The U.S. Will Add A Third Gender Option On Passports

With the changes, "we don't have to lie to get our passports. We can just be ourselves," said Dana Zzyym, an intersex person who has fought for more gender options on U.S. passports.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/30/1011866915/u-s-will-add-an-option-other-than-male-or-female-on-passports?source=Snapzu

Flying car completes test flight between airports

The vehicle runs on regular fuel and can travel up to 1,000km while airborne, its creator says.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57651843?source=Snapzu

US caller ID deadline arrives as FCC moves on $10bn problem

Addressing the blight of spoofing and robocalls, today, 30 June, marks the last day for US phone companies to implement ID authentication using technical standards.
Read more: https://www.capacitymedia.com/articles/3828980/us-caller-id-deadline-arrives-as-fcc-moves-to-solve-10bn-problem?source=Snapzu

My Windows 11 Predictions

Pretty interesting predictions.
Read more: https://snapzu.com/Gozzin/my-windows-11-predictions?source=Snapzu

China is facing its worst power shortage in a decade. That's a problem for the whole world

China is in the middle of a huge power crunch as extreme weather, surging demand for energy and strict limits on coal usage deliver a triple blow to the nation's electricity grid. It's a problem that could last for months, straining the country's economic recovery and weighing on global trade.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/economy/china-power-shortage-intl-hnk/index.html?source=Snapzu

Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine'

There is so much concrete in the world that soon it will outweigh all living matter – including us.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210628-concrete-the-material-that-defines-our-age?source=Snapzu

Chris Selley: If politicians can't condemn Indigenous church burnings, 'reconciliation' is a pipe dream

At time of writing, exactly one federal party leader has publicly condemned what is now a quite astonishing church-burning epidemic in Indigenous communities in four provinces. In a tweet on Monday, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole called it “appalling,” which it surely is at a bare minimum. Such acts may or may not “undermine the important discussions” with respect to reconciliation, as O’Toole claimed; we don’t yet know who might have set these fires or why.
Read more: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-if-politicians-cant-condemn-indigenous-church-burnings-reconciliation-is-a-pipe-dream?source=Snapzu