In addition to new hardware announced today, Google has made a big change to its new line of Nest cameras: they no longer require a monthly subscription fee to record video. Ars Technica reports: We’ll get to the new models in a minute (editor’s note: …
Amazon Postpones Return To Office Until January 2022; Won’t Implement Vaccine Mandate
Amazon told employees Thursday that it will delay its timeline for returning to regular work in the office until early next year. GeekWire reports: The new date: Jan. 3, 2022. Previously, Amazon had expected employees to start working in the office reg…
Wealthy People Are Renouncing American Citizenship
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: The number of Americans who renounced their citizenship in favor of a foreign country hit an all-time high in 2020: 6,707, a 237% increase over 2019. While the numbers are down this year, that’s probably …
US Intel Agencies Are Reviewing Genetic Data From Wuhan Lab
ytene writes: CNN is claiming an exclusive scoop, with an article reporting that U.S. intelligence agencies have scored a massive trove of Covid-19 genetic data, which, CNN suggests, comes from the Wuhan research lab. More than the complex challenge of…
Vudu and FandangoNow Merge Into a Single Streaming Service
Fandango has revealed that Vudu is merging with its parent company’s own streaming service, FandangoNow, to form a single platform that’ll take on Vudu’s name. The change comes more than a year after it purchased the streaming platform from Walmart. Ne…
EIP-1559 Has Already Burned $1 Million Worth of ETH
$1 million worth of ether (ETH) has been removed from circulation, or “burned,” in under three hours since the London hardfork and the implementation of EIP-1559 earlier today. Crypto Briefing reports: With the new update, the base fee from each Ethere…
The Slow Collapse of Amazon’s Drone Delivery Dream
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Well over 100 employees at Amazon Prime Air have lost their jobs and dozens of other roles are moving to other projects abroad as the company shutters part of its operation in the UK, WIRED understands. I…
Spanish Engineers Extract Drinking Water From Thin Air
A Spanish company has devised a system to extract drinking water from thin air to supply arid regions where people are in desperate need. Reuters reports: “The goal is to help people,” said Enrique Veiga, the 82-year-old engineer who invented the machi…
Netflix Announces SpaceX Documentary On Civilian Mission Into Orbit
Netflix will stream a documentary next month which will follow the story of the world’s first private all-civilian space orbit. Sky News reports: The group will board a SpaceX capsule next month and spend three days orbiting the Earth, becoming Netflix…
The State Department and 3 Other US Agencies Earn a D For Cybersecurity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Cybersecurity at eight federal agencies is so poor that four of them earned grades of D, three got Cs, and only one received a B in a report issued Tuesday by a US Senate Committee. “It is clear th…