Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe

When Philip Poniz opened Box 105 at his local Wells Fargo, he discovered it was empty — and that he was totally unprotected by federal law.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box-theft.html?source=Snapzu

America is drowning in garbage. Now robots are being put on duty to help solve the recycling crisis

The U.S. is facing a recycling crisis that is burying cities and towns in tens of millions of tons of garbage a day. The problem began last year when China, the world’s largest recyclable processor, stopped accepting most American scrap plastic and cardboard due to contamination problems, and a glut of plastics overwhelming its own processing facilities. Historically, China recycled the bulk of U.S. waste.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/meet-the-robots-being-used-to-help-solve-americas-recycling-crisis.html?source=Snapzu

Recycling Station Could Be Cleaning Up in Earth Orbit By 2050

By 2050, Gateway Earth – a fully operational space station with a facility for recycling old satellites and other junk – could be up and running.
Read more: https://ponderwall.com/index.php/2019/07/27/recycling-cleaning-earth-orbit/?source=Snapzu

Girls are bearing the brunt of a rise in US cyberbullying

Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online. The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she decided to limit her time on social media. It helps to take a break from it for perspective, said Whalen, now a 19-year-old college student in Utah.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/girls-report-harassment-amid-rise-us-cyberbullying-64580073?source=Snapzu

How to map the brain

It’s April 2019 at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington. In a room containing five transmission electron microscopes, three shiny party balloons are bobbing around. The balloons are to celebrate the institute’s researchers reaching the latest milestone in an effort to map each of the 100,000 neurons and the one billion connections, or synapses, between them in a cubic millimetre of mouse brain — a sample that’s roughly the size of a grain of sand.
Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02208-0?source=Snapzu

Tragic final picture of teenager who died after pupil threw cheese

Karanbir Cheema, known as Karan, was 13 when he died in July 2017, ten days after he fell unconscious when cheese was thrown at him during break time at a primary school in West London.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7292231/Heartbroken-mother-releases-image-13-year-old-dying-hospital-pupil-threw-cheese-him.html?source=Snapzu

Huawei CEO shows off the updated design of the foldable Mate X

At the beginning of this year, tech enthusiasts were really psyched about some big names finally entering the space for foldable smartphones. In as early as February, two smartphone majors such as Samsung and Huawei showcased their prospective foldable phone prototypes with aspirations to launch their respective devices over the following months.
Read more: https://www.xda-developers.com/huawei-mate-x-foldable-smartphone-updated-design/?source=Snapzu