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Why your iPhone 17 may include a recycled battery
Lithium-ion batteries energy most of our private electronics at the moment. Mining the metals that make up these batteries can imply a variety of air pollution, in addition to dangerous circumstances for staff.
The excellent news is, a rising variety of teams are working to verify batteries get recycled—and a few of these efforts have gotten mainstream, together with Apple’s current announcement its batteries would use 100% recycled cobalt starting in 2025.
It says rather a lot about the place the battery recycling business is and the place it’s going. Learn the total story.
—Casey Crownhart
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Snap is launching augmented-reality mirrors in shops
What’s occurring: Snap is planning to launch augmented-reality mirrors that permit customers in shops to immediately see how garments look on them with out bodily making an attempt them on. The mirrors are going to seem in some US Nike shops later this 12 months, and within the Males’s Wearhouse in Paramus, New Jersey.
Why? The mirrors are a part of Snap’s new effort to start out providing AR merchandise within the bodily world. AR has powered Snapchat filters and Lenses (the corporate’s time period for its in-app AR experiences) for years, however these further makes use of of the expertise create a possible income stream for Snap outdoors the social media platform’s app. Learn the total story.
—Tanya Basu
Studying to code isn’t sufficient
A decade in the past, tech powerhouses like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon helped increase the nonprofit Code.org, a learn-to-code program. It sparked a wave of nonprofits and for-profits alike devoted to coding and studying pc science, and a variety of US states which have made coding a highschool commencement requirement.
However simply studying to code is neither a pathway to a secure monetary future for folks from economically precarious backgrounds, nor a panacea for the inadequacies of the tutorial system. Learn the total story.
—Pleasure Lisi Rankin
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to seek out you at the moment’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.
1 It’s higher to be secure than sorry with AI
And but, the most important labs aren’t investing in correct safeguarding. (Economist $)
+ Google’s utilizing generative AI for its new advert campaigns. (FT $)
+ Discussions round AI danger are lengthy overdue. (New Scientist $)
+ Do AI methods want to return with security warnings? (MIT Know-how Overview)
2 Individuals with lengthy covid are nonetheless struggling
They usually’re feeling more and more remoted as a result of lack of restrictions. (The Atlantic $)
+ However new medical trials are trying promising. (Wired $)
+ We’ve solely simply begun to look at the racial disparities of lengthy covid. (MIT Know-how Overview)
3 Matt Walsh’s Twitter hacker did it to fire up drama
They are saying they compromised Walsh’s cellphone with the assistance of an “insider.” (Wired $)
+ Twitter’s eliminating legacy blue checks—for actual this time. (WP $)
4 All US Fb customers are owed cash
Nevertheless it’s not rather a lot, and isn’t coming anytime quickly. (WSJ $)
5 North Korea says it’s constructed its first spy satellite tv for pc
The satellite tv for pc may play a key function within the nation’s weapons packages. (FT $)
+ Quickly, satellites will have the ability to watch you all over the place on a regular basis. (MIT Know-how Overview)
6 The US Supreme Courtroom has delayed its abortion capsule determination
It’ll decide in regards to the accessibility of mifepristone on Friday. (BBC)
+ Texas is making an attempt out new techniques to limit entry to abortion tablets on-line. (MIT Know-how Overview)
7 TikTok’s algorithm retains pushing suicide content material to minors
Despair, hopelessness and dying are widespread themes. (Bloomberg $)
8 Erotic hypnosis is ruining girls’s lives
Predatory males are utilizing recordings to groom weak folks on-line. (BuzzFeed)
9 WeChat’s ultrashort cleaning soap operas are pushing China’s decency legal guidelines
The dramas are extra provocative than conventional TV fare. (Remainder of World)
10 How video video games assist folks work by way of their grief
It provides them the prospect to course of their emotions in digital realms. (The Guardian)
Quote of the day
“Bard is worse than ineffective: please don’t launch.”
—An inside Google be aware to staff spells out the issues with the corporate’s AI chatbot, which it launched final month, Bloomberg studies.
The massive story
How robotic honeybees and hives may assist the species battle again
October 2022
One thing was unsuitable, however Thomas Schmickl couldn’t put his finger on it. It was 2007, and the Austrian biologist was spending a part of the 12 months at East Tennessee State College. Throughout his day by day walks, he realized that bugs appeared conspicuously absent.
Schmickl, who now leads the Synthetic Life Lab on the College of Graz in Austria, wasn’t unsuitable. Insect populations are certainly declining or altering around the globe.
Robotic bees, he believes, may assist each the true factor and their surrounding nature, an idea he calls ecosystem hacking. Learn the total story.
—Elizabeth Preston
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+ There’s nothing fairly like a teenage bed room.
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+ Shh, don’t inform anybody about America’s hottest, and most secret, eating places.
+ Stealing near $200,000 in dimes looks as if extra bother than it’s price.
+ Kenny Loggins continues to be going—writing Winnie the Pooh songs.