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Automotive Technology
Tesla launches new Model 3 with ‘mid-range’ battery for $45,000, changes pricing structure
Tesla is launching today a version of Model 3 with a new ‘mid-range’ battery pack for $45,000 before incentives. The new version, which was never announced, is coming as a surprise and it changes the whole pricing structure of Model 3. more… The post Tesla launches...
Tesla produces fun retro commercial for its new in-car Atari games
Tesla CEO Elon Musk hasn’t been coy regarding his wish to gamify the Tesla experience and introduce more games to the automaker’s vehicles. They started with the addition of Atari games in their most recent version 9 software update, and Tesla has now even produced a...
Canadian EV Demand Is So Strong That Customers Wait Months On Lists
So, what’s this all aboot? Right now, uncounted toque-wearing Canadians are staring despondently into their double-double Timmies (that’s coffee with lots of cream and sugar from the Tim Hortons coffee and donut chain) wondering when they’ll ever be able to buy an...
Healthcare Technology
EPtalk with Dr. Jayne 10/18/18
A reader recently asked how/where I keep my own personal medical records. I may have written about it in the past, but my strategy is always evolving, so I’ll share my answer. From my college and medical school days, I have a few paper documents, mostly pathology...
Morning Headlines 10/18/18
OptimizeRx Acquires CareSpeak Communications Digital prescription savings company OptimizeRx acquires interactive patient messaging vendor CareSpeak Communications for an undisclosed sum. Apple gives U.S. users tool to see what data it has collected Following a...
A Machine Learning Primer for Clinicians–Part 1
Alexander Scarlat, MD is a physician and data scientist, board-certified in anesthesiology with a degree in computer sciences. He has a keen interest in machine learning applications in healthcare. He welcomes feedback on this series at drscarlat@gmail.com. AI State...
Consumer Products
Back-To-School – revenue growth, despite delayed sales
Back-to-school’ has shown growth, due to price increases and despite a drop in larger packs. This years’ Back-To-School (BTS) extravaganza has perhaps not been quite so extravagant, according to our snapshot look at the Writing category in our Weekly tracker – but it...
The future of media currencies one year on
Last year we consulted various stakeholders across the media industry on what the future of media currency would look like in 5 years’ time1. You can read our white paper here but to summarise we outlined three possible scenarios for the future: Technological...
Mobile video driving increase in online use in Mexico
Mexicans are now spending a lot more time online with their mobile devices. Latest data from GfK’s Crossmedia Visualizer shows the amount of time Mexicans are spending online has increased from an average of 183 minutes per month during first half of 2017 to 210...
Academic Technoloy
How to Create Storyboard Templates in Google Slides or PowerPoint
Creating a storyboard is an excellent way for students to plan video projects. Storyboards provide a frame-by-frame outline of the plot of a video. Even if your students are going to use tools like Adobe Spark or Powtoon that have frame-by-frame video editing, it is...
How to Set Start and End Times for Videos in Google Slides
This morning I answered an email from a reader who had a question about ytCropper. The link ytCropper link for her cropped video wasn't working in Google Slides. My solution was to not use ytCropper and instead just use the built-in formatting tools in Google Slides....
The Curse of Knowledge
Earlier this week I shared the 101st explanatory video published by Common Craft. More than a decade ago Common Craft pioneered using simple paper cutouts to tell stories and explain difficult concepts in videos. Six years ago Lee LeFever, the founder of Common Craft,...
Alternative Energy
On Beyond EVs: How GM Charts A 100% Renewable Energy Path (#CleanTechnica Interview)
GM is counting on the collective power of corporate renewable energy demand to help utilities shed their aging fossil fuel fleets
New Partnership Explores V2G Solutions for Europe
Last week San Diego-based Nuvve Corporation and European-based EDF Group announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Nuvve’s expertise in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies in support of EDF Group’s Electric Mobility Plan on “smart charging.”
Electric Motor Production Begins At Audi Hungaria
Audi Hungaria recently began producing electric motors in Gyor using modular assembly with about 100 employees in an 8,500 square meter workspace. The first electric motors from Audi Hungaria will be used in the Audi e-tron. Peter Sarvari, Project leader of E-engine...
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging – National Nuclear Science Week 2018
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: Supporting life where it matters most. by Anjali Nair Today, over 20 million nuclear medicine and imaging procedures are carried out in the U.S. alone every year [1]. That’s because nuclear medicine and associated technology has improved...
Nuclear Technology in Space – National Nuclear Science Week 2018
Did you know that nuclear technology has been used in space almost since the beginning of human exploration in space? That’s right – nuclear energy has been used to power science experiments, satellites, and space probes. It may even be used someday to propel...
National Nuclear Science Week 2018 Kicks Off
This week is National Nuclear Science Week – an exciting week of learning, teaching and interacting on all things nuclear-related. (You can read about the history of National Nuclear Science Week, or NNSW, by following this link.) Each year, this week sees a social...
Cloud Storage Technology
A decade of the App Store: where next for enterprise applications?
2018 marks 10 years since Apple launched its App Store. In the intervening period, apps have gone from being relatively unheard of to a key part of our modern tech ecosystem. They are now critical to almost every smartphone user, and according to Flurry’s last State...
The technology helping businesses go green
With a scorching two-month heat wave following the icy cold Beast from the East, it’s been hard to avoid climate change in the UK. Globally, forest fires in California, Cape Town’s water shortage crisis, and an abnormally heavy monsoon season in Kerala are further...
Microservices Architecture: Advantages and Drawbacks
Microservices are a way of breaking large software projects into loosely coupled modules, which communicate with each other through simple Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Microservices have become increasingly popular over the past few years. The modular...