Month: December 2024

In late September, seagrass ecologist Alyssa Novak pulled on her neoprene wetsuit, pressed her snorkel mask against her face, and jumped off an oyster farming boat into the shallow waters of Pleasant Bay, an estuary in the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts. Through her mask she gazed toward the sandy seabed, about 3 feet below the surface at low tide, where she was about to plant an experimental underwater garden of eelgrass.

Naturally occurring meadows of eelgrass—the most common type of seagrass found along the East Coast of the United States—are vanishing. Like seagrasses around the world, they have been plagued for decades by dredging, disease, and nutrient pollution from wastewater and agricultural runoff. The nutrient overloads have fueled algal blooms and clouded coastal waters with sediments, blocking out sunlight the marine plants need to make food through photosynthesis and suffocating them.

The United Nations Environment Program reports more than 20 of the world’s 72 seagrass species are on the decline. As a result, an estimated 7 percent of these habitats are lost each year.

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Amazon hat beheizbare Socken mit Akku und App-Steuerung im Angebot, mit denen kalte Füße der Vergangenheit angehören. (Technik/Hardware, Bluetooth)

Die Produktion von Elektroautos nimmt in Deutschland weiter zu. Doch die Verkäufe liegen deutlich unter Vorjahresniveau, vor allem bei Tesla. (Elektroauto, Tesla)

Bisher wurde der Qualcomm-Chip mit ARM-Kernen fast ausschließlich in Notebooks verbaut. Geekom hat einen Mini-PC damit angeteasert. (Qualcomm, Embedded Systems)

Wer smarte Beleuchtung zum Sparpreis sucht, findet bei Amazon derzeit einen intelligenten LED-Strip für deutlich unter 20 Euro im Angebot. (Beleuchtung, Technik/Hardware)

Ex-Vimcar-CTO Lukas Weber spricht im Interview über Euphorie, Wut und die Einsamkeit an der Spitze eines Start-ups. (Chefs von Devs, Interview)

Über die Finanzierung von GMX Free Phone ist viel spekuliert worden. Nun spricht der Anbieter über seine Vermarktungsstrategien. (GMX, E-Mail)

A system of non-competition clauses enforced by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) workforce suppliers is allegedly trapping aerospace professionals who work at ESA’s facilities across Europe in a professional dead-end street. Their contracts prevent job mobility and the possibility to earn better pay, a large number of contractors have alleged to Ars Technica. And as nations that host ESA facilities have enacted laws that give some contractors greater rights, the ESA itself has adopted a policy that will shift more of its indirect employees to service positions, which would not be protected by these laws.

When asked about these issues, an ESA spokesperson said there are “employment conditions in which ESA is not to interfere” and that non-competition clauses “remain within the remit of the employer and the employee.”

The European Space Agency, Europe’s version of NASA, is an intergovernmental organization comprising 22 member states. With facilities in six European countries, the agency relies on contractors—scientists, engineers, and admin workers—hired through payroll companies. These contractors, who work alongside ESA’s staff on the agency’s space projects, constitute over half of the agency’s workforce, according to available estimates.

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A system of non-competition clauses enforced by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) workforce suppliers is allegedly trapping aerospace professionals who work at ESA’s facilities across Europe in a professional dead-end street. Their contracts prevent job mobility and the possibility to earn better pay, a large number of contractors have alleged to Ars Technica. And as nations that host ESA facilities have enacted laws that give some contractors greater rights, the ESA itself has adopted a policy that will shift more of its indirect employees to service positions, which would not be protected by these laws.

When asked about these issues, an ESA spokesperson said there are “employment conditions in which ESA is not to interfere” and that non-competition clauses “remain within the remit of the employer and the employee.”

The European Space Agency, Europe’s version of NASA, is an intergovernmental organization comprising 22 member states. With facilities in six European countries, the agency relies on contractors—scientists, engineers, and admin workers—hired through payroll companies. These contractors, who work alongside ESA’s staff on the agency’s space projects, constitute over half of the agency’s workforce, according to available estimates.

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Indirekt hat AMD per Treiber-Update angekündigt, dass es zum Start von RDNA 4 eine Grafikkarte im Budget-Segment geben wird. Anders als bei Nvidia. (Grafikkarten, AMD)