Enlarge / An Audi e-tron prototype on the highway in Europe lights its way ahead with adaptive beam headlights. (credit: Audi) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is finally poised to legalize adaptive beam headlights in the US. On Tuesday, the NHTSA announced that it has issued a final rule that will update the Federal […]
Enlarge / San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin speaks at a press conference in protest of Mayor London Breed’s plan for more policing and enforcement of laws that could affect drug users in the Tenderloin neighborhood on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | San Francisco Chronicle) The San Francisco Police Department’s crime lab […]
(credit: Andrew Cunningham) Intel has agreed to pay $5.4 billion to buy Tower Semiconductor, an Israeli foundry that focuses on specialty processes to make chips for imaging, power management, and wireless communications. The acquisition is Intel’s latest move to add capacity and customers to its new foundry division, which focuses on making chips for other […]
Enlarge / Earl Sinclair and Baby Sinclair (not actual IBM employees). (credit: Disney) A former high-level IBM executive wrote an internal message calling older workers “dinobabies” who should go “extinct,” according to a plaintiff’s filing in an age-discrimination lawsuit against IBM. “In arbitration, Plaintiff’s counsel have obtained evidence showing high level executive communications demonstrating highly […]
Enlarge / Gov. Mike Parson at a press conference on May 29, 2019, in Jefferson City, Missouri. (credit: Getty Images | Jacob Moscovitch ) A Cole County prosecutor has rebuffed Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s request to file criminal charges against a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who identified a major security flaw in a government website […]
Enlarge / Vapor rises from the cooling towers of the nuclear plant of Dampierre-en-Burly near Orleans, central Italy, on October 23, 2018. (credit: GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP/Getty Images ) France is planning to build up to 14 nuclear reactors in an attempt to shore up the country’s aging nuclear fleet while also reducing the country’s carbon emissions. […]
Enlarge / Actress Reese Witherspoon during an interview on Thursday, December 17, 2021. (credit: NBC) At 12: 24 pm on January 11, the actor and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon made a startling announcement to her 2. 9 million Twitter followers. “In the (near) future, every person will have a parallel digital identity, ” she wrote . […]
Enlarge / The IRS detailed the winding and tangled routes the couple allegedly took to launder a portion of the nearly 120,000 bitcoins stolen from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016. (credit: William Whitehurst | Getty Images) On Tuesday, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were arrested in New York and accused of laundering a record […]
Enlarge / AirTag box at an Apple Store on April 30, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (credit: Getty Images | James D. Morgan) Apple yesterday announced upcoming AirTag updates designed to combat stalking and other unwanted tracking. “AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, not to track people or another person’s property, and […]
Enlarge (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Two US senators have asked the Central Intelligence Agency to release the details of a secret bulk data collection program that has apparently ensnared Americans. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore. ) and Martin Heinrich (D-N. M. ) wrote the particular director of national intelligence plus the CIA (PDF), asking them to […]