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Automotive Technology
Quick Charge Podcast: May 12, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. more… The post Quick Charge Podcast: May 12, 2021 appeared first on...
Tesla removes Bitcoin payment option over energy use concerns
Tesla has removed its Bitcoin payment option for the online configurator for its electric vehicles overnight. It’s not clear if it’s a permanent or temporary move. Update: Elon Musk confirmed the change was due to concerns over the use of fossil fuel in mining...
Rivian, Volvo, and 56 others urge Michigan governor to support electric trucks and buses
The Electrification Coalition delivered a letter to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday, backed by 58 businesses, including Rivian, Volvo, EVgo, and Arrival, to name a few. The letter urges the governor to join the Multi-State Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero...
Healthcare Technology
Morning Headlines 5/13/21
$50 Million Follow-on Equity Investment from Sixth Street Growth Caps ...
Readers Write: AI is Essential to Stopping Further COVID-19 Spread and Limiting Future Pandemics — Here’s Why
AI is Essential to Stopping Further COVID-19 Spread and Limiting ...
Readers Write: Providers’ Post-Pandemic Assessments of Telemedicine
Providers’ Post-Pandemic Assessments of TelemedicineBy Amanda Hansen Amanda Hansen is ...
Consumer Products
How can you outpace change with intelligence at speed?
We are in year two of the biggest pandemic in living memory. It took just a few weeks for lockdowns and other restrictions to change our lives beyond recognition.
The new EU energy label: How are markets preparing?
The new EU energy label system is hitting the home appliances markets now – changing the scale back to A-G and getting rid of A+(+)(+) ratings. But more importantly, the concept of energy efficiency has a very different position in consumers’ minds in 2021 compared to...
A permanent state of flux: Media, advertising and COVID-19
In September 2020, we brought together nine experts from the fields of media, advertising, research, and data for our fourth annual GfK Roundtable debate. Their mission was to assess the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on media and advertising. With consumers...
Academic Technoloy
How to Find Public Google Docs, Slides, Forms, Sheets, and Drawings
Last week I published an animated GIF of how to search by domain to find publicly shared Google Workspaces files. Over the weekend I was asked if I had a video of the process. I didn't have one, so I made this short one to demonstrate how to use Google's advanced...
The Differences Between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
One of the ten big topics to be covered in detail during the Practical Ed Tech Virtual Summer Camp is how to use augmented reality and virtual reality in education. It's important to note that while these topics are similar, there are some distinct differences between...
Moving Files Between Google Workspaces Accounts
It's that time of the year when some people are winding down their time in one school district in anticipation of a summer break before moving onto a new school district in the fall. For some people that means they have to figure out what to with the contents of their...
Alternative Energy
California clean fuel standard sparks renewable gas boom in Midwest
Twenty years ago, Holsum Dairies installed the first anaerobic digester in Wisconsin. Part of a combined heat and power system, the digester mixed cow manure with heat and bacteria to produce biogas that fueled a generator. It was a novel experiment at the time. The...
Hawaiian Electric needs to ramp up rooftop solar, seeks customer input
This week, Hawaiian Electric said that it is seeking public input on a strategy to increase rooftop solar and similar customer-sited energy resources. The utility said it needs customers to host renewables to help it reach the state’s clean energy benchmarks. The...
Xcel New Mexico’s community solar program ready for subscribers
Xcel Energy’s New Mexico said that its customers can now choose electricity generated by the state’s most abundant resource – the sun. The utility’s Solar*Connect program has opened for enrollment, providing customers with the option to invest in solar energy by...
Nuclear Energy
Nucleating our carbon-managed future
If you’ve studied chemistry, you’ll know that the nucleation point describes the start of a change in physical state, such as from a solid to a liquid, or liquid to gas. Water starting to crystallize into ice nucleates where the first H 2 O molecules reorganize as a...
Nucleating our carbon-managed future
If you’ve studied chemistry, you’ll know that the nucleation point describes the start of a change in physical state, such as from a solid to a liquid, or liquid to gas. Water starting to crystallize into ice nucleates where the first H 2 O molecules reorganize as a...
LANL cleanup modifies fieldwork to protect threatened species
The Mexican spotted owl, which finds a home in northern New Mexico’s canyons and forests, is a threatened species that the DOE strives to protect. Photo: Don Ulrich, taken in Flagstaff, Ariz.To protect a treasured ecological species of northern New Mexico, the Los...
Cloud Storage Technology
Cloud Migration Series (Step 2 of 5): Start Planning
This is part 2 of a 5-part series on best practices for enterprise cloud migration. Released weekly from the end of April to the end of May 2021, each article will cover a new phase of a business’s transition to the cloud, what to be on the lookout for, and how to...
Cloud Migration Series (Step 1 of 5): Define Your Strategy
This is part 1 of a 5-part series on best practices for enterprise cloud migration. Released weekly from the end of April to the end of May 2021, each article will cover a new phase of a business’s transition to the cloud, what to be on the lookout for, and how to...
Data Engineering & Business Intelligence – An Exciting Quest
I can clearly remember that moment when our VP of Engineering came to me saying, “Our data and reporting are a mess.” At that moment, we admitted that we had to improve how we manage and organize data and, even more importantly, how we provide it to our customers. You...