“Vice examines the toll on mental health experienced by people who invest a large portion of their net worth into volatile cryptocurrencies,” writes long-time Slashdot reader leathered. Vice argues that “The stress and anxiety that goes with funneling your life savings into a volatile market is no joke.” Countless people Read more…
“Thousands of Texans who have turned to solar power and battery storage, creating so-called microgrids, as a solution to blackouts,” reports the Houston Chronicle. “With a venture creating the same little power plants for apartment buildings, Texas has become a national leader in residential solar power installations.” From 2019 to Read more…
The Zoom call had about 40 people on it — or that’s what the people who had logged on thought. The all-staff meeting at Madbird, a “glamorous design agency” had been called to welcome the growing company’s newest recruits. Its dynamic and inspirational boss, Ali Ayad, wanted everyone on the Read more…
Tech-bankrolled nonprofit Code.org is inviting kids to join the Coldplay Dance Party, explaining in a Medium post that “we’ve teamed up with award-winning band Coldplay to launch a global campaign that celebrates music and computer science.” Teachers and students are encouraged to “share your creations for Code.org and Coldplay to Read more…
Google has confirmed to us that the Pixel 3 series has received its last update, marking the end of a three-year promise. But revisiting the 2018-era flagship, I still can’t help but be disappointed that Google didn’t try harder to keep it supported longer. Google may have met its marketing Read more…
There has never been a self-immolation quite like Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg’s social-media company has lost more than half a trillion dollars in market value since its August peak — about half of that vaporized in a single day, the biggest drop ever — as Read more…
Clearview AI is telling investors it is on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable,” according to a financial presentation from December obtained by The Washington Post. Those images — equivalent to 14 Read more…