A revolutionary and emerging class of energy-harvesting computer systems require neither a battery nor a power outlet to operate, instead operating by harvesting energy from their environment. While radio waves,
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Why Tesla’s new solar roof tiles and home battery are such a big deal
On October 28, Tesla unveiled its new solar roof tiles. Few of us in attendance, if any, realized the solar roofing tiles were actual functional solar panels until Elon Musk said
Live from Tesla’s special event in L.A.
Tesla’s holding a special event at 5:30 PM PT today at Universal Studios in L.A., and we’re live on location to bring you al the news as it happens. Tesla
Tesla’s Powerwall 2 packs over twice the energy storage
Tesla’s new Powerwall 2 is part of Tesla Energy, the company’s new comprehensive approach to green, all-electric power delivery. The updated home energy storage product is similar to the last
These are Tesla’s stunning new solar roof tiles for homes
Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk wasn’t kidding when he said that the new Tesla solar roof product was better looking than an ordinary roof: the roofing replacement with solar
Collaboration yields open source technology for computational science
The Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment (ICE) is a scientific workbench and workflow environment developed to improve the user experience for computational scientists. Credit: ORNL The gap between the computational science
How to watch Tesla’s solar roof unveiling live
Tesla is having a special event Friday at 5:30 PM PT, and the company is streaming the show live on its website. You can definitely expect to see a brand
Automated method allows rapid analysis of disaster damage to structures
Credit: Purdue University Researchers are harnessing “deep learning” algorithms and powerful computer vision technology to dramatically reduce the time it takes for engineers to assess damage to buildings after disasters.
Tesla Powerpack 2 has twice the energy density, began shipping in September
Tesla posted an appetizer of sorts for its event tomorrow, via a blog post that details Powerpack 2, the second iteration of Tesla’s commercial and utility energy storage solution. The Powerpack
Hemp can’t get you high, but it can get high-tech
Marijuana is an ancient plant with borderline mystical properties — just ask the 266 million people who smoke it every year. Hemp, the industrial strain of Cannabis sativa, has been
What to expect from the Tesla solar roof event on October 28
Tesla is hosting an event this coming Friday in L.A., and it’s doing so in tandem with SolarCity. This will be a sort of preview of what we can expect
Autonomous search agents could support researchers
If you still think you can be anonymous on the internet, a team of Stanford and Princeton researchers has news for you: You can’t. Over the summer, the team launched
Making it easier to collaborate on code
“Gitless” removes complicated concepts like “staging” and “stashing,” without fundamentally changing Git’s core functionality. Credit: Santiago Perez De Rosso Git is an open-source system with a polarizing reputation among programmers.
New method reduces amount of training data needed for facial performance capture system
Disney Research has found a way to tailor a facial capture system to the characteristics of a specific actor’s expressions while dramatically reducing the time and effort it would normally
Eyetracking data can improve language technology and help readers
Credit: University of Copenhagen New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that recordings of gaze data – within a few seconds – can reveal whether a word causes a
