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Technology News : Drone maker DJI has lodged a complaint against the BBC over the way the flying gadgets were portrayed in TV reports. In an open letter, it expressed “deep disappointment” with the way drones were depicted in the videos. The reports were based on “hearsay”, claimed DJI, which felt they fell short of the BBC’s public remit to “inform, educate and entertain”. The BBC said its investigation had shown positive uses of drones and that its programmes were fair. Disturbing report In its letter, DJI spelled out its objections to two separate BBC reports. One was a Panorama report broadcast in April that dealt with the shutdown at Gatwick believed to have been caused by a drone. The other was a Horizon report called “Britain’s Next Air Disaster? Drones” that was shown on 1 July. DJI said it provided video footage and advice to production teams for both the reports, but said the BBC used little of this material. Instead of featuring this informatio...

Technology News : The U.S. Census Bureau is using new high-tech tools to help get an accurate population count next year as its faces challenges tallying people of color who live in remote places and can be wary of the federal government.The agency is using aerial photos of rural communities and hard-to-reach areas to verify addresses and determine where to send workers to ensure everyone is counted, Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham said. Satellites and planes take photos, and bureau employees compare the housing captured in the images to digital maps from the last census, in 2010. It takes a fraction of the time needed by workers in the field. The agency has used geographic technology since 1990 but has never had access to such accurate tools from the air, said Deirdre Dalpiaz Bishop, head of the bureau’s geography division. That technology — known as geographic information system, or GIS — uses computers to analyze neighborhoods, land formations, rivers and oth...

Daily life hacks : After every party it’s time to clean up and Mount Everest is no different. The record number of climbers crowding the world’s highest mountain this season has left a government cleanup crew grappling with how to clear away everything from abandoned tents to human waste that threatens drinking water. Budget expedition companies charge as little as $30,000 per climber, cutting costs including waste removal. Everest has so much garbage — depleted oxygen cylinders, food packaging, rope — that climbers use the trash as a kind of signpost. But this year’s haul from an estimated 700 climbers, guides and porters on the mountain has been a shock to the ethnic Sherpas who worked on the government’s cleanup drive this spring. Moreover, the tents are littering South Col, or Camp 4, which, at 8,000 meters (26,240 feet) is the highest campsite on Everest, just below the summit. The high winds at that elevation have scattered the tents and trash everywhere. “The alti...

Technology News : The changes – which mean UK internet users may have to prove their age – were due to start on 15 July after already being delayed from April 2018. The culture secretary confirmed the postponement saying the government had failed to tell European regulators about the plan. Completing the notification process could take up to six months. In the House of Commons, Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright said an “important notification process was not undertaken for an element of this policy”. All you need to know about the under-18 porn block How do your porn habits compare? Does pornography still drive the internet? He said the UK government had failed to inform Brussels about key aspects of the scheme. Mr Wright apologised for the delay and said it was still the government’s intention to bring in the age-checking system. No silver bullet The plans for compulsory age-checks for UK porn viewers – which the government has described as a world-fi...

The air we breathe is killing us. The World Health Organisation ( WHO ) says air pollution causes the death of seven million people a year and accounts for a third of fatalities from stroke, lung cancer and heart disease, with more than 90% of children breathing toxic air every day. Until we tackle the root causes of air pollution – burning fossil fuels mainly – we can at least learn where and when it is likely to be at its most dangerous. And this is where the data collected by tens of thousands of air quality sensors and analysed in real time by machine learning algorithms could help. Read Full News : https://usacnnnews.com/2019/04/26/tracking-toxic-air-thats-killing-millions/ Read More Breaking news : CNN NEWS