An anonymous reader shares a report from The Guardian: Global greenhouse gas emissions must peak in the next four years, coal and gas-fired power plants must close in the next decade and lifestyle and behavioral changes will be needed to avoid climate …
Bill Gates Wants In On Congress’ Big Climate Infrastructure Push
If the bipartisan infrastructure bill moves forward, Bill Gates says his climate investment fund will match $1.5 billion in government funds and put that money towards projects that are developing green technologies. The Verge reports: Breakthrough Ene…
Apple’s Child Protection Features Spark Concern Within Its Own Ranks
According to an exclusive report from Reuters, Apple’s move to scan U.S. customer phones and computers for child sex abuse images has resulted in employees speaking out internally, “a notable turn in a company famed for its secretive culture.” From the…
Twitter’s New Font, Chirp, Is Apparently Giving Some Users Headaches
On Wednesday, Twitter unveiled a new design that includes a new font, called Chirp, and higher-contrast colors. “Almost immediately, users began to complain — with many saying the new font gave them headaches,” reports CNET. From the report: “Today, w…
AT&T Delays 500,000 Fiber-To-The-Home Builds Due To Severe Fiber Shortage
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AT&T says that supply-chain shortages will delay fiber construction to about 500,000 homes that it originally planned to wire up this year and warned that shortages are likely to impact other c…
Senate Approves Rubio-Scott Amendment To Provide Free Internet To Cuba
Tuesday evening, the U.S. Senate approved an amendment proposed by Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio for the administration of President Joe Biden to provide free Internet to Cubans on the island. The Islander News reports: On a Twitter post, Senator …
Reddit Is Now Valued At More Than $10 Billion
Reddit, the self-declared ‘front page of the internet,’ says it is now valued at more than $10 billion after raising an additional $410 million in funding, with the final round expected to grow to up to $700 million. The Verge reports: “We are still pl…
Homeless Encampment Grows On Apple Property In Silicon Valley
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Mercury News: A large homeless encampment is growing on the site Apple earmarked for its North San Jose campus, two years after Apple made waves with a $2.5 billion pledge to combat the Bay Area’s affordable…
Windbreaks Could Help Wind Farms Boost Power Output
labloke11 shares a report from Science News: Windbreaks may sound like a counterintuitive idea for boosting the performance of a wind turbine. But physicists report that low walls that block wind could actually help wind farms produce more power. Scien…
Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence Yet of Matter Generated By Collisions of Light
omfglearntoplay shares a report from ScienceAlert: According to theory, if you smash two photons together hard enough, you can generate matter: an electron-positron pair, the conversion of light to mass as per Einstein’s theory of special relativity. I…