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MacRumors: Eve Launches Matter-Enabled Eve Weather Smart Station
Smart home company Eve Systems today announced the launch of a new version of the Eve Weather that offers Matter support. With Matter, the new Eve Weather can be added to HomeKit or smart home setups from other companies.
Eve Weather is a small cube-shaped accessory that is designed to provide outdoor weather temperature, humidity, and the local 12-hour weather trend. A display at the front allows you to see temperature and humidity at a glance, but the data also syncs to the Eve app.
With âHomeKitâ integration, Siri can be used to provide details on the outdoor weather conditions, and the data can be used to trigger âHomeKitâ automations. Eve Weather offers IPX4 water resistance so it can be kept outdoors year-round and displayed anywhere.
pv magazine: Optimizing grid-scale battery placement via quantum computing
Spanish energy giant Iberdrola has tested quantum computing for optimizing the placement of large-scale batteries into the grid for cost, voltage control, and reliability. Accurately modeling large-scale grids and the elements of renewables and storage are notoriously strenuous tasks for classical computing.
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Multiverse Computing adapted algorithms to run on a quantum annealer, a type of quantum computer, and on classic hardware, to test optimization solutions. The focus, of the company’s report, was to achieve improvements in grid batteries across three key areas: initial cost, voltage control, and reliability.
ScienceAlert: Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Found a Huge Surprise
When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the rock, the rock broke open, revealing yellow crystals of elemental sulfur: brimstone. Although sulfates are fairly common on Mars, this is the first time sulfur has been found on the red planet in its pure elemental form.
What’s even more exciting is that the Gediz Vallis Channel, where Curiosity found the rock, is littered with rocks that look suspiciously similar to the sulfur rock before it got fortuitously crushed â suggesting that, somehow, elemental sulfur may be abundant there in some places.
Guardian: âIt was magicalâ: hidden self-portrait by English artist Norman Cornish found at museum
An unseen self-portrait of one of the most popular northern English artists of his generation has been discovered hidden on the back of another painting.
The discovery of a new work by Norman Cornish â arguably the most famous artist to emerge from the north-east of England in the 20th century â was made during preparations for a big show of works by him and another titan of northern art, LS Lowry.
The exhibition, at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, aims to celebrate the two artists as âextraordinary storytellers of everyday lifeâ in northern England.
WashPo: Covid summer wave spreads across U.S., even infecting Biden
Coronavirus activity in wastewater reached levels considered âhighâ or âvery highâ in 26 states, according to the most recent CDC data.
The MacRumors Show: Episode 110: Talking Vision Pro and iOS 18 Beta
On this week’s episode of The MacRumors Show, we revisit the experience of using Apple Vision Pro and talk through our first impressions of the iOS 18 public beta.
One of the hosts (Hartley?) just got an Apple Vision Pro. He talks about how awful he finds the weight and fit of it. He basically doesn’t want to wear it for more than 15 minutes, which is about how long I could bear his unrelenting negativity. He may go on to praise other aspects but I just couldn’t get there.
Commenter re-cycle said:
Hartley should try the Annapro Vision Pro head strap. I’m in the UK and bought one of those to have ready for when my Vision Pro arrived and it has made the experience SO much better.
PBS News: What we know about the massive tech outage causing worldwide disruptions
Much of the world faced online disarray Friday as a widespread technology outage affected companies and services across industries â grounding flights, knocking banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air.
At the heart of the massive disruption is CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm that provides software to scores of companies worldwide. The company says the problem occurred when it deployed a faulty update to computers running Microsoft Windows, noting that the issue behind the outage was not a security incident or cyberattack.
RNZ News: Teenager’s dream lands him a historic home: âThree years of my free time and my weekendsâ
For a growing number of young people, home ownership seems like an out of reach dream.
But at just 19 years old, Taylor Henderson bucked the trend by buying his own house - and he renovated it himself as well.
The once-rundown character cottage that used to sit in Lower Hutt is now in Featherston.
Fortune (MSN): Trump âbetrayedâ Elon Musk with âEV-bashingâ RNC speech even after his $180 million pledge, GOP strategist says
After Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly pledged $180 million ($45 million per month) to Trumpâs campaignâwhich would be the largest financial commitment in this presidential race by a tune of $130 millionâsome thought the billionaire could change Trumpâs mind on electric vehicles (EVs), which he hates.
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On Thursday evening, Trump said his presidency would reverse the “green new scam,” particularly by ending “the electric-vehicle mandate on day one,” thereby saving “the U.S auto industry from complete obliteration,” and “U.S. customers thousands and thousands per car.”
It isn’t clear exactly what the “electric-vehicle mandate” is. Murphy, who is an expert on EVs, didn’t know either, but suggested it could refer to the Biden administration’s subsidies for the vehicles, which he says has led to larger growth of manufacturing jobs currently than under Trump.
“And then Trump says, ‘Well, it’s all government boondoggle.’ Well, that’s what the Chinese are doing,” Murphy said. “The Chinese have written much bigger checks to build a huge EV industry that loses money to come in and unfairly compete and put Americans out of work. So Trump doesn’t have the policy heft to understand the issues, he just does applause lines that are based on complete ignorance.”
NYT: She Danced Naked at Woodstock. She Dated Serpico. At 93, Sheâs Not Done.
Betty Gordon came to New York to become an actress (and have a good time). But her greatest talent may have been helping others.
She’s lived an interesting life.
Discover: As Wildfires Explode, Smoke Billows Across a Vast Expanse of North America
Dramatic remote sensing imagery reveals the large-scale impact of wildfires, which also are raging in the United States and the Siberian Arctic.
Electrek: Solar + wind now make up more than 20% of US electrical generating capacity
Solar and wind now make up more than 20% of total US electrical generating capacity, according to new data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
The renewable energy mix â biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind â is now nearly 30% of total US electrical generating capacity.
Odd that they chose to list them in alphabetical order, not by generating capacity.
Last Updated: 19.Jul.2024 20:29 EDT
