High stakes battle could go on for days There are a maximum of 6,000 votes to count but the push by workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama to unionize could take days as the high-stakes battle acts as a much larger proxy across America.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Musk is also pledging to donate millions to local schools and the City of Brownsville. …read more Source:: CNet

A NASA astronaut was monitored during his year in space. …read more Source:: CNet

The ninth generation of the Arm processor architecture, its engineers say, could sustain distributed computing for the rest of this decade. Could the rise of Arm signal the end of central processing units as we know them? …read more Source:: ZDNet

Despite initial confirmation from Volkswagen reps, this whole name change thing might end up being a lame marketing stunt. …read more Source:: CNet

FTC cites ‘significant headwinds’ in trying to fight the San Diego chipmaker The Federal Trade Commission has given up its antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm although the US watchdog still claims the chip maker violated fair competition laws.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Privacy don’t like it, block the tracker, block the tracker Eliminating third-party cookies will not stop companies from tracking web users, but DuckDuckGo claims it can help with its desktop browser extensions and mobile apps.… …read more Source:: Register

Quantum computing will be used to explore genomics, and chemical and drug discovery. …read more Source:: CNet

A search for ‘Suez Canal’ and ‘Ever Given’ surfaces a hidden surprise. …read more Source:: CNet

Pneumatics are a great solution for all kinds of actuators, and can even be used for logic operations if you’re so inclined. Typically, such actuators rely on nicely machined metal components with airtight rubber seals. But what if you did away with all that? [Richard Sewell] decided to investigate. The result is a pneumatic actuator…