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Technology / September 16, 2022

Air conditioner tech is outdated. These are AC choices for a warmer future.

Final week, Californians obtained a reminder of probably the most vexing paradoxes of worldwide warming. With temperatures effectively over 110 levels Fahrenheit in some areas on Tuesday night time, lots of of 1000’s of the state’s residents obtained beeping textual content alerts to inform them that the ability grid, straining below the burden of tens of millions of air-conditioning items, was about to break down. Save energy now, the textual content warnedor face rolling blackouts.

Customers conserved, and the state’s electrical energy grid made it out of a record-breaking sizzling day comparatively unscathed. Nonetheless, as temperatures rise worldwide, extra individuals are going to want to put in air conditioners. However as at present offered, AC items can really make world warming worse: On sizzling days, they suck tons of electrical energy from the grid, and their chemical refrigerants can speed up world warming.

Because of this researchers and start-ups are

Technology / September 8, 2022

Apple Could Adopt Hybrid OLED Technology for Future iPads

Apple’s rumored plans to transition to OLED technology for future iPad models could involve using “hybrid” OLED technology that combines both rigid and flexible OLED panel materials, according to The Elec (original Korean-language version).

OLED iPad Air
The report claims that Apple is reluctant to rely solely on the flexible OLED technology it uses in its iPhone models, as the panels have a tendency to “crumple” and the effect is more noticeable as displays get larger.

From a machine translation of the original Korean-language report:

When it became known that Apple plans to apply hybrid OLED to the first OLED iPad, the industry has assumed that the cause was cost reduction.

However, it is understood that there is a reason why Apple preferred hybrid OLED other than this cost reduction. An official from the parts industry said, “Apple hated the fact that a part of the product screen could look wrinkled to the

Technology / August 30, 2022

Intel tries to regain its misplaced know-how edge

The capital and know-how calls for of remaining a world chief within the semiconductor enterprise have gotten excessive. Simply how excessive was evident from two bulletins at Intel this week. They present how profoundly the corporate is adapting its conventional means of doing enterprise because it tries to regain its misplaced know-how edge and make sure the US is residence to at the very least one world-leading chip producer.

The primary announcement was that it’s promoting a 49 per cent stake in two new manufacturing vegetation underneath growth in Arizona to non-public fairness agency Brookfield. That is a completely new option to fund chip fabrication vegetation (fabs) as the price of constructing essentially the most superior services soars. The Brookfield deal covers the primary $30bn invested in Arizona, whereas Intel has put the long-term funding in its new fabs just like the one it’s constructing in Germany at greater than

Technology / August 28, 2022

JD Energy research explains the expertise conundrum confronted by automakers

Massive variation within the variety of issues

In some situations, the research confirmed a large variation within the variety of issues for a specific expertise.

JD Energy discovered a function that reminds drivers that an individual, pet or package deal continues to be within the rear of a automotive after they exit ranged from 1.9 issues per 100 automobiles to 26.2 relying on the producer.

The disparity demonstrates that the expertise works and can generate solely a small variety of complaints when executed appropriately, JD Energy mentioned.

Since options resembling rear-seat reminders have extensively various scores, Rizk mentioned automakers must benchmark new tech choices higher.

“This might permit them to establish and combine finest practices,” she mentioned.

Whereas automakers routinely benchmark applied sciences from rivals, Rizk mentioned they sometimes use an engineering perspective, not a shopper standpoint.

“We frequently see applied sciences which might be designed to specification however don’t

Technology / August 27, 2022

critics of anti-cheating know-how for college kids hit by lawsuits

In 2020, a Canadian college worker named Ian Linkletter grew to become rising alarmed by a brand new form of know-how that was exploding in use with the pandemic. It was meant to detect dishonest by faculty and high-school college students taking exams at dwelling, and claimed to work by watching college students’ actions and analyzing sounds round them by their webcams and microphones to robotically flag suspicious conduct.

So Linkletter accessed a bit of the web site of one of many anti-cheating corporations, named Proctorio, meant just for instructors and directors. He shared what he discovered on social media.

Now Linkletter, who grew to become a distinguished critic of the know-how, has been sued by the corporate. However he’s not the one one.

Linkletter’s persevering with case illustrates how vicious the battle over so referred to as e-proctoring has turn into. On the peak of the pandemic, it