In the Summer, Three Workplace Activists Were Making Waves at Apple. All Three Are Now Gone.

Last week, software engineer Cher Scarlett left Apple upon reaching a settlement with the company following months of workplace activism. Scarlett, who worked at Apple for a year and a half, is perhaps best known for her work with #AppleToo, an employee activist movement that seeks to collect and publicize concerns about pay equity, harassment, and other issues at the company. “I didn’t feel like I could feasibly continue to work and also advocate for others publicly,” Scarlett told me. “I felt like there was no place for me there.”
Read more: https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/apple-workplace-activism-cher-scarlett.html?source=Snapzu

The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move

A pair of sleek, winged machines are "flying" - or at least swimming - beneath the dark waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. Known as "sea dragons" or "tidal kites", they look like aircraft, but these are in fact high-tech tidal turbines, generating electricity from the power of the ocean. The two kites - with a five-metre (16ft) wingspan - move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide. They are tethered to the fjord seabed by 40-metre metal cables.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59401199?source=Snapzu

The CEO of cosmetics retailer Lush says he's 'happy to lose' $13 million by deleting Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat accounts over teen mental-health harms

Cosmetics company Lush shut down its Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat accounts globally on Friday, citing its concern about the harms of social media in the wake of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's revelations. "In the same way that evidence against climate change was ignored and belittled for decades, concerns about the serious effects of social media are going largely ignored now," the company said in its press release earlier this week.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/lush-ceo-happy-to-lose-13m-deleting-social-media-accounts-2021-11?source=Snapzu

EU seeks to block political ads that target people's ethnicity or religion

Organizations would need to disclose how ads are paid for and how they are targeting certain groups.
Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/eu-targeted-political-ads-ethnicity-religion-sexual-orientation-transparency-233011048.html?source=Snapzu

Jobless claims plunge to their lowest level in 52 years

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits plummeted last week to the lowest level in more than half a century, with employers opting against layoffs amid a persistent shortage of workers. Jobless claims dropped by 71,000 to 199,000, the lowest since mid-November 1969, according to figures released by the Labor Department on Wednesday. The drop was much bigger than economists expected.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uneployment-jobless-claims-plunge-2021-11-24/?source=Snapzu

Grayscale Says Metaverse Is A Trillion Dollar Market Opportunity

The metaverse may represent an over $1 trillion annual revenue market opportunity, crypto investment giant Grayscale said in a report, without specifying the timeline.
Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/25/grayscale-says-metaverse-is-a-trillion-dollar-market-opportunity/?source=Snapzu

Apple told the SEC it doesn't silence employees regarding workplace harassment or discrimination. New whistleblower documents show that isn't true.

Former Apple engineer Cher Scarlett's settlement agreement demonstrates how far the company goes to silence employees who allege misdeeds in the workplace.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-sec-response-under-scrutiny-after-whistleblower-comes-forward?source=Snapzu

Amazon and Apple handed $225 million in Italian antitrust fines

Italy's antitrust authority has fined U.S. tech giants Amazon.com and Apple Inc a total of more than 200 million euros ($225 million) for alleged anti-competitive cooperation in the sale of Apple and Beats products.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/italys-antitrust-fines-amazon-apple-more-than-200-mln-euros-alleged-collusion-2021-11-23/?source=Snapzu

Largest Farm to Grow Crops Under Solar Panels Proves to Be a Bumper Crop for Agrivoltaic Land Use

Agrivoltaics, growing crops under solar panels, increases the production of both, and Jack's Solar Garden farm is showing how it's done.
Read more: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/agrivoltaics-of-solar-power-and-farming-are-a-big-success-on-this-boulder-farm/#.YZkHbDc3slI.reddit?source=Snapzu

Why Moderna won't share rights to the COVID-19 vaccine with the government that paid for its development

Moderna claims its scientists alone invented the mRNA sequence used to produce its COVID-19 vaccine. The US government, which helped fund the drug, disagrees.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/why-moderna-wont-share-rights-to-the-covid-19-vaccine-with-the-government-that-paid-for-its-development-172008?source=Snapzu

Ford plans to produce 600,000 EVs a year by the end of 2023

Ford is aiming to double its production plans to keep up with demand..
Read more: https://www.engadget.com/ford-600000-electric-vehicles-2023-061606689.html?source=Snapzu

The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing

Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/the-forgotten-oil-ads-that-told-us-climate-change-was-nothing?source=Snapzu

A look under the hood of the most successful streaming service on the planet

Netflix’s secret to success is happening behind the scenes.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/22787426/netflix-cdn-open-connect?source=Snapzu

Covid-19: Pfizer to allow developing nations to make its treatment pill

US drug company Pfizer has penned a deal to allow its experimental Covid-19 treatment pill to be made and sold in 95 developing nations. The deal with the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool not-for-profit could make the treatment available to 53% of the world's population. But it excludes several countries that have had large Covid-19 outbreaks, including Brazil.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59310582?source=Snapzu

Future of retail design

There is a shift happening in retail to move the focus from transactions to experiences and engagement. As the retail experience shifts, so will the designers who shape them. Dr. Jen Schlueter, Dean of Graduate Studies at Columbus College of Art & Design, explores how the industry is rethinking retail along with Rachel Friedman and Faith Huddleston from Tenfold, a design firm that just launched an experimental retail space called Tenspace, and Ed Hofmann, chair of the Master of Professional Studies in Retail Design advisory board at CCAD.
Read more: https://firstyouhustle.podbean.com/e/future-of-retail-design/?source=Snapzu

Is Protecting Copyright More Important Than Saving Lives During The COVID-19 Pandemic?

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked terrible suffering across the world, we are fortunate that we already have several vaccines that have been shown to be highly effective in reducing the number of deaths and hospitalization rates. Discovering...
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211116/17024247955/is-protecting-copyright-more-important-than-saving-lives-during-covid-19-pandemic.shtml?source=Snapzu

UK announces plan to boost overseas trade

The government has announced plans to boost the UK's annual exports to £1 trillion by the end of the decade. The Made in the UK, Sold To The World plan is intended to help firms seize new opportunities in global markets. Last year, the UK exported about £600bn in goods and services. But only one in 10 British firms trades overseas.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59313263?source=Snapzu

How This Vertical Farm Grows 80,000 Pounds of Produce per Week

Bowery Farming uses technology to prioritize accessibility and sustainability in their produce growing operations
Read more: https://www.eater.com/22291112/vertical-farm-produce-technology-bowery-farming?source=Snapzu

Audi supervisory board to discuss McLaren partnership on Wednesday - sources

Audi's supervisory board will discuss on Wednesday ways for the company to enter Formula One, including via possible partnership with McLaren Automotive, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday, adding no decision has yet been made.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/audi-supervisory-board-discuss-mclaren-partnership-wednesday-sources-2021-11-16/?source=Snapzu

Giving the Authors a Voice in Litigation? An ACS v. ResearchGate Update

A ResearchGate motion asks the court to open the door for something big: communicating about the litigation with the actual authors of the articles posted to ResearchGate. Imagine that!
Read more: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2019/02/14/giving-the-authors-a-voice-in-litigation-an-acs-v-researchgate-update/?source=Snapzu

New York City passed a bill requiring 'bias audits' of AI hiring tech

Let the AI auditing vendor brigade begin. A year since it was introduced, New York City Council passed a bill earlier this week requiring companies that sell AI technologies for hiring to obtain audits assessing the potential of those products to discriminate against job candidates. The bill requiring "bias audits" passed with overwhelming support in a 38-4 vote.
Read more: https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/nyc-ai-hiring-tools?source=Snapzu

I Write a Parenting Advice Column (or How I Became Famous in My Neighborhood)

None of my neighbors subscribe to my Substack newsletter, as far as I can tell. That’s fine with me. I don’t talk much about my vocation around here. We’ve lived in this house for many years (although we will be moving in a few days), and during that whole period I’ve never spoken to anyone on our street about my writing. From their perspective, I’m just another family man who works from home.
Read more: https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/i-write-a-parenting-advice-column?source=Snapzu

Swiss franc rises vs euro, dollar hovers around 16-month high

The dollar eased against its major peers on Monday, but remained near its 16-month high hit last week on the back of inflation concerns, as investors looked forward to fresh data this week on the state of the U.S. consumer.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/dollar-eases-16-mth-high-traders-seek-clues-fed-rate-plans-2021-11-15/?source=Snapzu

Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed

The company’s CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different?
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/substack-future-chris-best/?source=Snapzu

Apple secretly buying ads for their apps, say big developers – and they aren't happy about it

Major developers have accused Apple of secretly buying ads for their apps. While that might sound like an odd complaint, they say that the company’s motive is greed, and the effect is to cost them money. Apple is said to be costing them millions of dollars...
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2021/11/15/apple-secretly-buying-ads-apps/?source=Snapzu

Drug Price Negotiation Is A Second-Best Fix. Here's What Will Really Work

As Democrats struggle to bring together 50 votes to pass the Build Back Better Act, a major sticking point with the legislation has emerged. That is, whether it should include provisions changing the law to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices...
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211110/23350447919/drug-price-negotiation-is-second-best-fix-heres-what-will-really-work.shtml?source=Snapzu

Apple launches subscription service for small-business owners

Apple Inc on Wednesday launched a new subscription service aimed at helping small-business owners manage the Apple devices used by their employees. Business Essentials, as Apple is calling the service, is similar to management software that companies such as Microsoft Corp or VMware Inc sell to large business for setting up and keeping secure their fleets of phones, laptops and tablets. But Apple's version is simplified for businesses with between 50 and 500 employees that have either a small IT department or none at all.
Read more: https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/apple-launches-subscription-service-for-small-business-owners-311866-2021-11-11?source=Snapzu

The number of U.S. workers quitting their jobs in September was the highest on record.

Employers are still struggling to fill millions of open jobs — and to hold on to the workers they already have. More than 4.4 million workers quit their jobs voluntarily in September, the Labor Department said Friday. That was up from 4.3 million in August and was the most in the two decades the government has been keeping track. Nearly a million quit their jobs in the leisure and hospitality industry alone, reflecting the steep competition for workers there as businesses recover from last year’s pandemic-induced shutdowns.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/business/economy/jobs-labor-openings-quit.html?source=Snapzu

J&J plans to split into two companies, separating consumer products and pharmaceutical businesses

Shares rose by about 3% in premarket trading after the announcement.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/12/jj-shares-jump-after-ceo-says-health-giant-plans-to-break-up-in-wsj-report.html?source=Snapzu

Apple’s patent reveals “special glasses” that only allow its users to view content on the iPhone

According to a new patent filed by Apple, the company may launch a new privacy feature that only allows the owner of an iPhone to view its content with special glasses. As reported by Patently Apple, the patent describes the “privacy glasses” that block out others from viewing your content.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/apples-patent-reveals-special-glasses-that-only-allow-its-users-to-view-content-on-the-iphone/articleshow/87659771.cms?source=Snapzu

China has a big inflation problem and it's pushing up prices worldwide

China's inflation headache is getting worse.
Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/10/economy/china-cpi-ppi-inflation-intl-hnk/index.html?source=Snapzu

Apple loses bid for second bite at Qualcomm patents after license

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rebuffed for the second time Apple Inc's attempt to revive challenges to chipmaker Qualcomm Inc's mobile-phone technology patents. In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Apple couldn't bring the appeal because of the companies' 2019 resolution of a global patent dispute, which gave Apple a license to tens of thousands of Qualcomm patents.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/apple-loses-bid-second-bite-qualcomm-patents-after-license-2021-11-10/?source=Snapzu

Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay

Epic v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says Apple must comply with an order to let developers add links and buttons to external payment options, denying the company’s motion for a stay. “Apple’s motion is based on a selective reading of this Court’s findings and ignores all of the findings which supported the injunction,” her new order reads.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/9/22773082/epic-apple-fortnite-lawsuit-ruling-injunction-stay-app-store-anti-steering-rules?source=Snapzu

Walmart is using fully driverless trucks to ramp up its online grocery business

Walmart said Monday it has started using fully driverless trucking in its online grocery business, aiming to increase capacity and reduce inefficiencies. Walmart and Silicon Valley start-up Gatik said that, since August, they’ve operated two autonomous box trucks — without a safety driver — on a 7-mile loop daily for 12 hours. The Gatik trucks are loaded with online grocery orders from a Walmart fulfillment center called a “dark store.” The orders are then taken to a nearby Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery store in Bentonville, Arkansas, where Walmart is headquartered.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/08/walmart-is-using-fully-driverless-trucks-to-ramp-up-its-online-grocery-business.html?source=Snapzu

Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides

The nutrient content of our vegetables is down 40% over the last two decades and our soil health is suffering due to increasingly harsh herbicide use, according to Carbon Robotics founder Paul Mikesell.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/02/self-driving-farm-robot-uses-lasers-to-kill-100000-weeds-an-hour-saving-land-and-farmers-from-toxic-herbicides/?sh=7ee0a3f34070?source=Snapzu

Uber is looking at dispatching New York's yellow cabs from its app amid a driver shortage

Uber app users could see New York City's yellow cabs as another option alongside "UberX," which would be facilitated through TLC's "E-Hail" program.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-app-dispatching-yellow-cabs-new-york-driver-shortage-2021-11?source=Snapzu

Lynne Spears is requesting that Britney's estate pay for more than $600,000 worth of legal fees linked to her efforts to end to the conservatorship

Lynne Spears, mother to pop star Britney Spears, has filed a new petition to the Los Angeles court requesting that her daughter's conservatorship estate pay for her legal fees incurred since 2019. Filed by Lynne Spears' lawyers, the documents (reviewed by Insider) begin by explaining why she sought out legal counsel at a firm called Jones Swanson Huddle & Garrison in 2019. They say she believed her daughter was enduring a "crisis" in early 2019, and wanted to "get involved to help Britney free herself from what she saw as a very controlling existence."
Read more: https://www.insider.com/lynne-spears-request-britney-conservatorship-estate-pay-her-legal-fees-2021-11?source=Snapzu

Mark Zuckerberg downloaded and used a photo app that Facebook later cloned and crushed, antitrust lawsuit claims

The founders of a photo-app startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, The New York Times first reported on Thursday. In 2014, Champ Bennett, Omar Elsayed, and Russell Armand founded Phhhoto, which allowed users to take and post a short bust of photos that looped, similar to a GIF.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-cloned-crushed-phhhoto-photo-app-2021-11?source=Snapzu

Scottish cyber startup Lupovis raises over €700k for their cyber security solution which makes the hunter the hunted | EU-Startups

Lupovis, a cybersecurity spin-out from the University of Strathclyde, has secured a pre-seed investment of over €700k from a syndicate co-led by Techstart Ventures and Nauta Capital, and investment form the University of Strathclyde itself.
Read more: https://www.eu-startups.com/2021/11/scottish-cyber-startup-lupovis-raises-over-e700k-for-their-cyber-security-solution-which-makes-the-hunter-the-hunted/?source=Snapzu

Nintendo Switch sales down 34% in H1, total units sold hit 92.8 million

Nintendo has released its financial results for the six-month period ended September 30, 2021, noting a moderate decline in console sales. For the half, operating profit was down by 24.5%, dropping to ¥219.9 billion ($1.9 billion) from 291.4 billion ($2.5 billion) during the same period in 2020. Ordinary profit was also down by 20.6% to ¥236.2 billion ($2 billion) from ¥297.4 billion ($2.6 billion).
Read more: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-11-04-nintendo-switch-sales-down-34-percent-in-h1?source=Snapzu

Top Earning Female Affiliate Marketers in the World

Affiliate marketing is the process of marketing and making money from 3rd party products and services. As an affiliate you will receive a percentage or some fixed amount of the affiliate sale as a commission. Here is the nitty gritty on the top female affiliate marketers.
Read more: https://www.billacholla.com/top-female-affiliate-marketers-in-the-world/?source=Snapzu

How to Fix Social Media

Nicholas Carr on bringing America's spirit of the common good to online governance
Read more: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-to-fix-social-media?source=Snapzu

Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides

The nutrient content of our vegetables is down 40% over the last two decades and our soil health is suffering due to increasingly harsh herbicide use, according to Carbon Robotics founder Paul Mikesell.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/02/self-driving-farm-robot-uses-lasers-to-kill-100000-weeds-an-hour-saving-land-and-farmers-from-toxic-herbicides/?source=Snapzu

Meta to continue use of facial recognition technology

Facebook this week announced that it will no longer deploy facial recognition technologies on its platform, but the social network's parent company, Meta, said that the commitment does not apply to its metaverse products
Read more: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/11/04/meta-to-continue-use-of-facial-recognition-technology?source=Snapzu

Zillow's collapse was no surprise to me. I sold my home to an iBuyer and watched it get clobbered

Like MoviePass before it, Zillow’s iBuying adventures were a rare and fleeting handover...
Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Zillow-s-collapse-was-no-surprise-to-me-I-sold-16590017.php?source=Snapzu

Parallel metaverses: Zuckerberg’s Meta might meet a trademark challenge from META PCs

Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago. Then on Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his company would be changing its name to Meta and it found itself in an IP war with tech’s biggest behemoth.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/02/meta-parallel-metaverses-facebook-name-change-challenged?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other?source=Snapzu

Apple’s app tracking policy reportedly cost social media platforms nearly $10 billion

An investigation by The Financial Times found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube lost around $9.85 billion in revenue following Apple’s changes to its privacy practices. Last year, Apple announced the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy that requires apps to ask permission to track users’ data. The policy went into effect in April, barring apps from tracking users if they opt out.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/31/22756135/apple-app-tracking-transparency-policy-snapchat-facebook-twitter-youtube-lose-10-billion?source=Snapzu

Why MAGA Social Media Is a Hacker’s Wet Dream

The flurry of social media apps aimed at conservatives promise free speech will reign—but more often than not they’re crashing and burning before they can even get going.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-maga-social-media-is-a-hackers-wet-dream?ref=home?source=Snapzu