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Trucking’s uneasy relationship with new tech
Posted onSam Gruet Technology Reporter Getty Images Digital trucking apps look to minimise trucks without cargo When Jared first started out in trucking more than two decades ago, he didn’t anticipate he’d be on tour with a country music star, hauling guitars, amps, and other pieces of on-stage equipment. “It just happened, right place, right time,”…
Data centres: The new tech stopping chips from overheating
Posted onChris BaraniukTechnology Reporter The Washington Post via Getty Images Data centres can’t function without cooling systems They work 24/7 at high speeds and get searingly hot – but data centre computer chips get plenty of pampering. Some of them basically live at the spa. “We’ll have fluid that comes up and [then] shower down, or…
Head of Dubai-based ports giant DP World quits after Epstein links revealed
Posted onTwo separate emails, which appear to be from Sulayem, revealed he had an Irish and Uzbek girlfriend. In 2017, he boasts “This my new 22 years old Uzbek” to Epstein. Epstein corrects him and appears to make a comment about her age: “According to her passport she is now 23, old”.
UPS to cut 30,000 jobs as it moves away from Amazon
Posted onParcel delivery giant UPS says it will cut up to 30,000 jobs this year as it further reduces shipments for its biggest customer, Amazon. The world’s largest package delivery company has been scaling back deliveries for the online retail giant, which it says are “extraordinarily dilutive” to its profit margins. UPS says the job cuts…
Donald Trump to unveil home buying plan involving retirement funds
Posted onUS President Donald Trump is set to announce a plan that would let Americans use their retirement savings for down payments on homes. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who hinted at the plan on Friday, offered few details about how withdrawals from US workplace retirement accounts – known as 401(k)s – would work. “Suppose…
Alan Turing AI boss denies toxic culture accusations
Posted onThe Alan Turing Institute Chair has told the BBC there is “no substance” to a number of serious accusations which rocked the organisation in the summer. In August, whistleblowers accused the charity’s leadership of misusing public funds, overseeing a “toxic internal culture”, and failing to deliver on its mission. They said the Turing Institute, the…
