Celebrate Independence Day on the island. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s one rule for Jeff Bezos’ online empire, and another for everyone else Amazon has refused to publish data about the energy consumption and carbon emissions of its business in Australia, including vast server farms, claiming its contribution to climate change is a trade secret.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Now, digital calipers with wired interfaces to capture the current reading are nothing new. But the good ones are expensive, and really, where’s the fun in plugging a $75 cable into a computer? So when [Max Holliday] was asked to trick out some calipers for automating data capture, he had to get creative. [Max] found…

Australia’s consumer watchdog has sued Samsung’s Australian unit for allegedly misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy smartphones as suitable to use in swimming pools and the surf. From a report: The world’s largest smartphone maker did not know or sufficiently test the effects of pool or saltwater exposure on its phones when ads showed them…

The brand is under stewardship of the same group that now runs Apollo. …read more Source:: CNet

Clings to its own days of independence but no one is celebrating MapR, the struggling Hadoop data analytics firm and one-time unicorn, has missed its 3 July deadline to sell out or shut up shop.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The OpenID Foundation, the organization behind the OpenID open standard and decentralized authentication protocol, has penned an open letter to Apple in regards to the company’s recently announced “Sign In with Apple” feature. From a report: In its letter, the organization said that Apple has built Sign In with Apple on top of the OpenID…

Radical hopes to homologate it for road use beyond Europe. …read more Source:: CNet

Its 2.3-liter EcoBoost engine puts out just 350 horsepower, but it’s incredibly light. …read more Source:: CNet

Fire was likely started by a lightning strike, the company says. …read more Source:: CNet