A sunny outlook
What's this solar thing? I always thought flares were what Kiwis grew in their gardens.
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"...will end up in the ocean."
Umm, Which ocean did you have in mind? There are at least 6 that I can think of, and numerous large 'Seas'.
"Having used up the last of the fuel, the mission officially ended..."
While IANAAstrophysicist, why not deorbit this device while they still had fuel and could actually control, to a larger extent, where on Earth (literally) it was going to splash down?
Start with
"Criminals could remotely tamper with the data that apps used by airplane pilots rely on to inform safe takeoff and landing procedures, according to fresh research."
and finish with
"Our analysis, confirmed by EASA, showed that there was no safety issue thanks to the security procedures in place to validate flight-relevant data..."
Yes, it's possible, but hardly likely if you read the whole article. Come on, El Reg, let's not have click-bait headlines. You're better than that.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, opened the keynote by sounding familiar themes. He leaned into the implied sentiment, "We're here to help,"'
We regret that our CEO's quote was accidentally truncated in the autocue. What he was meant to say was...
"We're here to help gather and onsell as much data about our users as possible."
It seems to be a thing in Europe.
And at the opposite end of the planet here in Oz as well. For about AUD120 (GBP70, USD90) per month, we get 100mbps down / 25 up unlimited data, cable entertainment equivalent to Netflix/Foxtel, land line with free calls to all national and mobile numbers as well as free calls to most countries that we'd want to call (Nth America, UK/Europe and most of Asia) as well as some others in Sth America.
Compared to average weekly earnings here, it's quite affordable.
"We use technology to detect and block scam ads and work to get ahead of scammers' attempts to evade our detection systems."
All I can say is they do a piss-poor job of it. My 10 year old grand-daughter could do better! Next they'll be saying they have a 'Centre of Excellence'.
Like others above, I've reported these generally well-known folks spruiking dubious schemes, and had much the same response. Pathetic.
I hope Twiggy Forrest takes them to the cleaners.
In a previous press release we said: "Meta trains data2vec neural network to understand speech, images, text so it can 'understand the world'"
That release should have said "Meta trains data2vec neural network to understand speech, images, text so it can 'take over the world'".