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NewsNation: Wendy’s hints at possible ‘surge-pricing’ menu
During a Feb. 15 investor call, CEO Kirk Tanner said the company plans to spend about $20 million to roll out digital menu boards to all restaurants by the end of 2025.
The new menu boards, he says, will allow restaurants to experiment with “surge pricing,” meaning customers could pay more for the same items depending on demand and time of day.
My guess is that this would be a disaster for them.
New Republic: The Hot New Luxury Good for the Rich: Air
The building’s approach to filtration is undeniably sophisticated. The air in each unit isn’t shared with any other. Outside air is brought in, filtered, treated with an ultraviolet-C light that kills 99.9 percent of pathogens, and completely changed out once per hour. Circulation can be boosted or slowed. Most apartments with similar systems recycle the air every four to five hours a day. “We were thinking, if we’re already going to build a Ferrari, then why would we only give it a 200-horsepower engine?” Roe said. “Let’s put a 1,000-horsepower engine into it.” The quadruple-layer, triple-paned windows feature museum-quality glass and are generally opened only for cleaning. Otherwise, you’d let in air far dirtier than what’s circulating inside.
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On June 7, 2023, New York City briefly had the worst air quality in the world. The sky turned auburn as smoke from wildfires … spread throughout the boroughs. The horizon vanished into an orange haze. It was not hard to feel that we were living in an era Stephen Pyne, an emeritus professor at Arizona State University, has called the Pyrocene. Last year, at one point or another, New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Detroit, and Portland, Oregon, all had air in the “hazardous” or “unhealthy” range, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A September 2023 study found that wildfires have erased 25 percent of air-quality improvements made since 2000. By mid-2023, the average American’s smoke exposure was worse than their total cumulative exposure every year since 2006.
MagPi magazine: The MagPi issue 138
Discover a new generation of retro computers in the latest edition of The MagPi magazine. Head back to the year 2000 with this guide to emulating the Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation, and Sega Dreamcast. Packed with legal ROMs and new games.
- Next gen retro with Raspberry Pi 5. Turn the super-fast Raspberry Pi 5 into a range of new classic consoles
- Art and crafts with Raspberry Pi. The intersection of making and technology is a magical place
- Discover sound synthesizers with Bullfrog. This incredible project uses RP2040 and wires to explain sound synthesizers
- All new HAT+ hardware. A new specification for Raspberry Pi Hardware Attached on Top is revealed
- Raspberry Pi at Maker Faire Shenzen. Eben Upton and Raspberry Pi head to the Maker Faire event in China
- WIN! CrowVision 11.6-inch screens
Errata
Real Time Clock (RTC), P40-42. This article has been updated to advise against using trickle charging and a lithium battery.
The annotation on Page 41 now directs readers to the BAT connection instead of UART (thanks to RaspISteve for spotting this).
TechCrunch: Apple cancels its autonomous electric car project and is laying off some workers
Apple is scuttling its secretive, long-running effort to build an autonomous electric car, executives announced in a short meeting with the team Tuesday morning. The company is likely cutting hundreds of employees from the team and all work on the project has stopped, TechCrunch has learned.
Some remaining employees will be shifted to Apple’s generative AI projects, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the project’s cancellation. Others will have 90 days to find a reassignment to other roles inside the company, or they will be let go. The car project still had around 1,400 employees working on it, according to one employee who was granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about their work.
BBC: Satoshi Kirishima: DNA test confirms dying man was one of Japan’s most wanted
Satoshi Kirishima: DNA test confirms dying man was one of Japan’s most wanted.
A DNA test has revealed a dying man who claimed to be one of Japan’s most wanted criminals was telling the truth.
Satoshi Kirishima made his confession in January, telling police “I want to meet my death with my real name”.
Officials have now confirmed the 70-year-old was indeed Kirishima, a member of a militant group behind several deadly bombings in the 1970s.
Entomology Today: What Eats Ticks? Study Puts an Old Technique to New Use
A key component of any integrated pest management program involves the use of natural predators. But interactions between ticks and possible predators are not well studied.
To address this knowledge gap, a team of scientists in Russia and the Czech Republic studied possible predators of Ixodes ricinus, commonly known as the castor bean tick, among the most common species in Europe. The researchers used a method called stable isotope labeling, and the study, published in December 2023 in the_ Journal of Medical Entomology_, marks the first known use of isotope labeling to identify tick predators.
Last Updated: 27.Feb.2024 23:59 EST