The Download: a curb on climate action, and post-Roe period tracking

The Download: a curb on climate action, and post-Roe period tracking

Posted on by

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.

The US Supreme Court just gutted the EPA’s power to regulate emissions

The news: The Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions has been dealt a massive blow by the US Supreme Court.

What’s in the ruling?: The Supreme Court decided that the EPA’s actions in a 2015 rule, which included caps on emissions from power plants, overstepped the agency’s authority. Only Congress has the power to make “a decision …

The US government is developing a solar geoengineering research plan

Posted on by

The White House is developing a research plan that would guide and set standards for how scientists study one of the more controversial ways of  counteracting climate change: solar geoengineering.

The basic idea is that we might be able to deliberately tweak the climate system in ways that release more heat into space, cooling an otherwise warming planet.

The move, which has not been previously reported on, marks the first federally coordinated US effort of this kind. It could set the stage for more funding and research into the feasibility, benefits, and risks of such interventions. The effort may also …

Bachelor Pc Science And Engineering

Bachelor Pc Science And Engineering

Posted on by Micash

Pertaining to a system or mode of operation during which inputs are collected and processed all at one time, quite than being processed as they arrive, and a job, once started, proceeds to completion without extra input or consumer interaction. Contrast with conversational, interactive, on-line, actual time. Pertaining to an precise configuration of software program code resulting from a software improvement project.

Nonprofit Goodwill Launched A Program To Help Underrepresented People Learn Digital Skills To Find Jobs In This New Tech-Driven Economy – Forbes

Nonprofit Goodwill Launched A Program To Help Underrepresented People Learn Digital Skills To Find Jobs In

…

How to track your period safely post-Roe

Posted on by

As soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned on Friday, June 24, calls for people to delete their period-tracking apps were all over social media. These apps gather extremely personal data that could pinpoint a missed period. The fear is that in the hands of law enforcement, this data could be used to bolster a criminal case against a person who attempts to get an abortion in a state where it is restricted or banned.

Right now, and I mean this instant, delete every digital trace of any menstrual tracking. Please.

— Prof Gina Neff (@ginasue) June 24, 2022

Delete

…
Composable enterprise spurs innovation

Composable enterprise spurs innovation

Posted on by

In March 2020, when corporate offices shuttered in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and employees began working from home, companies were forced to find more efficient ways to do business.

Call it “The Great Digital Transformation.” Before the pandemic, the average company estimated that transitioning to remote work would take 454 days, according to the “McKinsey Global Surveys, 2021: A year in review.” Most companies accomplished the move in 11 days during the pandemic. Similarly, the average company estimated that migrating its assets to the cloud would take 547 days; in reality, shifting to that key component of digital …