The electric vehicle (EV) market is soaring, with 130,000 cars sold globally each week, roughly equivalent to sales for the entire year in 2012. Sales of EVs more than doubled in 2021, even with supply chain snarls and pandemic-related shrinking of demand for gas-powered cars. New data, from the influential Read more…
“Facebook is threatening it will simply pull out of Europe altogether if it is no longer able to share data about European users with its U.S. operations, applications, and data centres,” reports ITWire. It’s customary for regulatory filings to preemptively declare a wide variety of possible future hazards, and in Read more…
“Subaru and Kia dealers in Massachusetts have disabled systems that allow remote starts and send maintenance alerts…” reports Wired. Subaru buyers in Massachusetts also lose access to the telematics system’s app, so “no emergency assistance; no automated messages when the tire pressure was low or the oil needed changing.” Subaru Read more…
If Meta is not given the option to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers, Facebook and Instagram may be shut down across Europe, the social media giants’ owner reportedly warned in its annual report. The key issue for Meta is transatlantic data transfers, regulated Read more…
“Proponents of AI audiobook narration tout its much lower production costs (compared to a traditional recording of a human narrator) as a way to improve profitability of audiobooks,” reports Publisher’s Weekly, “as well as allowing publishers to publish more audiobooks that have limited audiences. “But according to actor and narrator Read more…
A California newspaper covers “pleas” to the state’s governor to delay the closure of a nuclear power plant: On Thursday, Dr. Steven Chu, former U.S. Secretary of Energy under the Obama administration and a Nobel laureate, and more than 79 scientists, academics and entrepreneurs sent a letter to [California governor] Read more…
Apple’s privacy push could cost Meta $10 billion in lost 2022 advertising revenue — and that news alone erased $250 billion in Meta’s value. But this leads them to a thought experiment: What would happen to Meta’s and Google’s business models if the privacy invasion behind the companies’ lucrative advertising Read more…