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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How robotic honeybees and hives could help the species fight back Something was wrong, but Thomas Schmickl couldn’t put his finger on it. It was 2007, and the Austrian biologist was spending part…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Florida-headquartered company has been ordered to pay about €75,000 (around $73,000) in compensation and other fees after firing a Netherlands-based remote worker who refused to keep their webcam on all day, NL Times reports. The company, Chetu, said the unnamed employee was required to attend a virtual…
Enlarge / Stoke Space tests 15 thrusters that will fly on the upper stage of a fully reusable rocket. (credit: Stoke Space) Andy Lapsa went to the best aerospace engineering schools. He then worked very hard to help advance the development of some of the most advanced rocket engines in the world at Blue Origin….
Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah is one of most significant cultural landscapes in the United States, with thousands of archaeological sites and important areas of spiritual significance. These lands are sacred to many Native American tribes today, who use the lands for ceremonies, collecting medicinal and edible plants, and gathering materials for crafting…
In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order. Even at well-run companies, anywhere from 20% to 30% of inventory is either dead (i.e. doesn’t sell) or obsolete, according to one source. The impact on profitability can be quite severe. Dead stock costs sellers and manufacturers as…
The annual Meta Connect conference will be live streamed online and in the metaverse starting at 10 a.m. PT on Oct 11. It’s slated to run for more than five hours, beginning with a keynote speech from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and ending with an address from thought leader John Carmack at 2:30 p.m. PT. You…
The next time you ride on a rollercoaster you might want to leave your iPhone 14 behind, as users are reporting that their device’s crash detection is being set off by the rapid movement. Crash detection is one of the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, and Apple Watch 8’s best new safety features. Using internal…
Rumors have been swirling for a while now that Nvidia will be following up its ultra-powerful RTX 4090 with an even more powerful RTX 4090 Ti – but there’s now chatter that the company has been a bit too ambitious with its next flagship GPU. According to a YouTube video by Moore’s Law is Dead…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s first ever Meta Store. Facebook/Meta When Mark Zuckerberg urged Meta to have virtual meetings, many staff didn’t own VR headsets, per NYT. Meta staff rushed to buy headsets and set them up before managers realized, a source told the NYT. Zuckerberg told staff this year to conduct meetings on…