This Trucking Firm Was Fined $490,000 for 37 Years of Hiring Only Male Truck Drivers. Don't Make the Same Mistake

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This Trucking Firm Was Fined $490,000 for 37 Years of Hiring Only Male Truck Drivers. Don't Make the Same Mistake     Yes, most truck drivers are men, but certainly not all. Continued here

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4 Ways to Earn the Respect of a More Powerful Colleague     Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, in many colleague relationships there is a power differential, often based on each party’s status in the organization and who has more control over what the other needs at a given time. For instance, the engineering leader whose team ultimately determines a product line’s time-to-market may hold more power over the sales leader trying to deliver for impatient customers, and the leader of a mature and “unexciting” business unit may find their needs consistently deprioritized by the IT department, which is rushing to support a fast-growing division, instead.It’s a deeply frustrating dynamic for those in the “inferior” position — but to develop a mutually respectful relationship with colleagues (and perhaps even claim more relative power), it’s vital to take steps toward rebalancing the equation. With a willingness to assert yourself in creative ways, you develop more agency for yourself, particularly at times when feeling dismissed or dependent. Continued here

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One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost     Klotho, the ancient Greek goddess of fate, is responsible for spinning the thread of life. In the human body, a protein with the same name might also be able to bring some life back to an aging brain.In a study published today in the journal Nature Aging, researchers at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco found that a single injection of the klotho protein led to modest improvements in cognitive function in older monkeys and that the effects lasted for two weeks. The authors think the protein represents a promising avenue for researching the rejuvenation of brain function in older adults. Continued here

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Amid Growing AI, Humanize Communication to Strengthen Relationships     Our summer special report helps leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, learn how to overcome market disrupters, and manage the analytical tools that provide predictive insight for decision-making.Our summer special report helps leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, learn how to overcome market disrupters, and manage the analytical tools that provide predictive insight for decision-making.AI entered a new era when artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT became available to the public this year. These technologies are taking over more and more aspects of business as they seep into the collective consciousness. As Vox put it, generative AI is “suddenly everywhere,” and it’s poised to profoundly change daily life within organizations in many ways, particularly in the sphere of communication. Continued here

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The Best Portable Power Stations     If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDThe gadgets and appliances that make modern living so comfortable have one thing in common: They all need power. Over the past few years, as people have turned away from gas-guzzling generators, portable power stations have enjoyed a meteoric rise. Whether you’re camping for the weekend, living off-grid, or protecting against power outages, these big batteries can help. Continued here

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Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains     There is a reason countless songs about loneliness exist. Many are relatable, since feeling alone is often part of being human. But a particular song or experience that resonates with one lonely person may mean nothing to someone else who feels isolated and misunderstood. Continued here

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Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You     Disclaimer: All #WiredSixWord submissions become the property of WIRED. Submissions will not be acknowledged or returned. Submissions and any other materials, including your name or social media handle, may be published, illustrated, edited, or otherwise used in any medium. Submissions must be original and not violate the rights of any other person or entity.Acned Callisto resented Ganymede's natural magnetism.—Dave Armor, via emailMoon files restraining order against poets.—James O'Leary, via emailA total eclipse of the heart.—Samuel Sigaud, via emailI will embrace my dark side.—Don Hilder, via email Continued here

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Sleep Deprivation Sometimes Relieves Depression. A New Study May Show Why     Understanding why going without sleep eases depression in some people may lead to less taxing methods to boost moodIn 1818 Johann Christian August Heinroth, considered to have been the first professor of psychiatry at a university, suggested that sleep deprivation might alleviate “melancholia,” or depression. But it wasn’t until 1959 that formal reports began to emerge, again from Germany, suggesting that a night of sleeplessness could boost mood in depression. Experimental trials in the 1970s went on to confirm a benefit. Since then study after study has shown that spending a night without sleep, especially with lights on, indeed produces mood benefits for about half of the people with depression. Continued here

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Why our voices change with age     Sir Elton John set a record at this year's Glastonbury, becoming the most-watched headliner in the festival's history, with more than seven million people tuning in live to the BBC to watch his last ever UK performance.The 76-year-old singer certainly delivered all his characteristic showmanship. But many who have followed his music over the decades will have noticed how much his voice has changed during his career – and not only in the immediate aftermath of the surgery he had in the 1980s to remove polyps from his vocal cords. Continued here

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Johann Daniel Harnoss: How your company can gain a global talent advantage     If a diverse workforce makes a better company, why don't more businesses hire internationally? Innovation and migration strategist Johann Daniel Harnoss details the advantage of global talent and how to best build the systems and culture to welcome immigrants to your staff. Continued here

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Musk annoys Twitter users by capping number of tweets they can view each day     Twitter has imposed limits on how many tweets users can view each day, with owner Elon Musk claiming the drastic change was needed to fight "data scraping" and other "manipulation." Users who hit the rate limits were greeted with error messages like "Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again." Continued here

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Having a baby can rock a marriage - and life post-children can be a challenge     Holly knew her life would change when she became a parent. And when her first ultrasound showed she was pregnant with two babies, she knew it would change even more. What she wasn't prepared for was just how much it would impact her relationship with her partner of five years. Soon after the birth, they began having "explosive" arguments. They talked about breaking up.One major trigger, says Canada-based Holly, was their division of labour. Her partner did most of the household chores: cleaning, laundry, cooking. But she needed more help with the parenting itself. “I had an emergency C-section. My body was falling apart. I was feeding two babies 24/7, not sleeping. And if one of them was crying, he would be like, 'Oh, they just want you'", rather than stepping in, she says. "I had so much rage towards him." Continued here

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The Hypocrisy of Mandatory Diversity Statements     Demanding that everyone embrace the same values will inevitably narrow the pool of applicants who work and get hired in higher education.John D. Haltigan sued the University of California at Santa Cruz in May. He wants to work there as a professor of psychology. But he alleges that its hiring practices violate the First Amendment by imposing an ideological litmus test on prospective hires: To be considered, an applicant must submit a statement detailing their contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Continued here

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This Summer's Women's World Cup Follows Decades of Challenges On and Off the Field     Predicted to break attendance records, the tournament has already sold over a million ticketsWith over a million tickets sold, the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand could be history’s most attended standalone women’s sporting event, according to FIFA. Continued here

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Nobody is watching the movie of your life -- and that's truly liberating     Credit: Turkey in Photographs, DGPI Archive from Ankara / No restrictions / Wikimedia CommonsKnow this: no one else is watching the movie of your life. Maybe you knew this already, or perhaps this feels radical to you — but just think about it. How many movies do you watch of other people’s lives? How many people are you truly scrutinizing in the way that you sometimes fear others are scrutinizing you? I’m willing to bet that although you are interested in other people, that you care for them and you try to help, you’re not watching in all that much detail.  Continued here

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The Psychic Toll of Class Mobility     In 2018, scholars at the University of Padua examined the work of various writers from the same region as the celebrated author published under the pen name Elena Ferrante—hoping to determine, once and for all, her true identity. Comparing their lexicon and syntax, the researchers found the most striking overlap between Ferrante’s sentences and those of the prolific Naples-born novelist Domenico Starnone. Though the study acknowledges that “it is difficult to precisely define his role,” it concludes that “there is a good chance that Domenico Starnone knows ‘who is,’ or rather, ‘what is’ Elena Ferrante.” (Starnone has denied that he is the author behind Ferrante’s books.)I prefer to leave the speculation to scholars in Padua. For readers who are content, as I am, to let the enigma of Elena Ferrante’s identity remain unsolved, Starnone’s potent early novel The House on Via Gemito is rewarding on its own terms. Starnone is a writer exquisitely attuned to class anxieties: As his later novels do, Via Gemito explores the emotional cost of class mobility, and the psychic toll of changing one’s speech patterns and behavior for the sake of social and financial gain. Continued here

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Want to get a ride faster? Pay in cash     When ride-hailing platforms like Uber and Grab first emerged, one of their key selling points was a frictionless payment system. Rather than fumble with cards and change, passengers could pay with a simple tap of a button. But in places like Vietnam and Pakistan, digital payments aren’t always so seamless — or quick. For drivers who work for platforms such as Be in Vietnam and Careem in Pakistan, payments from a passenger can take days to make it to their bank account. In the meantime, drivers struggle to fill their gas tanks and to buy meals and iced tea for relief from the hot sun. Continued here

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Earthquake Resilience in Kashmir Lies in Traditional Architecture     The Kashmir region of Asia is due for another major earthquake, and its modern architecture is ill-prepared to withstand such an eventKashmir, the northernmost region of the Indian subcontinent, is famous for two things: landscape and conflict. The scenic valley from which it gets its name, some 90 miles long and 25 miles wide, was born from the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates and is guarded by the snowcapped Himalayan Mountains above. But more than seven decades of conflict have severely damaged the political and cultural fabric of the region, denying it much-needed development in science and technology. Nowhere is this truer than in earthquake safety. Continued here

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Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans     Qianer Liu, Patrick McGee, and Kana Inagaki, Financial Times - Jul 3, 2023 4:19 pm UTC Continued here

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An astronaut's view reveals China's geopolitical claustrophobia     This map takes you to dizzying heights. It gives you the perspective of an astronaut in a space station circling the globe, hundreds of miles above the Eurasian land mass. You’re still crossing Central Asia, but already the Pacific Ocean glistens into view.While you might be familiar with East Asia’s coastal contours from looking at world maps, you’re now seeing them upside down. You see the archipelagos — Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia — strung out like a pearl necklace. Continued here

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Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery     Elated researchers watched baby octopuses hatch en masse near Pacific Ocean hydrothermal ventsThe tiny baby octopuses—each about the size of a nickel—emerged from soft, membranous eggs, clutched in their mothers’ protective embrace. One by one the hatchlings gracefully unfurled their delicate tentacles and floated away into the abyss. Continued here

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Generative AI Will Change Your Business. Here's How to Adapt.     Generative AI can “generate” text, speech, images, music, video, and especially, code. When that capability is joined with a feed of someone’s own information, used to tailor the when, what, and how of an interaction, then the ease by which someone can get things done, and the broadening accessibility of software, goes up dramatically. The simple input question box that stands at the center of Google and now, of most Generative AI systems, such as in ChatGPT and Dall-e, will power more systems. Continued here

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The Myth of the Gal     Tourism campaigns tout the archipelago as a diorama of prehistory. But that narrative could help degrade the islands even further.This spring, I was standing on the forward bow of the MS Santa Cruz II, bird-watching with a group of tourists under the cliffs of the Galápagos’s largest island, when one member of our company lowered his binoculars. “Lord have mercy!” he declared. “It’s just like it used to be.” Continued here

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AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit's API war     Ask Me Anything (AMA) has been a Reddit staple that helped popularize the social media platform. It delivered some unique, personal, and, at times, fiery interviews between public figures and people who submitted questions. The Q&A format became so popular that many people host so-called AMAs these days, but the main subreddit has been r/IAmA, where the likes of then-US President Barack Obama and Bill Gates have sat in the virtual hot seat. But that subreddit, which has been called its own "juggernaut of a media brand," is about to look a lot different and likely less reputable. Continued here

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Cyberattacks are more dangerous than you think     From Stuxnet to SolarWinds, nation-state cyberattacks have become a persistent feature of the online space. But the countries launching these attacks often treat them as acts of espionage rather than outright warfare.Not everyone sees it that way. The nonprofit group Digital Peace Now makes the case that these virtual operations can be just as damaging as conventional warfare — and the bar for launching such an attack should be just as high. Digital Peace Now ambassador Bilva Chandra spoke to Rest of World about her work raising awareness of the human impact of cyberattacks, and the broader threats posed by emerging tools like generative artificial intelligence. Continued here

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Saturn's rings outshine Saturn in new JWST image     Its hydrogen and helium atmosphere contains traces of ammonia, phosphine, water vapor, and hydrocarbons.Clouds — composed of ammonia crystals, ammonium hydrosulfide, and water — preferentially reflect those colors. Continued here

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Our Favorite Tablets for Work and Play     If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDThe best tablet can be a portable TV screen around the house and a way to get some light work done away from your desk. They're not essential but are nice to have around. With a wealth of apps for drawing, painting, and making music, they’re also a great outlet for creative impulses. Continued here

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The Rolls-Royce Spectre Is Almost a Great EV     If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDThe Rolls-Royce Spectre, the company's first production EV, has been a very long time coming. Not because it has suffered the numerous delays and setbacks Elon's Cybertruck has endured, but due to the lesser known fact that both Henry Royce and Charles Rolls had a documented fascination with all things electric years before they started their car business in 1906. Continued here

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Pornhub cuts off more US users in ongoing protest over age-verification laws     On July 1, laws requiring adult websites to verify user ages took effect in Mississippi and Virginia, despite efforts by Pornhub to push back against the legislation. Those efforts include Pornhub blocking access to users in these states and rallying users to help persuade lawmakers that requiring ID to access adult content will only create more harm for users in their states. Continued here

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The Alpine row over 'problem bears'     It was May 2001, and the team behind a pioneering brown bear rewilding project in the Italian Alps were jubilant. "Today, Jurka arrived!" they announced proudly. "A splendid 90kg (198lbs) specimen joins the family of bears imported from Slovenia." Jurka peeked out of her transport container, then climbed down a ramp into her forested new home, the Adamello Brenta Nature Park in Trentino.In much of the Alps, bears had been hunted into extinction and only remained as stuffed specimens in museums. Now an European Union-funded project called Life Ursus was slowly turning back the clock. The population grew to around 100 today, beyond even the rosiest projections. Continued here