WASHINGTON — Juliette Hart quit her job last summer as an oceanographer for the United States Geological Survey, where she used climate models to help coastal communities plan for rising seas. She was demoralized after four years of the Trump administration, she said, in which political appointees pressured her to delete or downplay mentions of […]
There has always been a tech skills crisis, pretty much ever since the days when computers filled entire rooms and were fed instructions on punch cards. There are plenty of reasons for this, but fundamentally we are not training enough people to fill the jobs that are out there. And even if we could, there’s […]
For the next episode of Inside Track, Road & Track‘s virtual Q&A series, Hearst Autos chief brand officer Eddie Alterman is sitting down with Donald Osborne, classic-car historian, appraiser, and CEO of Audrain, to chat about the beauty, value, and importance of vintage automobiles. A regular on CNBC’s Jay Leno’s Garage, Osborne has a wealth […]
The small city of Vaxjo, population 94,000, sits in the middle of the timberlands of Smaland Province, in southern Sweden. Among municipalities in Sweden, many see Vaxjo as the leader in timber construction, as wooden buildings have been at the center of the city’s strategy since the 1990s. The city government reached its target for […]
Twitter has announced its first algorithmic bias bounty challenge, offering cash prices ranging from $500 to $3,500 for those who can help the social media giant identify a range of issues. After significant backlash last year, the company admitted in May that its automatic cropping algorithm repeatedly cropped out Black faces in favor of White […]
The chip shortage, the pandemic, the weather, and your rheumatoid arthritis acting up—and everything is conspiring to drive up prices of used cars across America. According to a study by iSeeCars.com, the average used car price in June rose a whopping $7,583, or 32.7 percent compared to what it was last year. This comes after […]
Sunnova rooftop solar system on a home in Connecticut (Photo: Business Wire) Sunnova Energy International Inc. is partnering with National Grid and SolarEdge Technologies Inc. to utilize its fleet of solar and storage assets in New England to help improve power quality in National Grid’s service area. Sunnova’s aggregated residential solar and storage portfolio delivers […]
Some people love Pixel phones. But is the customer service as good? Jason Cipriani/ZDNet One of the simplest measures of a strong brand is how easily it earns forgiveness. more Technically Incorrect For some, just a quick Our Father and Hail Mary will do. For others, uttering the whole rosary for ten hours a day […]
BMW’s Art Car program has been in existence since 1975, when Le Mans driver and art lover Hervé Poulain and BMW Motorsport founder Jochen Neerpasch convinced Alexander Calder to create a design for Poulain’s 3.0 CSL race car. Nineteen artists have since created Art Car models, including luminaries such as Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Robert […]
By John Goode, Senior Director, Channel Marketing, Oracle NetSuite As the costs of solar power-generating equipment have fallen and public awareness of the benefits of clean energy have grown in recent years, the demand for solar energy installations has soared. On an annual basis, the sector grew by 43% in 2020, during which time more than […]