Techstrong News Recap – December 5, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for December 5th. First up Tesla delivered its first electric semi trucks to PepsiCo last Thursday night. The company delivered three trucks to a PepsiCo factory located near Reno, Nevada with these trucks being part of pepsico's zero emissions Freight project to minimize carbon emissions.

Tesla's electric semis were originally announced back in 2017 with plans to begin production in 2019. And while these trucks might be three years late. It makes it significant technical Advance over the current EV truck.

Tesla said that the semi trucks will be able to drive up to 500 miles on a single charge as opposed to Rhino semi truck that only can drive 125 miles. Next the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu are not video service to Providers. It will not have to pay the same fees that cable providers do.

Since streaming services deliver content over the internet and not cables and wires in public rights of way. They will not be subjected to the same charges. Zooming out the issue of whether or not video streaming services are video service providers has become a Hot Topic in recent years with several States issuing lawsuits, including Tennessee, Missouri and, California.

This being said these streaming services seem to be getting the upper hand as a majority of the courts have begun to side with the streaming services. In other news the days of putting your phone into airplane mode might be soon coming to an end at least for passengers in the EU. The European Union recently ruled that airplanes will be able to provide 5G technology on flights allowing passengers to make calls and stream video or music.

Well, there's could be concerns that 5G could interfere with flights a member of the UK flight Safety Committee has said that there's little chance of interference since 5G operates on a different frequency band. The deadline to make the 5G frequency band available for planes is June 30th of next year. Next up the NFL has announced that it is teaming up with Amazon web services for its contact detection challenge a contest.

We're designers use machine learning in computer vision to better measure and analyze player contact during NFL games. The NFL has said they would use this data to better anticipate injuries as they occur and help prevent them entirely. The NFL has even stated that the data that they gather here could lead them to change the rules of the entire football games.

The challenge will begin today and the top finishers will be announced in March. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at how the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency has issued an advisory calling for extra consumer vigilance when it comes to shopping scams. With the holiday season right around the corner malicious actors are trying to take advantage of everyone shopping sprees.

com. On container Journal we have an article looking at how Rafi systems announced that it would be adding a cost Management Service to its kubernetes clusters management platform. Rafae systems that this new feature will eliminate the need to deploy an additional tool for Price management, which can save money especially during our current economic downturn.

com. Finally on digital cxl. We've an article looking at how operational excellence will happen when you fix your service experiences.

Employees will be more satisfied and productive if they can easily request the services that they need to be successful at their jobs. This article looks at some of the things that you can do to improve these experiences. com and that's today's text wrong news recap.