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Tesla nimmt die Produktion entgegen der Anordnung in Kalifornien wieder auf, Musk will sich notfalls verhaften lassen. (Elon Musk, Technologie)
Tesla nimmt die Produktion entgegen der Anordnung in Kalifornien wieder auf, Musk will sich notfalls verhaften lassen. (Elon Musk, Technologie) Der kostenpflichtige Videostreamingdienst für Smartphones bleibt weit hinter den Erwartungen. Nun will Quibi einiges besser machen. (Streaming, Coronavirus)
Der kostenpflichtige Videostreamingdienst für Smartphones bleibt weit hinter den Erwartungen. Nun will Quibi einiges besser machen. (Streaming, Coronavirus) Die EU-Kommission will den digitalen Binnenmarkt fairer gestalten. Eine Behörde könnte die Algorithmen der großen IT-Konzerne überprüfen. Ein Bericht von Friedhelm Greis (EU-Kommission, Datenschutz)
Die EU-Kommission will den digitalen Binnenmarkt fairer gestalten. Eine Behörde könnte die Algorithmen der großen IT-Konzerne überprüfen. Ein Bericht von Friedhelm Greis (EU-Kommission, Datenschutz) Die Coronavirus-Pandemie dient zur Einführung neuer digitaler Kontrolltechniken. Schulschließungen verlangsamen nach einer Studie die Ausbreitung, aber stoppen sie nicht
Good news for bingers: CBS All Access will drop all S2 episodes at once on June 25, 2020.
The Twilight Zone season 2 trailer.
It's national Twilight Zone Day (no one knows why), and what better way to mark the occasion than with the official trailer for the second season of Jordan Peele's reboot of The Twilight Zone? We got our first look at still photos a few days ago, and, combined with the trailer, we're optimistic that Peele can pull off another strong season and do this classic science fiction series proud.
(Some spoilers for S1 below.)
Rod Serling created the original Twilight Zone anthology series for CBS in 1959, and it was an instant hit with viewers. Serling was a fan of both pulp fiction and science fiction, and he combined those passions with a strong interest in social commentary on topics such as nuclear war and McCarthyism. And he loved a good twist ending. The series was successfully revived in the 1980s and again (less successfully) in 2002. There was also a 1983 feature film, notorious because star Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed in a freak helicopter accident during filming.
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Angst vor einer Massenvernichtungs-Pandemie auf der einen Seite und Angst vor einer Massenüberwachungs-Diktatur auf der anderen – Ein Kommentar
Unklar ist, ob die teils schikanösen Zwangsmaßnahmen Covid-19 klein hielten, fuf Sofias Kneipenmeile Vitoschka herrscht wieder Gedränge und gehen die Menschen auf Tuchfühlung
Tesla sued Alameda County in federal court on Saturday over the shutdown order.
Enlarge / Elon Musk in 2020. (credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty)
Update (May 21): Tesla's lawsuit against Alameda County has been dismissed at Tesla's request. The move comes a week after Alameda County signaled that it wasn't going to try to stop the company from re-opening its Fremont factory despite a continued shelter-in-place order in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Original story (May 11) follows:
Elon Musk is planning to defy county officials as he battles to reopen Tesla's Fremont factory in the face of a continued shelter-in-place order in Alameda County, California, Musk announced on Twitter on Monday.
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Some of the laptops shipping with 10th-gen Intel “Ice Lake” processors feature Iris Plus graphics, while lower-priced models have less impressive Intel UHD graphics instead. But one thing they all had in common until recently was that they …
A letter to the president ignores the fact that wind and solar employ people, too.
Last week, Republican House members sent a letter to President Donald Trump in which they decried banks' recent re-evaluations of the risks of fossil fuel investments. While the letter doesn't call for any particular action, it repeatedly mentions the assistance offered to banks via the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act 9 (CARES Act), and it implies that the banks aren't living up to their end of the deal. And, throughout the letter, its signatories seem to ignore the fact that the fossil fuel sector is not the only component of the US energy economy.
The letter was sent to Trump by a collection of 14 senators and 22 representatives, all Republican. In addition to Trump, the letter cc'ed a few senior administration officials, including the secretaries of the Department of Energy and the Department of the Treasury and the CEOs of six banks. The CEOs of three fossil fuel industry groups were also included.
The letter comes as the recent events have accelerated banks' decisions to re-evaluate fossil fuel investments. In the long term, fossil fuel development faced two significant challenges. The first is that wind and solar generation have become cost-competitive with fossil fuels in most markets. The second is that the pledges made to limit future fossil fuel emissions will likely mean that some fossil fuel deposits will be left undeveloped. That means that some of the resources now held as assets by fossil fuel companies will end up "stranded"—meaning the assets will turn out to have no value.
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