Because single-use plastics are largely derived from petroleum, by 2050 plastics might account for 20% of the world’s annual oil consumption. Reducing our dependence on plastics, and finding ways to reuse the plastic that’s already out in the world,...
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen appeared before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee in Washington on October 5. | Matt McClain/Getty Images As they’ve done with fossil fuels and tobacco in the past, lawmakers have...
If you’re ever feeling lonely, or like no one reads your tweets (much less responds to them), here’s a suggestion: Ask Twitter if you should play Dragon Age. Soon, you’ll have more friends with opinions than you could ever...
Tesla and Waymo have similar goals — safely transporting people — but totally different ways of getting there. | Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Autonomous tech could lead to deaths at the hands of robots....
WebAssembly is an extremely promising new technology that’s getting a lot of interest from Microsoft’s cloud-native computing teams, both in its Deis Labs subsidiary and in Azure. With new WebAssembly tools arriving rapidly, what’s needed is an environment where...
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on October 5. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Frances Haugen’s testimony offers a path forward on how to address Facebook’s harms....
Microsoft on Monday began releasing Windows 11 as one market after another rolled into Oct. 5, the day it had set as the launch date for the operating system upgrade.Personal computers running Windows 10 that meet Microsoft's stricter-than-usual hardware...
In her testimony, Haugen also repeatedly emphasized how these phenomena are far worse in regions that don’t speak English because of Facebook’s uneven coverage of different languages. “In the case of Ethiopia there are 100 million people and six...
ANZ Banking Group has revealed the “significant work” of its technology and finance teams to more accurately cost IT projects and technology-enabled processes, and pursue faster time-to-value. Group executive for technology Gerard Florian said in an ANZ BlueNotes blog...
What does your cloud configuration look like? In many organizations, moving workloads to the cloud creates a more elastic technology infrastructure. That's why a hybrid cloud environment is a popular solution. It requires orchestration between two types of platforms:
On-premises,...
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