Tom Warren / The Verge:Microsoft confirms it has fixed a five-hour Xbox Live outage which prevented some users from signing in or making purchases — Microsoft’s gaming network went down worldwide — Microsoft’s Xbox Live service went down for more than five hours today, preventing users from signing in to the service.
State after state, we’re getting new EV charging station announcements and rollouts. The electric vehicle market in the USA may not be what Europe is celebrating, but various officials, companies, and activists are working hard to make a change. (More on that soon.) Add some Pennsylvania officials to that list. The state’s Driving PA Forward…
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Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Institute By Josh Brooks, Dan Cross-Call, & Heather House 2020 did not go according to plan, to say the least. But that did not stall North Carolina’s drive forward on clean energy. Over the past year, state officials, utilities, and a broad set of stakeholders worked together to advance key portions…
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The Rise and Rise of the Wuling Mini EV.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:Google debuts Sleep API which uses a phone’s light and motion sensors and on-device AI to generate data which developers can use to build wellness apps — Android has long offered an Activity Recognition API that processes device sensor data with machine learning models in a battery-efficient manner.
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch:Newsela, a SaaS platform for K-12 educational content, raises $100M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Franklin Templeton and TCV — Newsela, a SaaS platform for K-12 instructional material backed by the likes of TCV, Kleiner Perkins, Reach Capital, and Owl Ventures, announced today that it has raised $100 million…
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Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:Autodesk says it will acquire Innovyze, which makes a SaaS product for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of water infrastructure, for $1B — The acquisition is the largest in Autodesk’s history and is meant to position Autodesk as a provider of end-to-end software for the operations of water infrastructure.
Ry Crist / CNET:Microsoft says it is investigating a major Xbox Live service outage that is preventing some users from signing in or making purchases — It’s not just you — Xbox Live players worldwide are reporting troubles logging in. … Xbox Live’s online platform for console gamers suffered a major outage Thursday …
Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:Facebook is rolling out an opt-in feature, allowing “Hey Facebook” to be used as a wake word for its Portal displays and Oculus Quest platform — Available on Portal smart displays and rolling out on Oculus Quest headsets — Facebook has introduced a new “Hey Facebook” …
by Francesco Boldizzoni* For as long as neoliberalism – the face that capitalism has assumed since the 1980s – has been showing signs of aging, there has been a tendency to view every crisis as a harbinger of impending epochal … Continue reading →