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title: "Digits: Taser drones, Domino’s woes, and charging cables"
description: "Plus: Disney’s India problem, and robots per capita"
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# [Digits: Taser drones, Domino’s woes, and charging cables](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/06132022-digits)

 Written by [Jacob Cohen](https://hs-sbup.thehustle.co/news/author/jacob-cohen) | Jun 13, 2022 6:02:35 AM

**1) **Axon, the US company that makes Tasers, has plans for a Taser-shooting drone. The company’s AI ethics board apparently opposed the device, and when the drone’s development continued regardless, [**nine members**](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-axon-halts-taser-drone-work-some-ethics-panel-said-resign-2022-06-06/) resigned in protest.

**2) **Domino’s staffing shortage is so bad, the company had to halt US orders and reduce store hours [**for the equivalent of 6 days**](https://www.qsrmagazine.com/consumer-trends/whats-fueling-pizza-industrys-critical-driver-shortage) in Q1. It also expects up to 3k stores to route deliveries through call centers by year-end. (At least people can still do pizza order [freestyle raps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Y3hNWpJBE).)

**3) **Good news for Europe’s iPhone owners: By fall 2024, smartphones there will be required to use USB-C charging ports — so no more of Apple’s absolutely unnecessary Lightning cables. The move could cut out [**11k metric tons**](https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/7/23156361/european-union-usb-c-wired-charging-iphone-lightning-ewaste) of e-waste annually.

**4) **Disney+ has 137.7m subscribers, but [**50m+ of them**](https://variety.com/vip/the-ticking-time-bomb-that-could-undercut-disney-stock-1235284680/) use Disney+ Hotstar — the service’s Indian version — with local cricket rights being a major draw. Disney is now entering a gargantuan bidding war for those rights for 2023-27 that could reach well over $4.2B. Losing those deals — and subs — would be a bad look.

**5) **In case you’ve ever wondered which countries have the most robots per capita, here’s your answer: South Korea has [**932 industrial bots** **for every 10k workers**](https://restofworld.org/2022/korea-factories-replace-humans-with-robots/). Singapore has 605; Japan, 390; Germany, 371; and the US, 255. In January, South Korea enacted a new law that makes company execs liable for worker injuries, meaning expect *even more* bots there.

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