Tag: science

Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car?

cartechboy writes “GM may sell the Chevy Volt, but it’s not a sexy electric car like Tesla Model S. It’s a plug-in hybrid with muddled marketing (whose owners love it even though they burn gasoline sometimes). Product exec Doug Parks says GM is developing an electric car that does 200 miles on one charge, with a price around $30, 000. But he wouldn’t say when, falling back on the old excuse: ‘Electric car batteries are really, really expensive!’ Tesla’s still the only maker to offer an electric car with more than 200 miles of range, so it will be interesting to see whether GM can really build a true Tesla rival. If so, the marketing must be better than the Volt’s. Otherwise, it won’t matter how good the car is.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Visit link:
Can GM Challenge Tesla With a Long-Range Electric Car?

Japan Controls Rocket Launch With Just 8 People and 2 Laptops

SpaceGhost writes “Sky News reports that the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has launched an orbital telescope on a new generation rocket from the Uchinoura Space Centre in Kagoshima, in southwestern Japan. The Epsilon rocket uses an onboard AI for autonomous launch checks by the rocket itself (launch video). A product of renewed focus on reducing costs, the new vehicle required two laptops and a launch team of eight, compared to the 150 people needed to launch the previous platform, the M-5. Because of the reduced launch team and ease of construction, production and launch costs of the Epsilon are roughly half that of the M-5. The payload, a SPRINT-A telescope, is designed for planetary observation.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Link:
Japan Controls Rocket Launch With Just 8 People and 2 Laptops

Intel Shows 14nm Broadwell Consuming 30% Less Power Than 22nm Haswell

MojoKid writes “Kirk Skaugen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the PC Client Group at Intel, while on stage, at IDF this week snuck in some additional information about Broadwell, the 14nm follow up to Haswell that was mentioned during Brian Krzanich’s opening day keynote. In a quick demo, Kirk showed a couple of systems running the Cinebench multi-threaded benchmark side-by-side. One of the systems featured a Haswell-Y processor, the other a Broadwell-Y. The benchmark results weren’t revealed, but during the Cinebench run, power was being monitored on both systems and it showed the Broadwell-Y rig consuming roughly 30% less power than Haswell-Y and running fully loaded at under 5 watts. Without knowing clocks and performance levels, we can’t draw many conclusion from the power numbers shown, but they do hint at Broadwell-Y’s relative health, even at this early stage of the game.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Visit site:
Intel Shows 14nm Broadwell Consuming 30% Less Power Than 22nm Haswell

DoD office can’t process FOIAs because fax machine broken, no money for new one

MuckRock News reports that Freedom of Information Act requests faxed to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) started coming back as undeliverable a couple weeks ago.        

Taken from:
DoD office can’t process FOIAs because fax machine broken, no money for new one

Majority of Enterprise Customers Finally ‘Migrating Away From Windows XP’

New submitter TinTops writes “Speaking in a keynote at Intel’s Developer Forum, Microsoft’s vice president of marketing, Tami Reller, said the firm has ‘now seen about three quarters of Windows enterprises moving to modern desktops’ from Windows XP, with the last leg of Windows XP migrations being spurred by the imminent availability of Windows 8.1. However, Reller did not offer a breakdown of the enterprise uptake of Windows 8 compared to Windows 7, both of which are counted by Microsoft as modern desktops.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Original post:
Majority of Enterprise Customers Finally ‘Migrating Away From Windows XP’

E-ZPass Is the Best Tracking Device That’s Already in Your Car

E-ZPass is probably the best thing that’s ever happened to paying tolls. Those plastic funnels you toss coins into are a close second. But E-ZPass has a bonus feature. It can be used to track you everywhere you go . Read more…        

More:
E-ZPass Is the Best Tracking Device That’s Already in Your Car

Luc Besson still wants to make another Fifth Element

Fifth Element director Luc Besson doesn’t exactly want to make a sequel to his famous space opera — but another film, in the same vein and with the same ideas. Which he would direct. Read more…        

See the original post:
Luc Besson still wants to make another Fifth Element

GTA 5 Map Compared to the Google Maps of Major Cities

After the enormous map for Grand Theft Auto V leaked online , the Internet has had a ball geeking out on the render of Los Santos and Blaine Counties. The geography is based on the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, but to give you an idea for how big the city really is in real life , Reddit user fakeitlikeyoumakeit took the Google Maps of other major cities and scaled them to GTA 5 proportions. Read more…        

Read the original post:
GTA 5 Map Compared to the Google Maps of Major Cities