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has recently surpassed Apple as the most valuable company in the world. Saudi Aramco is…
In February 2022, the US Women’s National Soccer Team reached an agreement with the US Soccer Federation to settle a lawsuit filed in 2019 over equal pay. Despite having a consistently better record and winning two consecutive World Cups, the…
Office space rental company WeWork reported a loss of $803 million for the fourth quarter of 2021. This puts their total loss for the year at $4.4 billion, after losing more than $3 billion in each of the two prior…
Drugstore chain Walgreens has begun using robots to fill prescriptions. The robots can reportedly fill 300 prescriptions per hour, roughly the same number a pharmacist can fill in a day. The robots fill the prescriptions in a centralized facility and…
Over the last decade prices in the US for insulin has more than tripled, and is more than ten times the average price in other countries. More than 37 million people in the US have diabetes and many rely on…