Month: January 2023

Mobilfunk: SPD will Sendemasten ohne Genehmigung bauen lassen

Wie zuvor die CSU fordert nun auch die SPD-Bundestagsfraktion eine Genehmigungsfiktion für Mobilfunkanlagen. Weit über 90 Prozent der Vorhaben werden ohnehin positiv entschieden. (Mobilfunk, Telekom)

Wie zuvor die CSU fordert nun auch die SPD-Bundestagsfraktion eine Genehmigungsfiktion für Mobilfunkanlagen. Weit über 90 Prozent der Vorhaben werden ohnehin positiv entschieden. (Mobilfunk, Telekom)

Anzeige: Microsoft-Azure-Administration im Unternehmen

Microsofts Cloudangebote gelten in vielen Unternehmen als “gesetzt”. Die Workshops der Golem Karrierewelt bieten einen leichten Einstieg in die komplexe Materie. (Golem Karrierewelt, Microsoft)

Microsofts Cloudangebote gelten in vielen Unternehmen als "gesetzt". Die Workshops der Golem Karrierewelt bieten einen leichten Einstieg in die komplexe Materie. (Golem Karrierewelt, Microsoft)

Apple promises to disclose more details about app removals

Addressing freedom-of-expression concerns about decision-making process.

Apple has shared details of requests it has received from governments to take down apps in its Transparency Report.

Enlarge / Apple has shared details of requests it has received from governments to take down apps in its Transparency Report. (credit: AFP/Getty Images)

Apple has promised to enhance disclosures about why it expels certain apps from its App Store, following claims that the tech giant’s secretive decision-making process threatens freedom of expression in countries such as China and Russia.

Activist investors secured the commitment from Apple earlier this month, according to three people familiar with the agreement. Last March nearly a third of shareholders at its annual meeting backed a resolution calling for greater transparency in its relations with foreign governments.

Petitioners led by Azzad Asset Management, a faith-based investor in the US, and British activist investment platform Tulipshare had called on Apple to give more detail on why certain apps were pulled from the App Store after some Bible and Koran study tools were inexplicably banned from China in late 2021.

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Here’s the story of a lunar image that doesn’t look remarkable, but really is

What you’re actually looking at is an area of the Moon that is in total darkness.

The first ShadowCam image from orbit reveals the permanently shadowed wall and floor of Shackleton Crater in never-before-seen detail.

Enlarge / The first ShadowCam image from orbit reveals the permanently shadowed wall and floor of Shackleton Crater in never-before-seen detail. (credit: NASA/KARI/Arizona State University)

After launching on a Falcon 9 rocket in August 2022, the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter slid into orbit around the Moon last month. This was South Korea's first lunar probe, and among its chief objectives was surveying the polar regions of the Moon for resources such as water ice.

One of the six instruments carried by the half-ton satellite was a hyper-sensitive camera built by NASA called ShadowCam. The camera was designed with maximum sensitivity to light, such that it could provide images of permanently shadowed regions of the poles—which is to say, capture images of things that are inherently very dark.

Earlier this week, the ShadowCam team released its first image, which reveals a wall and the floor of Shackleton Crater near the South Pole of the Moon. At first glance, there's nothing remarkable about the photo. It looks a lot like... the Moon.

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