Author: Bilal

Five-year effort represents important progress on four-decade-old question. One of the most important numbers in climate science is 3°C. This isn’t about a projection of future warming or the impacts that come with it, though. It’s about how much warming you get if you double the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. That value … Continue reading Major study rules out super-high and low climate sensitivity to CO₂ Continue Reading →

Remember when Netscape said Internet Explorer was a problem? Slack—the now-nearly ubiquitous, purple work-chatting platform—has filed a formal complaint alleging that tech titan Microsoft is unlawfully abusing its power to squeeze newer rivals out of the market—almost the exact same accusations Microsoft infamously faced 20 years ago. San Francisco-based Slack filed a complaint with the … Continue reading Slack says Microsoft is back up to old bad tricks, “browser war” style Continue Reading →

The world’s most valuable automaker says it hopes to deliver 500,000 cars in 2020. On Wednesday afternoon, Tesla announced that it ended the second quarter of 2020 with a GAAP profit of $104 million. That is now the fourth profitable quarter in a row for the US automaker, which may help the company move to … Continue reading Tesla makes a profit of $104 million in Q2 2020 Continue Reading →

Ongoing attack hitting unsecured data leaves the word “meow” as its calling card. More than 1,000 unsecured databases so far have been permanently deleted in an ongoing attack that leaves the word “meow” as its only calling card, according to Internet searches over the past day. The attack first came to the attention of researcher Bob … Continue reading Ongoing Meow attack has nuked >1,000 databases without telling anyone why Continue Reading →

It’s got super high specs and a laser-beam “gamer” aesthetic.      All hail the Asus ROG Phone 3, the new spec-sheet champion. Asus announced its new gaming phone today, and this thing’s got bigger numbers than anything else on the market or really anything scheduled for the rest of the year. The ROG Phone 3 is … Continue reading The Asus ROG 3 is the ultimate Android gaming phone that nobody asked for Continue Reading →

Chinese-built Model 3s will switch to an iron phosphate cell chemistry this year. On Wednesday afternoon, Tesla CEO Elon Musk answered questions from investors following the publication of the company’s latest quarterly results. The headlines news is that Tesla has picked Texas as the site for its next factory. When asked how many cars this new car plant … Continue reading Tesla picks Texas, will redesign Model Y for European production Continue Reading →

Messenger’s “app lock” feature is now official. Facebook Messenger will introduce new privacy controls that will give users the ability to limit who can send them messages. The app will soon begin testing new settings that will users “decide who can message or call you directly, who goes to your requests folder, and who can’t … Continue reading Facebook introduces new privacy settings for Messenger Continue Reading →

Officials searched the Italian offices of both companies earlier this week. Amazon and Apple are facing more antitrust accusations. This time, Italy is investigating. Authorities want to know whether the two companies agreed to prevent retailers who are not part of Apple’s official program to sell Apple products and Beats headphones, Reuters reports. Officials launched the investigation this week … Continue reading Italy is launching an antitrust investigation into Amazon and Apple Continue Reading →

Samsung has been portioning out morsels of news in recent weeks in an attempt to prime the pump ahead of its big Unpacked event. On Monday, the company announced plans to unveiled five new “power devices” (including the new Galaxy Note) at the event. As of this morning, however, it seems the Galaxy Z Flip 5G won’t … Continue reading The 5G version of Samsung’s foldable Galaxy Z Flip arrives August 7 Continue Reading →

As the pandemic has shut down in-person meetings, and pushed us online, products like Zoom, Cisco WebEx, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have become part of our daily lives. Into the fray jumps huddl.ai, a 3.5 year old startup from a serial entrepreneur, who wants to bring a dose of artificial intelligence to meeting technology. Company … Continue reading huddl.ai wants to bring more intelligence to online meetings Continue Reading →