Trump’s attorney argued the ex-president is a member of a “protected class” who should be safeguarded by law against New York’s attorney general.
NASA says the James Webb Space Telescope’s fine guidance sensor is now active, marking yet another milestone in the observatory’s big transition.
The way solar panels are mostly designed right now is that they need to have direct sunlight for it to work. It also requires these massive panels that kind of limit where they are placed and how they are used, which in turn does hinder its potential, but that could change in the future thanks to student Carvey Ehren Maigue.
Maigue is a student at the Mapau University in the Philippines and he has created a prototype solar film that actually does not require direct sunlight for it to work. This is because the films were created using luminescent particles taken from fruit and vegetable waste, which in turn are used to capture ultraviolet rays which are then converted into visible light and used to generate energy.
This in turn solves a number of problems, such as what to do with the waste we generate from our food, and also how it can continue to generate energy even when it’s cloudy outside. Based on the 3×2 feet panel prototype, it seems like it can generate enough energy to charge two phones everyday, so scaling it up could potentially help it power larger devices or potentially even entire buildings.
Not to mention, the films are also flexible which means that the potential to use them in other applications is there, so imagine an electric car covered with this solar film that could keep itself powered without having to stop and recharge so often. We have no idea when this tech will be commercialized, but it sounds promising.
Student Prototypes Solar Films That Don’t Require Direct Sunlight To Work
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As soon as Spotify struck a deal with Joe Rogan in 2020 to become the exclusive distributor of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, it was evident that the company was paying him a pretty penny. Initial reports pegged the value of the deal at around $100 million. However, in the wake of a firestorm over claims that Rogan was enabling the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, a new report suggests Spotify is paying much more than that.
According to The New York Times, the three-and-a-half year deal is worth at least $200 million, with a possibility of additional payments. As the report notes, that’s more than Spotify paid to buy major podcast production companies Gimlet Media and The Ringer — each of those deals was worth a little under $200 million.
Rogan’s show is Spotify’s most popular podcast in 93 countries, including the US. Episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience can garner tens of millions of listeners. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek reportedly told employees this month that big exclusive deals such as the Rogan one helped make the company as successful as it is. Spotify has remained behind Rogan, even after his use of racist language on the show came under the spotlight. Rogan removed some episodes containing that language from Spotify.
The backlash against Rogan and the company ramped up after hundreds of doctors, nurses, scientists and educators sent an open letter to Spotify in January urging the company to take more action against the spread of misinformation. They sent the request after Dr. Robert Malone made claims about COVID-19 vaccines on The Joe Rogan Experience that they called “false and societally harmful assertions.”
Notable critics including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell accused Spotify of spreading harmful misinformation and pulled their music from the platform. Around the same time, Brené Brown put episodes of her Spotify-exclusive podcasts on hold. Film director Ava DuVernay struck a podcast deal with Spotify last year, but cut ties this month before producing any content for the company. Reports suggest Barack and Michelle Obama may not renew their Spotify deal, which is set to expire in a few months.
Spotify has also faced criticism from employees over Rogan. The host and editor of Gimlet’s Science VS podcast said they’d no longer make episodes of their show until “Spotify implements stronger methods to stop the spread of misinformation on the platform.” There was one exception to that stance, though. Wendy Zukerman and Blythe Terrell are publishing episodes that debunk misinformation being spread on the platform. They released one earlier this month that examines some of the claims made in Rogan’s chat with Malone.
Ronald Newman has been the subject of complaints involving bullying, misogyny and strategic missteps.
We finally know when “Stranger Things 4” will premiere on Netflix, and fans won’t have to wait much longer. The bad news? We also know when the show will end.
About 45 years ago, Apple sold 200 of its first-ever product: the Apple-1 computer. Of those, around 82 still exist and about 80 in the first batch of 100 are said to have a handwritten serial number on the mainboard (these appear as “01-00##”). Only a few dozen of those 80 are still around. For decades, a handful of…
You might be used to pinning text conversations on your phone, and now you can pin your Twitter chats in much the same way. Twitter’s DM conversation pinning is now available to everyone on Android, iOS and the web without requiring a Blue subscription. The functionality is familiar — on mobile, you just have to slide a favorite conversation to the right and tap button to float it to the top of your inbox. You can pin up to six threads this way.
The expansion comes just a few months after DM conversation pins came to Blue users in November 2021. Not that it’s a shock, however. Twitter said it would use Blue to offer early access to features, and DM pinning was one of the first.
This broader release mainly gives a rough sense of how long it might take for Blue-first features to reach a general audience. While the timing is likely to vary based on the feature, the wait for this DM upgrade might just line up with what you’d expect. The months-long interval may have helped Blue members justify their $3 monthly outlay, but it wasn’t extreme.
Keep your fave DM convos easily accessible by pinning them! You can now pin up to six conversations that will stay at the top of your DM inbox.
Available on Android, iOS, and web. pic.twitter.com/kIjlzf9XLJ
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 17, 2022
The show’s third season will premier in March.
Realme is back with its new Realme 9 Pro+, an Android phone with a very low price tag. We’ve tested the model to see whether it truly offers “pro” features.
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