Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site. “Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1, which prohibits all crawling of their site,” a Microsoft representative told Search Engine Land. What happened. On July 1, 2024, Reddit updated its robots.txt file […]
With President Joe Biden officially out of the election, experts are watching for tax policy from Vice President Kamala Harris, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. While Harris has yet to outline her economic agenda, voters could see similar themes to Biden’s proposals, which have called for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations, experts […]
Shell Plc plans to sell leases it won to develop floating wind farms off the coast of Scotland, as the oil major continues to roll back a once-ambitious expansion into renewable power. The company wants to sell its share of projects in a joint venture with Iberdrola SA’s Scottish Power to develop as much as […]
An international team of scientists has discovered that oxygen is produced by potato-shaped metallic nodules on the Pacific Ocean’s seafloor. The findings, published Monday in the Nature Geoscience journal, raise new concerns about the risks of deep-sea mining. The team, led by Professor Andrew Sweetman at the UK’s Scottish Association for Marine Science, found that oxygen is produced in […]
Sales of previously owned homes dropped 5.4% in June compared with May, to 3.89 million units on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales were also 5.4% lower than June of last year. This is the slowest sales pace since December. These are closed sales, so based on contracts […]
DALLAS — If you were traveling on Friday, chances are you had a rough experience — that is unless you were flying with Dallas-based Southwest Airlines. On Friday, a software update issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike created a meltdown for all of its customers running Microsoft Windows. This faulty update resulted in thousands of flights […]
Metal batteries have the potential to deliver more energy, at a lower weight, than the popular lithium-ion battery. The problem, however, is that the technology currently has too short a lifespan due to the highly reactive nature of the lithium metal within these batteries. New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows where the […]
The rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power your cellphone, laptop, and other gadgets use liquid or gel electrolytes. Scientists want to replace these batteries with rechargeable solid-state lithium batteries, but why? This is because solid-state batteries are stable, have a higher energy density, and are much safer since they are not flammable like conventional Li-ion batteries. […]
Google continues its quest to the Apple iPhone model of technology by announcing it will delete the Play Store App in six weeks as it bids to increase customer security regarding their private data and information. Google Play Protect does a solid job of covering off cybersecurity threats but it seems to pale in comparison […]
Elon Musk might give up on Tesla’s 4680 battery cell if the situation doesn’t improve by the end of the year. Tesla’s 4680 battery cell, the automaker’s first effort to build its own cells, hasn’t gone smoothly, to say the least. First announced in 2020, it promised to enable significantly lower cost, more range, and […]
California residents are increasingly pairing battery storage with solar installations, according to the latest preliminary data in our Monthly Electric Power Industry Report. The share of new residential solar photovoltaic systems paired with batteries has increased since we began collecting data in October 2023. In April 2024, more than 50% of residential solar photovoltaic installations […]
If you pre-order the Pixel 9 Pro series in a handful of countries, Google is throwing in a “limited -edition collectible.” On the Australia, Japan, and Singapore Google Stores, the “special gift for our first orders” is described as a “piece of Google Pixel design history.” As this is “exclusively for the first orders of […]
