“The laptops should have the specifications that fulfil the needs of the students. If the laptop has some problems, technicians should be available to repair it within one week and hand it over back to the students. If the laptop cannot be repaired, it should be replaced,” the Chief Minister said. The annual maintenance contract should be signed for three years, he added. … [Read more...] about Ensure uninterrupted Internet services in villages: CM
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Parler loses bid to have service restored by Amazon
A federal judge has rejected Parler's demand that Amazon.com Inc. restore web hosting services for the social media platform, which the company had cut off following the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. US District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Seattle said Parler failed to show it was likely to prevail on the merits of its claims, or that the public interest supported a preliminary injunction requiring the restoration of service. Amazon Web Services suspended Parler on 10 January. It has said Parler violated its contract by ignoring repeated warnings to effectively address steady growth in violent content, including calls to assassinate prominent Democratic politicians, leading business executives and the media. Parler said Amazon had no contractual right to pull the plug, and did so out of "political animus" to benefit Twitter Inc., a larger Amazon client that Parler said did not censor violent content targeting conservatives. Many supporters of former US … [Read more...] about Parler loses bid to have service restored by Amazon
Mother of all motorcades: Inside the biggest procession in history of Secret Service as seven ‘Beast’ limos flanked by armored cars transport Biden to his inauguration
While the scale of the motorcade was no doubt partly due to the VIPs taking part in the journey to the cemetery, it was also a sign of how security was beefed up for inauguration day following the January 6 insurrection that left five dead. … [Read more...] about Mother of all motorcades: Inside the biggest procession in history of Secret Service as seven ‘Beast’ limos flanked by armored cars transport Biden to his inauguration
Google’s hot-air balloon project, providing cell service, is closing down
Google’s parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, a high-profile subsidiary spun out from its research labs that used hot-air balloons to deliver cellular connectivity from the stratosphere.Nearly a decade after it began the project, Alphabet said Thursday that it pulled the plug on Loon because it did not see a way to reduce costs to create a sustainable business. Along with the self-driving car unit Waymo, Loon was one of the most hyped “moonshot” technology projects to emerge from Alphabet’s research lab, X.“The road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped. So we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Loon,” Astro Teller, who heads X, wrote in a blog post. Alphabet said it expected to wind down operations in “the coming months” with the hope of finding other positions for Loon employees at Alphabet.The idea behind Loon was to bring cellular connectivity to remote parts of the world where … [Read more...] about Google’s hot-air balloon project, providing cell service, is closing down
Musk offers $100 million prize for carbon capture technologies
Previous and related coverage Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos as world's richest person Elon Musk: I tried to sell Tesla to Apple but Tim Cook refused to meet Elon Musk: Yes, SpaceX's Starlink internet will even work on high-speed transportation Have a tip? Get in touch securely via WhatsApp | Signal at +447713 025 499, or over at Keybase: charlie0 … [Read more...] about Musk offers $100 million prize for carbon capture technologies
