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Monthly Archives: November 2022
Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and other major automakers are on track to sell 400 million more diesel and petrol vehicles than is feasible to stave off the worst effects of climate change, Greenpeace Germany concludes in a new report. Transportation currently makes up a quarter of fuel-related…
Global warming is making wildfires more common. In the Arctic Ocean and other nutrient-limited ecosystems, the extra nutrients borne by wildfire smoke can trigger algae blooms. Photo by NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens, NASA EOSDIS/LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership This article was originally featured on Hakai. In August 2014, the Arctic Ocean near the North…
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When the pandemic slammed into our shores a couple of years ago, many of us were shoo-ed inside, doomed to endless Zoom meetings. At the time, Canon released a beta of its EOS Webcam Utility, and then seemed to pretty much forget about it. Until today. In a ‘geez, Canon, this would have been helpful…
Sequoia Capital just marked down to zero the value of its stake in the cryptocurrency exchange FTX — a stake that, as of last week, likely represented among the most sizable unrealized gains in the venture firm’s 50-year history. It alerted its limited partners in a letter that it sent out to them this evening….
The California Department of Motor Vehicles approved an amendment to Waymo’s existing deployment permit Wednesday to include driverless, as well as drivered, operations. Now, Waymo will be able to charge for usage of its autonomous vehicles, which will operate without anyone in the driver’s seat, for services like food and grocery delivery. The upgraded DMV…
Amazon’s share price has almost halved so far this year. Mike Segar/Reuters Amazon has become the first public company ever to lose $1 trillion in market value, per Bloomberg. Its share price closed 4.3% lower at $86.14 on Wednesday, taking its market value down to $879 billion. Amazon’s market value was nearly $1.9 trillion in…
A Ukrainian soldier receives first aid at a hospital in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on November 9, 2022. Libkos/AP Top US general Mark Milley spoke at the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday. He estimated that more than 100,000 Russian soldiers were killed and wounded since the invasion. Two days ago, the Ukraine Armed…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than two dozen Lenovo notebook models are vulnerable to malicious hacks that disable the UEFI secure boot process and then run unsigned UEFI apps or load bootloaders that permanently backdoor a device, researchers warned on Wednesday. At the same time that researchers from security firm ESET disclosed the vulnerabilities, the…