Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes
April 30th, 2022Via: Vice: Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force the company to dramatically change how it deals with users’ personal data. And the “fundamental” problem, the company admits, is that Facebook has no idea where all of its user data goes, or […]
Researchers Build Portable Desalination Unit That Generates Drinking Water Without Need for Filters or High-Pressure Pumps
April 29th, 2022Via: MIT: MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. The suitcase-sized device, which requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger, can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel, which can be purchased online for […]
Google Turns Off ‘Newspeak’ Correction Tool (For Now)
April 29th, 2022Via: Summit News: Google claims that it has disabled a feature within its document editor that was correcting language to make it ‘more inclusive’, but only while it refines the tool to make it work more effectively. As we reported Monday, Google Docs was trialling ‘inclusive warnings’, which act like a language checker, suggesting that […]
Attacks on French Fiber Networks Cause Internet Outages, “Major Incident, Unprecedented in Its Scope”
April 27th, 2022Via: Bloomberg: Attacks on long-distance fiber-optic cables caused internet outages in several parts of France, carriers SFR and Free said on Wednesday. The cyber section of the Paris public Prosecutor’s office opened a criminal investigation, a spokesperson told Bloomberg. The probe has been entrusted to the DGSI, the French security agency, and the judicial police. […]
Ford Begins Production of F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup Truck, Says It’s a ‘Model T Moment’
April 27th, 2022Via: Electrek: Ford has officially started full production of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. The company compares the significance of the moment to the launch of the Ford Model T. The automaker grabbed a lot of headlines by announcing that the Ford F-150 Lightning would start at $40,000, […]
Rivian CEO Warns that Upcoming Battery Shortage Will Make Recent Chip Shortage Look Like a ‘Small Appetizer’
April 26th, 2022Via: Business Insider: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe warned that a shortage of electric-car batteries could soon eclipse the issues that the automotive industry has faced from the computer chip shortage. “Semiconductors are a small appetizer to what we are about to feel on battery cells over the next two decades,” Scaringe said, according to a […]
Twitter Set to Accept Musk’s $43 Billion Offer
April 25th, 2022Via: Reuters: Twitter Inc is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the CEO of Tesla has called his “best and final” offer for the social media company, people familiar with the matter said. Twitter may announce the $54.20-per-share deal later on Monday once its board […]
Russian Airlines Told To Prepare For World Without GPS
April 24th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Russia’s air traffic regulator sent a warning to airlines about potential upcoming flights without using the American Global Positioning System (GPS). Russian newspaper Izvestia reported Friday that a letter from the Federal Air Transport Agency (FATA) instructed national airlines to be aware of “GPS failures, degradations, and abnormal performance.” Areas prone to “jamming” […]
Power Beam Energy Test, Zap Energy to Troops from Space
April 23rd, 2022Via: Study Finds: Could soldiers in the future receive the power for their equipment from space? A team of researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have demonstrated the feasibility of terrestrial microwave power beaming by transmitting 1.6 kilowatts of power over one kilometer (km). The achievement, by a team at the U.S. Army […]
Musk Speaking To Co-Investors As Twitter Board Adopts “Poison Pill” To Thwart Hostile Takeover
April 15th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: In an attempt to move along his hostile takeover following Twitter’s adoption of a poison pill takeover defense (see below), the NY Post reports that Elon Musk is speaking to potential co-investors who could partner with him on a bid for the social network, and cites sources according to whom a new plan […]
