Elon Musk: Boeing batteries “inherently unsafe”

http://www.chargedevs.com/content/news-wire/post/musk-boeing-batteries-“inherently-unsafe” / Tesla offered to help out beleaguered Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been grounded battery pack problems criticized the battery design as inherently unsafe in an email to aviation news source Flightglobal battery uses a grouping of eight large cells unlike Tesla’s batteries, which contain thousands of smaller cells large cells without enough space between them to isolate against the cell-to-cell thermal domino effect means it is simply a matter of time before there are more incidents of this nature,” Musk told Flightglobal. “Moreover, when thermal runaway occurs with a big cell, a proportionately larger amount of energy is released and it is very difficult to prevent that energy from then heating up the neighboring cells and causing a domino effect that results in the entire pack catching fire Tesla is a leader in lithium-ion technology SpaceX battery packs spacecraft Donald Sadoway professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agreed with Musk entrepreneur entrepreneurial SpaceX competes with Boeing government contracts John Voelcker  Green Car Reports Tesla is the only major EV maker that builds its packs out of thousands of small lithium-ion cells 18650s made by Panasonic competitors use hundreds of large-format cells large format battery design is a highly complex field battery cells within the lithium-ion family very different chemistries different properties. Differences in the way the cells are aggregated into a pack, and the type of thermal conditioning, which keeps a pack within an acceptable temperature range, can also mean huge differences in performance. Boeing’s battery packs are not directly comparable with the packs used in any of today’s production plug-in vehicles /

Gomadic SunVolt Solar Power Station & Solar Cache High Capacity Battery Pack review (video)

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http://the-gadgeteer.com/2013/02/07/gomadic-sunvolt-solar-power-station-and-solar-cache-high-capacity-battery-pack-review/     /  energy crisis alternative energy solar power charge gadgets electric outlet Solar Cache High Capacity Battery Pack review panel rating Watts STC Volts 8.0 – 14.4 Number of TipExchange Charge Ports Upgradeable Charge Circuit sunlight PV 10W photovoltaic panel unfolded propped at an angle leads  printed panel specs cables USB female mini micro USB Apple 30-pin including voltage converter heat-shrink cable converts solar panel’s higher voltage 12-14VDC Volts DC 5VDC USB devices battery pack rechargeable Solar Cache High Capacity Battery Pack  3400 mAh battery charge regular USB charger SunVolt Power Station /

Does your diet influence how well you sleep?

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/07/does-your-diet-influence-how-well-you-sleep/?iid=hl-main-lead     / poor sleeping habits can lead to overeating unhealthy diets keep you up at night getting enough sleep and eating right are well-known behaviors for good health balanced diet best ways maintain healthy weight 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night better health studies have linked lack of sleep to overeating how diet influences sleep patterns researchers Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania investigated how diets correlate with sleep patterns studied data from the 2007-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES involving 4,548 people looked at how much sleep the participants reported getting each night detailed report of their daily diet study very short sleep patterns were defined as less than five hours a night, short sleep was five to six hours a night standard sleep was 7 to 8 hours long sleep was nine or more hours a night different sleep categories also had distinct diet patterns  short sleepers consumed the most calories followed by normal sleepers then very short sleepers long sleepers consumed the least calories normal sleepers, however, showed the highest food variety in their diets very short sleepers had the least variation in what they ate varied diet tends to be a marker for good health since it includes multiple sources of nutrients very short sleepers drank less tap water and consumed fewer total carbohydrates and lycopene, found in red and orange-colored fruits and vegetables and high in cancer-fighting antioxidants, than people with other sleep patterns. Short sleepers tended to eat  less vitamin C tap water and selenium found in nuts, meat and shellfish consumption, but more lutein or zeaxanthin, which are found in green, leafy veggies. Long sleep was associated with consuming less theobromine, which is found in chocolate and tea, the saturated fat dodecanoic acid, choline found in eggs and fatty meats and total carbohydrates long sleepers also drank more alcohol /

DIY data recovery tricks for when your hard drive goes belly up

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/02/diy-data-recovery-tricks-for-when-your-hard-drive-goes-belly-up/    / access documents data files saved external hard drive plug in connect find your data loss number of factors two most common easiest to resolve software related accidentally deleted important folder emptied recycle bin formatted wrong drive most common cause data loss fault with the hard drive itself complexity of modern drives wonder something will go wrong professional data recovery services recover data software not don't work with the drive lose your chances at recovery operating system reading and writing drive constantly deleted data free space  happily overwrite this area your chances of recovery shutdown the machine connected to the drive you’ve deleted data from drive safe clone the drive attempt recovery recover from the clone scan the clone with a few different recovery programs numerous options free paid-for packages are available Recuva Zero Assumption Recovery recover your data with hardware platter heads PCB board /

5 foods to help fight spring allergies

http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/29/5-foods-to-help-fight-spring-allergies/#nuts     / nuts walnuts fish apples red grapes resveratrol tomatoes /

EFF to help defend against troll with “podcasting patent” — granted in 2012

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/eff-to-defend-against-troll-with-podcasting-patent-granted-in-2012/     / Patent trolls pretty ridiculous online shopping carts scanners Windows Phone tiles rejecting a call sending it to voicemail Electronic Frontier Foundation announced tackle the latest completely absurd troll claims to have invented podcasting company Personal Audio LLC not sold product since 1998 make money entirely by suing companies compelling license its patents ,  sued big name podcasts including the Adam Carolla Show Stuff You Should Know Dave Winer podcasting co-inventor wrote Twitter How could a patent issued in 2012 cover podcasting, a technology that's been around since 2001 Patent 8,112,504 podcast patent Despite the patent not having been issued until 2012, the company argues it has a precursor to podcasting which was filed in a different form back in 1996 but then eventually led to this patent. That also probably explains why the ‘504 patent refers to obviously outdated technology like Windows 95 and SLIP/PPP dialup. It cites infrared as rapidly becoming a standard feature  PC and Mosaic as a conventional web browser patent troll lawsuit various other patents court Apple Samsung Research in Motion RIM Blackberry Motorola, HTC win $8 million against Apple in 2011 hit letter the EFF wants to help /

Canonical says Ubuntu for Mobile phones will be on sale in October

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http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ubuntu-for-mobile-phones-will-be-on-sale-in-october/     / interview Wall Street Journal Canonical’s CEO Mark Shuttleworth first smartphones running recently announced mobile operating system Ubuntu for Mobile expected early 2014 revised previous goal early October 2013 OS new operating systemnot clear where these smartphones will go on sale Committing only to availability in Two large geographic markets didn’t mention anywhere in particular North America Key Europe not going to be an application store available at launch interview with Engadget recently, Canonical’s head of mobile said, “In terms of our first go-to-market product strategy, the intention is not to have an application store full of ready-made applications.” He added that the framework would be there, but its target market would be prepared to wait; another hint of where Ubuntu for Mobile will make its debut new mobile operating system Mobile World Congress at the end of the month Galaxy Nexus released sets the stage for a showdown Firefox OS Mozilla ZTE launch the first retail-ready hardware at the show /

Mobile phone towers survive latest iOS jailbreak frenzy (video)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/cell-towers-survive-jailbreak/     / nation’s mobile phone cell towers are still operating  1.7 million downloads latest iOS jailbreaking software evasiOn released prevent federal regulators legalizing jailbreaking Apple claimed United States of America USA US mobile networks could suffer potentially catastrophic cyberattacks iPhone-wielding hackers home abroad iPhone owners were permitted legally jailbreak iDevices iPhone iOS  Apocalypse never came upward of 14,000 downloads per minute Cydia jailbreak app store that is automatically installed when an iOS device is jailbroken Jay Freeman operator 1.7 million Cydia downloads evasiOn release grants root access phone tablet Apple’s app store iPad iPod jailbreak free Linux Windows OS X first untethered jailbreak iPhone 5 Apple devices running iOS 6.x developed team calling itself evad3rs hack exploits five bugs in the iOS code Apple told the government in 2009 that the iPhone would become perhaps a dangerous weapon local international hacker could potentially initiate commands denial of service attack could crash tower software rendering tower entirely inoperable to process calls or transmit data lead to potentially catastrophic result the technological protection measures were designed into the iPhone precisely to prevent these kinds of pernicious activities, and if granted, the jailbreaking exemption would open the door to them Federal regulators called rubbish on the assertion, and have twice granted the public the right to jailbreak their mobile phones. Dozens of exploits have followed, and even existed on Android and iOS before they were legalized All the while, mobile-phone towers went unscathed /

Rumour: Nokia's 41 megapixel Lumia smartphone will launch in the US this (northern) summer

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http://bgr.com/2013/02/05/nokia-lumia-eos-pureview-rumor-316554/     / reports Nokia NOK  41-megapixel PureView camera technology Lumia Windows Phone devices company new smartphone, code-named EOS improved design upgraded PureView camera launch handset revealed that it is scheduled launch United States of America USA US summer AT&T first carrier smartphone Nokia declined to comment on market rumor or speculation /