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A Coal Billionaire is Building the World's Biggest Clean Energy Plant - Five Times the Size of Paris

An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world's biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren salt desert on the edge of western India into one of the most important sources of clean energy anywhere on the planet...

Mon Apr 29, 2024 04:47
Bezos, Other Amazon Execs Used Signal - a Problem for FTC Investigators

Pursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America's Federal Trade Commission has now "accused" Amazon of using Signal, reports the Seattle Times: The newspaper notes that the app "can be set to automatically delete messages, to hide information related to the FTC's ongoing antitrust investigation into the company." In...

Mon Apr 29, 2024 02:45
Plunge in Storage Battery Costs Will Speed Shift to Renewable Energy, Says IEA

"In less than 15 years, battery costs have fallen by more than 90%," according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, "one of the fastest declines ever seen in clean energy technologies." And it's expected to get even cheaper, reports Reuters: An expected sharp fall in battery costs for energy storage in coming years will accelerate...

Sun Apr 28, 2024 23:24
Pegasus Spyware Used on Hundreds of People, Says Poland's Prosecutor General

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Poland's prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland, among them elected officials. Adam Bodnar told lawmakers that he found the scale of the surveillance "shocking and...

Sun Apr 28, 2024 19:54
Behold the World's Largest 3D Printer

They're calling it "the world's largest 3D printer," but also "the factory of the future" — not just a 3D printer, but a manufacturing system. It's the succcessor to a 3D printer that could create an entire house, cutting construction time and labor, according to the Associated Press. And this one "may one day create entire neighborhoods." ...

Sun Apr 28, 2024 18:52
What Happened After India Banned TikTok?

What happened after India banned TikTok? The move "mostly drew widespread support" notes the Associated Press, in a country "where protesters had been calling for a boycott of Chinese goods since the deadly confrontation in the remote Karakoram mountain border region." "There was a clamour leading up to this, and the popular narrative was how can...

Sun Apr 28, 2024 06:43

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