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Wyoming app helps residents salvage roadkill

Wyoming app helps residents salvage roadkill

Mar 18, 2022

It’s legal to pick up roadkill for food in most of the Mountain West (Nevada excluded). You generally just have to get a permit, and now Wyoming is making that especially easy to do. In that state, you can get a permit via an app, called Wyoming 511. However, if you want to take part of the animal for food, you’ll need to take the entire animal with you.

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August 12, 2021

Aug 12, 2021
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Huda Mohamed, a student at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., has an immunodeficiency. She decided to take extra precautions by using Virginia's COVIDWISE app, which alerts users who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Such apps are onl

A Tech Powerhouse, U.S. Lags In Using Smartphones For Contact Tracing

Sep 23, 2020
Google and Apple teamed up on using smartphones to track coronavirus infections. But the systems are only available in a few states, where they're being used by a tiny percentage of the population.
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Is The Strip In Danger of Super-Spreading Covid-19? A Contact Tracing App May Be The Answer

Aug 26, 2020

Five months into the pandemic and we’re still figuring out how to stem the spread of COVID-19. 

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The Coronavirus Crisis
People work in a call center of Covidom, a new remote medical monitoring app, inside the Paris public hospitals' Campus Picpus last month.

In France, A New App Is Helping Doctors Monitor COVID-19 Patients Remotely

Apr 29, 2020
The Covidom app allows thousands of patients with non-critical cases of COVID-19 to ride the virus out at home. They answer questions on a range of health indicators and doctors follow up by phone.
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Coronavirus Live Updates

In Germany, High Hopes For New COVID-19 Contact Tracing App That Protects Privacy

Apr 02, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she welcomes development of a COVID-19 tracing app that protects data and doesn't store users' locations. It uses Bluetooth to log proximity to other cellphones.
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Business
DoorDash's delivery restaurant in Redwood City, near San Francisco, is among an increasing number of "ghost kitchens" and menus that exist solely in smartphone apps.

Delivery Only: The Rise Of Restaurants With No Diners As Apps Take Orders

Dec 05, 2019
Restaurants without diners are popping up all over the place. "Ghost kitchens" and menus that exist solely in smartphone apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats seek to feed diners' appetite for delivery.
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Technology
A protester in Hong Kong checks his phone for police activity during a protest against the government in Hong Kong's New Territories, in August.

After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used By Hong Kong Protesters

Oct 10, 2019
HKmap.live has been used by pro-democracy activists to keep track of protests and police activity. Apple says it was removed from the App Store because it was being used to "endanger law enforcement."
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Shots - Health News
An app uses a smart phone camera to detect leukocoria, a pale reflection from the back of the eye. It can be an early sign of disease. Here it appears light brown compared the healthy eye.

An App That Can Catch Early Signs Of Eye Disease In A Flash

Oct 07, 2019
After his son developed a rare eye cancer, a chemist in Texas developed a smart phone app that uses a camera and artificial intelligence to detect early signs of eye disease.
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Technology
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at an Uber products launch in San Francisco on Sept. 26. The company is launching its Uber Works app in Chicago, aiming to make it easier for workers to find temporary shifts.

Uber Launches An App To Connect Job Seekers With Gig Work

Oct 03, 2019
The Uber Works app, launching in Chicago, aims to make it easier for workers to find temporary shifts while also giving businesses more flexibility to add staff when it gets busy.
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National
Sen. Josh Hawley has made it a point to challenge the major tech companies since his election in 2018.

Lawmaker Aims To Curb Social Media Addiction With New Bill

Aug 03, 2019
Sen. Josh Hawley's Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology, or SMART, Act would ban features that encourage prolonged engagement such as infinite scrolling and autoplay.
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Business

Is Venmo Changing Your Money Habits? Tell Us About It

Feb 15, 2019
Has Venmo changed the way you talk to your friends? And do you have questions about how to use it?
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Technology
The Absher app, available in the Apple and Google apps stores in Saudi Arabia, allows men to track the whereabouts of their wives and daughters.

Apple, Google Criticized For Carrying App That Lets Saudi Men Track Their Wives

Feb 12, 2019
An app that allows men to track the whereabouts of their wives and daughters is available in the Apple and Google app stores in Saudi Arabia. The firms are getting blowback for carrying the app.
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Goats and Soda
This graffiti in a neighborhood in Cairo is emblazoned with the words "no harassment" in Arabic.

Apps Let Women Say #MeToo About Street Harassment

Jan 11, 2018
The authorities don't always listen. Women may be afraid to speak up. Around the globe, apps are giving them a place to document harassment on the streets.
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Shots - Health News
She's not tuning in, she's tuning inward — letting go of stress, or at least trying to, with a mindfulness app on her phone.

Mindfulness Apps Aim To Help People Disconnect From Stress

Oct 16, 2017
Finding inner calm hard to come by? Some people use their device obsession to help them disconnect. The apps aren't a quick fix, therapists say, but might help you stick to a mindfulness practice.
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The Salt
You already know what all of your friends are eating, so you might as well know how to make it, too.

Oh, Snap! Scientists Are Turning People's Food Photos Into Recipes

Aug 02, 2017
Researchers have created an artificial neural network that analyzes an image of a dish and tells you how to make it. Still in the early stages, the technology might help improve our dietary health.
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Shots - Health News

To Keep Teens Safe Online, They Need To Learn To Manage Risk

Feb 27, 2017
Teens should be included in efforts to mitigate their online risks, researchers say, but apps focus more on parents controlling access by monitoring and blocking sites.
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Code Switch
A study by researchers at MIT and the University of Washington found that black men in Boston were twice as likely to have their rides cancelled by Uber drivers.

Ride-Sharing Apps: New Economy, Same Invisible Discrimination

Nov 04, 2016
A study shows how discrimination in housing and transportation has replicated itself in the new "sharing economy" apps like Uber. And as with the old economy, bias is sometimes hard to see up close.
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All Tech Considered
Stalin Murugesapandi takes photos and makes field sketches to record the different insect species he sees.

The App That Aims To Gamify Biology Has Amateurs Discovering New Species

Aug 06, 2016
Not everyone outside staring into their phones is searching for Pokémon — some people are looking for actual wildlife. The app iNaturalist is bringing together urban biologists and curious citizens.
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Shots - Health News

How Your Health Data Lead A Not-So-Secret Life Online

Jul 30, 2016
Apps can make managing health care a lot easier, but most don't have the privacy protections required of doctors and hospitals. And a simple Web search can clue in advertisers to health concerns.
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Shots - Health News
What time is it?

Researchers Offer Jet Lag Advice In Return For Data About Your Sleep

May 12, 2016
Users of an app developed by the University of Michigan to help with jet lag entered information on their time zone and sleep patterns that helped academics with their work. But is the approach valid?
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All Tech Considered
On-demand delivery apps like Purple, which promises a full tank of gas in an hour, are proliferating in the tech market.

From Takeout To Breakups: Apps Can Deliver Anything, For A Price

Nov 25, 2015
Convenience is at an all-time premium — and a lot of smartphone apps promise to make many of the things we do every day easier. In a time-crunch or sheer laziness, how far will the apps take us?
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Joe's Big Idea
Smart phones contain a silicon chip inside the camera that might be used to detect rare, high energy particles from outer space.

Want To Do A Little Astrophysics? This App Detects Cosmic Rays

Mar 30, 2015
Two physicists keen to detect a a very rare, high energy particle think you and I can help. The researchers are working on an app that would allow any smartphone to detect rare particles from space.
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Shots - Health News

Apps Can Speed The Search For Love, But Nothing Beats A Real Date

Feb 12, 2015
Are those hours I spend swiping through Tinder getting me anywhere closer to actual romance? Yes, psychologists say. But chemistry doesn't come in an app, and that's what matters most.
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Shots - Health News
"Do I go to Student Health, do I walk into the ER or do I call 911?" Maya Weinstein remembers thinking after her alleged assault. An app called UASK is designed to help people who have those sorts of questions.

App Links Sex Assault Survivors To Help, But Who Downloads It?

Jan 26, 2015
The D.C.-based smartphone tool connects people with a ride to the hospital and a team of medical professionals trained in dealing with sexual assault. But students aren't rushing to download the app.
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