mspohr writes: Some of America’s most prominent companies, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney, are backing business groups that are fighting landmark climate legislation, despite their own promises to combat the climate crisis, a new analysis has found. A clutch of corporate lobby groups and organizations have mobilized to oppose the proposed $3.5tn budget bill…

General bookings for the wildly expensive Disney World attraction begin Oct. 28. …read more Source:: CNet

Instagram and other social media sites are accused of not doing enough to protect the mental health of teens and young adults. …read more Source:: CNet

Zarude has arrived in Pokemon Go as part of a new movie tie-in event. Here’s how to catch the mythical Pokemon. …read more Source:: CNet

Sets sights on Salesforce and other SaaSy processes Erstwhile data-visualisation specialist Qlik is taking a stab at process automation as it bids to link up data, analytics, and action – bringing it into the territory of the big software-as-a-service applications.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Researchers warn of malicious files designed to look like No Time to Die. …read more Source:: CNet

A new report finds that some of the country’s most powerful utilities raked in millions of dollars in taxpayer bailout funds last year — while continuing to shut off service for households across the U.S. during the pandemic. Gizmodo: The report, released Thursday from the Center for Biological Diversity and BailoutWatch, takes a look at…

Gone are the days where you have to show a machine a gazillion images in different poses and lighting conditions Robots powered by neural networks are frustratingly brittle. They need to see numerous demonstrations of a specific task in simulation before they can begin to execute the same actions in the physical world. A new…

HBO Max streams some movies the same day they hit theaters. Venom: Let There Be Carnage isn’t be one of them, and it’s not on Disney Plus either. But Many Saints of Newark is online. …read more Source:: CNet

A free cup from Dunks’ is nice, but International Coffee Day will net you full bags of beans on the cheap. …read more Source:: CNet