Sony Ties Up With Olympus, Takes 11 Percent Stake

Algae blooms can increase the rate at which Arctic ice melts. But a newly discovered virus might stop the blooms from spreading. Is it a clever solution or dangerous geoengineering? A lot of seemingly outlandish ideas have been floated as ways to cool the rapidly warming planet in recent years. Cloud brightening?

It’s easy to assume that casual watercooler conversations aren’t important—or even that they’re a waste of time. Here’s why that’s incorrect. One feature of working in a physical office is that you bump into colleagues all the time. If you find yourself with a coworker in the break room, on the elevator, or waiting for a meeting to start, it’s natural to have a brief conversation about a topic unrelated to work.

Once it is scooped, ice cream doesn’t last long, melting away if you don’t eat it quickly enough. So too, do ice cream shops and trends, which can be built up into magnificent displays only to melt in the heat, dripping down your wrist into a puddle on the ground. These days, it’s rich and small-batch ice creams with a dizzying array of flavors and toppings that attract the most attention — something you can read about in our list of 8 ice cream shops worth screaming about this summer — and although Denver has lost a few cold-treat purveyors, like Ice Cream Riot, many more have newly opened or added locations or offerings. Here’s what’s new in ice cream in metro Denver for 2024. High Point Creamery opened its fourth location on 29th Avenue in the Central Park neighborhood in spring 2024.

Freitag’s new F700 Arrow and F708 Firebird bags expertly use the design strengths of their source material in a new way. Each one of Freitag’s new upcycled bags is unique, from the color of the handles to the pastel patterns of the material and the stitching that holds it together. That’s because each bag is made out of real airbags.

Enlarge / A logo on equipment stored near the OceanGate Inc. offices in Everett, Washington, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. (credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Ocean Sciences Building at the University of Washington in Seattle is a brightly modern, four-story structure, with large glass windows reflecting the bay across the street. On the afternoon of July 7, 2016, it was being slowly locked down. Red lights began flashing at the entrances as students and faculty filed out under overcast skies.

Elon Musk dropped a lawsuit alleging OpenAI and its chief executive officer Sam Altman breached a founding promise last year by prioritizing profits over humanity. The billionaire withdrew his complaint a day before a California judge was set to hear OpenAI’s request for dismissal. Musk had accused the company of becoming a “de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft Corp.