An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: In one of its last strikes against the American wilderness, Donald Trump’s administration will on Wednesday auction off portions of the Arctic national wildlife refuge to oil drillers. The lease sales are the climax to one of the nation’s highest-profile environmental battles. The lands on the northern coastal plain of Alaska are…
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Winning Bid: How Auction Theory Took the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Tim Harford, writing for Financial Times: A well-designed auction forces bidders to reveal the truth about their own estimate of the prize’s value. At the same time, the auction shares that information with the other bidders. And it sets the price accordingly. It is quite a trick. But, in practice, it is a difficult trick to get right. In the 1990s,…
Some Google Search Rivals Lose Footing on Android System
A system Google set up to promote competition on Android has left some smaller search engines having trouble gaining traction, fueling rivals’ complaints about the tech giant’s compliance with a European Union antitrust decision ahead of potential U.S. charges. From a report: Since March, Alphabet-owned Google has been showing people in Europe who set up new mobile devices running the company’s…
Steve Wozniak Turns His 70th Birthday Into a Charity Event
In 2000 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak answered questions from Slashdot readers. More than 20 years later,
CNET writes: Party on, Woz. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak turned 70 on Tuesday, and invited the world to his virtual birthday party. The event raised funds for singer Jewel’s Inspiring Children Foundation, which provides mentorship and mental health resources for at-risk youth. And while the star-studded…
Cities Lose Lawsuit Against FCC’s 5G Rules
A federal appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s rules that limit municipalities’ ability to negotiate with telecom companies such as AT&T and Verizon that are seeking to deploy thousands of 5G antennas on city streets and neighborhoods. From a report: The ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is a blow to dozens of cities that sued the agency,…
For Tech-Weary Midwest Farmers, 40-Year-Old Tractors Now a Hot Commodity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from StarTribune: Kris Folland grows corn, wheat and soybeans and raises cattle on 2,000 acres near Halma in the northwest corner of Minnesota, so his operation is far from small. But when he last bought a new tractor, he opted for an old one — a 1979 John Deere 4440. He retrofitted it with automatic…
Twitter Fesses Up To More Adtech Leaks
Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to. TechCrunch reports: Back in May the social network disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account’s location data being shared with a…
Schools keep teaching slavery and civil rights history in ways that traumatize black students
Source: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/19/18507873/arizona-school-segregation-lesson-slavery-civil-rights-history…
Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon. To These Boys, He Was Just Dad.
With an upcoming auction of the astronaut’s keepsakes, his sons reflect on an unusual childhood. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/science/neil-armstrong-auction.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…