CATL takes the lead in 2019, BYD makes first appearance among top five In 2019, over 14,400 tonnes of cobalt were deployed globally in batteries of newly sold passenger battery electric vehicles (“BEVs”), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (“PHEVs”) and hybrid electric vehicles (“HEVs”), an increase of 34% over the year prior, according to data from…
In 1969, a British engineer was invited to the White House to meet President Nixon. His name was Francis Thomas Bacon and he had developed the fuel cells used on Apollo 11. Known now as Bacon fuel cells, these power sources consume hydrogen and oxygen to produce water, heat and, in theory, a continuous supply…
You can not select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long. The real repository is located here The GitHub repository here is used for issues and stars 🌟 A powerful global DNS progagation checker that can output in…
Online & mainstream media and social networking have become increasingly misleading as to the state of the world by focusing on ‘stories’ and ‘events’ rather than trends and averages. This is because as the global population increases and the scope of media increases, media’s urge for narrative focuses on the most extreme outlier datapoints—but such…
A better way to manage global npm command line tools.I've always disked running npm install -g create-react-appto have a command line tool. I also dislike npx create-react-app because it downloads the dependencies every time. I can't keep track of it or lock down the version easily. Instead I have a project in my dotfiles which…
It's a wealth killer.More expensive cars, clothes, food, homes. The more money we make the more we allow ourselves to splurge. But how much does this cost in the long run?The cost of your rising expensesLet's assume you have a salary of $50,000 per year starting at age 25 and every year you are able…
I have been interested and closely following the "Financially Independent, Retire Early" (FIRE) movement thanks to influences of some friends and the passionate r/fire community. The FIRE approach recommends reducing spending and saving up aggressively so that you can retire in your ~40s with the investment returns from the money you saved. I fundamentally agree with the…
The following guidelines and tricks help me with task management, time management, planning & prioritization, reacting to ad-hoc situations, and the sense of not having accomplished anything during the day. There is some overlap with our Remote Work Guidelines1. My meta-advice for applying anything from this article: start with one improvement, don’t try it all…
I spent years working with an incomplete view of success. Scaling the corporate ladder and building the next $1 billion business was the game plan. Over time, I got closer to achieving my goals, and that was the problem.The EpiphanyFor years, I optimised my income without respect to my lifestyle. My work accommodated my life…
Visionary designer Pierre Cardin died at a hospital in Neuilly, west of Paris, his family said. He was hailed for designing the era-defining futurist looks of the 1960s and 1970s. The French fashion designer Pierre Cardin died at a hospital in Neuilly, west of Paris, on Tuesday at the age of 98, his family told news…
Individuals typically fit in with the fashions of their time rather than entirely invent their own. What happens to be popular during our lifespans, and especially our younger lives when we more often seek fashionable options, is a matter of luck. Most of us have only a slight impact on these decisions. What are the…
Amazon today is launching a way for customers to create custom clothing with a new service called Made for You, which lets shoppers create a custom T-shirt to their exact measurements. But unlike some companies that use mobile technology to scan and measure your body from an app, Amazon Fashion’s Made for You service requires…
Over the past months, I’ve read a lot of articles and tweets talking about cloud gaming, and how similar (or not) are the two main platforms in this area: Stadia and Nvidia GeForce Now.Since I’ve spent a lot of time repeating myself again and again on this subject, I’ve decided to write an article on…
When it comes to performance, Apple makes sure that its devices run fluidly throughout many years to come. Moreover, the company never seizes to innovate and bring new additions to the table. The latest comes in with Apple's new M1 Macs. There's no doubt that the new Macs boast impressive power along with battery life.…
Home News (Image credit: KFC) Watch out, PS5 and Xbox Series X, the KFC gaming console is real. It's called the KFConsole, it's essentially a VR-ready high-end gaming PC, and it comes with a built-in chicken warmer. Boom, checkmate! Winner, winner, chicken dinner.Back in June, just after the PS5 reveal, KFC released a ridiculous trailer…
Rocking back and forth in his red and black leather gaming chair, inside his nine-by-seven-foot room at a homeless shelter in Washington State, 40-year-old Michael Guyton is having a good time. His mouth opens and closes in slow-tempoed iterations as though he’s chewing air. It’s a quirk he’s developed that suggests it’s time to focus…
Frustrating interruptions that slow or stop play in online ‘cloud gaming’ could become a thing of the past as computer scientists are rethinking how this exciting new generation of gaming will work in the future. Some of the biggest tech companies in the world have begun launching new subscription-based streaming platforms – such as Google…
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Managing your long-term fitness progress is difficult. Fitness Totals simplifies it by emphasizing weekly, monthly and yearly activity totals. Stay motivated by comparing your progress to last week, last month and last year!Compare: Easily compare weekly, monthly, yearly, and all-time totals for steps, running, cycling and over a dozen other fitness activities. Widgets: Glance at…
Apple has launched its hotly anticipated Fitness+ exercise service with video sessions for everything from yoga and cycling to mindful cool down and dance. The service was first announced at the launch of the new Apple Watch Series 6 in September and has been designed around the wearable device.It 'dynamically integrates personal metrics' from Apple Watch…
CLOSEApple is on a mission: It wants you to close your rings. You know, that iconic rainbow triad of activity tracking – move, exercise, stand – that beckons you from your wrist to get up and moving. To help you do that, it’s created a new circle of fitness for you to join. Fitness+, which launches today,…
6 hours ago__Victor Tangermann__Filed Under: Sci-Fi Visions Cool Cat/Tag Hartman-SimkinsBlue ShiftUnsuspecting Hawaiians spotted something strange last week: a large blue unidentified object falling out of the sky and into the ocean, as local news station ABC 11 reports.Videos show a strange, longish object floating in the air near Haleakala Avenue in Nanakuli on Oahu island.After…
Creatures is an artificial life (alife) video game series, created in the mid-1990s by English computer scientist Steve Grand whilst working for the Cambridge video games developer Millennium Interactive. Gameplay focuses on raising alien creatures known as Norns, teaching them to survive, helping them explore their world, defending them against other species, and breeding them.…
A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting from the use of potentially abusive labor transfer programs. The Chinese government has allegedly transferred thousands of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities from Xinjiang to factories across the country, implicating global supply chains. The report estimates…
Unnamed congressional staffers have accused Apple of trying to water down an anti forced labor bill that would place obligations on US companies to ensure their supply chain was not involved in such abuse. The bill aims to end the use of forced Uighur labor in the Xinjiang region of China. The Uyghur Forced Labor…
Today, exactly one year after Apple first launched the AirPods Pro — and thus the same day the very first AirPods Pro owners will see their one-year warranties expire — Apple has launched a repair program that offers free repairs or replacements for another whole year if your AirPods Pro experience issues with noise cancellation…
The dispute was over in a matter of days after the December 29th warning, but it still highlights the issues with App Store guidelines. While a focus on human reviewers reduces the chances of malware and other dodgy content sneaking through the review process, it also increases the chances of inconsistencies where a reviewer might…
Popular Mac app "Amphetamine" will remain on the Mac App Store after reportedly being threatened with removal over its name and branding, which Apple had said breached App Store guidelines. Amphetamine is a free Mac app that helps users to keep their machine awake for a set amount of time. Launched in 2014, the app…
The developer of Amphetamine, an app that prevents Macs from going into sleep mode, says Apple told him it violated App Store guidelines, even though it’s been in the App Store since 2014, and has nothing to do with drug use. Not long after The Verge reached out to Apple for comment on Saturday however,…
Through technological advancements and brilliant business decisions, Apple showed why they are most valuedSource: AppleAt the turn of this decade, very few people would have predicted that 2020 is going to be the year of Apple.Fast forward three months and the chances looked even slimmer. The pandemic threatened to eclipse Apple’s limelight and delay their…
My Experience @ Apple by Ex Apple Engineer Apple was my first job. A dream that came true after many years of hard work, sacrifices and a PhD in computer science under the supervision of one of the best and most well-known professors in the field. Unfortunately, Apple became the place that I lost feeling…