On a recent winter evening, the perfumer Barnabé Fillion is painting a kaleidoscopic picture: sun-baked orange earth hardened into rivulets and pools, filled with water the color of a green apple Jolly Rancher. Speaking over Zoom from his studio in Paris, the perfumer is talking about the Ethiopian region of Dallol—a fever dream of environmental…
how about 2025 then? — OEMs argue that the law as written creates a cybersecurity risk. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Jan 17, 2022 6:46 pm UTC Getty Images/Aurich Lawson Back in 2013, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to pass a “right to repair” law that required carmakers to sell their proprietary diagnostic…
Apple’s digital car key feature might soon be useful for unlocking more than a handful of BMW models. In his latest newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman claimed Hyundai and its upscale Genesis badge will support Apple CarKey “by the summer.” It’s not certain which models would provide the option, but it’s notable that some trim levels…
January 16, 2022 12:15 PM Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. The future of remote work is a hotly debated topic, with employees pulling for more time away from the office and many employers preferring to keep workers where they…
January 16, 2022 6:10 AM Image Credit: metamorworks/Getty Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream. This article was contributed by Prasanna Dhungel, managing partner of GrowByData. Businesses today have lots of data, modern data warehousing, AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools, and nice…
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, like the ATLAS calorimeter seen here, are providing more accurate measurements of fundamental particles. Credit: Maximilien Brice, CERN If you ask a physicist like me to explain how the world works, my lazy answer might be: “It follows the Standard Model.” The Standard Model explains the fundamental…
Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket launches with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard December 25, 2021, from the ELA-3 Launch Zone of Europe’s Spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or Webb) will study every phase of cosmic history—from within our solar system to the…
January 11, 2022 A summer heatwave knocked out power in Argentina, while heat in Western Australia likely tied the hottest temperature ever measured south of the equator. Summer south of the equator is proving to be a scorcher. In mid-January 2022, sweltering heat gripped central South America and temperatures soared to more than 40°C (104°F).…
By NASA January 16, 2022 The SLS is an advanced, heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new capability for science and human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. Credit: NASA Last week, engineers and technicians successfully completed an engineering test series of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at…
Mars Perseverance Sol 320 – WATSON Image: NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard SHERLOC WATSON imager. The camera is located on the turret at the end of the rover’s robotic arm. The image was acquired on Jan. 13, 2022 (Sol 320). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team has been working…
