Enlarge / A US Bradley Fighting Vehicle drives during a joint military exercise between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria on December 7, 2021. The US Army is currently testing a version of the Bradley with […]
Enlarge / Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California. (credit: Tesla) The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) sued Tesla on Wednesday, alleging systemic racial segregation in the workplace. “After receiving hundreds of complaints from workers, DFEH found evidence that Tesla’s Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial […]
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. (credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld ) NASA has warned that SpaceX’s plan for 30, 000 more Starlink geostationary satellites could cause problems for science missions, human spaceflight, the Hubble telescope, and ground-based telescopes that look for […]
Enlarge / Tina Peters. (credit: Tina Peters’ campaign website) Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters—who was recently barred from overseeing an election and has promoted former President Trump’s conspiracy theory that voting machines were manipulated to help Joe Biden win the presidency—was arrested at a bagel shop yesterday and accused of resisting a search warrant. The […]
Enlarge (credit: ony Avelar/Bloomberg ) Many of Intel’s current woes can be traced to the fact that the company was left out of the iPhone. Whether Intel passed on the opportunity or couldn’t meet the spec is by now a moot point, but missing out on the particular smartphone revolution—and its billions of chips—played no […]
Enlarge (credit: Arm) SoftBank’s $66 billion sale of UK-based chip business Arm to Nvidia collapsed on Monday after regulators in the US, UK, and EU raised serious concerns about its effects on competition in the global semiconductor industry, according to three people with direct knowledge of the transaction. The deal, the largest ever in the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | imaginima) The Internal Revenue Service is dropping a controversial facial recognition system that requires people to upload video selfies when creating new IRS online accounts. “The IRS announced it will transition away from using a third-party service for facial recognition to help authenticate people creating new online accounts,” the agency […]
Enlarge Meta says it may have to abandon the European Union. The note was buried in the company’s annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Meta said that if officials on both sides of the Atlantic can’t reach an agreement on data transfers and warehousing , the company may have to pull its Facebook […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Cindy Ord ) Spotify on Friday removed 70 Joe Rogan Experience episodes from 2020 and previous years. Meanwhile, Rogan issued an apology after video showed him saying the n-word on various podcast episodes. The new episode removals weren’t related to the COVID misinformation that led Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Chie Ferrelli loved her Subaru SUV, which she bought in 2020 because it made her feel safe. So when it was time for her husband, Marc, to purchase his own new car last summer, they returned to the Subaru dealer near their home in southeast Massachusetts. But there was a catch, […]