Tesla Model 3 Drive System Designed to Last for Over One Million Miles
October 16th, 2018Via: Electrek:
Tesla says that the Model 3 drive system is designed and validated for over one million miles of range.
Today, the automaker released impressive pictures of Model 3 drive units after testing, which Elon Musk says “drove 1M miles”.
To The Stars Academy $37 Million “Deficit”
October 15th, 2018Take Off Your Pants and Jacket… and bend over:
If we’re fucked up, you’re to blame
Via: Ars Technica:
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business. The Company has incurred losses from operations and has an accumulated deficit at June 30, 2018 of $37,432,000. These factors raise doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
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Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google’s Nest To Hand Over Data 300 Times
October 15th, 2018Shocker.
Via: Forbes:
Anyone pumped for this week’s launch of Google’s Home Hub might want to temper their excitement. A smart home is a surveilled home. That’s been the concern of privacy activists since citizens started lighting up their abodes with so-called “smart” tech in recent years.
Take Google’s current smart home division, Nest Labs. It’s been told to hand over data on 300 separate occasions since 2015.
How Many Households Qualify as Middle Class?
October 15th, 2018Via: Of Two Minds:
By the standards of previous generations, the middle class has been stripmined of income, assets and purchasing power.
What does it take to be middle class nowadays? Defining the middle class is a parlor game, with most of the punditry referring to income brackets as the defining factor.
People tend to self-report that they belong to the middle class based on income, but income is not the key metric: 12 other factors are more telling measures of middle class membership than income.
Sears Files for Bankruptcy
October 15th, 2018Via: CBS:
Sears has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, buckling under its massive debt load and staggering losses. Sears once dominated the American retail landscape. But the big question is whether its shrunken version can be viable or will be forced to go out of business, ending the final chapter for an iconic name that originated more than a century ago.
Sears says it will “close 142 unprofitable stores near the end of the year. Liquidation sales at these stores are expected to begin shortly. This is in addition to the previously announced closure of 46 unprofitable stores that is expected to be completed by November 2018.”
Sperm Counts Continue to Fall
October 14th, 2018Via: The Atlantic:
Men’s sperm have been decreasing in number and getting worse at swimming for some time now—and, at least in the United States and Europe, new research says it’s getting worse. A pair of new studies unveiled this week at the Scientific Congress of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in Denver suggest that American and European men’s sperm count and sperm motility—that is, the “swimming” ability of sperm cells—have declined in the past decade, which follows a similar, broader trend observed by many scientists over the past few decades.
How An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech That Tracks Almost Every American
October 12th, 2018Via: Forbes:
Today TransUnion says TLO is capable of “processing trillions of records at sub-second speeds.” It can quickly uncover relevant data like individuals’ family members and social media profiles. One of the most important features for law enforcement combines photos from surveillance cameras with a huge trove of license plate numbers to nearly instantly track suspect vehicles. Among its biggest government clients are the Department of Justice, the Secret Service and the U.S. Navy. A license for a single user costs less than $1,500 a month.
Tesla Increases the Price of the Powerwall as Demand Greatly Outpaces Production
October 12th, 2018Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand.
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I wrote a comment on Tesla and the Powerwall a few days ago:
I can’t personally speak to the quality of Tesla’s vehicles, but I’ve had a Powerwall 2 at home since the end of June and, as a working professional in the solar + storage industry, I can assure you that the Powerwall 2 lives up to the hype. From the physical build quality to the performance to the app integration, everything else looks stupid. My criticisms of the product (there are a few) are noise level relative to what it’s doing for us.
The media doesn’t focus much on storage, but Tesla could do vastly more business in that area if they had the cells to spare.
Via: Electrek:
When we talk about Tesla being production constrained, we most often talk about the company’s vehicles. But the Powerwall, Tesla’s home battery pack, might be its most production constrained product.
Now, the company has significantly increased Powerwall’s price just as it is expected to ramp up production.
Powerwall availability has been limited in many markets and many reservation holders have complained about the lack of communication about a timeline to get the energy storage device.
One of the greatest features of the Powerwall has been its price, which is significantly lower per kWh than the competition.
But now the automaker is increasing the price of the device by a significant amount.
Tesla updated the Powerwall page on its website today with a $1,200 price increase between the actual battery pack and the supporting hardware:
Powerwall went from $5,900 to $6,700
Supporting hardware went from $700 to $1,100
The price increase follows another smaller price increase earlier this year.
Richard Dolan on the Digital Strip Search – New Zealand
October 12th, 2018Via: Richard Dolan:
Boston Dynamics: Parkour Atlas
October 11th, 2018Via: Boston Dynamics:
Atlas does parkour. The control software uses the whole body including legs, arms and torso, to marshal the energy and strength for jumping over the log and leaping up the steps without breaking its pace. (Step height 40 cm.) Atlas uses computer vision to locate itself with respect to visible markers on the approach to hit the terrain accurately.
