Author: Romano McBride
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The drag coefficient is not a meaningful metric for car efficiency
Aerodynamic drag is only one factor in a long equation about the absolute driving resistance of a vehicle and overall efficiency depends on a lot of other factors. But even just considering aerodynamic drag, the way we compare cars doesn’t make sense at all.
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iOS Needs User Accounts
Apple just added mouse/trackpad support to iOS and launched a line of keyboards for and trackpads for the iPad. The iPad is being marketed as a portable computer that you can replace your… well… computer with. But unfortunately, it’s not. Not without user accounts.
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Why Hardware Raytracing is Awesome
Raytracing is a great technlogy to render photo-realistic lighting, reflections and even refractions and caustics. But with ever-increasing rendering resolutions, we’ve never really been able to do any great-looking full-scene raytracing in real-time and a capacity that is ready for consumer video games and other applications. The next Generation of Video game consoles, Playstation 5 and XBOX…
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Game Console Graphics Stagnation
How ever-increasing resolutions are eating our flops and why we need better pipelines.
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Tesla’s Supercharger Fair Use Policy locks out company cars?
Tesla promotes the company usage of their vehicles and Supercharging network on their Marketing website, but prohibits the use of Superchargers for commercial purposes in the fine print.
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Business Trend of the Decade: Crowdsourcing Social Responsibilities
Conducting a business involves certain social responsibility, often mandated by laws and regulations. But what if you could reap the profits from the business model without the inconvenience of having to comply with those regulatory, legal and ethical nuisances that slow down your expansion?
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The Erosion of Console Game Quality
With the reduction of quality standards in favor of faster and cheaper submissions, the quality of game console ecosystems has been slowly eroding.
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Car Emissions Regulations Don’t Make Sense
Let me ask this provocative question: Why is it legal to drive a 30 year old diesel but when your 3year old, much cleaner car doesn’t pass the smog check, you’re not allowed to drive it?
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CarPlay and cellular infrastructure
CarPlay is a great concept, increasing the lifespan of vehicles by potentially running their infotainment apps through connected smartphones with ever evolving software. It’s been around for a while now and it’s installed in millions of vehicles from different manufacturers. But it’s still a gimmicky feature, because a major point has been left out in the…
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Users will reset their devices!
With software in consumer electronics it can be reasonable assumed that stuff will crash.