The Supreme Court decision limits the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases

The American coal industry is in a long-term decline, and the recent Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency the case won’t change that. The case centers on a 2015 EPA regulation called the Clean Power Plan that aims to limit greenhouse gases from power plants. The rule never took effect, as […]

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Composite enterprise encourages innovation MIT Technology Review

Overall, 74% of companies have accelerated plans to move to the cloud by more than a year, discarding legacy technologies and operational models to include data and applications, according to business analysis firm ZK Research. A key part of that transformation relied on the use of applications, typically in the cloud, that integrated low-functionality applications […]

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Download: Shame trap algorithms and safer transitions in London

This is today’s edition of The Download,, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How algorithms trap us in a circle of shame Working in finance at the start of the financial crisis in 2008, mathematician Cathy O’Neil convinced first-hand how much people believe in […]

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9 best coffee boxes we tried (2022): gift, fresh, decaffeinated, one origin

Delivery options: two or four weeks Best for testing blind taste Of all the coffee subscriptions we’ve tried, Angel’s Cup has my favorite craft: blind taste testing. Every time coffee arrives, it is in an unmarked black bag. Once you’ve decided whether you like coffee or not, you can look it up in the Angel’s […]

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Why the search for life on Mars is happening in the Canadian Arctic

Only the most durable organisms can thrive in one of the coldest springs on earth. That’s why in the summer of 2017 and 2019, Lyle Whyte took a helicopter to Lost Hammer Spring in the uninhabited High Arctic region of Nunavut, Canada. Snow, ice, salt travertine, rocks and permafrost surround the unpretentious spring, located among […]

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Blake Lemoine, Google and the search for souls in the algorithm

Science has not convinced Google engineer Blake Lemoine that one of the company’s AIs is reasonable. Lemoine, who is also an ordained Christian mystical priest, says AI’s comments on religion, as well as his “personal, spiritual beliefs,” helped to convince to him technology had thoughts, feelings, and a soul. “I am a priest. When the […]

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Repetitive Dog Names – Easy Two Syllable Names for Your Dog to Learn!

Share with fellow dog lovers! Repetitive dog names — ones that repeat the same sound in two syllables — are among the easiest names for your new dog to learn. After all, he or she is hearing that new name not once but twice every time you speak it! Technically these repetitive names are called […]

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