Yesterday, Clash announced it was acquiring Byte, a short-form video app launched by Vine cofounder Dom Hofmann. The announcement comes “at a time when TikTok itself now appears to be here to stay,” reports CNN. From the report: Dubsmash, another TikTok competitor with a similar algorithmic feed serving up entertaining videos, was acquired last month by Reddit. Meanwhile, Adam Mosseri, the…
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Discovery of ‘Cryptic Species’ Shows Earth is Even More Biologically Diverse
A growing number of “cryptic species” hiding in plain sight have been unmasked in the past year, driven in part by the rise of DNA barcoding, a technique that can identify and differentiate between animal and plant species using their genetic divergence. From a report: The discovery of new species of aloe, African leaf-nosed bats and chameleons that appear similar to…
Vine grows its own greenhouses to help fruit develop in autumn
A vine forms leafy enclosures around developing fruit that can be up to 5°C warmer than areas around unprotected fruit Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256302-vine-grows-its-own-greenhouses-to-help-fruit-develop-in-autumn/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Why We Have a ‘TikTok Problem’
An anonymous reader shares an analysis: As national security expert Lucas Kunce notes, Facebook is in fact the reason we have a TikTok problem to begin with. When Twitter launched a TikTok-like product Vine years before, Facebook actively killed the product by refusing to let Vine access its APIs on the same terms other corporations got. Mark Zuckerberg personally made the…
Singapore Airlines Is Using Aeroponics To Upgrade In-Flight Meals
Antony McNeil, Singapore Airlines’ global food and beverage director, is purchasing produce from AeroFarms’ Newark facility, the world’s largest indoor vertical farm. “The 16-year-old agtech startup has taken aeroponics to an industrial scale, growing some 800 varieties of leafy greens, tubers, root crops, vine crops, and berries all without soil, sunshine, or pesticides,” reports Quartz. Thanks to this partnership, “Singapore Airlines…