Categories
Technology

All Indian Villages Now Have Access To Electricity

An anonymous reader shares a report: All Indian villages now have access to electricity. Manipur’s Leisang village became the last non-electrified inhabited village to join India’s mainline supply network at 5.30pm on Saturday, an important milestone in the country’s journey towards universal electricity access. This means that all 597,464 inhabited villages in the country now […]

Categories
Technology

Wages Aren’t the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking

An anonymous reader shares a report: Schools in 39 of 50 states have seen decreases in funding for instructional materials for their students, according to data from the Urban Institute. These conditions have sparked a wave of teacher activism across the country. Educators have had to pay for supplies themselves to provide new materials for […]

Categories
Technology

Sci-Fi Is Still Working on Its ‘Stale, Male, and Pale’ Problem, Says James Cameron

An anonymous reader shares a report: As science fiction finally earns mainstream acceptance in Hollywood, James Cameron believes the genre’s awards drought will soon be over. “I predict that sometime in the next five to 10 years you will have a science-fiction film win Best Picture,” he told reporters while promoting “AMC Visionaries: James Cameron’s […]

Categories
Technology

Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off

The Great Barrier Reef is being given a $379 million boost by Australia in the battle to save the world’s largest living structure as it faces mounting challenges such as climate change, agricultural runoff and a coral-eating starfish. From a report: “Like reefs all over the world, the Great Barrier Reef is under pressure,” Prime […]

Categories
Technology

Man Sues Nation For Allegedly Seizing France.com, a Domain He Has Owned For Over 20 Years

A French-born American has now sued his home country because, he claims, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has illegally seized a domain that he’s owned since 1994: France.com. From a report: In the mid-1990s, Jean-Noel Frydman bought France.com from Web.com and set up a website to serve as a “digital kiosk” for Francophiles and Francophones […]

Categories
Technology

GPU Prices Are Falling

An anonymous reader shares a report: If you were looking for a new graphics card for your PC over the last year, your search probably ended with you giving up and slinging some cusses at cryptocurrency miners. But now the supply of video cards is on the verge of rebounding, and I don’t think you […]

Categories
Technology

Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI’s Dark Side

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has warned that the current boom in artificial intelligence has created a “technology renaissance” that contains many potential threats. In the company’s annual Founders’ Letter, the Alphabet president struck a note of caution. “The new spring in artificial intelligence is the most significant development in computing in my lifetime,” writes Brin. […]

Categories
Technology

Movements of Pedestrians and Vehicles in Inner-city Liverpool To Be Captured by Cameras and Smartphones To Help Local Council Map Potential Tweaks To Streets

Jacob Saulwick, reporting for The Sydney Morning Herald: The movement of pedestrians and vehicles in inner-city Liverpool will be captured by upgraded CCTV cameras and smartphones. The project, part-funded by the federal government’s $50 million “Smart Cities” program, aims to help the local council map potential tweaks to streets and planning rules, in an area […]

Categories
Technology

Blue Origin Launches Its First Test Flight of 2018

After several delays on Sunday morning, a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket blasted off from the west Texas desert just after noon Central Daylight Time, sending a crew capsule carrying a dummy named “Mannequin Skywalker” on a brief trip to space. For the eighth time, Jeff Bezos’ commercial space company successfully tested the system it […]

Categories
Technology

Sprint, T-Mobile Agree To Combine in a $26.5 Billion Merger

T-Mobile and Sprint said on Sunday that they have agreed to combine in a $26.5 billion merger, creating a wireless giant to compete against industry leaders AT&T and Verizon. From a report: Deutsche Telekom AG, the Bonn, Germany-based company that controls T-Mobile, and SoftBank Group, the Tokyo-based owner of Sprint, agreed to a combination that […]

Codice amico Very Mobile Diagonal Media Digital Marketing