Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, in an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, criticized the Biden administration for pushing for censorship around COVID-19 vaccines, the media for hounding Facebook to … Continue reading Zuckerberg On Rogan: Facebook’s Censorship Was ‘Something Out of 1984’
According to [Joanna Goodrich] in IEEE Spectrum, prior to World War II, soldiers who wanted to find land mines, simply poked at the ground with pointed sticks or bayonets. As …read more Continue reading The Engineer Behind Mine Detection
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Apple’s innovation record and business practices in a Joe Rogan podcast interview on January 10, claiming the iPhone maker has not “invented anything great in a while” and is “just sitting” on its flagship product 20… Continue reading Zuckerberg: Apple ‘Hasn’t Invented Anything Great in a While’
Amazon said it is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations that have made similar moves in the face of increasing public and legal scrutiny. From a report: In a Dec. 16 internal note to staff… Continue reading Amazon To Halt Some of Its DEI Programs
TechCrunch’s Rebecca Szkutak reports: TechCrunch recently surveyed 20 VCs who back startups building for enterprises about what gives an AI startup a moat, or what makes it different compared to its peers. More than half of the respondents said that th… Continue reading VCs Say AI Companies Need Proprietary Data To Stand Out
You never know when inspiration is going to strike, and for [Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi], it struck while he was playing with one of his daughter’s hair ties. The result is …read more Continue reading Springs and Things Make for a Unique Timepiece
Amazon is shutting down its “Prime Try Before You Buy” service on January 31, according to a notice on its website. The offering operated similarly to apparel subscription services like Stitch Fix and Rent the Runway, allowing Prime members to try out … Continue reading Amazon To Shut Down ‘Try Before You Buy’ Rival To Stitch Fix
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers’ personal data — including some Social Security Numbers and medical … Continue reading Database Tables of Student, Teacher Info Stolen From PowerSchool In Cyberattack
The DOJ said the men behind Blender.io and Sinbad.io “made it easier for state-sponsored hacking groups” to profit off their crimes.
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News:
A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous microplastic pollution in water across the globe, a new report suggests.
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The study tested the material in an irrigation ditch, a lake, seawater and a pond, where it removed up to 99.9% of plastic. It addressed 95%-98% of plastic after five cycles, which the authors say is remarkable reusability.
The sponge is made from chitin extracted from squid bone and cotton cellulose, materials that are often used to address pollution. Cost, secondary pollution and technological complexities have stymied many other filtration systems, but large-scale production of the new material is possible because it is cheap, and raw materials are easy to obtain, the authors say…
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