How robotic honeybees and hives could help the species fight back

October 10, 2022
Something was wrong, but Thomas Schmickl couldn’t put his finger on it. It was 2007, and the Austrian biologist was spending part of the year at East Tennessee State University. As he made his daily walk across some fields to campus, “it felt unpleasant,” he says. “And I didn’t realize why until I heard a…

Google removes The OG App from the Play Store as founders think about next steps

October 10, 2022

Almost a week after Apple removed The OG App from the App Store, an Instagram client that promised to provide an ad-free and suggestion-free feed, Google followed the suit and booted the app off the Play Store. In a Twitter thread, co-founders of Un1feed, the company that published The OG App, said that the startup […]

Google removes The OG App from the Play Store as founders think about next steps by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Clerkenwell Health raises £2.1m to test the new wave of psychedelics treatments

October 10, 2022

Clerkenwell Health, a psychedelic-specialist clinical research organisation, has raised £2.1m in seed funding, bringing the total to date up to £2.5m, which will be used to get the London startup-based fully operational. Investors include Lionheart Ventures, Convergence Partners, and Exceptional Ventures, which was co-founded by Paolo Pio (former MD Europe at Joyance Partners) and Matt […]

Clerkenwell Health raises £2.1m to test the new wave of psychedelics treatments by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

NFT Allowing Mining Of Cryptocurrency: Is It Possible?

October 10, 2022
Through the NFT project ‘The Greedy Machines’, developers came up with a fundamentally new approach to creating an NFT collection and started an art project with a set of images of mining machines

Snapchat brings parental controls to India through in-app tool ‘Family Center’

October 10, 2022

Snapchat is bringing an initial set of parental controls to users in India — a couple of months after its debut in the U.S. and some other markets — to deliver parents and guardians in the key oversea market insights on how their teens are using the social networking app. The in-app tool, called Family […]

Snapchat brings parental controls to India through in-app tool ‘Family Center’ by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules

October 10, 2022

When Florida-based Chetu hired a telemarketer in the Netherlands, the company demanded the employee turn on his webcam. The employee wasn’t happy with being monitored “for 9 hours per day,” in a program that included screen-sharing and streaming his webcam. When he refused, he was fired, according to public court documents (in Dutch), for what […]

Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch