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A years-long analysis shows that social media titans engaged in “vast surveillance” to make money from people’s personal information, according to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).This post was originally published on this site

In his first day at Boeing, Kelly Ortberg visited the factory floor to speak with workers on the 737 MAX program, part of the new CEO’s effort to “reset” labor relations.This post was originally published […]

All of 23andMe’s independent directors resigned from its board this week, a rare move that marks the latest challenge for the genetic-testing company.This post was originally published on this site

Closing the CO₂ cycle by converting climate-damaging carbon dioxide back into kerosene, gasoline and diesel: That is the idea behind Synhelion. The ETH spin-off uses the heat of the sun to produce synthetic fuels (Synfuels) […]

A new system aimed at improving the monitoring and detection of forest fires through advanced real-time image processing is reported in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology. The work could lead to faster […]

A research group at the Department of Energy Engineering of the University of Seville and collaborators at AICIA and Harbin Institute of Technology in China have achieved a better understanding of the cooling of polymer […]

Solar panels and wind turbines get a lot of attention in the current conversation about renewable energy. Meanwhile, hydropower is quietly, consistently producing large amounts of clean energy—and has been for more than a century. […]

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered Elon Musk’s X to suspend access to the social network, after service was restored despite a ban, or face a daily fine of over $900,000.This post was originally published […]

Ever wonder what happens to massive supercomputing systems when they’re retired? Surprisingly, when it comes to the data, it’s not too different from disposing of old documents—they go straight into a shredder and sent to […]

They may be Tigrinya speakers fleeing the authoritarian Eritrean government’s indefinite military service policy. Or Rohingya people escaping ethnic violence in Myanmar. But refugees navigating resettlement often face a shared hurdle: poor machine translations and […]