Molly Glick

Robotic Bees Could Support Vertical Farms Today and Astronauts Tomorrow The buzzy industry of robotic pollinators is setting its sights on indoor farms for urban—and extraterrestrial—environments

Can robotic pollinators rescue high-tech vertical farms? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/robotic-bees-could-support-vertical-farms-today-and-astronauts-tomorrow/ by @mollyglick.bsky.social

Thanks for the helpful edits!

Update: Oura is cutting the feature, which they may be in response to my reporting (haven’t heard back with confirmation).

Would You Let Your Boss Track Your Sleep Schedule? A new Slack feature developed by wearable health tech company Oura foreshadows an unnerving, dystopian future work culture.

For my first Daily Beast story I covered a new Slack feature where Oura ring users can share scores rating their sleep quality and wellbeing with coworkers. It’s just one example of a concerning trend:

these circled items are all data the US govt admitted last month to purchasing in bulk to circumvent the need to go to a judge for a warrant.