Recently, the security risk posed by the use of lithium-ion batteries in Boeing 787 forced the aviation giant to ground these planes. Taking a lesson from this, Airbus is planning to use the regular nickel-cadmium batteries in its A350 plane, sources claim.
We recently reported that after a scathing review of Tesla’s Model S in New York Times, Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk claimed that the review was based on inaccurate data. Now he has provided the data logs to prove his claim and in the light of this data, it does seem that NYT’s reporter was determined to give the impression that the car didn’t perform well enough.
Audio recordings of a decade ago or half a century ago are terribly hard to find and access. Most of them are present in mediums which are hard to avail for a common person. Even if the medium to run the recording is furnished, it is hard to reach the recording itself. Library of Congress intends to change that with its National Recording Preservation Plan.
With the increasingly greater power demands of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, the world is on the hunt for better batteries. While many industry giants are working on it, University of Southern California seems to have come up with an excellent solution. Using silicon nanowire, the university has created a battery with three times the normal energy capacity.
iFixit folks have a knack of tearing down the latest of gadgets and giving us a detailed break-down of what their insides look like. The team also dishes out a rating as to how repairable a given tablet, smartphone or any other device is. The latest ‘victim’ of iFixit is the Surface Pro slate which, the team claims, comes with very poor repairability.
U.S. government has been working diligently to bring cybersecurity legislation into mainstream, apparently meant to guard critical national infrastructures and businesses based in the U.S. To this end, President Obama recently signed an executive order which intends to improve national cybersecurity.
NASA’s Earth Science program is focused on discerning climate changes by keeping a close eye on Earth’s environment. To this end, the space agency has launched a new satellite named Landsat 8 which comes equipped with better light and thermal sensors. The satellite was launched to space on February 11, at 1:02 p.m. EST.
LG has officially revealed Optimus G Pro, a 5.5-inch Android Smartphone. LG has not disclosed the detailed specs but a few, like the phone has a 5.5-inch 1080p display and a quad-core CPU.