Software prices aren’t increasing as much as you’d think — here’s why Software got more expensive less fast than in previous years — though still double the inflation rate When business models change In 2009, the App Store was a year old, an early part of the switch to subscription-powered cross-platform software. Amazon AWS—the service that’d power much of the SaaS boom—was 3 years old. Salesforce, one of the original web apps, had proved for nearly a decade that people would subscribe to online software....

If you have an army of touchscreen gadgets but you’re always failing to charge them before you leave the house, a French company has a helpful product for you. Wysips, a startup based in France may have developed the best solution we’ve ever seen for charging up your devices by simply putting a film on the screen. This very new technology works by sticking a non-obtrusive, solar transparent “photovoltaic” film that covers the screen and achieves a full charge in six hours using a typical phone, according to Wysips....

Solar panels in the Sahara could boost renewable energy — but raise temperatures worldwide A greener Sahara A 2018 studyused a climate model to simulate the effects of lower albedo on the land surface of deserts caused by installing massive solar farms. Albedo is a measure of how well surfaces reflect sunlight. Sand, for example, is much more reflective than a solar panel and so has a higher albedo. The model revealed that when the size of the solar farm reaches 20% of the total area of the Sahara, it triggers a feedback loop....

Solar power stations in space could solve Earth’s energy needs Benefits of space A possible way around this would be to generate solar energy in space. There are many advantages to this. A space-based solar power station could orbit to face the Sun 24 hours a day. The Earth’s atmosphere also absorbs and reflects some of the Sun’s light, so solar cells above the atmosphere will receive more sunlight and produce more energy....

Solarizedis color palette that’s been designed primarily for terminal and text editor applications, and its goal is to make these applications easier on the eyes so you can code more comfortably for longer. You can download packages that will install Solarized color schemes inVim,Mutt, Xresources, iTerm2, and the OS X Terminal, and the palettes can be downloaded forPhotoshop, the Apple Color Picker and theGIMPPalette. All of the information required to port the scheme to your preferred editor is available in the palettes and on the site if yours is missing from the list....