🔗 Articles: Tuesday 28.May.2024
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WashPo: Va. firm fined for discriminatory hiring ad that only sought White citizens
A Virginia-based technology company will pay more than $38,000 in penalties** **for posting a discriminatory job advertisement that only sought to hire White U.S. citizens, the Justice Department announced.
Arthur Grand Technologies Inc., a firm that provides information technology services, in March 2023 posted a job advertisement for a business analyst position on the hiring site Indeed that asked in a bolded note for “Only Born US Citizens [White] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas,” according to a Justice Department news release. “Don’t share with candidates,” the advertisement read in brackets. Outrage quickly followed when the job posting was shared on social media.
More and more blatant.
WashPo: Virginia solar projects stall after Dominion Energy required pricey upgrades
“We went from a worst-case scenario of interconnection fees being about $20,000 – and that was a rare, worst-case scenario – to we’re starting out at half a million and going up from there. They’ve literally shut down midsize solar,” said Alden Cleanthes of Norfolk Solar, which works in low-income communities.
After launching in 2019, her company did more than $2 million in business, including installations on two historically Black churches, a community center and a family-owned roofing company. In 2023, it completed no projects.
ScienceAlert: New Type of Reversible Male Contraception Proves a Success in Mouse Study
A new type of male contraceptive that doesn’t rely on hormones has shown preliminary success in mice. The novel medicine is not only reversible; it comes with very few side effects.
Clinical trials for humans are still years away, but in initial experiments on rodents, the right dose of medicine at the right time can enter the bloodstream, cross into the testes, and curtail the hyperactivity of sperm.
The compound is called CDD-2807, and US researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine are keen to keep studying it.
BBC: British Museum gems for sale on eBay - how a theft was exposed
In 2020, Danish antiquities dealer Dr Ittai Gradel began to suspect an eBay seller he had been buying from was a thief who was stealing from the British Museum.
More than two years later, the museum would announce that thousands of objects were missing, stolen or damaged from its collection. It had finally believed Dr Gradel - but why had it taken so long for it to do so?
BBC: Tackling water shortages with the ‘Star Wars’ tech
Their system converts air to water using atmospheric water generators that contain a liquid desiccant, which absorbs moisture from the air.
Using sunlight or renewable electricity they heat the desiccant to 65C which releases the moisture, which can then be condensed into drinking water.
Mr Shrivastav says the whole process takes about 12 hours. Today each unit produces about 2,000 litres of drinking water.
CBC: Inuit musical duo records album for new Canadian animated film
PIQSIQ’s Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay created the movie’s score.
CBC: Neuralink looks to the public to solve a seemingly impossible problem
The problem, said Roy van Rijn, director of software consultancy OpenValue Rotterdam, is that the files appear very noisy. In other words, they contain many unique data points without common patterns. “If there aren’t enough ‘patterns’ in the data, it is mathematically impossible to compress something further,” he said in an email.Â
Van Rijn wrote a simple algorithm that compressed the Neuralink files at a ratio of 3.37 to 1. He speculated that participants using a similar approach might be able to compress the neural signals further, but that the “general consensus is that [200 to 1] is just outlandish.”
Neuralink is Musk’s company.
CNN: US pier constructed off Gaza has broken apart
The temporary pier constructed by the US military to transport aid into Gaza broke apart and sustained damage in heavy seas on Tuesday in a major blow to the American-led effort to create a maritime corridor for humanitarian supplies into the war-torn enclave, the Pentagon said.
The pier was “damaged and sections of the pier need rebuilding and repairing,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said on Tuesday. The pier will be removed from its location on the Gaza coast over the next 48 hours and taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where US Central Command will carry out repairs, Singh said. The repairs will take more than a week, further delaying the effort to get the maritime corridor fully operating.
MacRumors: Nomad Tracking Card Review
Nomad today announced the launch of the Tracking Card, a super thin Find My-enabled card that is designed to be carried in a wallet so that it’s trackable with an iPhone.
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Perhaps the best feature of the Tracking Card is the battery. The battery inside can be recharged by putting the card on a Qi-based charger, and the markings on the card show the alignment. I tested the card with several Qi/MagSafe (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/magsafe-battery-pack/)chargers and they were all able to provide power, with charging indicated by a small red LED on the card.
CBC: Doug Ford’s change to booze sales could cost far more than $225M
Official figures from the Ministry of Finance and the LCBO obtained by CBC News on Monday show the province is facing a net revenue loss of $150 to $200 million per year as a result of the changes, in addition to the Beer Store payment.
Huge deficit and he’s cutting revenues!
Last Updated: 28.May.2024 17:06 EDT