It’s been a long time coming, but Microsoft finally has (a start on) its answer to AirDrop for instantaneous PC-to-iPhone connections. On Monday, Microsoft declared it had updated its existing Phone Link system, letting iOS users connect their phone to their PC to send and receive messages and calls from their desktop.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny won’t be in theaters until next month, but fans who happen to be at the Cannes Film Festival this week will be among the first public audiences to see the film in its entirety. Which means this is it. This is the week we find out if director James Mangold has made a sequel worthy…
Elon Musk has failed in his latest attempt to challenge a ruling that requires a lawyer’s approval for some Tesla-related tweets. A federal appeals court in Manhattan has rebuffed Musk’s claim that the 2018 consent decree with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an unfair “prior restraint” on his speech. The CEO could have defended himself against the charges or negotiated a different deal if he’d wanted to tweet without a legal monitor, the court panel says.
Musk reached a settlement with the SEC in 2018 after the regulator claimed that he lied when he had “funding secured” for taking Tesla private. On top of requiring approval, the deal also had Musk step down as Tesla chairman. He and his company paid separate $20 million fines. The SEC wanted to find Musk in contempt when he claimed that Tesla would make 500,000 cars one year, but a judge pushed the parties involved to negotiate a 2019 arrangement that gave Musk more freedom in return for requiring legal team approval for finance-related tweets.
The tech leader has fought with the SEC in the years since, and more recently has been calling for courts to undo the settlement. Musk claims the Commission pressured him to strike a deal and overstepped its authority. The pact violated free speech rights, Musk’s side claimed. A judge denied a request to cancel the deal last April, prompting the appeal.
It’s not certain how Musk and Tesla will respond. Tesla disbanded its communications team years ago. If this latest decision stands, though, Musk won’t have much choice but to either have his tweets screened or risk a regulatory crackdown.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/elon-musk-loses-appeal-to-tweet-whatever-he-wants-about-tesla-190942572.html?src=rss
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It turns out that Microsoft has an unopened Zune MP3 player, and it is giving it away as part of a promotion for the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie.
This week just rolled a 20. Starting Tuesday, the incredibly exciting, hilarious, and awesome new movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves hits streaming and now you have absolutely no excuse to miss one of the year’s best films, so far at least.
This summer is expected to be one of the busiest travel seasons we’ve seen in a while. People are well into making plans to fly or drive their way to a well-deserved holiday. As many as 49% of people reported they plan to travel more in 2023 than they did last year, according to a Forbes survey, and nearly one-quarter…
The James Webb Space Telescope just made its second breakthrough observation in as many weeks. Researchers have used the observatory’s near-infrared camera to detect the first known instance of water vapor around a comet in the main asteroid belt, also known as a main belt comet. Scientists had thought comets could preserve water ice so relatively close to the Sun, but didn’t have firm evidence until now. They generally expected comets to sit in the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud, both of which are far enough away from the Sun that ice could last.
The findings have created a new riddle, however. While carbon dioxide normally represents 10 percent of the potentially vaporized material in a comet, Webb’s instruments didn’t detect any in Read. The research group speculates that the CO2 either dissipated over billions of years, or that Read formed in a comparatively balmy part of the Solar System that didn’t have CO2.
Read was one of the first bodies used to establish the main belt comet category. The Webb telescope is the first equipment powerful enough to study these comets in detail.
More observations will be needed to understand if Read’s lack of CO2 is a fluke or shared by other main belt comets. Whether it is or not, team member Stefanie Milam suggests a sample collection mission might be helpful in learning more about comets like this. It would certainly be more practical than other missions — the Kuiper Belt starts roughly at the edge of Neptune’s orbit, while the Oort Cloud is roughly two light-years away.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/james-webb-telescope-finds-water-around-a-comet-in-the-main-asteroid-belt-203825983.html?src=rss
The lifestyle mogul made history as the oldest woman to grace the cover of the Swimsuit Issue. But her remarks about beauty are troubling.
Another airbag manufacturer is under the microscope for possible airbag deployment injuries. Find out if your car is on the newest list from the NHTSA.
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