Tesla Wants Some Engineering Cred | Autopia. The Roadster showed Tesla Motors can design a top-notch electric drivetrain. The Model S showed it can design a gorgeous car. Building the S is another story, of course, so now the Silicon Valley upstart wants to show it knows a little something about engineering. Elon Musk’s upstart automaker rolls into the Detroit auto show with an “alpha build” of the Model S sedan. The term is a nod to Musk’s insistence that Tesla Motors is more Silicon Valley than Detroit. That conceit aside, Tesla is talking about a hand-built preproduction car pretty close to what it keeps saying we’ll see in driveways sometime next year. Tesla has at least three alphas, each assembled at its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, using bodies built by a supplier in Michigan.
At some point — Tesla won’t say exactly when — it will transition to “beta builds,” production-intent vehicles built entirely at its factory in Fremont, California. With that in mind, Tesla is shooting for a curb weight around 4,000 pounds. Apple: The undisputed leader in the tablet market #apple #ipad. Top 10 Social Media Blogs: The 2011 Winners! Social media is a big subject. If you’re looking for some reliable places to go for the best tips and social media tactics, look no further! Our second-annual contest generated more than 300 nominations. Our panel of social media experts carefully reviewed the nominees and finalists, analyzing the quality of their content, the frequency of posts and reader involvement (among other things). The following are the winners of Social Media Examiner’s Top 10 Social Media Blogs for 2011.
If you’re looking to master all that social media has to offer, these rich blogs need to be at the top of your reading list. Congratulations to the winners. Be sure to check out these amazing blogs! Share the love: Feel free to post the above list on your blog (just reference this post). The badge of distinction: If you’re a winner, you can post the image you see here on your blog and please link back to this page. A special thanks to our judges!
Do you frequent any of these blogs? About the Author, Michael Stelzner. Report: Mobile App Market Will Be Worth $25 Billion By 2015 – Apple’s Share: 20% We all know mobile app stores are booming worldwide, and a new market research report by MarketsandMarkets acknowledges that trend. According to the research firm’s ‘World Mobile Applications Market (2010 – 2015)’ report, the total global mobile applications market is expected to be worth $25 billion by 2015 (up from about $6.8 billion in 2010). MarketsandMarkets projects Apple’s App Store to hold nearly 20.5 percent of that particular cake, while the global market is forecast to record a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 29.6 percent from 2009 to 2014. The research firm reiterates the various factors that will be contributing to that growth, from advancements in network technologies to the lowering of mobile data usage cost, growing adoption of smartphones around the world, and a continuous increase in application usability.
According to the report, North America led the market since 2009 with a 41.6 percent revenue share. For more reports on this topic, check out: TEDMED. Waviimania Continues As Investors Flock To Parade. This is how to milk a stealth startup for all it’s worth. We first covered Seattle startup Wavii back in July. The company has raised somewhere around $2 million in angel funding from thirty or so angel investors – only a few of which are publicly known. It continues to get a lot of behind the scenes buzz as the stealth startup to watch. And watch, and watch. They’ve been in private beta for some time. So what is it? You can think of it as a personalized news site. Wavii is taking unstructured news and structuring it. Another way to think about it is a news feed, like you’d see on Facebook or Twitter. Like I said, it’s ambitious. Investors Want In. If you’ve noticed a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists recently making trips to Seattle, there’s a good chance they’re there to woo Wavii.
That’s pre-launch, by the way. Smart Appliances On The Horizon ? Floating tidal power plant opened in Norway. Seasonal flu vaccine fairy tale rapidly collapsing as the truth comes out. (NaturalNews) Like a medical house of cards in an earthquake, the seasonal flu vaccine mythology is collapsing right before our eyes. After months of urging everyone to get vaccinated (and blaming non-vaccinated people for skipping out on their "public health obligation"), UK health authorities announced last week that "healthy people" were to blame for causing a vaccine shortage that they claim now threatens the lives of sick children ( As part of this ruse, they even suggested that pharmacies should be banned from selling flu vaccines to healthy people, explaining that healthy people didn't really need them anyway.
So much for the big flu vaccine delusion that "everybody needs a vaccine. " As UK health authorities are now blatantly admitting, that was all just a fairy tale that crumpled the instant they ran out of excess vaccine inventory. She was 68 years old and her doctor said that she would be protected from the flu by the flu shot. Breast cancer breakthrough: vitamin D in combination with sun exposure is key to prevention. (NaturalNews) As NaturalNews has covered for years, researchers have found a profound link between breast cancer and low levels of vitamin D ( Women with the lowest blood levels have the highest breast cancer risk and those dying of metastasized disease are the most vitamin D deficient of all.
Scientists have theorized vitamin D has anti-cancer properties that influence cell growth, healthy cell differentiation and programmed cell death (apoptosis). However, when researchers have looked only at levels of dietary vitamin D intake and breast cancer risk, their findings have been sometimes inconsistent. So what is going on here? The new research, headed by Dr. The scientists found that women living in the sunniest places in the south of France, such as Provence, had only about half the risk of breast cancer of women residing in less sunny latitudes, such as Paris. Updated timeline of mysterious animal deaths. (NaturalNews) Here's an updated timeline of the mysterious animal deaths now happening around the world. Conventional explanations for these deaths now border on the outlandish: A bird die-off event in Romania is now being blamed on "drunkenness," for example.
Here's the updated list through January 14, 2011, in reverse date order: 01.14.11 - 200 cows found dead in Wisconsin, allegedly caused by a 01.14.11 - 100 dead carp found in U.K. pond, unknown 01.14.11 - 730 African grey parrots die during flight, blamed on possible exposure to carbon mo 01.13.11 - 300 "grackles" birds found dead on highway in Alabama, blamed on blunt force 01.08.11 - 100 dead "starlings" birds found dead on highway in California, allegedly all hit by a. Detta är Tim Cook. Mannen som skall driva Apples dagliga åtaganden medan Steve Jobs är borta heter Timothy D. Cook. Tim Cook kom till Apple 1998 i samband med att Steve Jobs satte ihop det lag som kom att vända företaget på rekordtid. Tidigare hade han varit 6 månader på Compaq, några år på ett företag vid namn Intelligent Electronics och innan dess 12 år på IBM. Cook ses som den som stängde ner Apples fabriker och lade ut det mesta på underleverantörer i Kina och på så sätt ökade marginalerna rejält.
Detta gick emellertid inte helt smärtfritt och det finns en historia där han frågar en av sina närmsta medarbetare varför denna fortfarande var kvar, varpå vederbörande kör till flygplatsen och bokar en resa till Kina – utan returdatum. Lite snack och mycket verkstad är alltså Cooks väg i livet. Utöver Apple sitter Cook i Nikes styrelse samt National Football Foundation och det är ingen slump.
Han gjorde sin utbildning vid Auburn University 1982 och det är också där han håller talet i ovanstående filmklipp. Auburn University Spring 2010 Commencement Speaker Tim Cook. Magnetically controlled pill could boost body's absorption of drugs. Do you want that in a pill or a shot? A pill, thank you, but most patients never have that choice. The problem with administering many medications orally is that a pill often will not dissolve at exactly the right site in the gastrointestinal tract where the medicine can be absorbed into the bloodstream.
A new magnetic pill system developed by Brown University researchers could solve the problem by safely holding a pill in place in the intestine wherever it needs to be. The scientists describe the harmless operation of their magnetic pill system in rats online the week of Jan. 17 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "With this technology you can now tell where the pill is placed, take some blood samples and know exactly if the pill being in this region really enhances the bioavailability of the medicine in the body," said Mathiowitz, professor of medical science in Brown's Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology. Safety first. Vectrix launches urban electric VX-2 scooter. Vectrix LLC, a self-proclaimed world leader in personal electric vehicles, has kicked off the New Year with a bang by introducing its urban commuter; the VX-2 battery-powered scooter.
The VX-2 is a slimmed down version of the company's VX-1 and is designed for low-speed travel. Whether that includes around town trips or traversing a college campus, troubled Vectrix insists that the VX-2 is the "perfect machine" for the task. The VX-2 can hit speeds of up to 30 miles per hour and has a usable range of 40 to 55 miles (depending on terrain, weight of rider, speed, etc.). The VX-2 features a rudimentary regenerative braking system and low-speed reverse operation.
Vectrix will ship out each VX-2 with 20 amp battery charger, which plugs into a standard 110 volt wall outlet and fills up the electric scooter's battery pack in less than five hours. Vectric will offer the VX-2 in six colors, including True Blue, Real Red, Mellow Yellow, Clean Green, Bright White, and Slick Black. Toyota developing electric motor that eliminates the need for rare earth metals. Behind one of the best designed iPad apps: History of Jazz.
Chevy Volt's HVAC system designed for grueling winter weather. Harsh winter weather can diminish the range of battery-powered vehicles. Likewise, the performance of a plug-in hybrid like the Chevrolet Volt can suffer as the mercury dips. However, when General Motors' designed the Volt, the automaker wanted to develop a plug-in that could effectively tackle grueling winter weather without a noticeable degradation in performance. Volvo dealt with this issue by adding a small ethanol heater. Though In the winter, the Volt's battery pack is often tasked with powering a resistive heater to warm the vehicle's cabin and, as Susan Stevenson, GM's benchmarking engineer for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems explains, "It requires as much energy to heat the interior of a car on a cold day as it does to drive at a constant speed. " Therefore, GM designed the Volt's HVAC system to minimize battery drain while still allowing it to pump out ample heat to keep occupants comfortable.
[Source: General Motors] Apple rumor mill: The iPad 2 getting a dual-core GPU, Retina Display. How do you sustain the lust factor for the iPad as more and more tablets enter the market? The anticipated iPad 2 will probably deal with some of the first version's shortcomings, such as built-in cameras (one for snapping photos, the other for video chatting), but that will meet expectations, not inspire desire. Instead, tech and Apple sites are a-flutter with rumors that the new iPad will feature supercharged graphics and enhanced resolution.
Ironically, it appears that the new iPad will be competing on good old-fashioned tech specs, with a new A5 chip that will include dual-core graphics via the SGX543MP2 core. It's supposedly twice as fast as the SGX535 that's in the current iPad, and can support four times the pixel count. That's all well and good, but how could that resolution be used on the iPad? "But can it play Crysis? " F | What's New? LiteFeed Beta - Best Twitter Reader Web-Application, a Real-Time Feed from your Social Network. PostPost. Phil Collins - Going Back (Official Video 2010) The Tweeted Times. Report: iPad 2 to use fast graphics chip | 911Blogger.com | Paying Attention to 9/11 Related News. US military stuck in perpetual warfare. Author Russ Baker on RT Jan 17, 2011. Tunisians sceptical of new govt - Africa.
The announcement of a new 'unity government' by Mohamed Ghannouchi, the Tunisian prime minister, has been met with anger by some protesters, who say too many members of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's party remain in power. The PM announced that the former defence, foreign, interior and finance ministers will keep their key posts in the new government formed after the public uprising led to the flight of President Ben Ali. Up to 1,000 protesters gathered mainly near Tunis' Habib Bourguiba Avenue to demonstrate against the announcement.
Tanks and troops were deployed, and water cannons and tear gas fired against activists who demanded that members of Ben Ali's Constitutional Democratic Rally (CDR) be excluded from the new government. "Who did the revolt? It's the people, those trade union leaders ... they need to find their aspirations in the government. This government does not answer those aspirations," Masoud Ramadani, a workers union activist, told Al Jazeera.
BuildingWhat? - Building 7 | Stand with the 911 families demanding a NEW Building 7 investigation - What is Building 7 ? Icelandic Parliamentarian Calls U.S. Subpoena of Her Twitter Account over WikiLeaks Involvement "Disturbing" This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the latest in the Obama administration’s crackdown on the whistleblower group WikiLeaks. Last week, it was revealed the Justice Department has subpoenaed the internet company Twitter for personal information from several people linked to WikiLeaks, including its founder, Julian Assange. The subpoena asks Twitter for all records and correspondence relating to their accounts, including apparently private direct messages sent through Twitter. The subpoena was issued on December 14th, but Twitter was under a gag order until last week.
It’s unclear if Facebook or any other internet companies have received similar subpoenas. She arrived in Canada this week, and she joined me via Skype from Toronto for an interview. BIRGITTA JÓNSDÓTTIR: I got this subpoena with — asking for all this extra information, not only my tweets. BIRGITTA JÓNSDÓTTIR: Well, they didn’t. BIRGITTA JÓNSDÓTTIR: They told me Friday. SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Today is a federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King. He was born January 15th, 1929. He was assassinated April 4th, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was just 39 years old. More than four decades after Dr. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed, why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man, whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant, can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath. AMY GOODMAN: Obama accepted the Democratic Party nomination on the 45th anniversary of Dr. REV. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream. AMY GOODMAN: While Dr. Today, we’ll let you decide. REV.