That’s a great ad for anyone selling pools.

It’s both, and not a small amount of bytes.

Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours’ and adtech’s bandwidth.

Wasting resources isn’t a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.

Not satisfied with polluting earth with resource-hungry data centers, Google is looking into polluting earth’s orbit.

Lasers that can disable drones aren’t cheap to buy nor easy to find.

Recent events shows Europe probably need this kind of defense systems.

if a 100% effective cure (or preventative) for cancer comes around, what will be the next big goal?

Making the cure accessible. Some cancer treatments are more effective AND much more expensive. Companies may be looking for return on investment, or the treatment is tailor-made from the patient’s own cells, and inherently labor intensive and hard to produce.

Either way, curing 100% of the richest 5% who can afford it isn’t the most satifying outcome.

the printing process requires much less energy and produces many fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional TFT manufacturing methods

A carbon tax would make this kind of production process more viable commercially than more polluting processes.

It’s necessary not only to have the technology, but also the right insentives.

“Unfortunately, the National Science Foundation program that we were pursuing funding from to continue working on this, called the Future Manufacturing program, was cut earlier this year. But we’re hoping to find a fit in a different program in the near future.”

It sounds like the US may not even have the technology with cuts to research. Don’t be surprised if another country leapfrog the US again in electronics production.

It sounds like all of this is voluntary, so the slow pace is not surprising.

Let’s make polluters pay with fines that amount to carbon price for leaked methane + a 15% penalty to pay for the monitoring.

Now, find an enzyme that can break down fossil fuel & plastic companies.

Nothing spookier than cuts to sciences and research funding.

Contractual obligations and contract terms do not superseed laws. If anyone is doing something unlawful through Google or Amazon’s infrastructure, a NGO or union could sue in order to try to stop it.

Yes.

And ban all passenger fights for short travels, ie if travel via public transport take less than 4h, for instance via train or bus. That means denying airlines licenses to operate such routes, and rejecting flight plans of that kind.

I started releasing rather than killing spiders after reading “Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

In that future, most animals have disappeared and people consider the sight of a spider as an extraordinary thing. Sparing a single spider might be vain, but it feels right knowing insect/spider population is quickly decreasing.

Almost as much caffeine in hot chocolate as in expresso? This chart doesn’t look plausible.

mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer

It appears they found indications that combining immune therapy with some mRNA vaccines may increase survival time. Hopefully a medical trial can confirm this.

The headline only mention the vaccine which is a bit confusing, because the paper doesn’t make conclusions on the effect of the vaccine alone. But on its combinaison with another therapy.

Anyway, there’s hope for more efficient cancer treatments.

If Trump leave office before the end of his term, this guy gets the office.

The USA elected a group of facist into office, and would have to vote the whole group out.

https://www.spacex.com/starshield

SpaceX playing fast and loose with regulations!? Say it ain’t so!

Sure, but it’s still a serious problem even if it’s a side channel attack.

Almost everyone rely on the OS/hardware providing some isolation. People often install shady apps, and browsers automatically execute JS/bytecode from random website they visit. It’s best to have defense in depth, not assume people are perfect at avoiding malicious apps/websites.

Blockchain isn’t good at anything, except maybe ranson payments.

But at least they picked Etheteum, it could have been worse.