Researchers created a sticky drone to collect environmental DNA from forest canopies
News May 11, 2023
Scientists hope to learn about biodiversity in otherwise inaccessible places. Swiss scientists have developed a proof-of-concept method to collect environmental DNA (eDNA) from high-arching forest canopies, an under-observed habitat. Rather than hiring skilled climbers to risk their lives to grab a little bug and bird DNA, the team flew... Read more
How Matter works, when it’s coming, what you’ll need to use it, and how it integrates with Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings. Matter is a common language for smart home devices. It’s designed to simplify everything about the smart home, from purchase to setup and everyday... Read more
Cybertruck full volume production will not be realized until 2024, reveals Elon Musk. Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla’s long-anticipated Cybertruck won’t be seeing full volume production until 2024, Elon Musk said during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call today. During the call, Musk was asked whether... Read more
Twitter engineers can still use ‘GodMode’ to tweet as any account, claims whistleblower
Tech May 11, 2023
The new complaint says they could also delete and undelete tweets. Twitter has a new whistleblower, as another former employee has sounded the alarm about security issues, according to The Washington Post. The new complainant, who has spoken with Congress and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), says any Twitter... Read more
Photo: Alexander Khitrov (Shutterstock) The FBI says that cybercriminals connected to the North Korean regime are responsible for an attack on a U.S.-based crypto project, Harmony Protocol, that led to over $100 million in losses last year. On Monday, the FBI published a brief statement explaining that it had... Read more
Screenshot: SoundHound SoundHound, a voice AI company that laid off 40% of its employees earlier this month, announced Tuesday that it had successfully raised $25 million in equity investment. That funding brings good news for the laid off staff, three of whom previously said what measly severance they were... Read more
Lyft will start charging you wait time fees if you make a driver wait more than two minutes after their arrival. Lyft’s policy arrives a whole seven years after Uber implemented the same one.Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images Lyft is cracking down on late passengers.... Read more
Will the iPad Pro ever get its major makeover? Image: Apple Apple hit us with new hardware last week—the MacBook Pro, the Mac Mini, the second-gen HomePod—and there’s more to come this year in sprinklings. But what’s next on the horizon might not be worth the immediate upgrade, reports... Read more
Chicken Fried Data: Chick-Fil-A Hit With Class-Action Privacy Lawsuit Over Video Data Collection
Money/Business May 9, 2023
Photo: Sheila Fitzgerald (Shutterstock) While Chick-fil-A was serving you sandwiches, it was also serving up data to Facebook’s parent company Meta. According to a new lawsuit filed Sunday, the fast food chain did that in a way that violated one of the only federal privacy laws in the United... Read more
Oh to be a fly on the wall at this pitch meeting. Note: M&M did not officially announce any of its “spokescandies” were/are “non-binary.” Screenshot: Twitter / Gizmodo There’s a new potential casualty in the “woke” wars. More than a year of absurd conservative critique of M&M’s cartoon mascots... Read more
