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Joby Aviation has completed a fully autonomous flight stretching from California all the way to North Carolina, marking a significant milestone for the electric aircraft startup. The company has long focused on urban air taxis, but this cross-country demonstration signals ambitions that reach well beyond city commutes, raising real questions about where autonomous aviation goes from here.
Shifting to the workplace, California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have protected state workers' ability to work remotely, siding instead with return-to-office efforts. It's the latest flashpoint in the ongoing tension between institutional authority and the flexible work arrangements millions of employees adopted and came to depend on over the past several years.
And on a lighter note, if you've ever wondered whether you're sitting too close to your television, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers actually has a formula for that. Called the thirty-degree rule, it offers a straightforward method for calculating ideal viewing distance based on screen size, a small but genuinely useful piece of guidance in a world full of increasingly large displays.
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