Monthly Archives: October 2022

Italian chefs are cooking up a solution to booming jellyfish populations

Jellyfish have been touted as a food source of the future, but finding an appetizing way to prepare them is a challenge—one that some Italian chefs are embracing. Agostino Petroni This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. On a snowy…

Flush with Series A funding, Daye unwraps the big gynae health mission

Talking to Valentina Milanova, the still just 28-year-old founder of U.K. femtech Daye, is best described as an exhilarating experience. During our interview, she talks in and around her topic — building a startup supporting women’s sexual and reproductive health — non-stop for the best part of an hour, barely pausing for breath and without…

Singapore may soon require retail investors to take test before trading crypto, prohibit credit cards

Singapore may soon require retail investors to take a test and not use credit card payments and other forms of borrowing for trading cryptocurrencies, the central bank proposed on Wednesday in a series of stringent measures as the island nation looks to make citizens aware of the risks surrounding volatile assets. The Monetary Authority of…

Apple confirms USB-C is coming to iPhone: ‘We have no choice’

Apple will finally switch from Lightning to USB-C port on its iPhones. The company did not officially announce anything, but its senior vice president of worldwide marketing all but confirmed it in an interview with The Wall Streeet Journal’s Joanna Stern. When asked whether Apple is moving to USB-C, Joswiak said “obviously we’ll have to…

Your coworkers aren’t less productive because they’re ‘quiet quitting.’ They’re just new to the job.

The pandemic and subsequent challenges over where and how workers do their jobs has pushed some HR execs to their limits. Maskot/Getty Images US worker productivity fell at a record pace in the second quarter. Some say “quiet quitting” is among the key reasons why.  But high labor turnover, the pandemic, and supply chain disruptions…

Microsoft says the global energy crisis can cost the company $800 million more in energy costs this year

Microsoft reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth in five years. Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis/Getty Images Microsoft posted on Tuesday its first-quarter revenue of $50.1 billion for the fiscal first quarter. It was Microsoft’s slowest quarterly revenue growth in five years. CFO Amy Hood warned of an additional $800 million in energy costs this fiscal year. The global…