“5G iPhones have been slapped with a sales ban in Colombia,” reports Digital Trends, “due to a 5G patent infringement dispute between Apple and Ericsson… The ban affects the latest models, including the iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and the iPad Pro, which the court found infringed Ericsson’s patent pertaining to Read more…
“As many as 100 people could be looking at the board and see something different,” reports the Michigan news site MLive.com. “Look up at a Detroit Metropolitan Airport departure board and you could see a personalized travel itinerary.” Delta’s site features a trippy video showing the screen with a different Read more…
“Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a law Friday prohibiting the use of digital assets as forms of payments in Russia…” reports the tech/policy news site Protocol. The ban on crypto-form payments also apparently applies to NFTs: The new law also includes a provision that requires crypto exchanges and providers refuse Read more…
1.34 billion people consumed harmful amounts of alcohol in 2020, according to estimates from a new study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It also found that 59.1% of those people consuming unsafe amounts were between the ages of 15 and 39, and that for that group “there Read more…
[N]ew research from the University of California, Irvine reports that trees in California’s mountain ranges and open spaces are dying from wildfires and other pressures — and fewer new trees are filling the void. “The forests are not keeping up with these large fires,” said study co-author James Randerson, the Read more…
A new study from Germany has found that working in virtual reality does not increase productivity, comfort, or wellbeing, but does say the report will help identify opportunities for improving the experience of working in VR in the future. The project was headed by Dr Jens Grubert, a specialist in Read more…
