At least 5 people have been cured of HIV. Is the AIDS pandemic ending? (www.freethink.com)
At least 5 people have been cured of HIV. Is the AIDS pandemic ending?::undefined
Disney creates task force to explore AI and cut costs - Reuters News Agency (www.reutersagency.com)
WSJ: China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work (www.wsj.com)
Scholz: Germany will be the first country in Europe to introduce a law requiring operators of 80% of all service stations to provide fast-charging options with at least 150 kilowatts for e-cars. (www.reuters.com)
Tech leaders emerge behind plan to build new city near California air base — Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco (www.wsj.com)
Tech leaders emerge behind plan to build new city near California air base — Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco::Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco
A cargo ship with 123-foot ‘WindWing’ sails has just departed on its maiden voyage (www.popsci.com)
A cargo ship with 123-foot ‘WindWing’ sails has just departed on its maiden voyage::Retrofitted with 123-foot ‘WindWings,’ ‘Pyxis Ocean’ is testing two giant sails on its six-week journey from China to Brazil.
Data center water usage remains hidden (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
We don’t know how much water data centers use. We just know it’s a lot
Europe's Sweeping Rules for Tech Giants Are About to Kick In (www.voanews.com)
What’s changing?...
Requiring ink to scan a document—yet another insult from the printer industry (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/3vfmc...
X has started reversing the throttling on some of the sites, including NYTimes' (twitter.com)
Companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Meta are paying salaries as high as $900,000 to attract generative AI talent (www.businessinsider.com)
Companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Meta are paying salaries as high as $900,000 to attract generative AI talent::With not enough AI experts to fill demand, companies are offering competitive salaries.
San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill (finance.yahoo.com)
Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.
Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They're not the only crop thriving in the shade. (apnews.com)
Hops for beer flourish under solar panels. They’re not the only crop thriving in the shade.::A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.
"Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday" (www.theverge.com)
Running DOOM In A Keycap Takes Careful Work (hackaday.com)
EPA destroys 7 years of John Deere BS with one letter :) - VIVA RIGHT TO REPAIR! (www.youtube.com)
Right to repair your stuff
In California, Car Buyers Are Choosing Electricity Over Gasoline in Record Numbers (blog.ucsusa.org)
In California, Car Buyers Are Choosing Electricity Over Gasoline in Record Numbers::undefined
NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2 (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2::Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.
How about donating to The Center for Countering Digital Hate, now that Elon Musk has sued them? (donate.counterhate.com)
Say hello to longlife tech that can challenge our throwaway culture (www.theguardian.com)
“Fountain of Youth” pill may reverse aging (www.msn.com)
Sinclair has suggested human trials could commence within next year. “This new discovery offers the potential to reverse aging with a single pill, with applications ranging from improving eyesight to effectively treating age-related diseases.” Other biologists skeptical.
Pentagon-Funded Study Uses AI to Detect 'Violations of Social Norms' (gizmodo.com)
EU passes law to blanket highways with fast EV chargers by end of 2025 (www.theverge.com)
Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2399016...
A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations (techxplore.com)
A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance and renewal operations::A back support exoskeleton has been developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology—IIT) to improve railway workers’ safety and conditions for heavy manual material handling during maintenance …
