Image: nikkimeel (Shutterstock) Apple Music subscribers can no longer sign up for the Voice Plan and existing subscribers’ auto-renew will turn off at the end of the billing period, Apple said in a blog post on Wednesday. Subscribers paid just $4.99 for Apple Music’s Voice Plan which launched in 2021 and allowed users to access … Read more
Chinese state media are reporting that the country has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu ByThe Associated Press October 24, 2023, 7:21 AM FILE – Then newly elected China’s Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, top second left, applauds with delegates as Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, walks to deliver a speech at the closing ceremony … Read more
September 26, 2023 at 10:00 p.m. EDT (Shubhadeep Mukherjee for The Washington Post; Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images, Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)Comment on this storyComment SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly three years ago, Facebook’s propaganda hunters uncovered a vast social media influence operation that used hundreds of fake accounts to praise the Indian army’s crackdown in the restive … Read more
An illustration of the ClearSpace-1 mission, which is about to launch in 2026.Illustration: ESA In a tragic case of debris-on-debris crime, a defunct payload adapter that was chosen as the topic of an area particles cleanup mission was itself hit by a bit of house junk. First Full-Colour Photos From Webb Area Telescope The VESPA … Read more
Christoph Gebald (left) and Jan Wurzbacher, co-founders of Climeworks. Picture courtesy Climeworks The U.S. Division of Vitality is investing as much as $1.2 billion in big vacuums that suck carbon out of the air in an effort to gradual international warming. So-called direct air seize, or DAC, is an rising know-how that has not scaled … Read more
Supercritical, the carbon removing market aimed (for the time being) primarily at tech corporations that need to hit “web zero,” has raised a $13 million Collection A funding spherical, led by Lightspeed Enterprise Companions. The spherical contains funding from RTP World, Greencode Ventures, MMC Ventures and others. We lined Supercritical’s launch again in August 2021, when it identified that … Read more