June 2015

There were 4 posts published in June 2015 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#120

  • “California has more than 800 data centers, the most of any state, according to an estimate by tech consultancy 451 Research LLC that excludes smaller computer rooms that businesses use. Based on that and estimates for water use, the state’s data centers consume roughly as much water in a year as 158,000 Olympic sized swimming pools …
    … A midsize 15-megawatt center uses between 80 million and 130 million gallons of water a year for cooling, according to industry estimates. At the high end of that range, each new facility is akin to planting 100 acres of almond trees, adding three hospitals or opening more than two 18-hole golf courses.”(WSJ)
  • Samsung Safety Truck

  • “In 2014, a robot arm that connects into the electrical activity in muscles was approved for commercial sale by the US Food and Drug Administration. The arm allows amputees to do things like climb walls and eat sushi, albeit a little slowly. It was created by DEKA, the company founded by Dean Kamen (the man behind the Segway), and funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

    Now DARPA wants to develop this technology into something that can be controlled by the brain, as easily as a human arm, by amputees, quadriplegics, or anyone in need of a new limb.” (QZ)

  • Hugo Barra Discusses Xiaomi’s U.S. Plans at Code Conference (Full Video)

  • 32,600 new planes worth nearly US$5 trillion in the next 20 years.
    From the world’s first commercial flight in 1914, to today’s 32 million flights annually, aviation has become part and parcel of our everyday lives. With some three billion air passengers, and 50 million tonnes of freight carried every year by planes, it is estimated that aviation contributes US$2.4 trillion annually to global GDP. (Airbus) [PDF]

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

 

Weekly#119

  • Airbus is going to build micro satellites for Oneweb to provide internet services from the space. 700 satellites will be orbiting around the earth in 2018. Each satellite weighs 150 kg. Competitors of internet service from space are
    • Elon Musk, 4000 micro satellites
    • Facebook, drones
    • Google Project Loon Baloons and Solara 50 solar powered drones (TheNextWeb)
  •  SoftBank Corp. has enlisted Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to support its plan to bring humanoid robots out of movies and comic books and into the real world.

 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 

 

Haftalık#118

  • Twitter CEO’su Costola yerini yeni CEO atanana kadar Twitter’ın Mayıs 2007 – Ekim 2008 arasındaki ilk CEO’su Jack Dorsey’e bırakıyor.
  • Facebook messenger aylık 700 milyon aktif kullanıcıya ulaştı. Mart ayında 600 milyondu.
  •  WWDC 2015 eventinde Apple yeni MacOSX işletim sistemi olan El Capitan, iOS9, Watch OS 2 ve Apple Music’i tanıttı. Split View, Multitasking ve klavyedeki trackpad özellikleri daha büyük ekranlı iPad Pro’nun habercisi. News uygulaması Flipboard ve Zite’i etkileyebilir.
    • WSJ liveblog
    • WWDC 2015 Keynote Video

    • The Verge’in 12dklık WWDC 2015 Video Özeti
  • Homescreen ekran görüntü paylaşımı ve yeni uygulama keşfi, web sitesi ve uygulama üzerinden
  • Andy Weir’in Marslı (Martian) kitabı filme çekiliyor. Başrolde Matt Demon var. Kitabı ocak ayında okumuş ve oldukça beğenmiştim. Kitap aynı zamanda goodreads’in 2014’te en iyi bilim kurgu kitabı seçildi.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haftalık#117

  • Uber 5. yaşını kutluyor.
  • Google yemeklerin fotoğrafından kalori hesabı yapan bir AI uygulaması üzerinde çalışıyor.
  • Fallout 4 trailer’i yayınlandı.

  • Sergey Brin’in yatırımcılara gönderdiği mektup
  • Microsoft 2004 yılında 32 milyar doları temettü olarak dağıtmış. Chris Dixon tweet’inde acaba o dönemli internet şirketlerini satın alsaydı daha iyi olur muydu diye sormuş.
  • Ericsson Mobilite Raporu Haziran 2015 [pdf]
  • mCommerce’ün 2015 sonu %40’a ulaşması bekleniyor.
  • Öğrenciler artık uzay deneyleri yapabiliyor. Arduino tabanlı Ardusat Space Kit 150$a satılıyor.
  • Ertesi güne ait hava tahmini gösteren kutu