Getty Images | BackyardProduction reader comments 59 with 45 posters participating Share this story The Federal Aviation Administration is reportedly urging airlines to retrofit or replace altimeters that receive transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies. The FAA is meeting Wednesday “with telecom and airline industry officials on a push to retrofit and ultimately replace some airplane ..
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Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 140 with 85 posters participating Share this story Twitter warned that it may lose key employees and have difficulty hiring during the period before it closes its $44 billion sale to Elon Musk. Twitter also warned that it could have trouble keeping advertisers on board. “During the period ..
Enlarge / The USPS’s new mail truck. United States Postal Service reader comments 249 with 143 posters participating Share this story The US Postal Service is facing lawsuits from 16 states and several environmental groups challenging its decision to buy tens of thousands of gasoline-powered delivery vehicles instead of electric vehicles. As previously reported, the ..
Enlarge / US Senator Joe Manchin likes the coal industry, doesn’t like electric vehicles. J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images reader comments 507 with 192 posters participating, including story author Share this story Senator Joe Manchin called federal tax credits for electric vehicles “ludicrous” in a Senate hearing on Thursday. The West Virginia politician, who continues to ..
Aurich Lawson | Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 702 with 211 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk has claimed he is buying Twitter in order to protect free speech. But what does Musk mean by “free speech”? Musk provided a somewhat vague answer in a tweet on Tuesday, one day ..
reader comments 276 with 168 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last month, Twitter user Qasim Rashid tweeted the following: Oil & Avg Gas $ June 2008:•Oil: $181.58/barrel•Gas: $4.10/gallon Oil & Avg Gas $ Mar 2022:•Oil: $99.76/barrel•Gas: $4.32/gallon If you’re blaming anyone but greedy oil companies for their price gouging—you’ve bought into propaganda ..
Enlarge / Elon Musk at a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas on February 10, 2022. Getty Images | Jim Watson reader comments 948 with 362 posters participating Share this story Twitter’s board of directors has agreed to sell the company to Elon Musk for $44 billion, the company announced Monday. “Free speech ..
reader comments 94 with 66 posters participating Share this story Like many people in Shanghai, Joyce has spent weeks shut at home since the latest COVID-19 lockdown was imposed on March 28. The software industry executive, who asked to be identified only by her first name to avoid attention from the authorities, says she has ..
Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko reader comments 59 with 43 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to launch an inquiry into poorly designed wireless devices that receive transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies. The Notice of Inquiry (NOI) approved Thursday could result in new receiver regulations and is the first major ..
reader comments 411 with 148 posters participating Share this story If Twitter’s board initially thought Elon Musk’s offer to buy the social media company for $43 billion was just a stunt, it has now found itself on the defensive on multiple fronts. After the world’s richest man revealed on Thursday how he plans to fund ..
