Rubio calls for legislation to keep Huawei restrictions in place

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) vowed legislative action on Saturday after President Trump said that he would lift a ban on U.S. companies doing business with Chinese tech giant Huawei. Rubio predicted in a tweet that a veto-proof majority in the Senate would act to reinstate the ban and other restrictions on Huawei if Trump was serious about lifting them.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/451008-rubio-calls-for-legislation-to-keep-huawei-restrictions-in-place?source=Snapzu

How plants reclaimed Chernobyl's poisoned land

Trees and other kinds of vegetation have proven to be remarkably resilient to the intense radiation around the nuclear disaster zone.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190701-why-plants-survived-chernobyls-deadly-radiation?ocid=global_future_rss?source=Snapzu

40 years ago, the Sony Walkman changed how we listen to music

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first portable music player
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/1/20677636/sony-walkman-anniversary-tps-l2-cassette-music-player-portable-mp3-evolution?source=Snapzu

The website that helps people leave the Mormon Church

To be a Mormon among Mormons is to realize the American fantasy of good neighbors. They’re the kind of neighbors from whom you borrow a cup of sugar and whom you trust to pick up your children from school when you’re stuck in a meeting. They invite you over on summer evenings for lemonade at the table in the backyard next to the hydrangeas. You eat their Jell-O salad at picnics.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/1/18759587/mormon-church-quitmormon-exmormon-jesus-christ-internet-seo-lds?source=Snapzu

'We all suffer': why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed

It was a beautiful winter day in San Francisco, and Zoe was grooving to the soundtrack of the roller-skating musical Xanadu as she rode an e-scooter to work. The 29-year-old tech worker had just passed the Uber building when, without warning, a homeless man jumped into the bike lane with his dog, blocking her path.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/01/san-francisco-big-tech-workers-industry?source=Snapzu

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious'

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez enters a boardroom at her constituency office in Queens, New York, after a short delay which, a political aide hopes, hasn’t been caused by a constituent waylaying her in the corridor. (“They can get really excited to meet her.”) Greta Thunberg is in her home in Sweden, her father testing the technology for the video link while the teenager waits in the background.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-met-greta-thunberg-hope-contagious-climate?source=Snapzu

Fake noise will be added to new electric cars starting today in the EU

All new models of electric cars sold in the European Union must now make artificial noise under certain conditions, reports BBC News. Acoustic Vehicle Alert Systems (aka, AVAS) will need to be installed in new models of hybrid and electric cars introduced from today onward, and all existing models by July 2021. With an AVAS installed, vehicles will need to make a sound while traveling under 12 mph, or while reversing.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/1/20676854/electric-cars-artificial-safety-noise-low-speeds-european-union-rules-2019-2021?source=Snapzu