The problem is we don’t know how to do carbon removal on anything like these scales. Our current options include things like planting trees, building carbon-sucking machines, and spreading around carbon-absorbing minerals. But all of these are expensive, unreliable, short-lived, untested, limited, or otherwise challenging.   Lowercarbon Capital was founded in 2018 by Chris and Crystal […]

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 TikTok has created a pro-war echo chamber in RussiaWhile anti-war hashtags and content has disappeared. (WSJ $)+ Ukraine’s intelligence services are doxxing Russian soldiers. (Wired $)+ Russians are hiding bombs and landmines across Ukraine. (NYT $)+ The state of […]

Other companies followed SportPesa’s lead. Hempstone Ngare, a former radio reporter hired in 2017 to manage social media for one of the company’s competitors, recalls a period of especially aggressive marketing: billboards placed across the country, “good-looking ladies” offering T-shirts in exchange for sign-ups, unsolicited text messages, and Ngare’s own posts on Facebook, Instagram, and […]

The Hope probe has three main objectives, the first is to understand the lower Martian atmosphere and its weather and climate. Yousuf continues, “The second objective is to correlate the lower atmosphere conditions with the upper atmosphere to explain how weather changes the escape of hydrogen and oxygen. And the final objective that we have […]

When applied to the data sets taken from the Long Beach area, the algorithms detected substantially more earthquakes and made it easier to work out how and where they started. And when applied to data from a 2014 earthquake in La Habra, also in California, the team observed four times more seismic detections in the […]