The Morning After: Those geomagnetic storms are messing with farming tech’s GPS systems

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The Morning After: Those geomagnetic storms are messing with farming tech’s GPS systems
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reported farmers have been told to pause using high-tech tractors that use GPS systems to program and tightly farm their land. John Deere ’s tractors’ Real-Time Kinematic systems can apparently plant precisely, down to the centimeter. A bit of GPS noise could derail that.The weekend’s geomagnetic storm is the strongest in the last 20 years and reached G5 levels, considered “extreme,” on Friday and Saturday morning.

Apple’s recently added option for App Store developers to include links to external payment methods isn’t actually all that appealing. In a hearing on Friday, as part of the ongoing legal battle with Epic, Apple said only 38 developers have applied to add such links — out of roughly 65,000 that could. The changes were to satisfy an injunction ordered by US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in 2021.

The Alphabet-owned autonomous taxi company has announced it’s now serving more than 50,000 paid trips every week across Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Waymo One operates 24/7 in parts of those cities, so if the company is getting 50,000 rides a week, that’s five bookings every minute.

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