Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google has told employees that it’ll be “slowing down the pace of hiring for the rest of the year,” according to an internal memo Tuesday by CEO Sundar Pichai obtained by The Verge. Pichai says the company will have to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “greater urgency,…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB) Twitter filed its expected lawsuit against Elon Musk today, demanding that he complete the $44 billion purchase of the social network. “Musk refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests,” the lawsuit said. “Having mounted…
Enlarge / A translucent “helmet” on the bigclaw snapping shrimp’s head shelters its brain from the shock waves generated by its claw-snapping. (credit: Kingston et al., Current Biology) The tiny-but-mighty pistol shrimp can snap its claws with sufficient force to produce a shock wave to stun its prey. So how come the shrimp appears immune to…
A B-52 launches an unarmed cruise missile in 2014 in Utah; CHAMP was designed to be able to deploy in cruise missiles like these. US Air Force / Roidan Carlson South of Death Valley and north of Los Angeles, the Air Force is testing a new weapon designed not to kill. Together with the Office…
Metal and carbon fiber company Markforged (best known for its Digital Forge platform) announced today that it acquired Digital Metal to further increase its lineup of machines that can produce metal parts. The company was previously owned by Swedish metal powder manufacturer Höganäs AB. The acquisition highlights Markforged’s push into additive manufacturing for industrial customers,…
Rocket Lab is attempting to demonstrate its speediest launch cadence yet, with two back-to-back missions for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) scheduled to fly 10 days apart. The first mission, dubbed “Wise One Looks Ahead” or NROL-162, is due to launch no earlier than July 12 at 1:00 AM EST (5:00 AM UTC) from…
NASA unveiled full-color images from the $11 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Tuesday, marking the first of what is sure to be many releases from the super powerful optical instrument. But even taken by themselves, these five images mark a massive achievement and the culmination of a 26-year-long process to give humanity an…
Save 150: As of July 12, the Dyson V10 Allergy cordless vacuum is on sale for $379.99 at Walmart. The $150 discount is just one of many Walmart rollbacks (conveniently) live during Prime Day. The very cheapest Dyson vacuum you can find isn’t automatically the best Dyson deal this Prime Day. Hell, it’s not even…
Earlier this week, I did something potentially very stupid and signed up for my first marathon. Not only does this mean I’m going to have to run 26.2 miles in a row, but I’m going to have to cover endless miles in the weeks and months leading up to the big day. As any runner…
The Southern Ring Nebula taken by JWST’s Nircam (left) and by MIRI (right) Paola Rosa-Aquino/NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI The James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared gaze revealed a sharp image of the Southern Ring Nebula — and a galaxy behind it. On Tuesday, NASA released the deepest, clearest infrared images of the universe ever captured. …