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How you can help save declining butterflies

Fast Company Tech

Photo: USFWS/ Flickr ] We found declines in just about every region of the continental U.S. Photo: Renee Las Vegas/ Wiki Commons ] Some species numbers are dropping faster than others. Butterflies have a high surface-to-volume ratio they dont hold much moisture so they can easily become desiccated in dry conditions.

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Social media companies, here are some free theme park ideas to comply with Florida’s deplatforming law

The Verge

The law has a hilariously corrupt exemption for any company that owns or operates a theme park or large entertainment complex in the state of Florida. So all Twitter, Facebook, TikTok et al have to do to comply with the law and avoid the knotty First Amendment issue of government speech regulations is build their own Floridian theme parks.

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Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’

The Verge

Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images. The ratio of driver interaction would need to be in the magnitude of 1 or 2 million miles per driver interaction to move into higher levels of automation. The comments came from a memo released by legal transparency group PlainSite , which obtained the documents from a public records request.

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DJI Mini 2 review: tiny dancer

The Verge

As someone who spends a lot of his free time traversing the city with a camera, taking photos, I usually end up carrying more gear than I really need. Photo by Ryan Loughlin. And according to the newly updated drone laws , sub-250g drones won’t be subjected to broadcasting the pilot’s and drone’s location. Flying the DJI Mini 2.

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ROI: Can You Quantify the Untangible? You Can't Quantify Love (or can you?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Mayr. POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. That lead me to Tom Gilb, an engineer and measurement guru.

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Sony’s Xperia 1 III is pricey, performant, and perplexing

The Verge

Once again, Sony has created a beautiful device with some unique, marquee features like a 4K-ish OLED 120Hz screen, great photo-taking amenities like a physical shutter button and a high-quality manual camera app, and top-notch hardware for entertainment consumption, like dual front-facing speakers and an honest-to-god headphone jack.

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Susie's Blog -- A Nonprofit Techie Who Loves Chocolate and Open Source Software

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Susie Halksworth photo in flickr Susie Halksworth is the Resources Director at AFL (formerly the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre ), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cambridge, focused on advice and ICT projects. It started in 1988 with two part time staff (who still run it) and a ??30,000 1 for a great big bag. s Tesco for you ???