David Ruddock of AndroidPolice technology blog tries to make sense of last week’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit by Google. He argues that Fitbit’s offerings — hardware, software, engineering talent, or even patent wall — can’t save Google’s wearable operating system Wear OS. From his column: Hardware is what Google is after, with a blog post cleatly stating its acquisition of…
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New Clean-Combustion ‘Ducted Fuel Injection’ Could Eliminate Soot From Diesel Engines
Thelasko shared Sandia’s report:
Ducted fuel injection, developed by Chuck Mueller at Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility, is able to fine-tune the amount of diesel used in an engine to the point of eliminating between 50 and 100% of the soot… [H]e and his team, Christopher Nilsen, Drummond Biles and Nathan Harry, began experiments that have now resulted in an assembly of four…
Moon and Jupiter close October 3 and 4
They are the 2 brightest objects in the night sky now, the moon and Jupiter, closest October 3. By October 4, the moon has moved away, but you’ll still notice Jupiter as the bright object nearby. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/see-moon-and-jupiter-after-sunset…
Word of the week: Electromagnetic spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum describes all the wavelengths of light, both seen and unseen. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-electromagnetic-spectrum…