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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Californias plan to phase out and ban the sale of new gas-powered cars and light trucks by 2035. ABC News reported the EPA gave California the waivers it needed to enact the Advanced Clean Cars II Regulations (ACC II) devised and approved by the California Air Resources Board in 2022. The EPA also approved Californias plan to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from heavy-duty vehicles in order to reduce the amount of smog in the air. The state will require an initial 75 percent reduction in NOx pollution followed by a 90 percent reduction a few years later. The ACC II provides a year-to-year blueprint for phasing out the selling of combustion-engine vehicles. The plan sets a 2026 deadline by which 35 percent of the states car sales must be electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids or models with hydrogen fuel cells. Then by 2030, the electric vehicle sale threshold rises to 68 percent before reaching its ultimate 100 percent sale requirement by 2035. Consumers and dealerships will still be able to buy, sell and drive used ICE and hybrid cards until the ACC II. California Air Resources Board chair Liane Randolph estimated the ACC II could lead to a 50 percent drop in pollution by 2040. California Gov. Gavin Newsom hailed the decision and ACC II in a statement as evidence that California can rise to the challenge of protecting our people by cleaning our air and cutting pollution.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/epa-gives-thumbs-up-to-californias-new-gas-powered-car-sale-ban-232048688.html?src=rss
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Another day, another new Threads feature. Metas app will soon be rolling out a feature that allows users to re-share photos and videos to their timelines with credit to the original poster but without the original post attached. Once available, users will need to long press on a photo or video from their feed and select use media. Theyll then be able to draft a new post with the image of the clip attached, with a watermark from the original poster showing in the top left corner. This is a quick, easy way to add your creative takes to trending images and clips without quote posting, Threads chief Adam Mosseri wrote in a post. The feature is presumably meant to make it easier for people to reshare other users work with some credit for its original creator. Mosseri has fielded a number of complaints on Threads from frustrated users who see their work ripped off without credit. In a post last month, Mosseri said that Meta was trying to shift more distribution from aggregators to creators on both Instagram and Threads, though he acknowledged it can be very difficult to do so when the original post was lifted from a non Meta-owned platform. On Instagram, the company recently tweaked its algorithm in an attempt to boost creators over aggregators. Judging by some of the reactions to Threads latest update, however, a number of creators are still unhappy with Metas approach. It just seems like blatant content theft, one photographer replied. Quoting the post is a far more effective way of sharing someone's content with your own comments while crediting the creator, another user said. In a separate post, Meta noted that individual creators are able to disable media reuse in their apps settings, so it is possible to block your posts from being shared this way. (There are also settings to prevent others from quote posting entirely.) However, for those worried about accounts straight up ripping off their posts in the interest of engagement farming, theres still little any user can do to prevent less scrupulous accounts from copying their content with screenshots or other means.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/threads-new-use-media-feature-is-its-latest-attempt-to-fight-stolen-memes-and-engagement-farming-224119483.html?src=rss
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Apple is shelving its plans to offer the iPhone for a monthly subscription, Bloomberg reports. The company was first said to be exploring a hardware subscription in 2022, but like the companys buy now, pay later product, Apple Pay Later, it seems like it ultimately proved too problematic. The hardware subscription was rumored to work in a similar way to existing options like the iPhone Upgrade Program or Apple Card Monthly Installments, where you pay off a new phone or other Apple device with monthly payments, and in some cases get the option to upgrade to a new device without changing your subscription fee. Unlike those payment methods, which apply your payments to a one-time loan from either Citizen One or Goldman Sachs, Apples subscription was going to be managed through an Apple account and use whatever payment methods you already have connected. Apples expectation was that if it fronted the cost for an iPhone directly, people would upgrade more often and increase the companys recurring revenue. The problem is that much like Apple Pay Later, which let you split Apple Pay purchases into four smaller installments, the hardware subscription might have required Apple to follow the same regulations as credit card companies, Bloomberg says. Thats extra scrutiny the company didnt want to invite. Theres also the potential strain a hardware subscription could put on Apples relationships with carriers. You can buy an iPhone 16 from T-Mobile or Verizon with an installment plan that might be technically different from a subscription, but definitely feels like one when youre paying monthly. Apples hardware subscription was never officially announced, but it reflects what could be a larger retreat from the headaches of financial services. Apple Pay Later was shut down in June 2024 and replaced with access to Affirm loans in Apple Pay as part of iOS 18. The Apple Card is also reportedly in limbo as Apple searches for a partner to replace Goldman Sachs.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/apple-is-reportedly-giving-up-on-plans-to-turn-the-iphone-into-a-subscription-223540728.html?src=rss
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