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Twitter discouraged from building HQ in Florida by Governor DeSantis

Teslarati

He speculated that moving Twitter’s HQ to Florida would drive up the cost of living for the community. “Many in our state have experienced censorship and other tyrannical behavior firsthand in Cuba and Venezuela. ” The Florida Board of Administration supported Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, too.

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Ham Radio Jamming, Wireless Industry Battlegrounds, and IoT in Space

Cars That Think

Here are the highlights of what went down in telecom this year: Cuba Jamming Ham Radio? After coordination with operators in South America and Europe, the source of the interfering signals—which sound like “the unfortunate offspring of a frog and a Dalek ”—was quickly identified as Cuba. Seems like overkill, right?

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

The cost of fully implementing the Kyoto Protocol (in terms of lost economic growth) has been estimated at roughly $180 billion a year. No wonder so many of them have so much trouble with the largely Western plea that we all go on a carbon diet. It’s simply not in their interest to do so.