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Electrolyzers, machines that split water and separate hydrogen from oxygen, are emerging as the new battleground in green technology between the EU and China.
Can the EU stay competitive?
https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-eu-keep-up-wit…

Can the EU keep up with China in hydrogen technology? – DW – 06/11/2025
Electroysers, machines that split water and separate hydrogen from oxygen, are emerging as the new battleground in green technology between the EU and China. How can the EU stay competive?

Deezer says AI-made music accounts for just 0.5% of streams on the music streaming platform, but up to 70% of those streams are fraudulent (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Sources: Foxconn plans to make iPhone enclosures in India and is looking to set up a new unit in Tamil Nadu; only Tata is currently making enclosures in India (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes…

Foxconn looks to set up new Tamil Nadu unit to make iPhone enclosures
Foxconn is planning to manufacture iPhone enclosures in India, establishing a new unit in Tamil Nadu. This move signifies Apple's strategy to diversify its supply chain and reduce reliance on China. With expansions in display module assembly and AirPods production, Foxconn aims to significantly increase iPhone production in India, potentially making it a primary manufacturing hub for the US market.

Milwaukee Peeps, please consider signing this…
“Say NO to Facial Recognition Technology in Milwaukee”
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/say-no-to-facial-recognition-technology-in-milwaukee

How Warm-Glow Alters the Usability of Technology
Antonios Saravanos (New York University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14720 https://ar…

How Warm-Glow Alters the Usability of Technology
As technology increasingly aligns with users' personal values, traditional models of usability, focused on functionality and specifically effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction, may not fully capture how people perceive and evaluate it. This study investigates how the warm-glow phenomenon, the positive feeling associated with doing good, shapes perceived usability. An experimental approach was taken in which participants evaluated a hypothetical technology under conditions designed to evok…

"AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution
AI is turning up the heat on datacentres, causing their water use to soar.

A dimensão racional da técnica e a modelagem da vida (Umberto Galimberti)
#filosofia #tecnologia #filosofiadatecnologia

A dimensão racional da Técnica e a modelagem da vida
O Instituto Humanitas Unisinos - IHU - um órgão transdisciplinar da Unisinos, que visa apontar novas questões e buscar respostas para os desafios de nossa época. Parte da visão do humanismo social cristão, debatendo a sociedade do futuro.

"How your old phone could become a ‘tiny data centre’ helping researchers to track marine life"
#Ocean #Evironment #Technology

Old smartphones turned into ‘tiny data centres’ to track marine life
For just €8, researchers are turning old smartphones into devices capable of tracking marine life and buses.

A government-backed tech trial in Australia finds user age checks are technologically possible, clearing the way for a social media ban for under-16s this year (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html

WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.