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    A new report from Greenpeace has found that Apple Facebook and Google as well as relative newcomer Switch are leading the way when it comes to building a renewably powered internet.
    Thanks to the leadership and advocacy of companies like Apple Google Facebook and Switch we are seeing the tech industry make major strides toward powering the internet with clean energy Gary Cook Greenpeace senior IT analyst said in a statement.
    Apple Google and Facebook have all joined the a group made up of some of the world largest businesses committed to percent renewable energy.
    We learned that when testing battery life on Mac notebooks Consumer Reports uses a hidden Safari setting for developing web sites which turns off the browser cache.
    After we asked Consumer Reports to run the same test using normal user settings they told us their MacBook Pro systems consistently delivered the expected battery life.
    These days if I interested in battery life tests I go to AnandTech or Ars Technica where they show their work explain their methods and often take whatever time is required to get real answers before hitting publish.
    due to safety concerns from drivers and technology data collection and pressure from existing taxi companies.
    At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Plouffe will help lead a bipartisan policy board alongside Ken Mehlman who formerly ran Republican National Committee.
    Together Plouffe and Mehlman will announce members of the policy board and find opportunities to work with governments Zuckerberg said.
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    They will ensure that the privacy of electronic communications is protected by up to date and effective rules and that European institutions will apply the same high standards that we expect from our Member States.
    Věra Jourová Commissioner for Justice Consumers and Gender Equality said The European data protection legislation adopted last year sets high standards for the benefit of both EU citizens and companies.
    With the presentation of the proposals today the Commission is calling on the European Parliament and the Council to work swiftly and to ensure their smooth adoption by May when the General Data Protection Regulation will enter into application.
    are deeply proud of our unique contributions to discovery science and technology that are driving progress across business and society and opening the new era of cognitive.
    This substantial commitment to unlocking new technologies is what has long propelled IBM into new markets allowing it to create value for clients and opportunity for its employees including the Americans the company has pledged to hire over the next four years.
    In the area of cognitive computing and artificial intelligence IBM inventors patented more than inventions that help machines learn reason and efficiently process diverse data types while interacting with people in natural and familiar ways.
    All Bitcoin transactions take place on a global financial ledger known as a blockchain which is maintained and updated by a network of thousands of computers around the world similar to the way that Wikipedia is kept up by diffuse volunteers rather than by a single company.
    Until now the most discussed announcement came from the Australian stock exchange which said in early that it had hired an American software company Digital Asset Holdings to build a distributed ledger for its systems.
    has been talking publicly about its interest in the blockchain for a while and last year it announced that it had successfully completed a test of a distributed ledger database in its credit default swaps trading business.
    Last year Kickstarter acquired Drip to move into support for the music community and we have heard that Tilt the funding platform formerly known as Crowdtilt has also been approached for an acquisition.
    deal today is directly aimed at growing the funnel of transactions focused on good causes that are collected and processed by GoFundMe which pulled in million per month and grew at a rate of percent in.
    CrowdRise was by the actor Edward Norton producer Shauna Robertson and Robert and Jeffrey Wolfe in while trying to raise money for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.
    Close loopholes that can leave me huge surprise medical bills.
    We fighting to ensure you and your family can get a fair deal in the marketplace especially on the choices that matter most health care privacy automobiles food finances and more.
    Join our campaigns and together we hold corporations and lawmakers accountable.
    Prior to Apple Chris was lead author of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure an open source umbrella project that is widely used in commercial products and academic research today.
    As Chris joins Tesla we would like to give a special thanks to Jinnah Hosein Vice President of Software who has been serving a dual role as the interim Vice President of Tesla Autopilot Software and will now be heading back to SpaceX.
    We are very excited that Chris is joining Tesla to lead our Autopilot engineering team and accelerate the future of autonomous driving.

 

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