Skullcandy Jib True 2 Transparency Series Review: Cute and affordable

We are ranting, raving and reminiscing about a time when technology looked cool and not industrial. It was colorful, unique and, at its best, it was clear. Somewhere along the line, someone decided we didn’t deserve it anymore, and now we have cell phones and boring-looking headphones to listen to true crime podcasts. We’re so […]

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Overview of the 2022 HCD Conference: Impacting Staff Health, Retention through Design

The 2022 Healthcare Design Conference + Expo will be held October 8-11 in San Antonio. The annual event will offer a series of introductory and breakout sessions on a range of topics. Healthcare Design is a preview of some of the upcoming educational sessions in the Q+As series with the speakers, sharing what they plan […]

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Download: Text Artificial Intelligence and China’s Big Bet on Methanol

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s happening in the tech world. Meta’s new AI can turn text queries into videos What happened: Meta presented an AI system that generates short videos based on text queries. Make-A-Video lets you enter a string of words, such […]

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The future of climate activism is intergenerational—and on TikTok

When it comes to change your mind, nothing beats experience. That’s how Sylvia Earle sees it. The scientist has spent years trying to get people to understand the impacts of climate change and has found that showing them can be the best way to tell them about the problems facing the planet. The problem is […]

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Colette Pichon Battle’s plea for climate justice from the US Gulf

Like Re:WIRED A GREEN event on tackling climate change was coming to a close yesterday, the weather emphasizing the urgency in the most dire possible way. As climate activist and lawyer Colette Pichon Battle spoke from the stage in San Francisco, Hurricane Ian continued its destructive path across Southwest Florida, underscoring her already urgent call […]

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One solution to the food waste problem: Eat your trash

Villains from climate change is what we’re talking about: carbon-emitting cars, soot-emitting power plants, farting cows. So it follows that we could reduce the problem by focusing on what we ingest. For example, what if we ate garbage? That’s the premise behind Shuggie’s Trash Pie and Natural Wine, a restaurant that opened this spring in […]

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Stephen Palumbi says “super reefs” can help save dying corals

Stephen Palumbi, a scientist at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, is on the hunt for what he calls “super reefs.” These are the regions of the ocean where unusual assemblages of corals are found. When the ocean warms, coral species are stressed. This leads to a phenomenon called coral bleaching, where these invertebrates begin to […]

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