New York Must Keep Up Climate & Environmental Wins in 2021
In 2021, New York State must keep up the fight for a cleaner, healthier and more equitable future for all
Sex workers say Pornhub’s defunding by Visa, Mastercard, and Discover is putting their livelihoods at risk and will not solve the problem of illegal content (Thomas Fabbri/BBC)
Thomas Fabbri / BBC:Sex workers say Pornhub’s defunding by Visa, Mastercard, and Discover is putting their livelihoods at risk and will not solve the problem of illegal content — Credit card giants Visa, Mastercard and Discover have blocked all payments to Pornhub, after the adult site was accused of being …
NREL & Project Partners Team-Up To Advance Species Conservation & Wind Energy Deployment
As wind energy continues to supply more power to the electric grid, development of cost-effective solutions to detect and deter wildlife from wind energy facilities grows with increasing importance
A look at Zameen, a Pakistani online real estate marketplace, estimated to initiate 70% of all sale and rental transactions in the country (Rest of World)
Rest of World:A look at Zameen, a Pakistani online real estate marketplace, estimated to initiate 70% of all sale and rental transactions in the country — In 15 years, the company went from a bland classified ads site to hosting two-thirds of all real estate transactions. — • KARACHI, PAKISTAN
Analysis: Apple’s App Store grossed an estimated $64B+ in 2020, up 28% from an estimated $50B in 2019 and $48.5B in 2018 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Kif Leswing / CNBC:Analysis: Apple’s App Store grossed an estimated $64B+ in 2020, up 28% from an estimated $50B in 2019 and $48.5B in 2018 — – Apple’s App Store grossed more than $64 billion in 2020, according to an analysis by CNBC. — That’s up from an estimated $50 billion in 2019 and $48.5…
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Twitter and Facebook’s ban on Trump is not censorship, and demanding clear rules for social media moderation is “stupid” because the context is always changing (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:Twitter and Facebook’s ban on Trump is not censorship, and demanding clear rules for social media moderation is “stupid” because the context is always changing — When I started writing this post, it was about Facebook’s decision to suspend Trump’s account indefinitely …
Tesla Model Y = 2020 CleanTechnica Car of the Year
It’s time to announce the 2020 CleanTechnica Car of the Year. Shocking no one and no one’s grandmother
Twitter permanently suspends @TeamTrump after the account posted quotes from Trump’s now removed @POTUS tweets, says evading suspension is against its rules (Jack Morse/Mashable)
Jack Morse / Mashable:Twitter permanently suspends @TeamTrump after the account posted quotes from Trump’s now removed @POTUS tweets, says evading suspension is against its rules — Twitter kept its word. — After permanently suspending the @realDonaldTrump account late Friday, Twitter also moved to suspend the @TeamTrump account.
Equifax says it has acquired Kount, which uses AI for digital ID and fraud prevention services, for $640M; Kount becomes part of Equifax’s Luminate platform (Chris O’Brien/VentureBeat)
Chris O’Brien / VentureBeat:Equifax says it has acquired Kount, which uses AI for digital ID and fraud prevention services, for $640M; Kount becomes part of Equifax’s Luminate platform — Equifax announced today that it would pay $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that uses artificial intelligence to drive …
Twitter has taken down tweets from @POTUS in which Trump criticized his ban and suggested looking “at the possibilities of building out our own platform” (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:Twitter has taken down tweets from @POTUS in which Trump criticized his ban and suggested looking “at the possibilities of building out our own platform” — They’re gone — Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump today. For a brief moment, he managed to tweet anyhow …