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Why did a Gulf of Mexico oil drilling lease sale just happen under Biden?

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held a lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday for oil and gas drilling rights. Why did the Biden administration hold an auction for fossil fuel drilling, on the heels of COP26, where countries agreed to “phase down” fossil fuels? Gulf of Mexico oil drilling lease sale The lease sale generated $192 million in high bids from 33 companies…
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GM promised 20 new EVs by 2023. They brought zero to the LA Auto Show

In October 2017, GM announced that it would release 20 new EVs by 2023 – just over five years from then, and just over one year from now. How’s that going? If GM’s booth at the LA Auto Show is any indication (and it is): Not very well. The LA Auto Show is a bit muted this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic is still happening t (and Los Angeles has strict mask and vaccine/test guidelines for…
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GamingNews

Activision Blizzard employees petition Kotick to step down, Xbox boss weighs in

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Today saw a couple of major updates to the continuing Activision Blizzard scandal. Now more games industry figures are criticizing CEO Bobby Kotick’s leadership, including…
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MobileNews

Here’s how Background Sounds work in iOS 15

One of the handy new features in iOS 15 is Background Sounds. Read along for how to use iPhone Background Sounds, what you get, what you don’t, how it works while listening to music, and more. Backgrounds Sounds comes with six options: balanced, bright, or dark noise…
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Instagram for iOS adds the ability to delete a photo from a Carousel, adds ‘Rage Shake’ to report a problem

Instagram for iOS has added two new features that the head of the app considers “hidden gems.” It’s now possible to delete a photo from a Carousel as well as use this “Rage Shake” function to report a problem. These features were announced by Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram. According to him, the ability to delete a photo from a Carousel is a “finally feature.” He explains: A…
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