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In October 2021, Google promised to stop placing ads alongside content that denied the existence and causes of climate change, so that purveyors of the false claims could no longer make money on its platforms, including YouTube. And yet if you recently clicked on a YouTube video titled “who is Leonardo DiCaprio,” you might have found a ramble of claims that climate change is a hoax and the world is cooling after a Paramount+ ad for the film “80 for Brady,” starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Rita Moreno.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain According to predictions made nearly a decade ago, we should be riding around in self-driving vehicles today. It's now clear the autonomous vehicle revolution was overhyped. Proponents woefully underestimated the technological challenges. It turns out developing a…

Last summer, Elon Musk and T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert announced "Coverage Above and Beyond," a joint initiative that aimed to bring Starlink satellite coverage compatible T-Mobile devices. Now, SpaceX is getting ready to begin testing its satellite-to-cellular service. During a panel at the Satellite Conference and Exhibition 2023, SpaceX VP of Starlink enterprise sales Jonathan Hofeller said the company had plans to "start getting into testing" its satellite-to-cell service this year. "We're going to learn a lot by doing…

Tesla Model S Plaid is finally delivering on original promises to achieve a 200 mph top speed with its new ceramic brakes. When Tesla first announced the Model S Plaid, its new top-performance flagship electric vehicle, the automaker promised a top speed of 200 mph (322 km/h). However, when it was first delivered last year, the vehicle “only” featured a top speed of 163 mph (262 km/h). Last year, Tesla released a new “Track Mode” for the Model S Plaid that pushed the top speed to 175 mph…

Wired: Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised — Staff laid off by Elon Musk were assured they would be compensated following mass cuts. As the deadline passes, the silence has been deafening. Wired: Some Twitter staff in the US and other countries laid off by Elon Musk in November say they have not received information about the severance they were promised …

Shortly after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk laid off around 50 percent of the company’s staff. On the same day, he tweeted that all those laid off would receive three months of severance pay. But, after two months of waiting for the company to say what kind of severance and benefits will be available, several former Twitter employees say they’ve heard nothing.As weeks of waiting turn into months, former staffers in the US are filing arbitration suits, while some in the UK are trying to negotiate terms. In other countries…

Samsung launched its latest flagship wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro, a few months ago. During the launch, the company said that the wireless earbuds have two new audio features, Samsung Seamless Codec HiFi and Bluetooth LE Audio. While the first feature shipped out of the box, Bluetooth LE Audio was promised to come to the earbuds “later this year.” However, we are just a week from the end of 2022, and Bluetooth LE Audio is nowhere to be seen. Samsung hasn’t released an update to the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro that would…

Image: Warner BrosIn yet another bit of mess to add to the Black Adam damage control—which so far has included the actual box office tally, Henry Cavill’s bait-and-switch Superman exit, and Black Adam being kind of a mess—Dwayne Johnson has just tweeted his response about the superhero’s future at Warner Bros.Johnson wrote that he and James Gunn “connected” and the result is that Black Adam will not be in DC’s “first chapter” of storytelling. (The DCEU has already been around for a decade, but sure: first chapter in its…

“We provide our customers the guidance and insight needed to ensure their research is rigorous, well-designed, and impactful to the broader scientific community–this helps move the needle forward on microgravity research,” she wrote.Sirisha Bandla, the head of Virgin Galactic’s research operations, says analysis for their projects is also still in progress. “We have flown payloads on every single one of our flights,” says Bandla, who ran some experiments on the flight in July 2021 with Richard Branson, the company’s…

L.A. Taco has chosen the 69 best tacos in the city, and that means it’s time to get eating. I’m art and design columnist Carolina A. Miranda of the Los Angeles Times, here with all the essential arts news and lamb barbacoa:Museum fail? “The art world likes to think of itself as a bastion of progressive values,” write journalists Charlotte Burns and Julia Halperin in a new report. “But data shows that its perception of progress far outpaces reality.” For four years, Burns, an independent journalist, and Halperin, the…