Due to a “rapid expansion of solar capacity, Germany generated 72.2 TWh of solar power in 2024, accounting for 14% of its total electricity output. “Wind power remained Germany’s largest source of electricity in 2024, generating 136.4 TWh…” Hydropower also saw a slight increase, contributing 21.7 TWh in 2024. Total Read more…
DEC diagnostics would run on a dead whale. — Mel Ferentz
FBI Director Christopher Wray, in his final interview before stepping down, warned that China poses the greatest long-term threat to U.S. national security, calling it “the defining threat of our generation.” China’s cyber program has stolen more American personal and corporate data than all other nations combined, Wray told CBS Read more…
What happened during the “Snowball Earth” period is perplexing: Just as the planet endured about 100 million years of deep freeze, with a thick layer of ice covering most of Earth and with low levels of atmospheric oxygen, forms of multicellular life emerged. Why? The prevailing scientific view is that Read more…
What if they ban TikTok and people keep using it anyway? Some experts say that even if TikTok is actually banned this month or soon, there may be so many legal and technical loopholes that millions of Americans could find ways to keep TikTok’ing. The law is “Swiss cheese with Read more…
While CES wraps up this week, “Not all innovation is good innovation,” warns Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixit’s Director of Sustainability (heading their Right to Repair advocacy team). So this year the group held its fourth annual “anti-awards ceremony” to call out CES’s “least repairable, least private, and least sustainable products…” (iFixit Read more…
JPMorgan Chase is summoning all staff back to the office, becoming the latest corporate giant to call time on era of remote and hybrid working sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The US’s largest bank, which has some 316,000 employees worldwide, announced on Friday that all workers on hybrid work schedules Read more…