Countries won’t sign this Moon exploration agreement because it’s too ‘US-centric’ Natural allies All seven partners who have agreed to the accords with the US are natural collaborators on the Artemis Program and will easily adhere to the stated principles. Japan iskeen to engagein lunar exploration. Luxembourg has dedicated legislationallowing for space miningand has also signed an additional collaborative agreement with the US. [Read:Why the moon’s early magnetic field might be responsible for life on earth]...

We’ve talked at length about different ways to deal with email overload. Fromtools like Boomerangto workingemail schedulesinto your productivity, there are a number of methods by which you canmanage what’s in your inbox. None of these, however, help others to understand when it’s best to send you mail. A new research project by Georgia Tech professor Eric Gilbert calledCourteous.lygives people insight that they’d normally not have had before. In fact, it’s a method that we’ve never even seen before so you’ll want to know about it....

This weekthe UK Supreme Court upheld an earlier ruling in May thatUber driversare legally classed as workers and must be treated as such. The courtruledthat it is unlawful for a Private Hire Vehicle (PHV) Operator to act as an ‘agent’ between the driver and passenger, meaning that all operators must contract directly with both drivers and riders. What’s the importance of being classified as an Uber employee? Being classified as an employee gives you a range of rights unavailable to ‘gig economy’ casual workers....

Coventry will host the ‘world’s smallest airport’ for autonomous drones World’s smallest airport The project is currently in a development phase and is expected to be up and running by November 2021. “Essentially, this will be the world’s smallest airport. It’s like an electric watering hole that will receive autonomous cargo drones and passenger-carrying air taxis. It will also welcome visitors and passengers to come and experience what the infrastructure can do,” Urban-Air Port founder, Ricky Sandhu, toldCities Today....

Earlier this week, wewroteabout British band the Vaccines using Instagram to crowdsource the creation of its new music video. Today, we bring youCoverjam, a new iOS app that automatically taps into tagged images on Instagram and Flickr to create slideshows which run in tandem when an artist’s music is playing on your portable device. When the app is opened, Coverjam loads the music directly from the iOS device, from where users can select songs, albums or playlists....