智能家电一半没被利用 向电动汽车过渡也威胁环境 微软全球云中断

1) Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances.

有一半的客户买了智能家电后并没有建立网络连接去控制它，家电制造商对此感到遗憾。

尽管联网家电越来越受欢迎，但仍有大约一半的智能设备没有与互联网连接。制造商对此表示沮丧和失望。

文章分析认为，这可能是由于消费者感受不到智能家电联网有什么实质性的好处或者对隐私和安全感到担忧。

The challenge is that a consumer doesn’t see the true value that manufacturers see in terms of how that data can help them in the long run. So they don’t really care for spending time to just connect it.

Appliance makers are eager for buyers to connect their smart devices, but at least some may think they've done the smart thing by letting them work offline.

2) Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc.

美国向电动汽车的过渡威胁环境。

一项新研究表明，电动汽车对锂的需求不断增加可能会对环境造成负面影响，尤其是在锂矿开采最多的地方。该研究表明，锂矿开采的扩张可能导致水资源短缺、污染和对野生动物栖息地的破坏。

研究人员通过建模分析，认为如果改变交通模式和城市规模，人们可以减少对锂矿的需求，最多可以节省92%。

文章还指出锂矿业缺乏监管和监督，呼吁加大力度确保金属的可持续和负责任的开采。

It warns that unless the US’s dependence on cars in towns and cities falls drastically, the transition to lithium battery-powered electric vehicles by 2050 will deepen global environmental and social inequalities linked to mining – and may even jeopardize the 1.5C global heating target.

In the best-case scenario – comparing the status quo in which EV battery size grows and US car dependency remains stable – with ambitious public transit, city density and recycling policies, the lithium demand would be 92% lower.

Lithium mining is, like all mining, environmentally and socially harmful.

3) Microsoft users hit with global cloud outage that impacted products like Teams and Outlook.

微软用户遭遇全球云中断，主要影响Teams和Outlook等产品。

微软正在调查25日的云服务中断问题，中断的原因仍然未知。一些用户报告说他们无法发送或接收电子邮件，一些人则根本无法访问他们的账户。

微软正好也刚刚发布了季报，云计算产品的收入放缓，季度指引也不佳。

Microsoft users were on Wednesday hit with a cloud outage that affected several of its products, including Teams and Outlook.

We’ve identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps.