The concept of a corporate psychopath is eerily recognizable, depending on your work history. It’s also notoriously misunderstood. The archetype of the manipulative, self-serving manager has regularly resurfaced in popular culture for decades, but concrete evidence supporting the wider concept is debatable. For example, a research study went viral in 2016 after estimating upwards of 1-in-5 business employees fit the “psychopath” bill, only to be retracted two years later. Additionally, psychiatrists widely agree that only about 1 percent of the general population truly can be considered clinically psychopathic.

That said, many of the people determined to claw their way to the top of the company ladder display at least some of the trademark psychopathic behaviors. Many theorists have convincingly argued this has a lot to do with corporate capitalism’s foundational principles, which leave it easily exploited by the most ruthless and manipulative among us.

Clive Boddy, one of the world’s foremost investigators of corporate psychopathy, recently took this idea to its logical historical conclusion. In a study recently published in the Asian Journal of Business Ethics, Boddy reviewed one of toxic corporate leadership’s earliest documented examples—and he makes today’s nightmare coworkers sound tame in comparison.

Who was Jeronimus Cornelisz?

Meet Jeronimus Cornelisz, an all-time contender for World’s Worst Boss. According to archival accounts, the 17th century Dutchman Cornelisz embodied every core corporate psychopath characteristic over 400 years ago while working for the conglomerate that started it all: the Dutch East India Company.

Established in Amsterdam in 1602, the Dutch East India Company is arguably the world’s first multinational, shareholder-owned company. It quickly amassed enough funds and power to rival most sovereign countries through the import and export of spices, tea, luxury items, coffee, wine, and enslaved populations. The Dutch East India Company eventually exerted enough influence to wage its own wars, mint its own currency, form colonies, as well as arrest and execute convicts.

All of this was made possible through a vast fleet of ships,but even the best outfitted vessels sometimes fell afoul of nature. In June 1629, a Dutch East India Company’s flagship called Batavia collided with a reef off the Western Australian coast. Nearly 300 survivors made it to the nearby island shores, but their remote location ensured they wouldn’t survive without help. The ship’s senior officers soon set off in an open longboat on a 1,900-mile journey to present-day Jakarta, then the Dutch East Indies’ capital. Before leaving, they appointed under-merchant Jeronimus Cornelisz to the top corporate position in their absence.

Mutiny, murder, and malignant narcissism

Unbeknownst to Batavia’s departing senior crew, Cornelisz had already spent weeks scheming on ways to incite a mutiny. The plan was to take control of the vessel then steer its copious stores of gold and silver to a new life. Cornelisz apparently viewed getting marooned as an inconvenient detour, and quickly got to work on his hostile takeover.

According to firsthand accounts, Cornelisz immediately consolidated power by swapping fellow council members with loyalists and requiring them to pledge an oath of allegiance to him. Next, he tricked suspected opponents under the direction of a soldier named Wiebbe Hayes to search a nearby island for supplies, then left them to die.

Although his revised plan required any impending rescue ship, Cornelisz’s ultimate goal remained the same—get as far away as possible, then start his own kingdom using riches plundered from Batavia. Over the ensuing months, Cornelisz directed his gang to kill more than 100 of the shipwrecked men, women, and children. Cornelisz often justified the murders under the pretense of conserving food and water, when in actuality he was continuing to eliminate perceived threats. Meanwhile, some of the surviving women were subjected to sexual abuse.

However, Cornelisz underestimated his abandoned compatriots. As the operatically psychopathic Cornelisz terrorized his group of survivors and scrounged for supplies, Hayes’ team reportedly discovered freshwater wells and hunted local wallabies, seals, and fish. The two sides subsequently squared off on multiple occasions after learning of each others’ continued existence until a rescue ship finally arrived in October 1629. After nearly three months, only about a third of Batavia’s original passengers and crew were left.

Cornelisz receives his company review

Management ultimately decided Cornelisz wasn’t internal promotion material, even by Dutch East India Company standards. Nearly everyone involved in his reign of terror was executed. As for Cornelisz and his closest loyalists, authorities eventually hanged them, but not before cutting off their hands.

The tragedy of the Batavia is an admittedly extreme case study, but Boddy argued that it illustrates how corporate structures have facilitated and encouraged psychopathic behaviors since the invention of the corporation itself.

“The same playbook we see in toxic workplaces today appears in this case from 1629,” he said. “He removed opponents, rewarded loyalists, created fear, manipulated followers and pursued power at any cost.”

A corporate (psychopath) case study

In recent years, some historians have expressed doubts about details in the Batavia saga after reviewing available evidence and recontextualizing cultural dynamics. Instead of focusing on the machinations of a single ruthless corporate psychopath, they contend Batavia is more accurately a case study in group desperation. But even when viewed under this lens, the chilling event is still a cautionary tale about corporate capitalism’s darker underpinnings.

“Perhaps the most striking finding is that another leader facing the same circumstances achieved completely different outcomes,” Boddy said. “This was effectively a natural experiment in leadership. One group prospered while the other descended into murder and abuse.”

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In 2001, archaeologists were painstakingly excavating a dwelling at the Bronze-Age site of Cladh Hallan in  the Outer Hebrides islands off of Scotland’s northwestern coast. The house had been oval in shape, with a low door leading to an interior hearth. Other conveniences included sunken storage areas and stone-lined water storage tanks. Under the floors of these houses, though, and under the feet of the occupants, was a fascinating feature that evokes the opening scenes of a classic horror film. 

As the archaeologists slowly dug through the floor of the structure, they came unexpectedly upon a human skeleton, legs tucked up in the fetal position. Another skeleton, similarly arranged, was found beneath a different roundhouse’s floor. These people had clearly been laid to rest with care, with stones laid out around them. 

When archaeologists began to study the remains, though, they were staggered to learn that each body’s parts had not all come from the same person. These were composite mummies, assembled with the remains of at least six people who had died over the span of two hundred years. But this wasn’t a jumbled-together macabre collection or evidence of a Bronze-Age serial killer. These bodies had been treated carefully and buried in stone-lined graves. So what were the people of Cladh Hallan doing with the dug-up remains of their ancestors? 

What was Cladh Hallan? And what mummies were found there?

More than four thousand years ago, early farmers began to work the soil on the Outer Hebrides islands off of Scotland’s northwestern coast. At the time, the Roman Empire and even ancient Greece were specks on the chronological horizon. Along the Aegean coast, Minoans and Mycenaeans were building palaces and cities. Farther north, Germanic tribes were exporting amber and expertly forging bronze and gold artifacts. 

At Cladh Hallan, early farmers grew barley, herded sheep, and foraged the abundant resources on the island’s beaches. Their descendants continued to thrive on the island for centuries, the population grew, and so did the need for land.

Nearly a thousand years into Cladh Hallan’s occupation, with living space on the small island becoming harder to find, people started building over the burial grounds of their ancestors. But the islanders were definitely aware of the graves beneath their feet—in fact, they went out of their way to acknowledge the people buried in them. 

Residents of Cladh Hallan dug down into these older burials containing both cremated and unburnt remains, removing some parts and leaving the rest undisturbed. Then they assembled the exhumed remains into the requisite anatomical combinations that modern archaeologists have found centuries later. Once this was done, the composite bodies were once again laid to rest under the foundations of the roundhouses. 

The best mummy finds at Cladh Hallan

The two best-known adult skeletons from Cladh Hallan are the most unusual. Each was found under a roundhouse. One skeleton was identified as male, the other female, based on their pelvic bones. The bodies date to between 1300 and 1500 BCE…mostly. 

The skeleton originally identified as a woman had a man’s skull where her own head used to be. Two of the teeth were missing from the skull, and those had been placed in each of the woman’s hands. By radiocarbon dating the bones, researchers found that the skull actually belonged to a man who had died at least a century earlier, perhaps a relative from an older generation. 

The body originally identified as male was put together from three different people—all confirmed as male through DNA testing. The burial was made up of a man’s torso, a second man’s skull, and a third man’s jawbone. Each of these men had died at different times over the span of about 150 years. Again, ancestry and family identity seem to play a big part in these re-burials. 

It isn’t terribly uncommon for cultures to include their deceased loved ones in celebratory, ritual, or even daily activities. Every few years, families in the Toraja region of Sulawesi, Indonesia exhume the remains of loved ones, clean them, dress them in fresh garments, and honor them with festivals. 

South Korean “death beads” are made from the cremated remains of family members and displayed in the home. 

Pre-colonial Inca religious tradition included regular ceremonial processions featuring the remains of people “buried” in natural alcoves in the Andes mountains and mummified by the dry, cold mountain air. The Cladh Hallan skeletons had once been mummified as well, though this was not mummification as it was practiced in ancient Egypt, nor like the mountainside Inca tradition. 

First, the bodies were tightly wrapped in fabric, which kept the bones and soft tissue flexed into the fetal position. This is why the limbs remained so tightly curled towards the torso, and why the bodies were so well-preserved. Archaeologists were able to identify this type of preservation based on microscopic changes to the surfaces of the bones from the acidic environment of the peat bogs in which the bodies were submerged after wrapping.

Why peat is so good at preserving bodies

Peat is a dense, wet accumulation of centuries of decaying plant matter, and is a feature of lots of landscapes, particularly in the northern latitudes. People have used dried peat as fuel for thousands of years, since it burns well and slowly, and is plentiful in areas where there aren’t a lot of trees for firewood. Peat from the Scottish isles, notably, is responsible for the smoky, earthy taste characteristic of Scotch whiskey. 

Peat bogs are so packed with plant material that there is almost no oxygen present, which is great for preservation, as is the typically cool temperature beneath the peat’s surface. The lack of oxygen keeps microbes and other critters from consuming the body’s soft tissues, and the tannic acid from all the decaying plants in the bog turns skin dark and leathery. 

By first burying the bodies of family members under layers of peat, the people at Cladh Hallan ensured that the remains would be as intact as possible when later generations exhumed them. This not only means that the Bronze Age inhabitants of the island were well aware of peat’s preservative properties, but that the entire process was a deliberate sequence of events. 

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But why did people in Cladh Hallan make these many-part mummies?

Archaeologists interpret the pieced-together reburials as a part of a social or religious tradition that emphasized family lines and reverence for ancestors. Stones clearly marked the graves under the roundhouses, so the homes’ placement was definitely on purpose. 

The initial bog burials were deliberately used as a source of family remains, and the parts that composed the buried skeletons seem to have been deliberately chosen, though we may never know why or how. It seems as though ancestor-recycling may have been a regular process at Cladh Hallan in the later part of the Bronze Age, as older generations gave way to new. 

Archaeologists also surmise that the exhumed mummified remains were initially kept above ground, maybe in a special place in the house, and included as a part of daily life. These multi-ancestor figures might have been consulted when important decisions were made, or they may have been seen as household protectors. 

Archaeology can never really uncover the full story of what people thought and believed thousands of years ago. Thoughts do not fossilize, and decay and weathering affect even the best-preserved archaeological sites. 

We will probably never know exactly what it was like to live at Cladh Hallan when it was a busy, thriving settlement. We may never understand how the people that lived there conceived of their world, or how they thought about spirituality. Thanks to the burials at Cladh Hallan, though, we have a tantalizing glimpse of how people may have seen death in their universe as a continuous, pieced-together chain of lives lived over generations. 

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O Volkswagen Polo Track, que já recebeu críticas por ser um carro "peladão", ou seja, sem quase nenhum acessório, ficou mais equipado na linha 2027. A versão de entrada do hatch recebeu novidades que atendem a reclamações comuns de quem busca um carro barato, mas não quer abrir mão de itens básicos de conforto e praticidade.

A atualização no Polo Track, claro, também trouxe reajuste de preço. O hatch manteve a proposta de modelo de entrada, mas passou a oferecer recursos que antes não estavam disponíveis ou dependiam de equipamentos opcionais, incluindo soluções que facilitam as manobras e melhoram a experiência a bordo.

A principal mudança, como adiantamos, foi feita na lista de equipamentos, não no conjunto mecânico. O Polo Track continua voltado a quem procura um carro compacto para o uso diário, com manutenção conhecida e comandos simples, enquanto a Volkswagen amplia as possibilidades de personalização para quem aceita pagar mais por conveniência.

Quais equipamentos o Polo Track 2027 ganhou?

Entre as novidades, os sensores de estacionamento traseiros agora fazem parte dos itens de série, ajudando o motorista a identificar obstáculos durante as manobras. O modelo também passou a contar com sistema Start-Stop, que desliga o motor automaticamente em paradas e o religa quando necessário, com o objetivo de reduzir o consumo em determinadas situações.

A lista de segurança manteve quatro airbags, controles de estabilidade e tração, assistente de partida em rampas e monitoramento da pressão dos pneus. O hatch segue contando com ar-condicionado, direção elétrica, volante multifuncional e banco do motorista com ajuste de altura. Por outro lado, os faróis continuam halógenos e as rodas são de aço de 15 polegadas com calotas.

Quanto custa o Polo Track com os opcionais?

O preço inicial do Polo Track 2027 passou a R$ 97.990, ante R$ 96.690 na linha anterior. Para quem quer mais conveniência, o pacote VW Play + Alarme custa R$ 2.660 e inclui central multimídia de 10 polegadas com Android Auto e Apple CarPlay sem fio, alarme acionado pela chave e retrovisores com regulagem elétrica.

O pacote também acrescenta vidros elétricos nas quatro portas, todos com função um toque, e o recurso tilt-down no retrovisor do passageiro, que inclina o espelho para baixo ao engatar a ré. Com o opcional, o preço chega a R$ 100.650, sem considerar eventuais custos adicionais de pintura. A mecânica permanece com motor 1.0 aspirado flex de até 84 cv e câmbio manual de cinco marchas.

A reportagem do CT Auto já teve a oportunidade de testar o Polo Track, mas em sua versão anterior. Confira nossas impressões sobre o carro que foi lançado como "Novo Gol", mas sempre derrapou no preço.

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A Apple aumentou em 44% os pedidos iniciais do iPhone Duo após registrar uma forte demanda durante a pré-venda. Segundo informações do DigiTimes, a empresa elevou sua meta de fabricação de 9,7 milhões para 14 milhões de unidades ao longo de um período de 12 meses.

O movimento indica uma recepção inicial positiva para o primeiro celular dobrável da Apple, que tem preço sugerido a partir de US$ 1.999 nos Estados Unidos e R$ 21.999 no Brasil. O lançamento está marcado para 23 de outubro, colocando o aparelho no mercado em meio à expectativa por uma nova categoria de produtos da fabricante.

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O aumento da produção também sugere que a Apple pretende se preparar para atender a procura pelo dispositivo nos primeiros meses de comercialização. No entanto, a companhia ainda precisa lidar com limitações que podem dificultar a expansão da oferta.

Fabricação pode limitar as vendas do iPhone Duo

Apesar do aumento na meta de produção, a disponibilidade do iPhone Duo pode continuar restrita. Analistas apontam que a escassez de estoque e os desafios envolvidos na fabricação de um aparelho dobrável são obstáculos para atender a toda a demanda.

Esse cenário pode fazer com que a procura supere a quantidade de dispositivos disponíveis, especialmente durante o período inicial de vendas. A complexidade de produção de celulares dobráveis exige atenção adicional ao processo de fabricação e à escala de fornecimento de componentes.

A nova meta de 14 milhões de unidades representa uma revisão significativa em relação à previsão inicial, mas não significa que todos esses aparelhos já estejam fabricados ou que chegarão imediatamente às lojas.

Por enquanto, o aumento dos pedidos é um sinal de confiança da Apple na estreia do iPhone Duo. O desempenho comercial efetivo dependerá da capacidade da empresa de transformar o interesse na pré-venda em entregas e vendas ao longo dos próximos meses.

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A Jeep revelou sua nova estratégia de lançamentos para o mercado europeu. A marca confirmou o lançamento de três novos utilitários esportivos até 2030, incluindo a nova geração do SUV compacto Renegade, um inédito modelo médio-grande para o segmento D-SUV e um protótipo inspirado na emblemática marca Willys.

A ideia da montadora norte-americana é cobrir 90% do mercado europeu oferecendo tração 4x4 e opções de eletrificação em toda a sua gama como uma forma de fortalecer sua presença no Velho Continente, ao mesmo tempo em que aposta na diversificação do portfólio para atrair novos consumidores.

Com a inclusão dos novos utilitários, a marca planeja expandir sua linha local para até seis veículos, sempre de olho na eficiência energética e no apelo off-road característico de sua trajetória comercial.

Nova geração do Renegade

O retorno do Jeep Renegade à Europa está programado para 2030, marcando a chegada da nova geração do SUV compacto que acumulou mais de 610 mil unidades vendidas no continente desde 2014. Antes disso, em 2028, a marca volta em grande estilo para o segmento D-SUV com o lançamento de um utilitário de porte médio-grande voltado para famílias e uso executivo.

E não pense que as novidades acabam por aí. A maior surpresa do anúncio foi a divulgação do teaser de um projeto associado ao nome Willys, o que sugere que há estudos de um veículo compacto com propulsão eletrificada. A liderança europeia da marca reforçou que a estratégia até o fim da década priorizará modelos compactos, capazes e alinhados às metas de emissões da região.

“Estamos confirmando nosso plano para 2030, baseado em veículos compactos, eletrificados e capazes, inspirados no icônico DNA da Jeep, como o Renegade, enquanto continuamos a oferecer aos nossos clientes a liberdade de ir aonde a vida os levar”, declarou Xavier Peugeot, diretor da Jeep na Europa.

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Anunciado no final de 2024, o documentário do Apple TV sobre a lendária banda anglo-americana Fleetwood Mac ganhou hoje uma data de estreia: 29 de janeiro de 2027 — coincidindo com o aniversário de 50 anos do álbum “Rumours”, vencedor do Grammy.

Intitulada “Fleetwood Mac: The Chain”, a produção será dirigida pelo cineasta Frank Marshall, cinco vezes indicado ao Oscar, e contará com “as vozes, memórias e perspectivas” de todos os membros da banda (Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham e Stevie Nicks), segundo a Maçã.

Com roteiro de Mark Monroe, o documentário busca refletir o profundo significado do hit “The Chain”, que “personifica uma família forjada por uma paixão compartilhada”, além de ser a única música do álbum “Rumours” creditada a todos os cinco membros.

A canção captura perfeitamente o vínculo complexo, porém duradouro, no coração do Fleetwood Mac, e sua letra icônica tornou-se um poderoso símbolo do respeito e da conexão que persistiram durante a tumultuada jornada da banda rumo ao estrelato.

Espectadores podem esperar reflexões sobre o álbum, os recordes batidos pela banda e suas turnês, bem como imagens nunca antes vistas e entrevistas inéditas realizadas ao longo das últimas décadas. O documentário promete ainda explorar a “resiliência pessoal e destreza musical” dos membros e levar os assinantes do Apple TV pelos altos e baixos da banda.

Além de dirigir, Marshall também produz pela The Kennedy/Marshall Company ao lado de Nigel Sinclair, Nicholas Ferrall, Jeanne Elfant Festa e Aly Parker. Cassidy Hartmann e Tony Rosenthal atuam como produtores executivos junto com Monroe.

O Apple TV está disponível no aplicativo Apple TV em mais de 100 países e regiões, seja em iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Macs, dispositivos Android, smart TVs ou online — além de estar em aparelhos como Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast com Google TV, consoles PlayStation e Xbox. O serviço custa R$34,90 por mês, com um período de teste gratuito de 7 dias. Por tempo limitado, quem comprar e ativar um novo iPhone, iPad, Apple TV ou Mac ganha 3 meses do Apple TV. Ele também faz parte do pacote de assinaturas da empresa, o Apple One.

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A Austrália é o mais novo país a ir atrás do controle que a Apple tem sobre a distribuição de apps no iOS e da forma como desenvolvedores processam transações em seus softwares.

Hoje, o Tribunal Federal da Austrália ordenou que a companhia abra seu sistema operacional para lojas de apps e sistemas de pagamento concorrentes, além de permitir que usuários baixem e atualizem softwares de maneira direta (como por meio de páginas na web).

A Justiça australiana ainda deixa claro que isso deve ser feito sem qualquer penalização aos desenvolvedores que optarem por plataformas de terceiros. Eles também precisam ter acesso às mesmas ferramentas disponibilizadas aos criadores que estão na App Store, além de estarem sujeitos aos mesmos termos.

Quanto aos sistemas de pagamento, a Maçã está proibida de obrigar desenvolvedores a listarem a plataforma de processamento da App Store ao lado de outros sistemas ou fazê-los informar suas vendas à Apple. A empresa também não pode impedi-los de oferecer seus apps por preços menores caso sejam adquiridos com ferramentas de terceiros, bem como condicionar a distribuição alternativa ao fato de os desenvolvedores oferecerem conteúdo comprado em outros locais pelo sistema de pagamento proprietário da Apple.

O Tribunal também se adiantou e barrou algumas das manobras adotadas pela Apple em outros mercados para continuar cobrando uma comissão sobre apps distribuídos fora da App Store. Segundo a ordem, a Maçã não pode cobrar taxas sobre compras feitas por meio de serviços de pagamento alternativos ou sites em aplicativos distribuídos fora da App Store. No caso dos apps disponibilizados via App Store, as taxas são limitadas a um valor equivalente ao cobrado por bens ou serviços físicos, com a adição de outros “custos razoáveis” que a Apple possa ter ao processar essas compras.

A Apple, por outro lado, ainda poderá realizar verificações de segurança e privacidade em apps distribuídos fora da App Store, bem como manter seu tradicional sistema de notarização — mas sem impor restrições ou obstáculos para a instalação de apps por meios alternativos. A fabricante do iPhone também terá o poder de remover ou desativar apps distribuídos fora da App Store caso ela detecte conteúdo impróprio, riscos de segurança ou receba uma ordem legal.

Por fim, a Apple não poderá impedir que lojas alternativas sejam pré-instaladas em iPhones, mas não será obrigada a permitir que plataformas concorrentes sejam distribuídas pela própria App Store.

Epic Games comenta ordem

À Reuters, a desenvolvedora de Fortnite — uma das maiores interessadas na abertura do iOS — disse que seu battle royale retornará à App Store australiana “ainda hoje” como consequência dessas mudanças.

Ainda de acordo com o Tribunal, essas regras começarão a valer em 1º de março do ano que vem. Embora possa pedir uma prorrogação judicial no início de fevereiro (o que levaria o prazo para 3 de maio), a Apple disse ao veículo que apelará da decisão, citando seus direitos de propriedade intelectual e a segurança da App Store.

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O vídeo com o meu review do Apple Watch Series 12 já está no ar. Eu vinha do Ultra 2 e fiz o caminho inverso, voltando para a linha normal, o que vai contra a escolha da maioria das pessoas.

Mesmo adorando o Ultra, eu não usava tudo o que ele oferece. A bateria do Series 12 me atende (não durmo com o relógio), a tela de 2.000 nits não me incomodou, e ganhei um relógio mais fino, mais leve e confortável, com a Digital Crown mais “solta”.

Sinto falta do botão de Ação, que eu usava para a lanterna, e do mostrador Modular Ultra, mas nada disso é deal breaker. Entre os destaques estão o chip (S11) ligeiramente mais rápido, os sensores que medem a frequência cardíaca a cada cinco segundos, o Shazam e o Reconhecimento de Sons funcionando muito bem e o Ceramic Shield 2, que sobreviveu intacto a uma queda de tela para baixo no chão do banheiro.

Como pontos negativos, Sinais Vitais e Prontidão exigem dormir com o relógio, então ficaram inúteis para mim, e o Live Rewind e o Siri Recap ainda não chegaram.

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Tesla now says unsupervised “Full Self-Driving” in customer-owned cars will arrive in Q2 2027. It’s the latest date on a promise Elon Musk has been making to FSD buyers for the better part of a decade.

But there’s a catch. On Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings call today, AI chief Ashok Elluswamy described it as owners adding their own vehicles to Tesla’s managed Robotaxi fleet, not owners getting a car that drives them anywhere they want to go.

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Astronauts should return to the Apollo 15 landing site on the moon and haul home some of its half-century-old poop and hardware, a panel told NASA on Wednesday.

A crew would land just north of the site at Mons Hadley — far enough away to avoid damaging it. From there, the astronauts would walk over to inspect the rover, lander base, instruments, and power systems the prior crew left behind in 1971.

That equipment has endured decades of space radiation and repeated heating and cooling as lunar days give way to nights. Scientists on Earth could study how the lunar environment impacts the hardware over time. A close look at the urine and feces in a lab could reveal how biological material changes and whether it affects the area around it. 

That "would be foundational information [for] how we need to engineer the systems for lunar bases," said Dan Dumbacher, co-chairperson of the committee, "for anything humans take to the surface of the moon." 

The mission proposal came from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee, whom NASA asked to recommend future moon-landing sites away from the lunar south pole, where the agency already intends to build a long-term moon base. In a new report, members of the committee selected four non-polar sites — Bhabha Crater, Mons Hadley, Orientale Basin, and Aristarchus Plateau — where they believe Artemis astronauts should collect samples, make observations, and conduct experiments. They prioritized locations they believed would benefit from human explorers over uncrewed robots.

These so-called "sorties," the term NASA used when tasking the committee, would be short, one-time visits. Because the poles lack the volcanic terrain found elsewhere on the moon, as well as radioactive metals like uranium and thorium, the brief trips would complement the base, not replace it, according to the report.

Each mission would send a pair of astronauts to make one to four moonwalks within 2 kilometers — or 1.2 miles — of their lander. That distance is a previously established "walkback" limit NASA decided long ago that the committee thinks the agency should try to extend. The panel also chose landing sites that offered the most opportunities for geology, biology, human health, and physics research. 

The top pick, Bhabha Crater, sits inside what may be the solar system's largest and oldest crater, and its rocks could pin down when that massive impact happened. Situated on the far side of the moon, the crew would have to land farther from home than any humans before, letting NASA test how astronauts cope with isolation.

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The site is also prime for a telescope, said James Day, the other chairperson of the committee. 

"It's an almost unmatched location for doing radio astronomy, and the reason for this is because it's in the quiet zone on the far side of the moon. It is shielded from the noise that we produce here on Earth," Day said. "This will give us information on the very early universe before the first stars or galaxies had formed."

At Orientale, the moon's youngest large basin at roughly 3.8 billion years old, astronauts would collect boulders from deep in the crust that could show whether the moon was once entirely molten. They would also set up a detector for gravitational waves — ripples in spacetime. The instrument could alert astronomers months before distant neutron stars collide, the committee leaders said.

Finally, the Aristarchus Plateau, an Apollo destination that NASA never reached, holds volcanic deposits that may yield water. It spans about 60 miles, so crews there would gain the most from the simple open rover the committee thinks NASA should build.

Among its recommendations, the panel said NASA should keep mapping the moon in detail from orbit, build instruments that can run through the lunar night, and set up a communications system that keeps crews in constant contact with Earth, even on the far side.

NASA will decide when and in what order to fly the missions. 

"All four of these sites will give us profound knowledge," Day said, "not just of our moon, but of our solar system, and frankly of ourselves." 

Multiple iPhone Duo reviews covered the device's thermal properties, and reviewer opinions varied. Some found that it was just warm, while others thought it was running too hot at times.


Joanna Stern said the back of the device got warm when using FaceTime and taking photos. She had to end a ‌FaceTime‌ call during testing because it got too hot. "Yeah, I'm gonna burn my hand off," she said. "This thing is getting really warm."

Apple told her the warmth was a sign of the iPhone Duo's thermal design moving heat away from the chip to keep performance up. "But to me, it just feels like the phone is really warm," she said.

The ‌iPhone Duo‌ has the same custom vapor chamber setup and A20 Pro chip as the iPhone 18 Pro, but the vapor chamber is thinner. Apple added a flexible graphite pipe in the hinge to transfer heat between the two halves, giving more surface area for heat dissipation.

The Verge said the ‌iPhone Duo‌ heats up when using the camera for a long time, especially if both displays are on for features like Duo Preview. "You can just feel the phone getting significantly hotter when this happens," reads the review. "The phone gets hot enough to start noticeably lagging after a while." The site also said it gets hot when running third-party apps, particularly video apps and apps from Google.

PetaPixel's review unit got warm when gaming, photo editing, or doing anything that stressed the processor, with the heat felt on the right side of the unfolded device.

Mrwhosetheboss did a 20-minute stress test with the ‌iPhone Duo‌ and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max. He found the ‌iPhone Duo‌ trapped heat inside when it was closed, and ‌iPhone Duo‌ performance was below the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max. When open, the ‌iPhone Duo‌ has a large high-resolution display that also affects performance. Mrwhosetheboss focused more on performance than heat, and said the difference between the ‌iPhone Duo‌ and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max isn't "massively" noticeable in day-to-day use.

HTX Studio did a 30-minute gaming test with the ‌iPhone Duo‌ and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models. The ‌iPhone Duo‌ was 46.5°C, while the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ and Pro Max were at 43.8°C and 43.2°C, respectively. The ‌iPhone Duo‌ had a 20 percent lower frame rate than the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models and it couldn't maintain 300 nits brightness, dropping to 185 nits.

9to5Mac said the ‌iPhone Duo‌ "runs a bit hotter than the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌, but not in a way that impacts performance." Tom's Guide did a benchmark heat test and found that the ‌iPhone Duo‌ was able to spread heat evenly across the body of the device, but it was a few degrees hotter than the Galaxy Z Fold8 the site compared it to. The ‌iPhone Duo‌ scored 75.9 percent stability score on the 3DMark stress test, compared to 79 percent for the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max and 72 percent for the Z Fold8.

Gizmodo didn't find heat to be a problem, saying the vapor chamber "does a solid job cooling it down to prevent lag or slowdown" when apps use "all the CPU and GPU cores."

The ‌iPhone Duo‌ launches this Friday, so we don't have long to wait to see if heat is going to be a problem for the everyday user.
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