Balloon space tourism: A Spanish company offers space travel at a more affordable price

ASpanish company announces that it is preparing to organize space travel with the balloon. Tourists will pay less than in the case of a missile trip and, during the trip, will stay in a capsule hanging from a helium balloon. The first trips with tourists should take place in 2023. The helium balloon seriously competes with the rockets of Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, in the fight for space tourism.
Read more: https://traveliyow.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/balloon-space-tourism-a-spanish-company-offers-space-travel-at-a-more-affordable-price/?source=Snapzu

Father and Son Charged in $100 Million Sandwich Scheme

It was the caper of the century: a minuscule New Jersey deli not only became a publicly traded entity but mysteriously grew to have a market value north of $100 million. Now, three men are being charged with illegally pumping up the company’s stock, with the goal of dumping their shares and absconding with the profits. They never even had the chance to pocket their ill-gotten bread.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/father-son-charged-100-million-194748315.html?source=Snapzu

Costco Says Hot Dog-Drink Combo Will Cost $1.50 'Forever'

Food prices got you down? There's some good news, thanks to warehouse-store Costco. The store is famous for its hot dog and drink combination, sold at its in-store food counter for just $1.50. And even in tough financial times, that price is sticking around, possibly "forever."
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/culture/costco-says-hot-dog-drink-combo-will-cost-1-50-forever/?utm_source=reddit.com?source=Snapzu

How Asianometry reached 270K subscribers & $5K/mo on YouTube

Learn how history/tech YouTube channel Asianometry reached 270K subscribers earning $5K per month with ads and Patreon
Read more: https://www.screenlace.com/how-asianometry-grew-to-270k-subscribers-on-youtube/?source=Snapzu

Best Selling Organic Chemistry Textbook Goes Open Access After Professor Regains The Copyright

It’s well known that textbook prices are generally high. That’s in part because academic publishers effectively have a monopoly when it comes to standard texts. Very often, these are texts that stu…
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/09/27/best-selling-organic-chemistry-textbook-goes-open-access-after-professor-regains-the-copyright/?source=Snapzu

Mark Zuckerberg Is No Longer One Of The 10 Richest Americans

The Facebook CEO has lost more than half his fortune since last year.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2022/09/27/mark-zuckerberg-is-no-longer-one-of-the-10-richest-americans/?sh=41cfe903352f?source=Snapzu

Interpol issues red notice for Terraform founder Do Kwon

Interpol has issued a red notice for Do Kwon, requesting law enforcement agencies worldwide to search and arrest the Terraform Labs founder whose blockchain startup collapsed earlier this year. The collapse of Terra cryptocurrency (Luna) and the so-called stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) wiped out investors’ $40 billion, prompting an uproar that caused the prosecutors to launch investigations into Kwon and his colleagues. He faces charges in South Korea, the prosecutors said Monday.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/25/do-kwon-interpol/?source=Snapzu

Adobe can’t Photoshop out the fact its $20bn purchase of Figma is a land grab | John Naughtom

The software giant paying vastly over the odds for a small but strategically threatening company should alarm US regulators
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/24/adobe-cant-photoshop-out-the-fact-its-20bn-figma-deal-is-a-naked-land-grab?source=Snapzu

Yes, you should monitor your remote workers – but not because you don’t trust them

Should you be monitoring your work-from-home employees? Yes, but not for the reasons you might suspect. According to a recent report in the New York Times, eight of the 10 largest private US employers are using software and other technologies to track the productivity of their employees in the office and at home.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/25/monitor-workers-at-home-security-cybercrime?source=Snapzu

UK government faces court challenge over ‘Frankenchickens’

Hearing granted for Humane League, which says use of fast-growing chickens breaches welfare rules
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/uk-government-court-challenge-legality-frankenchickens?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other?source=Snapzu

Amazon singled out and harassed union organizers, says NLRB

Amazon is running out of time to answer allegations from an American watchdog that it unlawfully suppressed labor organizers at one of its warehouses in New York. If unable to mount a defense against charges [PDF] from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the internet mega-corp will be forced to tear up its rules on what staff can and can't do in break rooms and other non-work areas on Amazon property. Rules such as, you guessed it, not putting up pro-union posters.
Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/23/amazon_nlrb_union_ruling/?source=Snapzu

Samsung pumps trillions into green initiatives

Samsung Electronics refreshed its environmental strategy, earmarking more than KRW7 trillion ($5 billion) for green initiatives by 2030, targeting net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and joining RE100, a global renewable energy initiative. The company stated the investment will go to researching new technologies to develop energy-efficient products, increase water reuse and foster carbon capture techniques.
Read more: https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/home-banner/samsung-pumps-trillions-into-green-initiatives/?source=Snapzu

Patagonia Donates Its Entire $3 Billion Worth To Fighting Climate Change 'Reimagining Capitalism'

Patagonia boldly announced that all of its profits will be donated towards fighting climate change.
Read more: https://www.ibtimes.com/patagonia-donates-its-entire-3-billion-estimated-worth-fighting-climate-change-reimagining-3612955?source=Snapzu

Adobe to acquire design platform Figma for $20 billion

Adobe announced Thursday morning that it will acquire design software firm Figma in a deal worth about $20 billion in cash and stock. Figma, founded in 2012, creates cloud-based design software that allows teams to collaborate in real time. It competes head-to-head with Adobe’s XD program.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/15/adobe-to-acquire-design-platform-figma-for-20-billion.html?source=Snapzu

Newegg has so many extra GPUs that it’s bundling them with free monitors

In a strange turn of fate, it seems that Newegg somehow has too many 30-series graphics cards. Right now, you can get a free 24-inch 1080p gaming monitor when you buy an RTX 3060 for $399.99. Another solid offer bundles a free 27-inch curved QHD monitor with a purchase of an RTX 3070 for $599.99. A deal like this is tough to beat; even if you don’t need the monitor, you’re still getting a 30-series graphics card at close to retail price, which was damn near impossible a year ago.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/14/23352952/newegg-nvidia-gpu-graphics-cards-gaming-monitors-deal-sale?source=Snapzu

Everything You Need To Know About The Activision Blizzard Scandal

Activision Blizzard is at the center of an investigation that has changed the gaming industry. Here's what you need to know about this historic event.
Read more: https://www.denofgeek.com/games/activision-blizzard-lawsuit-major-events-history-everything-explained/?source=Snapzu

EU proposes banning products made with forced labour

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday an EU ban on products made using forced labour with legislation that will add to existing U.S. pressure on China, but will likely change before it enters force.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-proposes-banning-products-made-with-forced-labour-2022-09-14/?source=Snapzu

Leaked Report From Instagram Claims 'Most Reels Users Have No Engagement Whatsoever'

Meta has longed to see its Reels feature grab a piece of the short form video pie from TikTok, but both users and influencers apparently aren’t too interested.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/reels-instagram-meta-facebook-tiktok-1849526669?source=Snapzu

TikTok’s Secret To Explosive Growth? ‘Billions And Billions Of Dollars’ Says Snap CEO Evan Spiegel

American social media companies are increasingly feeling the squeeze from TikTok, the fastest growing video platform on the planet, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance. “It just feels like they are kicking the shit out of everybody,” Scott Galloway, co-host of the Pivot podcast and a marketing professor at NYU Stern, told Snap CEO Evan Spiegel at the Code Conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2022/09/08/tiktok-evan-spiegel-snap-sundar-pichai-google-code-conference/?sh=664027646995?source=Snapzu

Disney+ To Become A Experiential Lifestyle Platform.

This weekend, Disney is hosting its D23 Expo, and the Walt Disney Company’s CEO Bob Chapek hinted during the Legends Ceremony that Disney+ is going to become more interactive. In previous corporate presentations, Bob Chapek has spoken about Disney’s desire to build it’s own Metaverse, which often leaves people scratching their heads about what Disney is up to.
Read more: https://whatsondisneyplus.com/disney-to-become-a-experiential-lifestyle-platform/?source=Snapzu

Uber exec accused of disguising data-breach extortion as “bug bounty”

After the Federal Trade Commission began investigating a massive Uber data breach in 2016, the tech company was hit with another breach that was seemingly just as concerning. Rather than report the second data breach to the FTC and risk further public embarrassment, then-Uber security chief Joe Sullivan consulted with lawyers and then negotiated with the hackers. He allegedly set up a deal under which Uber paid the hackers a $100,000 "bug bounty" to delete the data, then pretended the data breach was part of a planned test of Uber's security and had the hackers sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/uber-exec-accused-of-disguising-data-breach-extortion-as-bug-bounty/?source=Snapzu

Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas

The companies hope to expand to the greater Bay Area.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/8/23339830/uber-eats-nuro-robot-delivery-ten-year-deal-california-texas?source=Snapzu

The decline of oil has already begun

We live in the era of peak oil, but just as the modern oil industry attempts to deny the effects of carbon emissions, the industry has also found it convenient to deny that oil is a finite resource that will peak and decline.
Read more: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/29458/peak-oil-decline-coronavirus-economy/?source=Snapzu

Apple Watch Series 3 Finally Selling Out Before Getting Discontinued

Apple Watch Series 3 models are finally selling out on Apple's online store around the world, just days before the line is expected to be discontinued. Three out of four Series 3 configurations listed on Apple's website are currently out of stock in the U.K. and Australia, for example, while one Series 3 model is unavailable on the U.S. store. Availability varies in other countries.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/04/apple-watch-series-3-finally-selling-out/?source=Snapzu

Chokepoint Capitalism: how Big Tech and Big Content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back

we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2022/09/06/chokepoint-capitalism-a-book-forthcoming-from-rebecca-giblin-and-cory-doctorow.html?source=Snapzu

Truth Social SPAC Reportedly Fails To Get Shareholder Support To Extend Deal Deadline

Digital World Acquisition Corp’s stock has slumped more than 18% in the last month amid reports of financial troubles at the former president’s social media company.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2022/09/06/truth-social-spac-reportedly-fails-to-get-shareholder-support-to-prolong-acquisition/?sh=30e7fba8cf68?source=Snapzu

Amazon Introduced New Tactics to Combat The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Review Bombing - IGN

Review bombing by internet trolls has become a huge problem and has caused sites like Rotten Tomatoes to show user scores for films and movies that are far lower than they should be. To help combat that problem, Amazon has introduced a new delay tactic for its new shows like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Read more: https://www.ign.com/articles/amazon-introduced-new-tactics-to-combat-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-review-bombing?source=Snapzu

Apple is gaining on Facebook and Google in online ads after iOS privacy change, report shows

The Google-Facebook online ad duopoly may be breaking up. According to a study published Tuesday by Appsumer, Apple is gaining momentum in digital ads, while Google and Facebook appear to be losing steam. The research, based on an analysis of the online ad budgets of over 100 different consumer app companies, found that Apple’s ad business has benefited from the company’s major iOS privacy update in 2021, which made it more difficult for companies like Facebook to track users across the Internet.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/06/apple-is-gaining-on-facebook-and-google-in-online-ads-after-ios-change.html?source=Snapzu

What Makes Bitcoin More Valuable Than Gold And Fiat

Since it was created in 2009 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakomoto, Bitcoin has become increasingly popular and valuable, garnering worldwide attention. In April 2021, Bitcoin’s market capitalization crossed the $1 trillion mark, making it a more attractive investment option for many when compared to gold. However, there are underlying principles that determine what constitutes money in an economy. Can we use mangoes as currency? No, it lacks some critical elements that are necessary to establish the value of an asset.
Read more: https://cryptonewsland.com/what-makes-bitcoin-more-valuable-than-gold-and-fiat/?source=Snapzu

Federal Circuit: AIs Are Inventions, Not Inventors

Modern AI (artificial intelligence) involves sophisticated algorithms and massive computing power. AI has been used to solve numerous problems, and it seems AI's only limit is human creativity.
Read more: https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/federal-circuit/federal-circuit-ais-are-inventions-not-inventors/?source=Snapzu

The Public Paid For Moderna’s mRNA Vaccine Tech; The Fact That Moderna Is Suing Over The Patent Is A Travesty

You may have heard last week that Moderna is suing Pfizer, claiming that Pfizer’s COVID vaccine violates Moderna’s patents. You can read the legal complaint which is full of bluster abo…
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/31/the-public-paid-for-modernas-mrna-vaccine-tech-the-fact-that-moderna-is-suing-over-the-patent-is-a-travesty/?source=Snapzu

Hate Verizon's customer service? Blame their labor practices

Workers at two corporate-run Verizon retail stores north of Seattle, Washington—in Everett and Lynnwood, respectively—voted to unionize in April 2022, becoming the first retail stores outside of New York to do so.
Read more: https://therealnews.com/hate-verizons-customer-service-blame-their-labor-practices?source=Snapzu

Shipping Liquid Hydrogen Would Cost 5-7x LNG Costs Per Unit Of Energy

All of the projects proposing to manufacture hydrogen where sunshine and wind are constant and cheap and ship it to where energy is consumed are ignoring fiscal reality and the obvious alternative of HVDC transmission.
Read more: https://energycentral.com/c/pip/shipping-liquid-hydrogen-would-cost-5-7x-lng-costs-unit-energy?source=Snapzu