The letter, sent by California representative Jared Huffman on April 20, condemned the reopening of coal and gas facilities to power crypto mining.
The Congressional letter is plagued by “misconceptions about bitcoin and digital asset mining,” the authors said, and confuses emissions from energy generation with the emissions of mining itself.
It’s fairly accurate to say Congress isn’t always up to speed on the inner workings of tech, and that many representatives and senators don’t really get all the ins and outs of, say, crypto mining.
Perceptions of unsustainability, true or not, are clearly generating ill feelings toward the industry among everyone from creators to gamers to politicians.
Before that, her byline was featured in SF Weekly, The Nation, Techworker, Ms. Magazine and The Frisc.
Rivian had to make some promises to get the package, which includes tax credits and subsidies.
In a heavily editorialized press release, Federal Communications Commission commissioner Nathan Simington shut down any talk of the agency stepping in to block Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
A group of Amazon workers in the company’s massive Staten Island warehousing complex just failed to earn enough votes to form a union.
Perhaps you’ve heard that batteries are in short supply.
In a leaked internal document published by Motherboard last week, Facebook privacy engineers wrote that there are “tens-of-thousands of uncontrolled data ingestion points into Ads systems.” The document, which was written in 2021, likened Facebook’s open-data systems to ink poured in a lake of water.
The commission sent its “preliminary view” to Apple that the company “abused its dominant position” in giving a boost to its own contactless payments system.
While the Biden administration has proposed expanding the popular electric vehicle tax credit, Manchin called the idea “ludicrous” during a Senate budget hearing on Thursday.
Salesforce just became the latest tech giant to commit to limiting the scope of its non-disclosure agreements, freeing workers up to talk about instances of harassment or discrimination they experience on the job.
“Our employees are key stakeholders, and it’s critical that we offer them the support to ensure they’re happy, healthy and protected,” the company wrote in a blog post Friday.
The Tesla CEO told banks that he plans to slash pay for board members and executives in a bid to get funding for the acquisition, Reuters reported.
From Congress to climate activists, everyone is mad at the Postal Service’s plan to buy a bunch of gas-powered mail trucks.
Robinhood’s stock fell sharply by about 9% in after-hours trading.
The bill introduction is largely symbolic, as Greene — a fringe Republican who previously supported QAnon conspiracy theories — has been stripped of her committee assignments.
Activision Blizzard shareholders overwhelmingly approved a planned sale to Microsoft on Thursday, with 98% voting in favor of the proposed deal.
Behind the scenes, Twitter has reportedly been trying to convince advertisers that the platform is still a good place to do business, according to the Financial Times.
Google announced Thursday that it will begin removing personal information like home addresses, emails and phone numbers in special circumstances, upon request.