Month: July 2021

British Big Rigs Are About To Go Green

An increasing fact of life over the coming years will be the decarbonisation of our transport networks, for which a variety of competing solutions are being touted. Railways, trucks, cars, and planes will all be affected by this move away from fossil fuels, and while sectors such as passenger cars are making great strides towards…


Early Virus Sequences ‘Mysteriously’ Deleted Have Been Not-So-Mysteriously Undeleted

“A batch of early coronavirus data that went missing for a year has emerged from hiding,” reports the New York Times. (Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, had found copies of 13 of the deleted sequences on Google Cloud.) Though their deletion raised some suspicions, “An odd explanation has…


A Pilot Reported Another ‘Possible Jet Pack Man’ Near Los Angeles

ABC News reports: A Boeing 747 pilot near Los Angeles reported Wednesday night another “possible jet pack man in sight.” It’s the latest in a string of mysterious jet pack sightings near the City of Angels since last year. “A Boeing 747 pilot reported seeing an object that might have resembled a jet pack 15…


After YouTube-dl Incident, GitHub’s DMCA Process Now Includes Free Legal Help

“GitHub has announced a partnership with the Stanford Law School to support developers facing takedown requests related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),” reports VentureBeat: While the DMCA may be better known as a law for protecting copyrighted works such as movies and music, it also has provisions (17 U.S.C. 1201) that criminalize attempts…


The Man-Machine

This week we saw a couple DIY tools for small-run manufacturing at home that help make your life easier if you’re climbing out of the happy bucket and into the pit of despair — when you’re making enough of the item that it’s not fun any more, but you still don’t have the volume to…


Intel unleashes Beast Canyon NUC 11 Extreme gaming desktop kit

The latest in Intel’s line of Canyon-nicknamed Next Unit of Computing Extreme PC kits, the Beast version comes equipped with either the latest Core i9 CPU or unlocked Core i7 processor and support for a full-size graphics card in a small-form-factor chassis with the familiar skull logo. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall

Open letter drafted against what’s seen as unjustified profiteering Many of the almost 24,000 technical standards maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO) are subject to copyright restrictions and are not freely available.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Google Play Gets Mandatory App Privacy Labels In April 2022

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In iOS 14, Apple added a “privacy” section to the app store, requiring app developers to list the data they collect and how they use it. Google — which was one of the biggest targets of Apple’s privacy nutrition labels and delayed app updates for months…


Our top picks for the best electric car in 2021 – Roadshow

Electric cars really are for the masses these days, with great tech, ranges and a whole lot of style in many cases. …read more Source:: CNet


2022 Chevy Bolt EV driven, Tesla Cybertruck delay and more: Roadshow’s week in review – Roadshow

Here’s a look at the biggest stories from the week ending July 31. …read more Source:: CNet