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Toyota has released a new roadmap showing how it will regain competitiveness and sell 3.5 million EVs by 2030. It is working on four battery technology solutions. Three of the solutions use liquid electrolytes and the fourth is a solid-state battery. The company is also putting a lot of effort into shrinking the height of its battery packs. This article goes into detail about Toyota's plans.
Kamal is a tool for deploying web apps anywhere with zero downtime. It works seamlessly across multiple hosts and can hold requests while a new app container is started and the old one is stopped. Kamal will work with any type of web app that can be containerized with Docker.
A CSS reset can help make browsers behave better and reduce compatibility issues. This article discusses a modern CSS reset that prevents font size inflation, sets core body defaults, balances text wrapping on headings, and more. The article breaks down each part of the CSS reset and explains the reasons for the code and how it works. Browsers are getting better and better, so resets like this are becoming less necessary.
Sam Bankman-Fried's parents are being accused of exploiting their access and influence within FTX to enrich themselves. FTX lawyers are suing them to try to get some of the money back. This article lists some of the things they allegedly received from FTX. These include a $16.4 million property in the Bahamas, funds for donations, expensive hotel rooms, tickets to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in France, and a $200,000 annual salary.
Intel has been hyping up its Meteor Lake chips for months - the company has now set a launch date for December 14. The chips will be the most power-efficient client processor Intel has ever made, with up to twice the graphics performance, a low power island, and hooks for Microsoft Windows to intelligently control them. This article details the many features of the new Intel Core Ultra chips.
Tracing can result in larger files, but it provides much more information than logging.
It's likely that Amazon's hardware team could see its resources cut further - it's also possible the team could be folded into the Amazon Web Services Division.
SSH can give users immense power, but sometimes the syntax and other concepts can get in the way of accomplishing things.
Microsoft was the first major company to come up with a specialized testing role - the company has played an outsized role in the development and importance of quality assurance across the industry.
The structure was found two proteins whose interactions are essential for cell division.
The Unified Acceleration Foundation's founding members include Arm, Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Qualcomm, and Samsung - but not Nvidia.
iOS 17 and iPadOS17 bring new features such as Contact Posters, Live Voicemail, and upgraded autocorrect. iOS 17 will have a feature called StandBy that turns iPhones into a display while charging. iPadOS 17 allows users to personalize their lock screens and add interactive widgets. Apple has also released tvOS 17.
Charter and Disney have agreed on a package that will provide subscribers with Disney Plus Basic when they pay for Spectrum's TV Select package. Subscribers who choose Spectrum TV Select Plus will also get ESPN Plus. Spectrum cable customers will soon be able to bundle multiple streaming services on their bills.
Stoke Space has successfully completed a key test of its second stage prototype. The space startup is now one step closer to flying a fully reusable launch vehicle. It plans to conduct its first orbital flight test in 2025. A video of the second stage prototype test is available in the article.
Agility Robotics is building a factory in Oregon that will be able to manufacture more than 10,000 of its Digit humanoid robots per year. The 70,000-square-foot RoboFab facility is set to open later this year. Digit robots will be used in the factory to produce more Digits. A video announcement from Agility Robotics about the factory is available in the article.
HyperDX is an open source observability platform that helps to quickly resolve production issues. It centralizes and correlates logs, metrics, traces, exceptions, and session replays in one place. HyperDX allows users to dashboard high cardinality events without a complex query language and set up alerts in just a few clicks. Screenshots are available.
MongoDB is releasing a new query engine in version 7.0. The change completely overhauls the way the engine executes the strategy picked by the query optimizer. While the classic engine was mature and it served customers' needs, its data model and approach resulted in suboptimal performance and a serious maintenance burden. This article shares some technical details about the new engine.
A Reddit user recently posted an AI-generated image of a spiral-shaped medieval village that gained rapid attention on social media for its remarkable geometric qualities. The image was created using Stable Diffusion and a guidance technique called ControlNet. A similar technique for producing QR codes went viral earlier this year. This article explains how the artwork was generated. Examples of other similar artworks are available.
Unity announced a Runtime Fee on September 12 that will charge developers for each game installation past a certain threshold. This was not received well by the developer community, who were quick to point out all the problems that the fee might cause. Unity posted an apology on X on September 17 saying that it would make changes to the policy and share an update in a couple of days. It is rumored that Unity plans to limit fees to 4% of a game's revenue for customers making over $1 million. The new approach will reportedly also not retroactively count installations.
The Augmented Reality Microscope, while not yet ready for clinical use, has shown initial promise as a useful tool for pathologists without easy access to a second opinion.
npm gradually implemented all of the features that made Yarn special over the years - the same thing will likely happen with Bun.
An efficient 800-square-foot garden could sustain a family of four.
AWS currently owns 127,972,688 IPv4 addresses and it has plans to charge $43.80 per year per IPv4 address starting in February next year.
Coronal mass ejections are immense eruptions of plasma and energy from the Sun's corona - a video of the fly-through is available in the article.
This post shares some of the discussions going on inside Microsoft among the senior leadership team and the board during the early days of the pandemic and after the company decided to lay off thousands of employees.
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Microgrids are miniaturized versions of power grids - connecting them together would increase their resiliency and facilitate the integration of more renewable energy.
Catala is a programming language adapted for socio-fiscal legislative literate programming that can compile into lawyer-readable PDFs.
Tesla's new manufacturing process could significantly reduce costs and increase production of its electric vehicles. It can die-cast almost an entire vehicle underbody as a single piece. Tesla's mold-making process involves building molds layer by layer with sand. The automaker still has several hurdles to overcome before the process is complete. Tesla reportedly plans to use the process on its long-awaited $25,000 electric car.
Microsoft has introduced a general-purpose framework that can be used to create new proteins. EvoDiff can generate high-fidelity and diverse proteins given a protein sequence. It is a diffusion model, similar to image-generating models like Stable Diffusion. The research behind EvoDiff hasn't yet been peer reviewed.
Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia are seeking approval for the first human clinical trials of its artificial wombs. The technology is not designed to support development from conception to birth. However, it may help improve outcomes for extremely premature babies. The FDA will convene a meeting of independent advisers on 19-20 September to discuss regulatory and ethical considerations around what human trials for the technology might look like.
A team of students from the Technical University of Munich has set a new distance record on a single charge for a non-solar electric vehicle. The team's coupe traveled 1,599 miles with a battery capacity of just 15.5 kWh. It has a top speed of 26 mph and weighs 374 lbs without a driver. Pictures and more information about the vehicle are available in the article.
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PostgreSQL 16 is now available. It features notable improvements to query parallelism, bulk data loading, and logical replication. PostgreSQL 16 has more SQL/JSON syntax, new monitoring stats, and greater flexibility in defining access control rules. The release also adds several security-oriented client connection parameters and support for Kerberos credential delegation.
Unity is retroactively changing its license terms to charge game developers a per-unit fee. Developers are understandably upset by the move. Many are considering switching engines. This article discusses alternative game engines. It ranks engines by how often they are mentioned and provides a summary for each one. The most mentioned alternative to Unity is Godot.
Nearly all popular consumer software has been trending towards minimal user agency, infinitely scrolling feeds, and garbage content. This is because companies have strong incentives to gain more users. The push for more users results in the development of features for marginal users while ignoring the needs or desires of existing users. This results in a design that caters almost entirely to the marginal user.
This article talks about how to get a job in Antarctica and what living at the McMurdo Station is like. It covers the types of jobs in Antarctica, how to get one, the living conditions, seasons, the food, and more. While it is possible to live in Antarctica by working in a research facility, people can also visit the continent through a handful of tourist expeditions.
We are now deploying roughly 3-4 acres of solar per minute across the globe.