Reality Bites
Trump’s Transportation Dept. Rolls Back Fuel Efficiency Standards Despite Surging Gas Prices https://gizmodo.com/trumps-transportation-dept-rolls-back-fuel-efficiency-standards-despite-surging-gas-prices-2000818562 #DonaldTrump #unitedstates #TransportationDepartment #efficiency #standards #vehicles View Original Article
Apple’s Privacy Standards May Be Eroding as New Siri Features Roll Out, Report Says https://gizmodo.com/apples-privacy-standards-may-be-eroding-as-new-siri-features-roll-out-report-says-2000759785 #apple #privacy #siri #AI View Original Article
Danielle Smith falsely claims Canada has ‘the lowest living standards in the world’ – rabble.ca https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/danielle-smith-falsely-claims-canada-has-the-lowest-living-standards-in-the-world/ #DanielleSmith #LivingStandards #misinformation #disinformation #alberta #conservatives #alberta View Original Article
Trump administration announces ‘illegal’ rollback of energy and water efficiency standards | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/665213/energy-efficiency-standards-rollback-trump-doe #DonaldTrump #energy #water #standards #rollback #unitedstates View Original Article
Workers at Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory strike in reaction to new iPhone 5 quality standards Unbox that shiny new iPhone 5 only to find it marred with scratches and blemishes? Good news: Apple is asking Foxconn to adhere This was posted on Google+…
The high-definition pride of your living room may not want to hear it, but it looks like ultra high-definition TV (or UHDTV) has now taken another step towards reality. While shop-floor products remain years away, experts in the ITU Study Group on…
Poilievre says he would repeal federal carbon pricing for industrial emissions | CBC Newshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-industrial-carbon-price-1.7485500 Poilievre says he would repeal federal carbon pricing for industrial emissions | CBC News – CBCConservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says a government led by him would repeal both the federal consumer carbon tax and standards for pricing greenhouse gas emissions from …
Physicists Smash Quantum Teleportation Record With 60-Mile Fiber Jump A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology has broken the distance record for quantum teleportation down optical fiber, showing they’re able to transfer quantum information over 60 miles. This was posted on Google+
The more and more I watch and read about this story it looks more and more like an excuse and a cover to commit acts of violence and riot. This seems more like a release of anger and hatred towards "the man" and a retaliation against society because so many people have much lower standards …
Ready for the latest scoop of Android Ice Cream Sandwich future? A report over on BGR details specs for the next pure Google phone we’ve come to know and love as the Nexus Prime. Quoting a “trusted source,” the insider dish paints a familiar contour…
Is the full-screen touch interface for Windows 8 ‘just a shell’ on top of Windows? Not really; there isn’t an application running like Media Center that you could shut down and it isn’t just a browser – this is another mode for the interface that you…
Driverless cars are still a way’s away from hitting the mainstream, but when they do, the glorious state of Nevada will be ready for ’em. This week, the state passed a new law that will require its Department of Transportation to “adopt regulation…
Nokia and Apple have been battling it out for market share, and also in the courts over accused patent infringements. One of the cases stem back to 2009 with Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone infringing on Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN …
Google’s I/O 2011 keynote may have suffered from a few choice leaks, namely the new Music service and Ice Cream Sandwich announcement, but Google still managed to include some surprises. Android 3.1, the update to Honeycomb, was announced along wit…
Well, it happened. Effective May 9th Rogers will be shifting gears on their 3G (HSPA+) and calling it a “4G HSPA+” network. In the internal doc Rogers says this “is simply a network name change” to align with the International Telecommunicaiton…
Happy with your shiny new copy of Internet Explorer 9? It’s already out of date — Microsoft just announced Internet Explorer 10 at its MIX developer conference in Las Vegas, and if you’re running Windows you can grab a spoon right now and sample an e…
Internet Explorer 9 represents Microsoft’s big push to get back into the browser game, featuring support for many new HTML5 specs (and standards in general), a new interface, and significant performanc…
The lynchpin for all discussions of open web standards, HTML5, has been spruced up with a dedicated logo from its parent organization, the W3C. We’d wax poetic about it, but that job has already been done:
“It stands strong and true, resilient and uni…
We knew Google was rather fond of its WebM video standard, but we never expected a move like this: the company says it will drop support for the rival H.264 codec in its HTML5 video tag, and is justifying the move in the name of open standards somehow…
Google has recently demoed an interesting WebGL application called Body Browser, which lets you explore the human body just like you can explore the world in Google Earth. Now you can try Google Body Browser before it’s added to Google Labs, assuming t…