⁦MightyFly⁩ announced authorization to test its recently unveiled large drone in a CA flight corridor. In Jan they received an FAA special airworthiness certificate + certificate of waiver or authorization (COA) to establish the corridor flyingmag.com/mightyfly-obta…

Investigating the barriers and enablers for step change in the success of the micro compact car industry. at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com findaphd.com/phds/project/i…

We're recruiting! University of Bath is looking for a coordinator for the new Green Industrial Futures Centre for Doctoral Training to support our world-leading interdisciplinary research and training programme: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a…

“I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.”

“In the past, Tesla rehired people it fired after realizing that it couldn’t get the work done without them. This is raising questions about the logic behind some of the layoffs and their efficacy.” electrek.co/2024/05/01/elo…

a lovely afternoon break to attend the citizenship ceremony of the first refugee we hosted 6.5 years ago.

From being homeless after standard rapid refugee status eviction w barely any English to now having a good job as a licenced building site lift operator. #RefugeesAtHome 1/3

8 U.S. newspapers suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted articles without permission or payment to train their chatbots. apnews.com/article/chatgp…

#InternationalJazzDay

Climate change is making for greater yields of Canada’s famed maple syrup—but also, Sarah Lawrynuik tells “The Intelligence”, it threatens the stability of supply econ.st/4bhHOds

The expansion of the Synchronous Condenser market is one of underreported stories in energy, primarily because it's about spinning bits of metal hidden in sheds with no exciting planning battles involved. /1

I spent a week as a Deliveroo rider. And learnt a lot.
First up, Deliveroo likes to claim you should earn at least the minimum wage of £11.44 while working. Me?
I worked for 22hrs 50mins, rode 105 miles, did 27 drop offs and earned £120.38.
That works out at £5.28 an hour🧵

U.S. authorities consider DJI a security threat. Congress is weighing legislation to ban it, prompting a lobbying campaign from the company, which dominates the commercial and consumer drone markets. nytimes.com/2024/04/25/us/…

🚗UPDATE🚗
- Britain is STILL sending millions of pounds of luxury cars into states neighbouring Russia, according to new data.
- There is STILL no especially plausible explanation
- Car lobby group the @smmt STILL insists it's got NOTHING to do with Russian sanctions
🧵

goodo

LIN ROUGE bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

“Inadequate” bbc.com/news/articles/…