Things Are Good

I couldn’t resist that headline, but it’s close enough. The UK has decided to ban ads that sell junk food to young teens and children.
A total ban on adverts for unhealthy food and drink products around TV programmes for under-16s has come into force.
It extends similar restrictions already in place for shows aimed at children [...]

Bike couriers in Cambridge, UK have been given tricked-out cellphones that monitor the air pollution around them and ten report that information to a research team. What a clever way to gather this information.
The technique is made possible by small wireless pollution sensors and custom software that allows the phones to report levels of air [...]