The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution, New York Times reported this week, citing five people with knowledge of the agency’s plans. From the report:…
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Trump Administration Considers Banning Another Major Chinese Firm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The U.S. administration is considering limits to Chinese video surveillance firm Hikvision’s ability to buy U.S. technology, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, in a move that deepens worries about trade frictions between the world’s two top economies. The move would effectively place Hikvision on a U.S. blacklist and U.S. companies may…
Tim Cook Says His Era Has Failed by Over-Debating Climate Change
Tim Cook told graduates at Tulane University that his “generation has failed” them by fighting more than making change on issues including immigration, criminal justice and, pointedly, climate change. From a report: “We’ve been too focused on the fight and not enough on the progress,” the Apple chief executive said Saturday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. “You don’t need…
Blacklisting Huawei from Android upgrades will end up hurting Google
Huawei may end up making its own operating system, after Donald Trump put the company on a blacklist forcing Google to revoke its Android licence Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2203815-blacklisting-huawei-from-android-upgrades-will-end-up-hurting-google/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Critics Call White House Social Media Bias Survey A ‘Data Collection Ploy’
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post:
Venky Ganesan, a partner at technology investor Menlo Ventures, told The Washington Post that the White House’s new survey about bias on social media is “pure kabuki theatre” and an attempt to curry political points with conservatives. He said the Trump administration’s repeated accusations that tech companies censor conservative voices are unfounded because even though…
After the Moon, people on Mars by 2033… or 2060
On December 11, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a directive ordering NASA to prepare to return astronauts to the Moon “followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations.” Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-05-moon-people-mars.html…
TikTok is China’s Most Important Export Right Now
Silicon Valley may have begun the era of social media, but its future could be in China. From a report: Tensions between America and China are pushing the world’s two largest economies into an escalating trade war. President Donald Trump continues to threaten a tariff hike on more Chinese goods. So it’s a strange time for one of the most popular…
Navy Seal’s Lawyers Received Emails Embedded With Tracking Software
An anonymous reader shares a report: Military prosecutors in the case of a US navy Seal charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defense lawyers and a reporter in an apparent attempt to discover who was leaking information to the media, according to lawyers who said they received the corrupted…
Trump Signs Executive Order Barring US Companies From Using Huawei Gear
schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order declaring a national emergency and barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms posing a national security risk, paving the way for a ban on doing business with China’s Huawei. The executive order invokes the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which gives the president…
White House Launches Tool To Report Political Bias On Social Media Sites
On Wednesday, the White House launched a new tool for people to use if they feel they’ve been wrongly censored, banned, or suspended on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. “No matter your views, if you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump,” the site reads. The Verge reports:…