You can keep using GitHub but automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool and take advantage of SourceForge's massive reach. Census Bureau data ," reports Politico — and this year "online sales are on track to outpace that record In January, MIT's Real Estate Innovation Lab published a study that simulated hundreds of thousands of those kinds of scenarios and found online shopping to be more sustainable than traditional retail 75 percent of the time Most research suggests that ordering goods for delivery is more beneficial for the environment because it means people are making fewer individual shopping trips.
The average U. If they drove there, it was likely in a gas-powered vehicle. Plus, there tends to be higher energy demands at storefronts compared to warehouses. But that scale "could easily tip in the other direction," according to a study of the U. The firm's researchers found that e-commerce is 17 percent more carbon efficient than traditional retail, but could change with a few tweaks to their assumptions, such as the number of items purchased in a single visit, the amount of packaging and the efficiency of last-mile delivery In an email, Amazon spokesperson Luis Davila pointed to findings by company scientists that suggest online shopping produces fewer emissions than driving to shop at a store; for instance, the company estimates that a single delivery van trip can take round-trip car journeys off the road, on average.
During the pandemic, customers made fewer trips to Whole Foods Market stores and other brick-and-mortar Amazon locations and shifted to home delivery, which also lowered emissions.
But take a step back, and a bigger, more complex picture emerges. From to , Amazon's U. By the company's own account, its overall emissions spiked 19 percent , equivalent to running 15 coal plants for one year. More fossil fuel use and investments in buildings, data servers and transportation were key drivers. That figure reflects its response to consumer demand during Covid, but doesn't capture progress Amazon made, Davila said.
He said the company tracks the amount of carbon per dollar of gross merchandise sales — a concept known as carbon intensity — and by that measure, Amazon decreased the amount of carbon per purchase last year by 16 percent. In a blog post in June , a company scientist argued that this metric allows high-growth companies like Amazon to identify efficiencies.
Amazon also reduced emissions from the electricity it bought by 4 percent due to new investments in clean energy, despite expanding its buildings' square footage. The company is about two-thirds of the way toward percent renewable energy — a key pillar of the company's plan to reach net-zero emissions by Emissions from deliveries are expected to decrease as Amazon deploys , electric vans in the coming decade.
Davila did not disclose what portion of the company's fleet that accounts for today. The director of MIT's Real Estate Innovation Lab also warns that cardboard boxes are some of the largest carbon pollutants in the system regardless of the method of delivery. Politico points out most packaging ultimately "ends up in a landfill or is burned to produce energy, generating Neither are plastic bags, unless consumers bring them to the grocery store.
Engadget reports: The owner of the currency was the victim of a SIM swap attack. Their cellphone number was hijacked and used to intercept two-factor authentication requests, thereby allowing access to their protected accounts.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The CDC's independent panel of vaccine scientists unanimously endorsed Pfizer and Moderna's boosters for all adults , one of the final regulatory steps before the U. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend the shots. The Food and Drug Administration authorized both company's vaccine boosters for everyone 18 and over earlier on Friday, and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky is expected to clear the doses soon after.
The panel's recommendation would open up eligibility to everyone 18 and over in the U. It previously said people over 65 and some other high-risk people should get a third shot. Once Walensky signs off, tens of millions of Americans who've received their two initial shots at least six months ago will be eligible to get a third shot as soon as early as this weekend. The U. The value of the new contracts is not known, but the Defense Department estimates it could run into the multiple billions of dollars.
The new effort, known as Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, or JWCC, appears like it will bolster the top global cloud infrastructure providers, Amazon and Microsoft, although it could also provide more credibility to two smaller entities.
An indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity, or IDIQ, contract includes an indefinite amount of services for a specific period of time. In recent years, Amazon has killed or undermined privacy protections in more than three dozen bills across 25 states , as the e-commerce giant amassed a lucrative trove of personal data on millions of American consumers. From a report: Amazon executives and staffers detail these lobbying victories in confidential documents reviewed by Reuters.
In Virginia, the company boosted political donations tenfold over four years before persuading lawmakers this year to pass an industry-friendly privacy bill that Amazon itself drafted.
In California, the company stifled proposed restrictions on the industry's collection and sharing of consumer voice recordings gathered by tech devices. And in its home state of Washington, Amazon won so many exemptions and amendments to a bill regulating biometric data, such as voice recordings or facial scans, that the resulting law had "little, if any" impact on its practices, according to an internal Amazon document.
The architect of this under-the-radar campaign to smother privacy protections has been Jay Carney, who previously served as communications director for Joe Biden, when Biden was vice president, and as press secretary for President Barack Obama.
Hired by Amazon in , Carney reported to founder Jeff Bezos and built a lobbying and public-policy juggernaut that has grown from two dozen employees to about , according to Amazon documents and two former employees with knowledge of recent staffing. One document reviewing executives' goals for the prior year listed privacy regulation as a primary target for Carney.
The mission included defeating restrictions on artificial intelligence and biometric technologies, along with blocking efforts to make companies disclose the data they keep on consumers.
The document listed Carney as the goal's "primary owner" and celebrated killing or amending privacy bills in "over 20 states. It is the third in a series of reports revealing how the company has pursued business practices that harm small businesses or put its own interests above those of consumers.
The previous articles showed how Amazon has circumvented e-commerce regulations meant to protect Indian retailers, and how it copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands over those of other vendors on its India platform.
Many local governments see a silver lining in the shortage of semiconductor chips that has contributed to a slowdown in the global economy. From a report: The shortage of computer chips has zapped energy from the global economy, punishing industries as varied as automakers and medical device manufacturers and contributing to fears about high inflation. But many states and cities in America are starting to see a silver lining: the possibility that efforts to sharply increase chip production in the United States will lead to a busy chip factory in their backyard.
And they are racing to get a piece of the potential boom. One of those towns is Taylor, a Texas city of about 17, about a minute drive northeast of Austin. The city, its school district and the county plan to offer Samsung hundreds of millions of dollars in financial incentives, including tax rebates.
The community also has arranged for water to be piped in from an adjacent county to be used by the plant. But Taylor is not alone. So, too, are politicians in nearby Travis County, home to Austin, where Samsung already has a plant. Locations in all three states "offered robust property tax abatement" and funds to build out infrastructure for the plant, Samsung said in a filing.
Congress is considering whether to offer its own subsidies to chip makers that build in the United States. Where Samsung's plant will land remains anyone's guess. The company says it is still weighing where to put it. A decision is expected to be announced any day. The federal government has urged companies like Samsung, one of the world's largest makers of the high-tech components, to build new plants in the United States, calling it an economic and national security imperative.
Intel broke ground on two plants in Arizona in September and could announce the location for a planned manufacturing campus by the end of the year. This could just be a warm-up act. The House has yet to consider it. Nine governors said in a letter to congressional leaders that the funding would "provide a new, powerful tool in our states' economic development toolboxes. The art market wasn't ready for revolution.
A rare, first-edition copy of the U. The winner remains anonymous, but the group pledging the second-highest price was ConstitutionDAO, an online organization that its founders say was formed as a lark last week and wound up pooling donations from 17, people to try to win the historic artifact.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Winamp is getting closer to release with a redesigned website, logo, and a new beta signup allowing users to soon test the upcoming version of the media player. Before we streamed our music, users would rip their albums or download MP3s to listen on their computer using media players.
One of the most popular media players to play MP3s was Winamp, with its retro skins and animated visualizers that moved along with the music you were playing. However, Winamp had not seen any further development after its version 5. In October , after Winamp 5.
Unfortunately, while Radionomy, the owners of Winamp, said they had big plans for Winamp, no further versions have been released since then. You can sign up for a Winamp beta test here. Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories , data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions.
The Register reports: These cookies. They're used to store cookies between browsing sessions. And they're findable by searching GitHub with specific query parameters, what's known as a search "dork.
Marlin speculates that the oversight is a consequence of committing code from one's Linux home directory.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: YouTube's decision to hide dislike counts on videos has sparked anger and derision.
One inventive programmer has attempted to restore the feature in a browser extension. The plugin currently uses the Google API to generate the dislike count.
However, this functionality will be removed from December It currently only works on videos for which the Youtube API returns a valid dislike count. The calculations could also be skewed by the userbase, which is unlikely to represent the average YouTube viewer.
The developer said they're exploring ways to mitigate this, such as comparing the downvotes collected through the public of extension users to a cache of real downvotes. The results should also improve as uptake grows. The plugin could provide a useful service, but its greatest value may be as a potent symbol of protest. You can try it out here -- but proceed at your own risk. If you want to check out the code, it's been published on GitHub.
Starbucks has partnered with Amazon Go , the e-commerce giant's brick-and-mortar convenience store, to open its first ever cashierless cafe. From the report: Hit by a U. To keep up, Starbucks shifted its development strategy to new store formats, adding pickup-only locations in urban areas, as well as traditional cafes and suburban drive-thrus.
Starbucks and Amazon plan to open at least two more U. Starbucks baristas will make drinks and the rest of the chain's menu at the new location in New York City, which will have the same staffing level as any other Starbucks, she said. Customers can order through the Starbucks app and grab coffee to go from a counter near the door. Or they can use a credit card, Amazon app or Amazon One palm reader to enter the rest of the space, take snacks from shelves, or sit at tables.
Shares of the chip maker ended the day up 8. Needham analysts said Nvidia could become the " first trillion dollar semiconductor company. In a follow-up to Monday's story , "a crowdfunded effort to buy a rare copy of the U. And this figure is only going to increase as there's more than 24 hours to go. But it is not clear how ownership will be arranged if the bid succeeds. There are 13 known copies to have survived from a run of originally printed after the text was settled at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The copy for sale is one of only two not held in the collection of an institution, Sotheby's says. The group wants to put the document on public display. DAO stands for "decentralized autonomous organization. ConstitutionDAO launched just a week before the auction, and is soliciting money with which to buy the constitution document in Ethereum. On its website, the group says it is "pooling together money to win this auction. You will own a piece of the constitution based on how much you contribute.
The question "Am I receiving ownership of the constitution in exchange for my donation? Bezos sat down for a one-on-one chat with Adi Ignatius, the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review.
He brought up themes we've heard before, including his vision that all polluting industries will exist in space one day and that we'll all live on space colonies that could, in his estimation, support 1 trillion people. But he expanded on his vision in greater detail about what, exactly, will happen to the planet we'll all leave behind for Blue Origin-branded space colonies. This place is special. You can't ruin it. That would leave Earth to eventually be, in Bezos' vision, a place for future folks to visit but not live.
Ignatius asked a follow-up about who gets to live on Earth in this vision, which Bezos did not answer. He's pitching a very Western solution to the very Western problem of climate change and environmental degradation, problems that Bezos' very own businesses have played a major role in while enriching him to the point where he now has a huge sway on humanity's next step. Last week, YouTube announced a controversial decision to make the "dislike" count on videos private across its platform.
Not only did the move upset many Slashdotters , but it upset the third co-founder of YouTube, Jawed Karim, too. There is a reason, but it's not a good one, and not one that will be publicly disclosed," writes Karim. Because not all user-generated content is good.
Karim originally edited the description of the video a few days ago to read: "When every YouTuber agrees that removing dislikes is a stupid idea, it probably is. Try again, YouTube [face palm emoji]. It can't be. In fact, most of it is not good. And that's OK. The process breaks when the platform interferes with it.
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