Monthly Archives: July 2022

Artificial light poses a growing threat to nocturnal wildlife

Some bats avoid light on the white and green spectrum and some bats avoid all light. Deposit Photos This article was originally featured on Undark. A FEW YEARS AFTER a public-private partnership established the Nature Reserve of Orange County to protect and restore southern California’s rare coastal sage scrub habitat, biologists documented the presence of 35 native reptiles and amphibians…

New Microsoft Teams and Excel tie-in offers up the perfect recipe for productivity

Microsoft is readying an update for collaboration platform Teams that will bring spreadsheets directly into video meetings. As explained in the latest company blog post, Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to launch into Excel documents from the meeting screen, courtesy of a new feature called Excel Live. Instead of tabbing out to work…

Would you buy Bang & Olufsen’s part Bluetooth speaker, part Balenciaga bag?

The world of digital audio tech moves at breakneck speed and one can often uncover curious and highly intriguing partnerships – think Maserati and Sonus faber, Philips and Bowers & Wilkins, Dirac and Nio or Devialet and premium economy flight seats for starters. Sometimes these burgeoning relationships bear strange but beautiful fruit (see the Maserati Cielo…

M2 MacBook Air teardown casts doubt on cooling, and reveals a mysterious component

Apple’s MacBook Air (M2, 2022) has been given the teardown treatment by iFixit, with some interesting revelations about the cooling solution for the notebook, and a mysterious addition in the component mix, too. The finding included some things we already knew, courtesy of YouTuber Max Tech already having poked around in the innards of the…

Russia shuns the US dollar further as it looks to make deals with Iran and Turkey using local currencies

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images Russia is looking for more ways to distance itself from the US dollar as it eyes deals with Turkey and Iran using local currencies.  President Vladimir Putin traveled to Tehran this week to meet with leaders of each nation.  Last…