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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Increased in 2022 as Crises Roiled Energy Markets
This year, nations are projected to emit roughly 36.6 billion tons of planet-warming carbon dioxide by burning coal, natural gas and oil for energy, according…
Meet the four-year-old mini-influencer who films own vlogs to 42k subscribers
Paris McKenzie is the tiny influencer who films her own live streams, vlogs and gets her mum to take photos of her in different outfits.…
Mysterious Company With Government Ties Plays Key Internet Role
An offshore company that is trusted by the major web browsers and other tech companies to vouch for the legitimacy of websites has connections to…
Google is Quietly Working on a Wearable Device for Preteens
Google is developing a wearable device for preteens under its Fitbit group as it attempts to capture a growing demographic of younger users who own…
Japan Seeks Power To Turn Down Private Home Air Conditioners Remotely
As reported by Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, in a meeting on Nov 2, the Energy Conservation Subcommittee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry…
Atmospheric Levels of All Three Greenhouse Gases Hit Record High
The WMO found there was the biggest year-on-year jump in methane concentrations in 2020 and 2021 since systematic measurements began almost 40 years ago. Methane…
New York City Finally Proposes Strict New Regulations for Airbnb Rentals
Under proposed rules that were quietly and unexpectedly made public on Friday — which will, among other things, prohibit hosts from renting out an "entire…
New Mac App Wants To Record Everything You Do – So You Can ‘Rewind’ It Later
Yesterday, a company called Rewind AI announced a self-titled software product for Macs with Apple Silicon that reportedly keeps a highly compressed, searchable record of…
Europe Warming Twice As Fast As Rest of the World, New Report Reveals
The European continent is bearing the brunt of climate change, warming at a rate that is twice as fast as the global average, a new…
Study Urges Caution When Comparing Neural Networks To the Brain
Neural networks, a type of computing system loosely modeled on the organization of the human brain, form the basis of many artificial intelligence systems for…
Atmospheric Levels of All Three Greenhouse Gases Hit Record High
The WMO found there was the biggest year-on-year jump in methane concentrations in 2020 and 2021 since systematic measurements began almost 40 years ago. Methane…
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why
On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of…
Animal Populations Shrunk an Average of 69% Over the Last Half-Century, Report Says
According to the Living Planet Index, a metric that's been in existence for five decades, animal populations across the world shrunk by an average of…
Ring Cameras Are Being Used To Control and Surveil Overworked Delivery Workers
Networked doorbell surveillance cameras like Amazon's Ring are everywhere, and have changed the nature of delivery work by letting customers take on the role of…
Company That Makes Rent-Setting Software For Apartments Accused of Collusion, Lawsuit Says
Renters filed a lawsuit (PDF) this week alleging that a company that makes price-setting software for apartments and nine of the nation's biggest property managers…
Has Online Disinformation Splintered and Become More Intractable?
Not long ago, the fight against disinformation focused on the major social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter. When pressed, they often removed troubling content,…
ByteDance Planned to Use TikTok to Monitor Locations of Specific American Citizens
A China-based team at TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the TikTok app to monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens, according…
Google’s Eric Schmidt Helped Write AI Laws Without Disclosing Investments In AI Startups
About four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by the chairman of the House…
Behind TikTok’s Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-A-Day Content Moderators
"horrific" videos "are part and parcel of everyday work for TikTok moderators in Colombia." They told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism about widespread occupational trauma…
AI-Assisted Guns Deployed By Israel To Track Targets In the West Bank
A Euronews video features footage of Sharone Aloni, Research and Development VP of Sharp Shooter, demonstrating one of the company's devices with an automatic Fire…