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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: Silicon Valley's powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian technocracy — If you had to capture Silicon Valley's dominant ideology in a single anecdote, you might look first to Mark Zuckerberg … Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: Silicon Valley's powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian…

Dense thickets of ghostly corals shelter myriads of unfamiliar sea creatures have been found covering a vast area of the deep Atlantic, breaking records to become the largest known deep sea reef."It's eye-opening – it's breathtaking in scale," says Scripps Institution of Oceanography marine biologist Stuart Sandin.We barely have a clue what these hard-to-reach ecosystems hold, with more than 75 percent of the globe's ocean floor yet to be charted in detail. But new technology has just allowed researchers to map one…

Warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change will provide favourable conditions for Atlantic halibut, according to a new study, although what happens to their prey is uncertain.A paper published in the journal FACETS links an exponential increase in Atlantic Canadian landings over the past decade to warming ocean temperatures and predicts that trend is likely to continue under low- and high-warming scenarios in coming decades."Under both of those scenarios, we see similar trends. Even in the higher emission…

Rod Stewart has put his Los Angeles mansion on the market for $80m, as he prepares to spend more time living at his UK residence.“It’s just time,” estate agent Tomer Fridman told the New York Times, which first reported the listing. “The whole family lived there for 30 years. The children grew up there, and he’s got grandchildren already. He’s touring, and he lives in Europe a lot of the time.”Stewart, 78, paid $12m in 1991 for the lot situated in the Beverly Park neighbourhood, and commissioned the 28,000 sq ft…

Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) team on BIOS's research vessel Atlantic Explorer. Credit: BATS Decade-long ocean warming that impacts ocean circulation, a decrease in oxygen levels that contributes to changes in salinification and nutrient supply, and ocean acidification are just some of the challenges the world's oceans are facing. In 1988,…

There’s something awfully impressive about the fact that Fallout 76 is still kicking, five years after its infamous release. In fact, it’s just received a major new DLC; one that takes the Vault dwellers to the Jersey Shore, of all places. Enter Fallout 76: Atlantic City – Boardwalk Paradise. It goes without saying that Bethesda didn’t miss a beat in leveraging Atlantic City’s emblematic entertainment options. Boardwalk Paradise is chock-full of gambling mini-games (unless you’re from Belgium, Czech Republic, Djibouti,…

Fallout 76‘s new season has started with a new location for players to travel to in the wasteland, Atlantic City. Fallout 76: Atlantic City – Boardwalk Paradise added two new expeditions (a PvE game mode): ‘Tax Evasion’ and ‘The Most Sensational Game’. Per a press release from Bethesda, ‘Tax Evasion’ will force players to “work for the mafia and get their finances ‘in order'”, while ‘The Most Sensational Game’ is a “race filled with obstacles and enemies for players to compete in.” In addition to the two new expeditions,…

After years of updates, new features and expansions, Fallout 76 has turned into a pretty entertaining online adventure game. One of the most exciting new updates is about to launch on PlayStation, Xbox and PC, as Atlantic City comes to Fallout 76. The Fallout 76 Atlantic City update has a December 5 release date. Coinciding with the release of Season 15, the update will be available to download during server downtime, which begins at 3pm GMT UK time. GTA 6 trailer - Watch official Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay and release…

A Virgin Atlantic passenger jet flying from London to New York powered by 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) took off Tuesday morning, as the aviation world seeks to showcase the potential of low-carbon options to secure its future.As the world decarbonizes, airlines are banking on fuel made from waste to reduce their emissions by up to 70 per cent, enabling them to keep operating before electric- and hydrogen-powered air travel becomes a reality in the decades to come.The flight, involving a Virgin Boeing 787…

November 29, 20233 min readVirgin Atlantic flew the first large commercial jet to traverse the Atlantic with 100 percent sustainable aviation fuelBy Brian Dabbs & E&E NewsA Virgin Atlantic Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner as seen on final approach to London Heathrow Airport. CLIMATEWIRE | A Boeing 787 departed London Heathrow on Tuesday with historic cargo: 60 tons of waste fats and low-carbon kerosene to power a Virgin Atlantic flight across the Atlantic Ocean.Roughly seven and a half hours later, the aircraft…