On Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he considered selling his electric car company to Apple in recent years, but Apple CEO Tim Cook was not even interested in taking a meeting. CNBC reports: Specifically, Musk wrote in a tweet on December 22: “During the darkest days of the Model 3 program, I reached out to Tim Cook to discuss…
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GM Recalling Nearly 69,000 Bolt EVs For Fire Risks
General Motors said on Friday it was recalling 68,677 electric cars worldwide that pose a fire risk after five reported fires and two minor injuries. Reuters reports: The recall is for 2017-2019 model-year Chevrolet Bolt EVs with high voltage batteries produced at LG Chem’s Ochang, Korea facility. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last month opened a preliminary investigation into…
Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode Display On Human Skin
In a new report on Science Advances, Minwoo Choi and a team of scientists in Electronic Engineering and Materials Science in the Republic of Korea, developed a wearable, full-colour OLED display using a two-dimensional (2-D) material-based backplane transistor. Phys.Org reports: They engineered an 18-by-18 thin-film transistor array on a thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) film and transferred it to an aluminium oxide…
BadPower Attack Corrupts Fast Chargers To Melt or Set Your Device on Fire
Chinese security researchers said they can alter the firmware of fast chargers to cause damage to connected (charging) systems, such as melt the components, or even set devices on fire. Iwastheone shares a report: The technique, named BadPower, was detailed last week in a report published by Xuanwu Lab, a research unit of Chinese tech giant Tencent. According to researchers, BadPower…
DDR5 Memory Specification Released
Marking an important milestone in computer memory development, today the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is releasing the final specification for its next mainstream memory standard, DDR5 SDRAM. From a report: The latest iteration of the DDR standard that has been driving PCs, servers, and everything in-between since the late 90s, DDR5 once again extends the capabilities of DDR memory, doubling…
Why Remote Work Is So Hard — and How It Can Be Fixed
Cal Newport, writing at the New Yorker: Technological transitions often stumble when we expect them to sprint. In 1989, the Stanford economist Paul David wanted to understand why so many companies were so slow to adopt computer technology; for historical perspective, he turned to the history of the electric dynamo, which had been invented around a hundred years before, and which,…
Intel’s 10th Gen Core Comet Lake-S Processors Debut: One Last Hurrah For 14nm
MojoKid writes: A couple of weeks back, Intel announced its 10th Gen Core desktop processors but today the embargo has been lifted on performance data. Intel’s new 10th Gen Core series desktop chips are still based on the same architecture and leverage the same 14nm++ manufacturing process as their 9th Gen predecessors, but the company made numerous changes with Comet Lake-S…
MIT Develops a Way To Use Wireless Signals From In-Home Appliances To Better Understand Your Health
[R]esearchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a new system (PDF) that can figure out when and where in-home appliances like hair dryers, stoves, microwaves and washing machines are being used, and they believe that info could help inform healthcare practitioners about the habits and challenges of people under their care. TechCrunch reports: The researchers devised…
Producing solar power at night
Scientists have developed a new prototype of nighttime solar cells that can produce electricity at night through a radiative cooling mechanism. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/solar-power-photovoltaic-production-at-night…
How Intel is Changing the Future of Power Supplies With Its ATX12VO Spec
“We don’t often talk about power supplies, but Intel’s new ATX12VO spec — that’s an ‘O’ for ‘Oscar,’ not a zero — will start appearing soon in pre-built PCs from OEMs and system integrators, and it represents a major change in PSU design,” reports PC World. “The ATX12VO spec removes voltage rails from the power supply, all in a bid to…