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Automotive Technology
Tesla Stock Is Among Least Volatile And Is Highly Lucrative
The media and short sellers may be wrong after all Last week, Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, made world news by announcing his plan to take the company private. The market reacted immediately, with the TSLA stock skyrocketing. Even though a lot of short sellers expect the...
Faraday Future Establishes HQ In China
First of five new facilities Faraday Future is fighting hard to see its first FF91 all-electric vehicle — an SUV with a heavy emphasis on the sports component of that acronym — leave its Hanford, California factory sometime in December of this year. Despite being,...
Tunnel Tours Soon To Be Offered By Boring Company
How about a student tour of The Boring Company’s Hawthorne, CA tunnel? Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s Boring Company announced on Twitter that it will be offering student tours of the tunnel site in Hawthorne, CA. Each tour can host up to 30 LA county students at a...
Healthcare Technology
Why Hillarycare failed…and what we need to learn from that failure
By MATTHEW HOLT In July 2005 George W Bush had relatively recently won a Presidential election in which the Republican won the popular vote (something that will likely never happen again) & the Republicans controlled all three branches of Government. Those of us...
Health in 2 Point 00, Episode 43
Jessica DaMassa cracks her whip and in just 2 minutes gets answers out of me about the bidding for #athenahealth, the new clinics at #Amazon, the #FDA approving #NaturalCycles as a contraceptive, and the tech giants getting on stage unprompted at ONC’s Blue Button 2.0...
Morning Headlines 8/14/18
Watson Health: Setting the Record Straight IBM SVP John Kelly rebuts a Wall Street Journal article that called Watson Health’s effectiveness in oncology into question, saying that, “To suggest there has been no patient benefit is to ignore both what we know The Wall...
Consumer Products
The winning formula for advertising around big sports events
We ran different ad tests during the World Cup, including using biometric testing on 21 ads. The ad that ‘won’, in terms of greatest subconscious and conscious audience response, was the Ladbrokes’s advertisement, which is driven by verbal and visual humour. But what...
Why are big advertisers still getting this wrong?
We ran a test recently on some ads that were airing in the UK during the World Cup, all from the same product category (consumer electronics). Some of the advertisers were official World Cup sponsors; others had an alternative football sponsorship association – and we...
Ready for the next Black Friday? Never before seen sales peaks in Latin America
Promotional events change traditional seasonality and strongly concentrate sales Promotional events are gaining more and more importance across the whole world – and Latin American tech markets are among those showing the strongest impact. These events are changing...
Academic Technoloy
Best of the Web Summer 2018
This morning I had the privilege to visit the Lewis County C1 School District in Missouri. One of the presentations that I gave there was the latest version of my popular Best of the Web presentation. The presentation is broken into four sections. Those sections are...
Your Next Read – Webs of Book Recommendations
Your Next Read is a site that provides you with a web of book recommendations based on the authors and books you already like. Here's how it works; type in the title of a book you like or author you like and Your Next Read will provide you with a web of books that...
An Animated Shark Tracking Map – How Far Do Sharks Roam?
Years ago I included a shark tracking Google Earth layer in my workshop about Google Earth. It provided a good example of how Google Earth can be used in science classes. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find that file for a couple of years now and even if I did...
Alternative Energy
Waymo Autonomous Shuttle Service In Phoenix Focusing First On Public Transportation Workers
Starting this month, certain employees of Valley Metro in Phoenix, Arizona, will be able to use an autonomous shuttle from Waymo to get back and forth to work. It is part of an experiment to figure out how self-driving cars and public transportation can work together.
Dale Vince, Eco Warrior: Part 2, The Journey To The Electric Highway
This is the second article in the series where we delve into the compelling story of how Dale started the UK fast charging network on our motorways (freeways) as early as 2011. Dale Vince, the founder and Managing Director of Ecotricity, gave this interview on 16th...
Population Reduction For A Sustainable Future: A Salk & Salk Book Review
"A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future" by Jonas Salk and his son, Jonathan, argues that population control is essential to save the planet
Nuclear Energy
Remembering the 100th Birthday of Vice Admiral Wilkinson
By Ann D. Winters August 10, 2018, marks the 100th birthday of one of the great men in nuclear power: Vice Admiral Eugene P. “Dennis” Wilkinson USN. He passed away in July 2013, a month before his 95th birthday. I was privileged to call Dennis Wilkinson friend for...
Pool Reactors 3: Building a Reactor Facility
by Will Davis In this final installment of the series on pool reactors we’ll take a look at some remarkable images found in a 1956 brochure which shows some of the steps of the process in constructing the Ford Nuclear Reactor and attendant facilities at the University...
Curiosity Lands on Mars: 6 Years Later
By Peter Hill In 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) [1] successfully touched down on the Red Planet. Aptly named Curiosity, it brought with it scientific discovery instruments and exploration capabilities that only a nuclear-powered rover could realistically...
Cloud Storage Technology
Digital transformation | Safeguarding the customer experience
There is a link between customer experience and security, and digital transformation projects need multi-vendor strategies to succeed. At the start of the year, IDG predicted that some $1.3 trillion would be spent on digital transformation (DT) projects around the...
What are the Best Practices for a Large-Scale Cloud Migration?
For organizations of any size, migrating to the cloud presents a challenge. Leaders have many decisions to make, including which applications to migrate and how to connect such activities to business use cases. Large-scale migrations are the specialty of David...
FinTech Services | The future of B2B and banking
Are FinTech services the future of cash flow? The results of a wide-reaching independent survey of 4,000 UK businesses to find out how companies manage their cash flow has shed significant light into an area that is reported as a key challenge for businesses across...