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@lemmy.mlhttps://cleantechnica.com/2024/09/17/ford-chairman-ceo-jim-farley-wakes-after-decade-long-nap-shocked-by-chinas-evs/
Closing in on 15 years in global marketing and sales roles for Ford, Farley goes to China and is shocked because its cars are better and cheaper.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/kosa-advances-out-of-house-committee-but-cracks-are-showing/
This morning, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a pretty long markup about KOSA, COPPA 2.0, and other bills. The quick summary is that both of those bills passed out of committee and cou…
https://www.ess-news.com/2024/09/19/researchers-develop-lithium-sulfur-battery-that-can-be-cut-folded/
By coating the iron sulfide cathodes in polymers, a research team was able to create transition-metal sulfide-based lithium batteries with stable cycling and high safety. After 300 cycles, a lithium carbide iron disulfide pouch cell retained 72.0% capacity with no capacity degradation after 100 cycles.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/18/house-looks-to-make-kosa-and-coppa-worse/
If you had that Congress was going to take bad “protect the children” bills and make them worse on your bingo card, congratulations, you’ve won this week’s easiest prediction. This seems like a not…
https://toot.community/@corbin/113159195674172158
Google is experimenting with direct integration for Affirm, Zip, and possibly other Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services in the Chrome browser. This is the same thing Microsoft did with Edge a few years ago, and is now in Apple Pay in iOS 18. "When enabled, users will have the option to pay with buy now pay later with Affirm on specific merchant webpages.” The tech industry is increasingly embracing predatory loans. #chrome #finance #google https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/3a9e2c966aa4e06da71778b62425adeefa88a817
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/18/tech/google-wins-eu-antitrust-fine/index.html
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42612055
(Asking for the civilized world.)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03622
https://www.vox.com/technology/372690/instgram-teen-accounts-kid-safety-mental-health
The collective freakout about kids and social media has reached a tipping point.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/generative-ai-triples-the-carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-data-centers
Research suggest data centers will emit 2.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas by 2030