Friday, August 12, 2022

Corporations urge car fleet managers to switch to EVs, here's why

In late 2020, fleet management company ALD set a goal to have 30 percent of its new cars electrified by 2025—a goal that seemed like a stretch because, as recently as 2019, only one in 200 of ALD's new vehicles was an EV or a hybrid. https://ift.tt/J6Xz0U1

How to control your Android smartphone with your face

With a feature that lets users operate their phones with facial expressions, Google's Android 12 OS has taken things one step further. Specially abled people can use a set of tools and features that are part of Google's own Android Accessibility Suite on their devices. https://ift.tt/CgorsJp

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Following the Nebraska abortion case, Meta tests expanded E2EE for Messenger, including backups, and promises a global rollout for messages and calls in 2023 (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Following the Nebraska abortion case, Meta tests expanded E2EE for Messenger, including backups, and promises a global rollout for messages and calls in 2023  —  The company says an expansion of privacy features in Messenger is unrelated to a high-profile Nebraska abortion case.



FundamentalVR, a cross-platform simulation tool for medical and health care professionals, raised $20M led by EQT Life Sciences, bringing its funding to $30M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
FundamentalVR, a cross-platform simulation tool for medical and health care professionals, raised $20M led by EQT Life Sciences, bringing its funding to $30M  —  FundamentalVR, an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to …



In its first known crypto investigation, the FTC seeks information from crypto exchange BitMart about a December 2021 hack that led to $150M-$200M in losses (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
In its first known crypto investigation, the FTC seeks information from crypto exchange BitMart about a December 2021 hack that led to $150M-$200M in losses  —  The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the operators of the BitMart cryptocurrency exchange over a December 2021 hack that led …



Google says Search will use its AI model Multitask Unified Model to find consensus among results for info snippets and expands its "About this result" tool (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

Mariella Moon / Engadget:
Google says Search will use its AI model Multitask Unified Model to find consensus among results for info snippets and expands its “About this result” tool  —  You know that highlighted piece of text at the very top of a Google search results page when you look up a piece of information?



Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times : Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following...