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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A German court has told Apple to stop advertising its Watches as being carbon-neutral, ruling that this was misleading and could not fly under the country's competition law. Apple has been marketing its newest smartwatches as being carbon-neutral for nearly two years now, with an array of rationales. It claims that clean energy for manufacturing, along with greener materials and shipping, lop around three-quarters off the carbon emissions for each model of the Apple Watch. The remaining emissions are offset by the purchase of carbon credits, according to Apple. Deutsche Umwelthilfe (well, DUH – that's the acronym), a prominent environmental group, begged to differ on that last point. It applied for an injunction in May and Tuesday's ruling (in German), which will only be published in full later this week, led it to claim victory. The ruling means Apple can't advertise the Watch as a "CO2-neutral product" in Germany. [...] The ruling revolved around the Paraguayan forestry program that Apple claimed was offsetting some of the Watch's production emissions. The project involves commercial eucalyptus plantations on leased land, where the leases for three-quarters of the land will run out in 2029 with no guarantee of renewal. According to the court, consumers' expectations of carbon compensation schemes are shaped by the prominent 2015 Paris Agreement, which commits countries to achieving carbon neutrality by the second half of this century. It said consumers would therefore "assume" that the carbon-neutrality claims around the Apple Watch would mean neutrality was assured through 2050. That leaves a 21-year gap of uncertainty in this case. The Verified Carbon Standard program, in which Apple is participating, has a "pooled buffer account" scheme to hedge against this sort of uncertainty. However, the German court was not impressed, saying it would only allow Apple to monitor the situation after the leases run out, which is a far cry from definitely being able to keep offsetting those emissions if the plantation gets cleared.

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Archaeologists have discovered a lost city below the sea, hailed as the Stone Age Atlantis. They found several artifacts that point to a human presence with structured activities.

It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material

Google has updated its Gemini AI image generation tool with a build that caused a stir after it was released under the code name Nano Bananas.…

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Travis Kelce has been spotted for the first time since he and Taylor Swift announced their engagement - as the Chiefs star took to the practice field like usual.

Johnny and Daisy have been queuing for half an hour in the sweltering Parisian heat. Johnny grins from ear to ear while Daisy bounces gently out of sheer excitement.

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Mohammad Shibli (pictured) claimed he was slapped so loudly it could be heard through noise-canceling headphones after he asked a flight attendant for a glass of water for his son.

BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Hosting.com has acquired Rocket.net, bringing the fast-growing managed WordPress hosting company under its corporate umbrella. The move gives hosting.com a proven SaaS platform and a strong brand in WordPress hosting, while Rocket.net gains the capital and global reach of a much larger player. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Rocket.net will continue to operate under its own name, but it is now part of hosting.com's family of brands. As part of the deal, Rocket.net founder and CEO Ben Gabler has been appointed Chief Product Officer at hosting.com, where he will lead product and software engineering across the entire company. [...] For hosting.com, the acquisition strengthens its ability to serve a wider range of customers. The company, founded in 2019, already operates more than 20 data centers, powers over 3 million websites, and serves 600,000 customers worldwide with a team of 900 employees. The Rocket.net platform will now be rolled out across hosting.com's global footprint, including the USA, UK, Germany, and Singapore, as well as new regions such as Mexico, the UAE, and Australia. Both companies stress that their commitment to WordPress and open source will remain intact. Hosting.com already sponsors global WordCamps and encourages employees to contribute to the WordPress project, while Rocket.net has long positioned itself as a champion of the open web.

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Follow along for Daily Mail's live coverage of the couple's engagement - from what we know about their wedding and details on the proposal to the secret messages in the announcement post.

The 79-year-old submitted a retrospective planning application to Camden Council following the start of work on the development in April this year.

The pop icon and the NFL star, both 35, announced their bombshell marriage news with a romantic photoshoot showing Kelce proposing in a rose garden.

Locals have been able to see smoke for miles, engulfing their homes and villages while emergency services and farmers have been working together to tackle the blaze in Langdale.

'Many dozens' targeted in ongoing campaign, CheckPoint researcher tells The Reg

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With AMD having attaining more than 40 percent revenue share and more than 27 percent shipment share in the X86 server CPU market in the first half of 2025, that means two things. …

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First Lady Melania Trump announced Tuesday a new contest for school children to use artificial intelligence to solve problems in their communities.

Over the past 14 years, the tech mogul has upended the once idyllic Golden State neighborhood with the never-ending noise of building work and rowdy parties.