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Solid State Batteries for EVs are still not here, but Tesla’s new tabless 4680 battery offers 5x the energy, 6x more power, and 16% increase in range from 2022

2021-11-02 Danie

Not exactly revolutionary, but a large incremental gain across many fronts with Cobalt being dropped, the Graphite anode is being replaced with Silicon, the tabs are being dropped which reduce costs and formation of hotspots, […]

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Apple’s app tracking policy reportedly cost social media platforms nearly $10 billion – Shows what just your metadata, not messages, are worth to advertisers

2021-11-01 Danie

An investigation by The Financial Times found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube lost around $9.85 billion in revenue following Apple’s changes to its privacy practices. Last year, Apple announced the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) […]

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AirTags and other Bluetooth trackers can find stolen cars, bikes and bags. But what happens when you find the person who took them?

2021-10-31 Danie

“Everybody’s had something like this stolen from them and wished they had gotten it back, had some agency in that scenario, had something they could do,” said Dan Guido, a technology CEO in Brooklyn who […]

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Airborne Lidar survey reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centres, and publicly available Lidar is transforming archaeology

2021-10-31 Danie

An airborne Lidar survey recently revealed hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial sites in southern Mexico. The 32,800-square-mile area was surveyed by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia, which made the data […]

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Fosscord is a free and open source self-hostable and decentralised platform compatible with Discord… There should be such an alternative too for Meta / Facebook

2021-10-31 Danie

This project really exemplifies what I believe should happen to Meta / Facebook too (the use of interoperable standards). Users should be able to opt to use free and open source self-hostable alternatives that can […]

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Best DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) Available for Linux Desktops – Newer Stargate just released did not make it onto the list

2021-10-30 Danie

A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) lets you record, mix, and make music. For commercial usage, there are several mainstream options to consider, which are often regarded as industry-standard. Full-fledged music DAWs like Steinberg’s Nuendo/Cubase, ProTools, […]

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Is Elon Musk developing a Tesla Model Pi smartphone which includes satellite communication as well as solar charging?

2021-10-29 Danie

Elon is disrupting one major industry after another. Anyone noticed how everything seems to be strategically interconnected – from EVs and solar being able to operate on Mars, SpaceX to connect between Earth and Mars, […]

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Ditch Shared Hosting: Digital Ocean (or other hosting provider) plus CyberPanel – Easy and Fast Web Hosting for WordPress, etc.

2021-10-29 Danie

Cyberpanel is a free and open-source alternative to cPanel and similar panel management servers. The linked video shows how to start from scratch with a $6 pm VPS on Digital Ocean, but you could in […]

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E-Mail is 50 years old this month, and it works pretty much the same, which is good, otherwise we’d all have to use one e-mail company

2021-10-29 Danie

Think about it, you can pick an e-mail domain anywhere and use any e-mail client on any platform, to send an e-mail to someone anywhere else…  We just take that for granted, but if e-mail were […]

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Get FOSS-happy, China tells its financial institutions – Use it, contribute to it, respect its licences

2021-10-29 Danie

The document instructs China’s financial sector players to use FOSS whenever they feel it is apposite, to contribute to FOSS projects, and to respect the licences under which such software is published. Financial institutions are […]

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