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Tech’s new labor movement is harnessing lessons learned a century ago https://t.co/LX4pi387Wq

Tech’s new labor movement is harnessing lessons learned a century ago https://t.co/LX4pi387Wq — Lenore Albert (@LenoreAlbert19) Jun 30, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js from Twitter https://twitter.com/LenoreAlbert19 June 30, 2021 at 07:14AM via IFTTT

China’s path to modernization has, for centuries, gone through my hometown

One day in late March, People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, shared a pair of photos on Chinese social media.  The first, in black and white, was of the signing of the Boxer Protocol, a 1901 treaty between the Qing empire, which ruled China at the time, and 11 foreign nations. Troops fromContinue reading “China’s path to modernization has, for centuries, gone through my hometown”

Cheaper solar PV is key to addressing climate change

In late 2007, less than 10 years into the company’s existence, Google came out swinging on the clean energy front. To a fanfare of plaudits up and down Silicon Valley and well beyond, it declared “RE<C” as its goal: make renewable energy cheaper than coal. The company invested tens of millions of dollars into R&DContinue reading “Cheaper solar PV is key to addressing climate change”

The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law https://t.co/Af0npilziY

The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law https://t.co/Af0npilziY — Lenore Albert (@LenoreAlbert19) Jun 30, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js from Twitter https://twitter.com/LenoreAlbert19 June 30, 2021 at 07:14AM via IFTTT

What does breaking up Big Tech really mean?

For Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet, covid-19 was an economic blessing. Even as the pandemic sent the global economy into a deep recession and cratered most companies’ profits, these companies—often referred to as the “Big Four” of technology—not only survived but thrived. Collectively, they now have annual revenue of well over a trillion dollars, andContinue reading “What does breaking up Big Tech really mean?”

Tech’s new labor movement is harnessing lessons learned a century ago

The workers at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, wanted a union.  The center opened in March of last year, just as stay-at-home orders for covid-19 went into effect. While much of the world economy tanked, some sectors thrived, including tech—Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would add some $75 billion to his own net worthContinue reading “Tech’s new labor movement is harnessing lessons learned a century ago”

The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law

A year into the covid-19 pandemic, Apple commemorated the growing array of devices featuring its custom M1 chip with great fanfare, including a “Mission Implausible” ad on TV featuring a young man running across the rooftops of its “spaceship” campus in Cupertino and infiltrating the facility to “steal” the breakthrough microprocessor from a MacBook andContinue reading “The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore’s Law”

New NASA radiation rules could open up space missions to more women https://t.co/f8uhHHyNu8

New NASA radiation rules could open up space missions to more women https://t.co/f8uhHHyNu8 — Lenore Albert (@LenoreAlbert19) Jun 30, 2021 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js from Twitter https://twitter.com/LenoreAlbert19 June 30, 2021 at 06:14AM via IFTTT

New NASA radiation rules could open up space missions to more women

Because Earth’s magnetic fields are able to protect us from much of the radiation that barrels through space, humans on this planet aren’t exposed to much of it—only about 3 to 4 millisieverts (mSv) every year. An astronaut staying on the International Space Station for 180 days, on the other hand, would get hit byContinue reading “New NASA radiation rules could open up space missions to more women”