Deep in the heart of Israel’s desert, shimmering mountains of green, brown and white glass dominate the landscape, awaiting a new life. It’s a beautiful spectacle. Read more…
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Israel’s Only Bottle Factory Turns Desert Sand Into Mountains of Glass
You probably know that shooting in RAW is, for most photography buffs, better than using JPGs—but you might not know exactly why. This image should help. Read more…
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RAW and JPG File Formats Are Very Different Indeed
FaceTime’s a great way for iPhone users to make video calls, but if you’ve ever wondered how much data gets eaten up when you do so, Calling All Geeks ran some numbers. Read more…
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How Much Data a FaceTime Call Uses
Bunnie has a years of experience partnering with manufacturers in Shenzhen, so he knows what he’s talking about. This looks like a fantastic resource for hardware entrepreneurs. Bunnie Huang, the infamous hardware hacker known for reverse engineering the XBox and the Novena, is publishing “ The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen .” He started a crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply yesterday and it soared past its goal of $10K (at $35/ copy) in less than 24 hours. This is a must-have guide for any hardware startup founder, maker, or IoT developer looking to China to manufacture. With Overcoming the language barrier is one of the keys to unlocking the market’s full potential, and this book’s point-to-translate format enables a fluidity of interaction with market vendors that no translation app or guide book can match. “Going to Shenzhen, China is a massive enabler for Makers, hackers, and entrepreneurs alike. The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen is the book I wish I had when I first stepped foot into China a decade ago.” – bunnie
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Bunnie Huang’s "Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen"
Germany just took fusion power one big, important step forward. The country’s Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics has just switched on Wendelstein 7-X , the first large fusion reactor based on a twisty stellarator design. It’s only producing hydrogen plasma at the moment and won’t actually generate energy, but power isn’t really the point. Instead, it’ll serve as proof that stellarators could provide energy while operating continuously, unlike current (tokamak-based) fusion reactors that operate in short pulses. They should be safer, too. The inaugural test phase will run through mid-March, after which point it’ll get an upgrade to let it run hotter and longer. Eventually, it should discharge for up to 30 minutes at a time, and muster a heating power of 20 megawatts. The machine comes at a high price in more ways than one. It took roughly 19 years to design and build Wendelstein 7-X at a staggering cost of €1.2 billion, or about $1.3 billion. That’s a lot of effort for a testbed device. However, it could pay off if it leads to a much more powerful (not to mention less dangerous ) alternative to nuclear fission energy. Via: Motherboard Source: Max Planck Institute
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Twisty fusion reactor goes online after 19 years of work
If you want fast 4G, you should live in Singapore, New Zealand or Hungary. But perhaps most importantly, you should definitely not live in the US. Read more…
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US LTE Speeds Rank a Dire 55th Fastest in the World
Flexible devices may still be a little way off , but a new kind of ceramic that is flexible in the same way as paper could certainly help speed things along. Read more…
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A New Ceramic Film Promises Electronics That Fold Like Paper
Owning your own car company has a lot of little-considered benefits: all the slightly-damaged car seats you want for napping, easy access to stacks of tires to build forts, and the ability to cancel any customer’s order just because you don’t like them. Guess which one Elon Musk just took advantage of? Read more…
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Elon Musk Cancels Blogger’s Model X Order Because He Bitched About Event
Yahoo can’t seem to figure out how to turn itself around. Today it announced a new ” aggressive strategic plan ” to pare itself down to focus on its strength in its Q4 earnings report. That plan involves laying off 15 percent of its workforce and closing five international offices. The offices closing will be in Dubai, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Milan. The layoffs will mean the company will have only 9, 000 employees by the end of 2016. The overall goal is to reduce operating costs by $400 million in the coming year. The company brought in $1.27 billion in revenue during the quarter. The company had a huge writedown of $4.5 billion. Ouch. In a statement CEO Marissa Mayer said, “today, we’re announcing a strategic plan that we strongly believe will enable us to accelerate Yahoo’s transformation. This is a strong plan calling for bold shifts in products and in resources.” During the earnings’ livestream Mayer noted that when she took over, the company was full of legacy businesses and a declining revenue stream that had to be shuttered. She noted that the Mavens (mobile, video, native and social) sector was a revenue source that had an “incredibly fast growth line of business.” Mayer also said that it needs to be engage its users and will focus on its top businesses, Search, Mail and Tumblr. It will also be even more bullish on mobile with upcoming changes to the sports and finance apps and the recent change to the search app. Source: Yahoo
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Yahoo is laying off 1,700 people and closing five offices
Amazon is working on plans to open hundreds of brick-and-mortar bookstores, according to a new report from CNBC . Yes, following in the steps of chains like Borders, Amazon apparently thinks that the future is in deadtrees. Read more…