Vivian Blumenthal

  The company is waiting for scientists to come up with a solution to the problem. Delivery service Wing (a subsidiary of Google) has temporarily stopped the flights of cargo drones in the area of ​​Canberra, the capital of Australia. The company had to take such a step due to the fact that drones are increasingly attacked by local crows, magpies, hawks and wedge-tailed eagles, reports Business Insider. Wing has been delivering goods in Australia since 2019, but it is only now that it is facing such a problem. The company's specialists suggested that the root cause of bird aggression is territorial instinct. Australian birds began their nesting season, which coincided with a strong increase in the number of delivery orders due to the widespread self-isolation regime. Perhaps because of the regularly flying drones, the local birds have "run out of patience." According to a local birdwatcher, when the drone flies away after the order has been delivered, the attacking bird...

A new generation of students no longer uses folders to organize and confuses professors. Why Google is to blame for everything - in a retelling of an article by Monica Chin of The Verge. In 2017, astrophysicist Catherine Garland noticed a problem. She taught an engineering course and her students used a program to simulate jet engine turbines. She explained the assignment, but the students received the same error message: The program could not find the file. The teacher thought it was easy to fix. She asked the students where they saved their files - on the desktop, perhaps on a shared drive? But the professor's words disconcerted them. Not only did they not know where their files were stored, but they also did not understand the essence of her question. Gradually, the professor came to the conclusion: the concept of folders and directories with files on a computer, which was used by previous generations, is completely incomprehensible to many modern students. Beginning in 2017, ma...

  Researchers at the University of California were able to count the number of people sitting still in the classroom using Wi-Fi. The technology does not interact with mobile devices but relies only on mathematical processing of data obtained using standard wireless signal sources. In the experiments, one transmitter and one receiver of the Wi-Fi signal were used. The devices were installed in an area where there were several people, and by the difference in the received signal strength from each point in space, it was possible to analyze how many people were present in the room. To count people, a method is used based on the fact that a person cannot be absolutely motionless for a long period of time. A person sitting in place always has small natural body movements, for example, crossing the legs, stretching, coughing, he can also adjust the chair, look at the clock, look into the smartphone, etc. Therefore, despite the fact that counting motionless people is a rather difficult t...

  The investigation began after the July flight with Branson - then the SpaceShipTwo ship deviated from the specified trajectory. ● Virgin Galactic has complied with all the directives of the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which began its investigation on August 11, 2021. ● Because of the audit, the FAA and Virgin Galactic agreed to expand the flight restriction zone during launches, as well as to take additional measures for notification of flights in real time. ● On July 11, Virgin Galactic successfully launched the crewed spacecraft Unity on a suborbital flight, in which company founder Richard Branson participated. ● Against the background of the news, the company's shares rose by 10% on the premarket on the New York Stock Exchange - to almost $25 per share. ● The regulator banned the company from conducting space flights during the investigation of the July flight with Branson - then the shares of Virgin Galactic fell 7.02%. ...

  Our company has extensive experience in the formation, launch and maintenance of Supervisory Boards in medium-sized businesses. Here are its main functions, which we have identified during the practice: 1. Normalization of relations between co-owners is a task that is usually solved with the involvement of experts or independent directors - “guests”, whose presence stimulates the participants for a constructive dialogue and increases the chances of resolving urgent conflicts. The problem is solved especially productively when specialists in the field of human relations and group dynamics management are invited to the meetings of the Supervisory Board. 2. Providing "buffer mode" for painless exit of the owner from operational management with the transfer of control to a hired manager or heir. In this case, the Supervisory Board manages the preparation of the company for the transfer to new hands, coordinates the necessary organizational restructuring, and also provides ...