“These stories are anecdotes, but enough anecdotes makes for data.”. Deposit Photos 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. It wasn’t long after Henry David Inglis arrived on the island of Jersey, just northwest of France, that he heard the…
In South Korea, there are about 7.3 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — defined as firms with less than 250 employees. Their workforces combined make up 83.1% of all corporation employees in the country, totaling about 17.1 million people, according to OECD data. To help meet SMEs’ financial needs in the country, Seoul-based fintech…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Former Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan has been found guilty of charges that he covered up a 2016 cyberattack where a hacker downloaded the personal information of more than 57 million people. The information stolen from Uber included names, email addresses, and phone numbers for more than…
Halo Car, a Las Vegas-based startup that combines teleoperations and car sharing, said it will remove the human safety operator from behind the wheel later this year — the last hurdle before its commercial launch. The milestone would mean Halo Car will use humans to remotely control vehicles through public streets and deliver them to…
President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis arrive to tour an area impacted by Hurricane Ian on October 5, 2022, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Evan Vucci/AP President Joe Biden met with FL Gov. Ron DeSantis to survey the damage in the state after Hurricane Ian. The two set their political rivalries mostly aside…
In a dream world, we’d all be hiring Sofia Coppola to shoot our video campaigns, but the reality is, most marketers have to figure out how to make Oscar-quality content on Oscar Meyer Weiner budgets. The good news is, the internet is full of free video editing software designed to help you make your video…
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED, or a backpack just to find out that you could have gotten it for a lot cheaper somewhere else. In order to keep customers happy — and prevent them from going elsewhere — many…
The telescope. Australia Department of Defence / CPL David Cotton In orbit, there are no obvious places for satellites to hide, except temporarily behind the bulk of Earth itself. Satellites, gravitationally bound to our planet, are visible clearly in the night sky. Discerning their movement, their patterns and actions, requires special tools for scanning the…
Yes, you can light up your living room in neon green, too. Daniele Franchi / Unsplash Rigging your living room with computer-controlled lights like the bridge of the USS Enterprise used to be a multi-hundred dollar prospect. But over the last few years smart lights have become more affordable, and you can get started for…
Samsung Electronics has revealed its roadmap for its SSD ecosystem at the 2022 Samsung Tech Day and it looks tasty. It has plans to “stack over 1,000 layers” in its most advanced NAND chip by 2030 although it has stopped short of revealing whether it would be actual products available on shelves (if these are…