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Electric cars are bound to become more popular as the cost of fossil fuels increases, but these cars won’t last forever. That’s especially true of the batteries, which you might need to replace before the rest of the car. So, what can companies do with those old batteries? Nissan is working on a plan to . Nissan’s “The Reborn Light” initiative uses old batteries from the Nissan Leaf to ease the burden on Japan’s electrical grid. The Leaf sports a 40kWh battery that can carry the vehicle about 150 miles (241 kilometers) on a charge. An electric car battery needs to be in top shape, but you don’t need quite so much juice to power a street light.
The flat-earther who first made headlines for his plan to rocket himself through the same layer of the atmosphere we all inhabit has successfully launched his craft, blasting himself roughly 1,875 feet into the air before descending to Earth. “Mad” Mike Hughes took off on March 25, 2018, in a steam-powered rocket. His were canceled after technical problems and issues related to his lack of permits for launching spacecraft on public property. Hughes then relocated to a new site and prepped his rocket for a new vertical take-off system, after deciding he didn’t want to take the chance of ticking off the Bureau of Land Management by landing over public property.
Valve, as a private company, doesn’t have to disclose its earnings, governance, or a great deal of other information about its own operation. Luckily, there’s third-party analytic firms like SteamSpy to fill in the gap. According to Sergey Galyonkin, the firm — which rose to fame with games like Half-Life and Team Fortress 2, and which now controls the overwhelming majority of the PC digital download space — earned a massive $4.3B in 2017, $800M more than the estimated $3.5B it earned through the same period in 2016. While SteamSpy’s figures can’t account for every bit of revenue Valve might have earned, the data it’s missing from DLC and microtransactions only understate the true size of Valve’s giant.
There’s a meme that goes around periodically on Facebook showing Mars, only sized to look as large as the Moon does from Earth. The meme(s) typically argue that when the Earth and Mars hit their smallest distances from one another, Mars will be not only visible to the naked eye as usual, but the same apparent size as the Moon. I’ve always thought these sorts of messages must drive astronomers and scientists absolutely insane, given that the only way Mars would ever look that big from Earth is if every single person living on good ol’ Sol III is about to have a really, really bad day.
The slow rate of battery improvement is responsible for many of the shortcomings in modern technology. Your smartphone might be much faster than it was a few years back, and your laptop can last most of a day on a charge, but think about how much better they could be if power wasn’t in such short supply. One of the most promising technologies that could boost batteries into the future is known as Lithium-air. They have excellent capacity, but tend to break down in a matter of weeks. A new design that tweaks the Lithium-air reaction could finally make these batteries .
It’s happened to all of us. Maybe you want to play a video or song in an area where you know you won’t have reliable internet. Maybe you’re afraid of losing access to something. Or maybe you just want an archival copy of certain material. Either way, we’ve got you covered. Before we get started, be advised that all of these services violate Google’s YouTube TOS and that you’re not supposed to use them. There are a wide range of options for downloading YouTube videos, to the point that it’d be practically impossible to cover all of them.
EA has completely revamped Star Wars: Battlefront 2 as part of an effort to respond to longstanding player grievances and to remove the pay-to-win mechanics that destroyed the game’s reputation before it even hit store shelves last year. Where the first Battlefront was an romp through a licensed galaxy far far away, EA promised the second game would deliver deeper play, more vehicles, multiple eras within the Star Wars universe, and a single-player campaign. It even promised to make expansions available to people who bought the base game without splitting the player base between those who shelled out more money for new maps and modes and those who didn’t.
Facebook’s headaches just keep piling up following the . The company’s stock price is dropping, and governments on both sides of the Atlantic are opening investigations. Now, Mozilla is because, in its words, Mozilla wants what’s “good for the web and for people.” That’s a subtle yet effective burn, Mozilla. Mozilla is a nonprofit firm known best for its stewardship of the Firefox web browser. It advertises the browser heavily on Facebook, but that won’t be the case going forward. It made the decision to stop running ads on Facebook following the revelation that UK-based consulting outfit Cambridge Analytica used a cache of 50 million Facebook profiles to influence the 2016 US election in support of Donald Trump.
