Wondering about UI vs. UX design? Learn all the differences between User Experience (UX) Design and User Interface (UI) Design in this full guide.
Source: UX vs. UI Design: What’s the Difference? [2023 Guide]
Technology
“Just don’t blow up the launchpad.”
Elon Musk’s 394-foot-tall baby [“Starship”] climbed for just under four minutes before things started to go sideways in what scientists consider a “successful failure.”
Despite exploding—or, um, undergoing a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”—over the Gulf of Mexico, Starship actually surpassed the one expectation Musk set for the test: “Just don’t blow up the launchpad.” Mission accomplished.
Source: Portrait of a rocket on fire
Low-cost device can measure air pollution anywhere | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Flatburn is an open-source, mobile pollution detector from the MIT Senseable City Lab intended to let people measure air quality cheaply.
First transient electronic bandage speeds healing by 30% – Northwestern Now
Northwestern University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind small, flexible, stretchable bandage that accelerates healing by delivering electrotherapy directly to the wound site.
Source: First transient electronic bandage speeds healing by 30% – Northwestern Now
What is Quantum Computing? | Tom’s Hardware
WHAT IS QUANTUM COMPUTING?
Quantum computing is an analog to the computing we know and love. But while computing leverages the classical transistor, quantum computing takes advantage of the world of the infinitely small — the quantum world — to run calculations on specialized hardware known as Quantum Processing Units (QPU). Qubits are the quantum equivalent of transistors. And while the latter’s development is increasingly constrained by quantum effects and difficulties in further miniaturization, quantum computing already thrives in this world.
Quantum refers to the smallest indivisible unit of any physical particle. This means quantum computing’s unit, the qubit, is usually made from single atoms or even from subatomic particles such as electrons and photons. But while transistors can only ever represent two states (either 1 or 0, which gave way to the binary world within our tech), qubits can represent all possible states: 0, 1, and all variations within the combination of both states at the same time.
What is Elon Musk’s Starlink?
Starlink is a satellite constellation system that aims to deliver global internet coverage. This system is ideally suited for rural and geographically isolated areas where internet connectivity is unreliable or nonexistent.
A SpaceX initiative to create a global broadband network, Starlink uses a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to provide high-speed internet services. SpaceX is a privately held rocket and spacecraft company that Elon Musk founded in 2002.
Cell Rover: Exploring and augmenting the inner world of the cell | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
cyborgs at a cellular scale
USB
Transfer Rates:
- USB 1.0/Low-Speed: 1.5 Megabits per second (Mbps)
- USB 1.1/Full-Speed: 12 Mbps
- USB 2.0/Hi-Speed: 480 Mbps
- USB 3.0/SuperSpeed: 5 Gbps
- USB 3.1/SuperSpeed: 10 Gbps
Plugs:
Power:
- Type-C supports USB 3.1 and offers a maximum speed of 10 Gbit/s for data transmission. It also has a significantly higher power output of up to 20 Volts 100 W and 5 amps.
Lumen cuts service to Russia, increasing its isolation – The Washington Post
Lumen, a leading American Internet provider to Russia, announced Tuesday that it was severing business relations in the country, a move likely to increase Russia’s isolation as its citizens slip behind what some analysts are calling a new digital Iron Curtain.
Source: Lumen cuts service to Russia, increasing its isolation – The Washington Post
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