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Google ‘arguably violated’ labor law by illegally firing three workers claims NLRB

The acting head of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said Google “arguably violated” US labor law by illegally firing three workers in 2019 amid their organizing activities, Bloomberg reports. On Wednesday, the NLRB reversed an earlier decision which had dismissed claims from Sophie Waldman, Rebecca Rivers, and Paul Duke that Google had retaliated against… Read more

Intel Starts Xe-HPG GPU Scavenger Hunt

Home News (Image credit: Intel) In a surprising move, Intel this week began its Xe-HPG graphics architecture promotion campaign. So far, the company has posted a teaser video that leads to a website which announces an Xe-HPG-dedicated scavenger hunt game that starts on March 26, next Friday. Also, the video may give a clue about… Read more

NASA’s Perseverance rover scoots around on Mars for the first time

Perseverance, the car-sized rover NASA landed on Mars last month, has taken its first spin on the rocky surface of Jezero Crater, NASA announced today. The rover’s six wheels drove about 21 feet to carry out a key mobility test on Thursday, as engineers back on Earth prepare to execute the mission’s core science objectives…. Read more

Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite on turntables, soundtracks and live church recordings

Home Features (Image credit: Brian Sweeney) This interview was originally published by What Hi-Fi? in March 2016. It is easy, often and now especially, to become consumed by technology. It is easy to allow the romanticism of music, the entire grounds for that technology, to be camouflaged. That is why, speaking with Stuart Braithwaite, guitarist,… Read more

Water march: the dearly bought progress through dams

The red carpet is laid out, a brass band is playing: Egypt’s President Anwar al-Sadat and the Soviet head of state Nikolai Podgorny march solemnly in January 1971 over the dam in Aswan. Deep down, water from the Nile gushes through twelve turbines in the newly built power plant. The economic benefit is enormous: for… Read more

Amazon generates millions of pounds of plastic waste

Amazon’s plastic pollution is under scrutiny today with the publication of a new report by the nonprofit ocean advocacy organization Oceana. That report estimates that Amazon was responsible for 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste last year. Amazon says that figure is overblown — by over 350 percent. Amazon claims that it uses about… Read more