Earlier this fall, or late summer, Hurricane Ida devastated my state. I was left without power for almost a week, and during the first 24–36 hours, we had very little communication. Baton Rouge was one of the luckier cities, though, and for that I’m grateful. Cities such as New Orleans, … [continued]
Major corporations are working to defeat Biden’s climate agenda.
From where we are and how fast we’re going, to how we decide when to stop and turn a corner, the amount of data we produce from behind the wheel of a car is staggering — and that’s before you start to factor in things like driver-facing cameras! Collecting, managing, … [continued]
Microsoft recently announced that it is finally going to kill off “The Blue E”, Internet Explorer. Not only is it not going to ship with Windows 11, but it can’t be installed, either. Any attempt to call the old browser up will be met with a redirect to Microsoft’s newer … [continued]
Volkswagen has announced that it is teaming up with Microsoft to “advance its self-driving vehicle technologies.” Volkswagen’s Car.Software arm will collaborate with Microsoft to create a cloud-based automated driving platform. Volkswagen said that this will allow for faster integration into its future fleet. Dirk Hilgenberg, head of the Car.Software division, … [continued]
Microsoft will invest $2 billion in Cruise, the autonomous driving division of General Motors. Its Azure cloud computing platform will be used by Cruise to improve its TaaS model.
Data centers are getting a bad rap on energy consumption, but new hyperscale renewable energy storage technology could save their reputation.
Change happens gradually and then all at once. For years, a quiet revolution has been brewing in ESG corporate disclosure advocacy. With voluntary standards like CDP and metrics guidelines like SASB, leading corporates have opted in to environmental performance transparency. With 42% of companies above a $10bn market cap already disclosing some climate-relevant information, this shift has been happening slowly — and, now, seemingly all at once.
Some of you may have been absent the day your high school science teacher gave a lesson on how ancient people living in hot climates made ice without refrigeration. According to the Washington Post, at sunset they would pour water into shallow earthen pits or ceramic trays that were insulated … [continued]
By now, most of you are probably familiar with the prevailing narrative about Tesla’s Battery Day: the punditocracy was expecting instant gratification, and they didn’t get it (in more ways than one). An uncharacteristically cautious Elon Musk talked about a three-year timeline and, in a world in which the definition of “the long term” seems to have shrunk to one year, 2023 is seen as the far future.
