It’s best to wait to plant eelgrass in the early fall, after most of the late summer storms have passed, according to Novak, who spent several days planting seeds in Pleasant Bay and nearby East Harbor this September with a team including a biologist from the National Park Service and a representative from the Mashpee […]
December 4, 2024 | climate change, eel grass, Science, sea grass, syndication | No comments
Despite all these changes, the contractors are still bound by the same stringent non-compete clauses. While the original arrangement saw multiple workforce companies in competition for open ESA positions, service contracts are largely controlled by a single company that has won an agreement to supply a certain type of worker. Should the contracting company ever […]
December 4, 2024 | employment, ESA, Features, Space | No comments
Brandon Kashani, a former student of Brain’s and startup mentor at NC State’s entrepreneurship clinic, recalled to the Technician about how he met with Brain on November 15. “He felt like his reputation was tarnished, like everything he worked for was ruined, and the root of all that was he didn’t get any support from […]
December 4, 2024 | AI, Biz & IT, futurism, futurist, HowStuffWorks, Marshall Brain, NC State, NC State University, NCSU, Obituaries, obituary, Robotic Nation, robots, Tech, transhumanism, wired | No comments
Available over the Tor network, Hydra was a bazaar that brokered not just drugs but also fake documents, cryptocurrency laundering services, and other illicit goods and services. Nine months after Hydra was taken down, authorities came for Bitzlato, a cryptocurrency exchange that laundered “a substantial portion of the cryptocurrency that Hydra received.” In all, authorities […]
December 4, 2024 | Biz & IT, courts, dark net, drugs, ransomware, Security | No comments
Once infectious material gets into the water, disinfection systems that aren’t working properly or are inadequate can allow pathogens to gush from every nozzle. Splash pads aren’t unique in having to handle sick children in poopy swim diapers—but they are unique in how they are regulated. That is, in some places, they’re not regulated at […]
December 3, 2024 | CDC, cyrptosporidium, gastrointestinal diseases, Health, Infectious disease, kids, public health, Science, splash pads | No comments
Zipcar’s rep declined to specify how many people were affected by the outage. A warning against total app reliance Zipcar’s app problems have not only cost it money but also traumatized some users who may think twice before using Zipcar again. The convenience of using apps to control physical products only exists if said apps […]
December 3, 2024 | apps, outage, software, Tech, Zipcar | No comments
Turnover at the top of the company isn’t stopping Intel from launching new products: Today the company is announcing the first of its next-generation B-series Intel Arc GPUs, the Arc B580 and Arc B570. Both are decidedly midrange graphics cards that will compete with the likes of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4060 and AMD’s RX 7600 […]
December 3, 2024 | Alchemist, arc b570, arc b580, battlemage, Gaming, Intel, Intel Arc, rtx 4060, rx 7600 xt, Tech | No comments
The drawer-sized label maker that will convert you My quirky wireless keyboard can keep up to three Bluetooth connections memorized. Can I, a human being, remember which of those three connections corresponds to which device and which number? No, I cannot. That’s why there is a little label on the back of my keyboard, reminding […]
December 3, 2024 | cable management, cable wrangler, flic buttons, home automation, label maker, label makers, Shopping, Tech, USB-C accessories, usb-c charging | No comments
Thanks to the efforts of preservationists like Philippe Villeneuve, chief architect of historic monuments, the cathedral has been rebuilt nearly exactly as it was before the fire. The interior is most transformed since the walls, stained glass, paintings, and sculptures were all cleaned and restored for the first time since the 19th century. All the […]
December 3, 2024 | architecture, National Geographic, notre dame, Notre Dame restoration, photography, Science | No comments
One of the key differences between Apple’s Macs and the iPhone and iPad is that the Mac can still boot and run non-Apple operating systems. This is a feature that Apple specifically built for the Mac, one of many features meant to ease the transition from Intel’s chips to Apple’s own silicon. The problem, at […]
December 3, 2024 | Apple, Apple M1, Apple M2, Apple M3, apple m4, Apple silicon, arm linux, asahi linux, Fedora, Linux, Tech | No comments