Month: February 2021
NASA has appointed its first-ever climate advisor
NASA has appointed its first-ever senior climate advisor, the space agency announced on Wednesday. Gavin Schmidt (pictured above), the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS), will hold the position until the agency makes a more… Source
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Apple Music, Books, iTunes, App Store and more are experiencing outages
Several high-level Apple services are experiencing issues and outages on Wednesday morning, Apple has confirmed. These issues are impacting a number of consumer-facing services including Apple Music and Radio, Apple Books, and the App Store platforms across both iOS devices and Mac. For some users, the services are down. For…
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Facebook designates Myanmar a ‘temporary high-risk location’ after coup
Facebook has designated Myanmar a “temporary high-risk location” after a coup earlier this week, saying it will remove “any calls to bring armaments” and protect posts criticizing the country’s military. According to BuzzFeed, Facebook’s Asia-Pacific policy director, Rafael Frankel, outlined its coup response in a message to employees. Frankel pledged…
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You’ll no longer need a proxy to connect AWS object storage to on-premise resources cloud
AWS has launched a new private connection that means businesses can connect Amazon S3 to on-premise resources securely. The new feature should make it easier than ever for individuals to safeguard the connections within their AWS cloud computing network. It was announced that the AWS PrivateLink for Amazon S3 would…
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Electric moped startup Revel launches an EV charging business
Revel, the shared electric moped startup, is building a DC fast-charging station for electric vehicles in New York City, the first in a new business venture that will eventually spread to other cities. The company said Wednesday that this new “Superhub,” which is located at the former Pfizer building in…
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Microsoft sparks anger by charging Hotmail and Outlook users to keep their old emails Woman angry at her laptop
[embedded content] Update: Microsoft got in touch to provide the following statement: “We’ve always had a notice for both paid and free customers that are nearing or hitting their data limit. The design of the notice has recently changed, but there have been no changes to our data limits or…
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