Month: June 2023

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Twitter is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that it failed to pay bonuses promised to current and former employees who stayed at the company after Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition of the firm.

Twitter executives "repeatedly promised Plaintiff and the company's other employees that 2022 bonuses would be paid out at fifty percent of target. This promise was repeated following Musk's acquisition," alleged the complaint filed yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Plaintiff Mark Schobinger was Twitter's senior director of compensation from February 2019 until May 26, 2023. He is seeking class-action status "on his own behalf and on behalf of other current and former Twitter employees who were employed by the Company as of January 1, 2023, and who have not been paid their annual bonus for 2022."

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Twitter is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that it failed to pay bonuses promised to current and former employees who stayed at the company after Elon Musk's October 2022 acquisition of the firm.

Twitter executives "repeatedly promised Plaintiff and the company's other employees that 2022 bonuses would be paid out at fifty percent of target. This promise was repeated following Musk's acquisition," alleged the complaint filed yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Plaintiff Mark Schobinger was Twitter's senior director of compensation from February 2019 until May 26, 2023. He is seeking class-action status "on his own behalf and on behalf of other current and former Twitter employees who were employed by the Company as of January 1, 2023, and who have not been paid their annual bonus for 2022."

Enlarge / Satellite data illustrates the heat signature of Hurricane Maria above warm surface water in 2017 (credit: NASA)

When a hurricane hits land, the destruction can be visible for years or even decades. Less obvious, but also powerful, is the effect hurricanes have on the oceans.

In a new study, we show through real-time measurements that hurricanes don’t just churn water at the surface. They can also push heat deep into the ocean in ways that can lock it up for years and ultimately affect regions far from the storm.

Heat is the key component of this story. It has long been known that hurricanes gain their energy from warm sea surface temperatures. This heat helps moist air near the ocean surface rise like a hot air balloon and form clouds taller than Mount Everest. This is why hurricanes generally form in tropical regions.

Enlarge / Are you going to enjoy playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder? It might help if you gauge your reaction to shiny, moustache-under-the-trunk Elephant Mario. (credit: Nintendo)

The stinger, the bit Nintendo knew everybody was going to remember, was Mario as an elephant. It could almost make you forget the surreal revisit to a traditional 2D Mario game the company had just finished showing you.

The trailer for Super Mario Bros. Wonder starts off in familiar territory, minus the talking flower that urges Mario "onward and upward!" Mario hops over a pipe, onto some Goombas, and dodges a Piranha Plant. Then he's bouncing off some spherical hippos, past some Goombas that are...  wearing toupees? He does some rail grinding, jumps through some waterfalls—typical Mario things.

But then he touches a blue "Wonder Flower," reflective goo starts pulsing around the corners of the screen, and a typical pipes-and-baddies level goes bizarre. Pipes rise, spout water, and worm-wiggle around. Another level is all silhouettes against an ethereally purple background, but Mario can stretch himself five times as tall. Mario becomes a spiked ball. Mario rides a sheep stampede. It ends when Mario finds a Wonder Seed, and the Mushroom Kingdom looks relatively recognizable.