Millions of phones were used to map the ionosphere
A study has shown that phone-based mappings of the Earth’s ionospheric tec and GPS provide a doubling of the coverage of the ionosphere. The study found that while 14% of the ionosphere was measured by stations alone, 21% was measured by phones alone. Over large portions of the world, phones provide measurements of the ionosphere at times and places missed by monitoring stations.
Donald Trump wants the US to be the Artificial Intelligence capital of the world
After US President Donald Trump nominated Lee Zeldin as the new Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) administrator, environmental group NRDC said, “The EPA protects clean air, water, and public health and that is what we will hold the administrator accountable for.” NRDC added, “We can meet demand for data centres without scrappingEPA rules to clean up dirty power plants and cut climate pollution.”
The start of global climate negotiations were shadowed by Trump’s reelection
Indigenous Climate Action Executive Director Eriel Deranger has said that people from the indigenous communities have been “left out of climate action” and have “no voice”. Deranger, an indigenous Chipewyan First Nation member, added, “Indigenous peoples are still largely relegated to the sidelines. We don’t know where we’re going to end up.” He further said, “We’ve a lot of work to do.”
China ponders what will come under Trump 2.0
China has warned US President Donald Trump it will retaliate if tariffs are imposed on goods from the two countries. “We will do our best to raise the price of products for US consumers,” Chinese Foreign Ministry said. The US has imposed tariffs on $3 billion worth of Chinese products and is also planning to impose tariffs on an additional $60 billion worth of Chinese goods.
What a second Trump presidency means for tech
After US President-elect Donald Trump took to social media to congratulate him for winning the election, Google’s Sundar Pichai wrote on Twitter, “Thank you for the confidence in me and in the future of Google.” Amazon’s Andy Jassy said, “I’m looking forward to working with him as the FTC chair.” Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg tweeted, “Excited to be working with Trump for a second term.”
Donald Trump’s win will affect Big Tech
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said US President-elect Donald Trump met him and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to congratulate them on their victory. “I know we all have similar goals for our countries,” he added. Trump had said in a video that he planned to “toughen up” Apple’s encryption policy, adding, “Apple is one of the world’s most valuable people.”
Scientists worldwide react to the Trump election win
After US President Donald Trump won re-election in the presidential election, scientists have said that there’ll be a “marked reduction” in scientific cooperation with China. They added that Trump’s administration could also withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord and restrict AI development. Meanwhile, scientists also said that there is no clear plan for reviving the China Initiative.
Smashing atomic nuclei reveals their shapes
Physicists have created a new method to see the shape of atomic nuclei using high-energy collisions. Current methods, which take a long-exposure photo of the nucleus, don’t capture the subtle variations in how the protons and neutrons arrange themselves. The method overcomes this by colliding the nucleus together and then using the debris to reconstruct the nucleus’s shape.
The Apple MacBook Pro was reviewed and it was found to have more power
Apple’s latest MacBook Pro M4 may reportedly cost about $3,649, which is more than the price of the original M3 model. The new MacBook Pro features Apple’s latest M4 CPU, which has been updated to be “more power-efficient” than the M3 model, according to a report. The latest MacBook Pro is set to go on sale on May 7.
What are the steps voting machine companies are taking to avoid 2020
The political action committee (PAC) of entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched a group on X, Election Integrity Community, to share potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities seen while voting in the 2024 US elections. The group has over 50,000 users and says it is meant to be a place where users can share “potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities”.