The value of wire transfers revealed in court filings by the New York Attorney General on Friday made by the Sackler family in an apparent effort to shield wealth as it faced a raft of litigation over its role in the opioid crisis.
Source: New York Times
The combined quarterly advertising revenues for Google and Facebook, among the few firm numbers available to estimate the value of the Internet. The question has renewed importance as policy-makers — including California Gov. Gavin Newsom — have “proposed creating a ‘data dividend’ that would require large tech companies to pay users for their data, which requires an understanding of how much the data is worth to companies such as Google and Facebook.”
A Dutch company, Urban Crossovers, is piloting an emissions-free aviation fuel. It is a kind of kerosene, made from passing electricity through a mixture of carbon dioxide and water taken from ambient air. Proponents call the potential “limitless” but concede that the capacity of the current plant’s output is only 1,000 liters of the new fuel a day — an amount a jet will consume in five minutes of flying. That in a world with 225,000 flights a day.
An annual car-tab fee that hybrid-vehicle owners in Washington state will begin paying this month to finance electric-car charging stations they will never use. Owners of plug-in electric cars already pay $150 into the state roads fund instead of gasoline taxes, will also pay the $75 electrification fee, for a total $225. The hybrid fee, awkwardly labelled labeled “Hybrid Vehicle Transportation Electrification” on bills from the state Department of Licensing (DOL) was part legislation passed in the last session “intended to promote electric vehicles and reduce carbon emissions.”
The number of daily users of Twitch, a streaming service owned by Amazon that is primarily used for video gaming and was used to live-stream a shooting in Germany on Wednesday.
The height of 500 new telephone poles that will be erected around Denver’s neighborhoods to upgrade the cellular network to 5G, renewing NIMBY concerns among neighbors as the infrastructure for the next generation of wireless services gets built out.
The amount of damages that University of Wisconsin would have received from Apple Inc. had the US Supreme Court not declined to review the lower-court decision on Monday. In 2014, the University had claimed infringement on computer processor technology that, the school claims, were used by Apple without permission.