Lawmakers in the U.K. voted in favor of recognizing crypto assets as regulated financial instruments and products in the country on Tuesday. The House of Commons, the Parliament’s lower house, met on Tuesday for a line-by-line reading of the proposed Financial Services and Markets Bill, which broadly covers the U.K.’s Read more…
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Ford Prefect, _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_
This past June, Stockholm introduced a new shared bicycle service to replace Stockholm City Bikes, which operated from 2006 until 2018. Since that service shut down, the city was one of many around the world swamped by shared e-scooters that littered sidewalks and streets. As a result, the city wanted Read more…
Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as “fiction.” Titled “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again,” the study found that of 51 million tons of plastic waste generated by U.S. Read more…
As part of its larger commitment to combat “cyberflashing,” the dating app Bumble is open sourcing its AI tool that detects unsolicited lewd images. First debuted in 2019, Private Detector (let’s take a moment to let that name sink in) blurs out nudes that are sent through the Bumble app, Read more…
If you hype something and it succeeds, you’re a genius — it wasn’t a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype. — Neil Bogart
A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fibre-optic cable — enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs in that time, and more traffic than travels through the entire internet’s backbone network per second. Asbjorn Arvad Jorgensen at the Technical University of Read more…