Tesla “may be keen on replacing the humble windshield wiper with lasers,” reports CNET. In a patent application filed this past May and published with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Nov. 21, Tesla describes a “pulsed laser cleaning” for “debris accumulated” on glass, specifically for automotive application. It also mentions this could be used for “photo-voltaic” applications. That’s…
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The Bonkers, Bristly Story of How Big Toothbrush Took Over the World
In a few decades, two warring toothbrush giants have carved out a market worth billions, with the help of a little science and some clever marketing. But where does it go next? From a report: Not so long ago a toothbrush was a humble thing. A stick, in essence, with some bristles on the end. But with the rise of the…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ‘Nog’ Actor Aron Eisenberg Has Died at 50
An anonymous reader quotes CNET: Actor Aron Eisenberg, who played Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, died Saturday at age 50, his wife Malíssa Longo posted on Facebook. “He was an intelligent, humble, funny, emphatic soul,” Longo wrote. “He sought to live his life with integrity and truth. He was so driven to put the best he had into whatever…
Artificial Leaf Produces First Drugs Using Sunlight
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: Making artificial versions of the humble leaf has been an ongoing area of research for decades and in a new breakthrough, researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) have fine-tuned their artificial leaf design and used it to produce drugs for the first time. Natural leaves are clever little machines. They…
40 Years Later, Lessons From the Rise and Quick Decline of the First ‘Killer App’
It was the first killer app, the spark for Apple’s early success and a trigger for the broader PC boom that vaulted Microsoft to its central position in business computing. And within a few years, it was tech-industry roadkill. From a report: The story of VisiCalc, a humble spreadsheet program that set the tech world ablaze 40 years ago, has reverberated…
LinkedIn and the Art of Boastful Self-Promotion
Harry Barnes runs a Twitter account called The State of LinkedIn with more than 100,000 followers. On it, he tweets a curated selection of the most egotistical, self-unaware, jargon-ridden posts from LinkedIn members [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled]. From a report: Recent gems range from the boastful “You call it luck, I call it 80 hours a week”, to…
Interviews: For the 25th Birthday of FreeDOS, Ask Its Founder A Question
FreeDOS was originally created in response to Microsoft’s announcement that after Windows 95, DOS would no longer be developed as a standalone operating system, according to Computerworld’s 2016 interview with FreeDOS’s founder and project coordinator, Jim Hall. “I packaged my own extended DOS utilities, as did others,” he explains on the FreeDOS web site, “and we found other public domain or…
How teabags became a secret weapon in the fight against climate change
Climate change could release a torrent of carbon from the Arctic tundra into a warming world. To gauge the threat, ecologists have recruited the humble teabag Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232330-400-how-teabags-became-a-secret-weapon-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Gaining Confidence At Work And Remembering His Love For Learning: Meet Venkat
When I hit 30, it was clear to me that I fully contracted the “Middle Age Syndrome” of poor aptitude to learn new things and inability to hold my concentration more than 3 minutes. I come from a family of teachers and Sanskrit scholars where learning, reasoning, and knowledge are highly valued. I felt I dropped the baton. Though I had…
Behold the Ingenious Musical Marble Machine
Could the return of marble-based madness be a reaction to our digital age? That we must construct real fantastical machines that perform humble amusements in the face of CGI-filled blockbusters? Do we need to know that if society collapses we can look to members of the Swedish folktronic band Wintergatan to help rebuild it? After […]
Behold the Ingenious Musical Marble Machine…