Good morning, it's Tuesday, April 28, and the king and queen of the United Kingdom have arrived stateside.
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla landed in Maryland yesterday for their four-day tour. The visit is the first by a British monarch to the US since 2007 and Charles’ first since his 2022 coronation. See photos here.
The trip honors the 250th anniversary of US independence and reinforces the countries’ so-called “special relationship” (explore history). Experts say the visit could strengthen ties following rifts over Israel, Iran, Palestinian statehood, and the economic impact of US tariffs. The tour comes months after President Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit to the UK covered similar ground.
First on the agenda was a military reception and tea at the White House before a garden party at the home of the British ambassador. Today, Charles will speak before a joint session of Congress, the second time in history a British royal will do so, after his mother in 1991. See full schedule here. |
The Supreme Court yesterday considered whether police can access cellphone location data, potentially shaping how millions of Americans' movements are tracked. A ruling is expected by summer.
After witness interviews and security footage produced no leads in a 2019 Virginia bank robbery, officials obtained a warrant requiring Google to share data on devices within a 150-meter radius of the bank 30 minutes before and after the crime. That led to Okello Chatrie, who is serving nearly 12 years in prison. His lawyers argue the warrant was overly broad, violating Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches (101 here). The government, however, says anyone who voluntarily shares their location with tech companies has no expectation of privacy.
About four in five US adults report enabling location sharing on their devices, which companies like Google, Apple, and Uber use to give personalized search results, weather updates, and other location-based services.
How does your phone know where you are in the first place? Learn here (w/video). |
🫶 Humankind: Vacationing EMTs help deliver a baby aboard a commercial flight. (w/photos) |
Meta yesterday announced a deal with startup Overview Energy to purchase solar power collected by satellite and beamed back to Earth, an experimental approach that could power data centers at night.
Unlike traditional solar power, which relies on storing daylight, space-based solar power (see illustration) aims to deliver continuous energy. Overview Energy plans to deploy satellites over 22,000 miles from Earth's equator, where they would collect and transmit infrared energy to solar panels. A test is scheduled for 2028, with a commercial rollout in 2030. Meta is seeking up to 1 gigawatt of power from the project, underscoring its energy needs for AI. In 2024, Meta's data centers consumed 18,000 times the electricity that this deal would deliver in a single hour.
The idea of harvesting solar power from space was first imagined in a 1941 short story (listen here) and formally proposed by engineer Peter Glasser in 1968, but has remained mostly theoretical due to cost and complexity. |
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