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Chrome will start blocking ads on February 15

In June, Google revealed that Chrome will stop showing all ads (including those owned or served by Google) on websites that display non-compliant ads “starting in early 2018.”

Now the company has committed to a date: Chrome’s built-in ad-blocker will start working on February 15, 2018.

Google this year joined the Coalition for Better Ads, a group that offers specific standards for how the industry should improve ads for consumers — full-page ad interstitials, ads that unexpectedly play sound, and flashing ads are all banned.

Yesterday, the coalition announced the Better Ads Experience Program, which provides guidelines for companies using the Better Ads Standards to improve users’ experience with online ads.

Starting on February 15, in line with the Coalition’s guidelines, Chrome will remove all ads from sites that have a “failing” status in the Ad Experience Report for more than 30 days.

Google’s strategy is simple: Use Chrome to cut off ad revenue from websites that serve low-quality ads, as determined by the aforementioned standards.

If there are multiple, unfixed violations, Chrome will block all ads on the site in question. »

David Swenson's electrostatic "invisible wall" (1996)

Authored by amasci.com

Large fuzzy fields, this is how magnets and iron behave, and this is how e-fields and conductive objects should also behave.

However, since charge is created in pairs, and net charge is conserved, the imbalances of charge must be equal and opposite.

The charge on the entire length of moving film must be equal in magnitude to the charge on the spool. »

Obama didn’t force FCC to impose net neutrality, investigation found

Authored by arstechnica.com

Obama publicly called on the FCC to reclassify broadband providers as "Title II" common carriers and impose the rules in November 2014, three months before the FCC vote did just that.

The report doesn't disprove Pai's claim that the Obama White House pushed the FCC to adopt its Title II net neutrality rules.

No one disputes that Obama urged the FCC to impose the rules. »

UPS Pre-Orders 125 Tesla Electric Trucks

Authored by pressroom.ups.com

UPS (NYSE:UPS), which operates one of the largest commercial trucking fleets in the world, today announced it has placed a reservation for 125 of Tesla’s new fully-electric Semi tractors.

UPS has provided Tesla real-world UPS trucking lane information as part of the company’s evaluation of the vehicle’s expected performance for the UPS duty cycle.

UPS frequently partners with suppliers of emerging vehicle technologies to help them develop solutions that prove ready for stringent UPS use-cases. »

Travel guides to segregated US for black Americans reissued

Authored by theguardian.com

A series of travel books written for African Americans travelling in the segregated US of the last century, which listed the places in which they were allowed to stay, shop and eat, is being republished in facsimile editions.

Further editions would follow through the 1940s, 50s and 60s, until civil rights laws brought an end to legal segregation.

“The reaction to the book is very, very good … and when you can hand one to someone directly, it’s amazing. »