💡 Warp News #293
🥣 80 million more children now receive meals at school. ✂️ New CRISPR technique makes gene editing much safer. 🗳️ Ghana's democracy shows stability over 30 years.
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🚚 A dramatic shift at Volvo
Self-driving vehicles are a recurring theme here, but usually with a focus on passenger cars. Yet over time, all vehicles will become autonomous, including trucks.
For Volvo, this means a change of business model. They will stop selling trucks and start selling transport services.
To better understand this, I spoke with Volvo’s CEO, Martin Lundstedt, and also made a study visit to Volvo Autonomous Solutions in Gothenburg.
You can read my reflections from there here, and next week the interview with Martin will be published.
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🚛 The self-driving future is getting closer at Volvo
Volvo is facing its biggest shift since the company was founded. Instead of selling trucks, it now aims to sell transportation – with autonomous vehicles at the center of an entirely new ecosystem.
💡 Fact-based optimistic news of the week
📱 Headphones and smartphones become medical devices
The FDA has approved AirPods as over-the-counter hearing aids for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss.
💵 HIV medicine price drops from $28,000 to $40
The lower cost applies to 120 low- and middle-income countries and takes effect in 2027.
✂️ New CRISPR technique makes gene editing much safer
Scientists have created a new version of CRISPR gene editing that makes 60 times fewer errors than before.
🗳️ Ghana's democracy shows stability over 30 years
Ghana has held uninterrupted and peaceful elections since the return to democracy in 1992, with four power transitions between political parties.
🧬 For the first time: Gene therapy slows Huntington's disease by 75%
The study shows that patients who received high doses had fewer symptoms and produced 8.2 percent less of a protein that indicates dying nerve cells.
🥣 80 million more children now receive meals at school
Low-income countries have increased the number of children receiving school meals by 60 percent in just the past two years.
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