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☆ Mars rover captures first sound of dust devil on red planet
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — What’s a dust devil sound like on Mars? It’s about 10 seconds of not only rumbling gusts of up to 25 mph, but the pinging of hundreds of dust particles against the rover Perseverance. Photographed for decades at Mars but never heard until now, dust devils are common at the red planet. The microphone picked up 308 dust pings as the dust devil whipped by, said Murdoch, who helped build it. Of the 84 minutes collected in its first year, there’s “only one dust devil recording,” she wrote in an email from France.

☆ Has your workplace caught the 'turnover contagion'? Here are some warnings signs
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Goh Chiew Tong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

This phenomenon is called "turnover contagion," the report said, where workers quit their jobs because of their peers. "[This] can provide the ideal breeding ground for turnover contagion as the interviewing process and learning more about potential other employers is made easier for employees." Smaller teams at higher riskAccording to Visier, smaller teams are most at risk of turnover contagion. That is due to "strong interdependencies" and personal relationships between co-workers in smaller teams, said Derler. Turnover contagion can last as long as 135 days, the report added, from the moment an employee voluntarily resigns.

☆ Edge Computing Helps Feed Taco Bell’s Digital Business
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Kim S. Nash | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +5 min

Taco Bell is making aggressive use of edge computing to support the many digital ways customers can place orders, the fast-food chain’s head of technology said. PREVIEW“We took [on] our most critical workloads in order processing and menu data,” Mr. Parizher said. General Electric Co. and Siemens AG , for example, are using edge computing to optimize factory machines in real time. The Wall Street Journal's Steven Rosenbush, left, talks with Vadim Parizher, Taco Bell's vice president of technology, at an online event Thursday. With edge-computing foundations in place, he said, Taco Bell can experiment with connected robotic equipment that can fry food, warm up tortillas or pour drinks.

☆ How I Hold It Together: Guided Runs and More
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

How I Hold It Together: Guided Runs and MoreI get at least 7 hours of sleep ��My older son is an early bird who gets up by 6 a.m., so I’ve become disciplined about being asleep by no later than 11 p.m. every night. I put on a white noise machine and a just-boring-enough podcast, and I’m out. I limit my notifications ��I’m easily overwhelmed by the dings and pings coming from my electronic devices, so I snooze Slack during non-work hours and have stopped using apps like Apple News. I also go through my personal email every two or three months and unsubscribe from lists that no longer give me joy.

The half-moon icon is associated with Focus, an iPhone feature that silences notifications. To turn on your Do Not Disturb Mode, you'll need to locate Focus Mode in your settings. Here's everything you need to know:What the moon means on your iPhone and how to turn it offThe half-moon icon is associated with Focus, an iPhone feature that blocks iPhone notifications. With Focus, there are more options when it comes to Do Not Disturb settings. Here, you can customize Focus settings for different activities and times of day.

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