Here comes another Netflix price hike (www.theverge.com)
Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan....
Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing (noyb.eu)
Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target (www.canarymedia.com)
Heat pumps sold so fast in Maine, the state just upped its target::undefined
Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks (www.newsweek.com)
Scientists develop game-changing vaccine against Lyme disease ticks::Researchers have developed a way to vaccinate people such that the ticks that cause Lyme disease cannot be colonized by the bacteria that cause the disease.
Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS (www.androidcentral.com)
Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device. (gizmodo.com)
Microsoft Can’t Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.::They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.
Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job! — As office occupancy rates stagnate, employers are giving up on perks and turning to threats (www.washingtonpost.com)
Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job! — As office occupancy rates stagnate, employers are giving up on perks and turning to threats::undefined
Reddit will no longer let you opt out of personalized ads (www.theverge.com)
Reddit will no longer let you opt out of personalized ads::Reddit is removing the ability for some users to opt out of ad personalization based on their activity on the platform, though some countries will be excluded from the change.
Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech (www.wired.com)
The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)
Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.
Key EU parliament comitee took stance towards protecting end-to-end encryption, and no device scanning. A possible win for privacy (www.eff.org)
Thanks to more than 100 civil society groups joined us in speaking out against this proposal. So did thousands of individuals who signed the petition demanding that the EU “Stop Scanning Me.”...
Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies (techxplore.com)
Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies::In pursuit of the ambitious goal of reaching net-zero emissions, nations worldwide must expand their use of clean energy sources. In the case of solar energy, this change may already be upon us.
Tiktok's most popular painter sends followers after art critic for negative review of gallery exhibit (news.artnet.com)
LMG has made a response video to Gamers Nexus' concerns (www.youtube.com)
Roku lays off 300 workers and removes streaming content to save money (www.engadget.com)
Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating...
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August (www.theguardian.com)
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August::Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads
How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should (www.eff.org)
Google did it again.
A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply (fortune.com)
'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out. (www.businessinsider.com)
‘Where ambition goes to die’: These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they’re desperate to get out.::Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.
No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific (arstechnica.com)
No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific::NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific.
SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million (arstechnica.com)
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon (www.bbc.com)
25 States Agree To Quadruple Number Of Heat Pumps In America (cleantechnica.com)
25 States Agree To Quadruple Number Of Heat Pumps In America::The US Climate Alliance met in New York City this week to explain the benefits of heat pumps, including better health for American families.
Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality (www.reuters.com)
Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality::Tesla Inc is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s assertions about the technology.
