The scientific consensus that humans are causing global warming is likely to have passed 99% https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/24/scientific-consensus-on-humans-causing-global-warming-passes-99, according to the lead author of the most authoritative study on the subject, and could rise further after separate research that clears up some of the remaining doubts. From a report: Three studies published in Nature and Nature Geoscience use extensive historical data to show there has never been a period in the last 2,000 years when temperature changes have been as fast and extensive as in recent decades. It had previously been thought that similarly dramatic peaks and troughs might have occurred in the past, including in periods dubbed the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Climate Anomaly. But the three studies use reconstructions based on 700 proxy records of temperature change, such as trees, ice and sediment, from all continents that indicate none of these shifts took place in more than half the globe at any one time.

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German footballer and club teammate Kolasinac involved in attempted carjacking in London; both unhurt, Arsenal says.

German footballer and club teammate Kolasinac involved in attempted carjacking in London; both unhurt, Arsenal says.

German footballer and club teammate Kolasinac involved in attempted carjacking in London; both unhurt, Arsenal says.

Riham, whose attempt to rescue sister was viewed widely online, dies in hospital, SY24 media outlet reports.

Riham, whose attempt to rescue sister was viewed widely online, dies in hospital, SY24 media outlet reports.

A power-sharing deal between the opposition coalition and the ruling military council has been agreed in Sudan.

A power-sharing deal between the opposition coalition and the ruling military council has been agreed in Sudan.

The Sudanese Journalists' Union demanded the military rulers release journalist Sadiq al-Rizaigi, or put him on trial.

The Sudanese Journalists' Union demanded the military rulers release journalist Sadiq al-Rizaigi, or put him on trial.

The wealthy financier is being held on charges of sex trafficking dozens of underage girls.

Representative Tulsi Gabbard, the long-shot presidential candidate from Hawaii, is suing Google for infringing on her free speech (alternative source) when it briefly suspended her campaign's advertising account after the first Democratic debate in June. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in a federal court in Los Angeles, is seeking damages of at least $50 million. It's believed to be the first time a presidential candidate has sued a major technology firm. The New York Times reports: Tulsi Now Inc., the campaign committee for Ms. Gabbard, said Google suspended the campaign's advertising account for six hours on June 27 and June 28, obstructing its ability to raise money and spread her message to potential voters. After the first Democratic debate, Ms. Gabbard was briefly the most searched-for candidate on Google. Her campaign wanted to capitalize on the attention she was receiving by buying ads that would have placed its website at the top of search results for her name. The lawsuit also said the Gabbard campaign believed its emails were being placed in spam folders on Gmail at "a disproportionately high rate" when compared with emails from other Democratic candidates. Ms. Gabbard and her campaign are seeking an injunction against Google from further meddling in the election and damages of at least $50 million.

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Apple is officially acquiring Intel's smartphone modem business for $1 billion, the two companies announced today. As rumored earlier this week, the move "would jump-start the iPhone maker's push to take control of developing the critical components powering its devices." The Verge reports: The acquisition means that Apple is now well on the way to producing its own 5G modems for its smartphones, rather than having to rely on Qualcomm for the hardware. Developing its own modems has the potential to deliver big benefits for Apple. In particular, it would no longer be subject to the patent licensing terms of Qualcomm, which were the source of the two companies' lengthy legal dispute. In the past, Apple has accused Qualcomm for charging "disproportionately high" fees in patent royalties, which it was accused of forcing companies to agree to if they want access to its hardware as part of a "no license -- no chips" policy. The talks with Intel to acquire its modem business are understood to have started last summer, according to the WSJ, when Intel's new CEO Bob Swan arrived with a focus on cleaning up the company and addressing its loss-making segments. Acquiring another business to develop an in-house competitor is a tactic Apple has used at least once before when it spent $300 million to acquire part of Dialog, a company that previously supplied Apple with power management chips for its phones. The time of the acquisition, which included 300 employees, was Apple's biggest ever in terms of headcount.

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Residents of a village in South Sudan are digging a pond to ensure survival of their livestock in the dry season.

Stock trading service Robinhood has admitted this week to storing some customers' passwords in cleartext, according to emails the company has been sending to impacted customers. From a report: "On Monday night, we discovered that some user credentials were stored in a readable format within our internal system," the company said. "We resolved the issue, and after thorough review, found no evidence that this information was accessed by anyone outside our response team." Robinhood is now resetting passwords out of an abundance of caution, despite not finding any evidence of abuse. A company spokesperson told ZDNet via phone call that not all Robinhood users were impacted, but could not reveal the exact number.

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