Removal

Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Experts say a ruling against Twitter in its lawsuit against content removal orders in India could let the government censor a wide swath of platforms and sites — A ruling against the company could allow the government to censor a wide swath of platforms and set a global precedent. Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Experts say a ruling against Twitter in its lawsuit against content removal orders in India could let the government censor a wide swath of platforms and sites …

The US telecoms regulator needs an additional $3 billion (roughly Rs. 25,000) to fund the removal from U.S. networks of equipment made by Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE, bringing the total cost to $4.9 billion (roughly Rs. 40,000), the agency told Congress on Friday."To fund all reasonable and supported cost estimates..., the Reimbursement Program will require $4.98 billion, reflecting a current shortfall of $3.08 billion," Jessica Rosenworcel, the chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, said Friday…

Source: Matthew Cassinelli / iMore If you're installing the public beta, developer beta, or just curious about the new features for Shortcuts coming to iOS 16, you'll be glad to know that Apple added 46 new actions that add deeper access and advanced functionality to the Shortcuts ecosystem. The main set of actions for Shortcuts focuses on Notes, Voice Memos, and Safari, plus Shortcuts itself. Additionally, Apple added new actions for Clock, Files, and Parked Cars, plus more for features like Focus Filters, Background…

Rolls Royce and EDF are among the winners of a total of 54 million pounds ($65 million) of funding the British government announced to help research technology to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Britain has said greenhouse gas removal technology will be essential to help it meet its climate change target of net zero emissions by 2050, but currently just a handful of small projects are in operation globally. EDF won 3 million pounds to fund a Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant which could be powered using excess…

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Centre to change the Call Sign ‘VT’ written on Indian aircraft stating it stands for ‘Victorian Territory and Viceroy Territory’, a legacy of the British Raj. In the PIL, petitioner BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay stated that being a ‘Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic’, the Call Sign ‘VT’ is contrary to the Rule of Law, Right to Freedom and Right to Dignity of Indians guaranteed under Articles 14,…

The Biden administration is moving forward on a plan to mandate the elimination of nearly all nicotine in cigarettes, a policy that would upend the $95 billion U.S. cigarette industry and, health officials say, prompt millions of people to quit smoking.The plan, unveiled Tuesday as part of the administration’s agenda of regulatory actions, likely wouldn’t take effect for several years. The FDA plans to publish a proposed rule in May 2023. Then it would invite public comments before publishing a final rule. Tobacco…

Running Tide, an aquaculture company based in Portland, Maine, has said it expected to set tens of thousands of tiny floating kelp farms adrift in the North Atlantic between this summer and next. The hope is that the fast-growing macroalgae will eventually sink to the ocean floor, storing away thousands of tons of carbon dioxide in the process. The company has raised millions in venture funding and gained widespread media attention, and it counts big names like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative among its customers. But…

Astroscale is set to develop ELSA-M. The company’s previous debris removal spacecraft, ELSA-d, is shown here.Illustration: AstroscaleThe European Space Agency is joining forces with Astroscale, an orbital debris removal company, to thin the massive cloud of space debris orbiting Earth. This effort will pave the way for communications company OneWeb to continue building its telecommunication network.The European Space Agency revealed in a press release today that Astroscale, a company focusing on space debris removal, will…

Sniper Elite 5 developer Rebellion has issued a statement the sudden and mysterious removal of the game from the Epic Games Store on PC. It was originally supposed to launch on the platform alongside the other announced ones.In a statement to VCG, Rebellion said, "Due to circumstances beyond our control Sniper Elite 5 was not available on the Epic Store at launch but will be released on that platform in the future. We apologize for any inconvenience." You need a javascript enabled browser…

In 2018, Reinhardt and three others cofounded Charm (a mashup of “char” and “farm”) to build a business around what they saw as a more promising approach. The initial plan was to gasify biomass, a similar process to pyrolysis but done at higher temperatures, to produce biochar and hydrogen. They expected the latter to be the real moneymaker. But the company found that picking up the biomass and transporting it to a centralized gasification facility was far too expensive, because biomass is “too fluffy.” It’s bulky,…