Building a virtual Earth could be the key for clean energy

More than 100 countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The world is going to need a lot of metal, particularly copper. Recently, the International Energy Agencysounded the warning bellon the global supply of copper as the most widely used metal in renewable energy technologies. With Goldman Sachspredictingcopper demand to grow up to 600% by 2030 and global supply becoming increasingly strained, it is clear we need to find new and large deposits of copper fast....

5 min · 1014 words · Steven Harris

Building an iOS app? Avoid these critical App Store roadblocks

Apple’sApp Storeis a holy grail for businesses, offering access to an audience of abouthalf a billion people per week, according to the technology giant. But that doesn’t mean landing an app in the digital marketplace is easy. Apple has said it rejectedalmost 1 million new appsvying for inclusion in the App Store in 2020, along with nearly a million updates to existing apps. Building an app takes a big investment of time and money, so before you get the wheels turning for your big app idea, it’s worth remembering that Apple alone controls who gets to play in its sandbox....

5 min · 1026 words · Cheyenne Schwartz

Building apps with GPT-3? Here’s what devs need to know about cost and performance

Last week,OpenAIremoved the waitlist for the application programming interface toGPT-3, its flagship language model. Now, any developer who meets the conditions for using the OpenAI API can apply and start integrating GPT-3 into their applications. Since the beta release of GPT-3, developers have built hundreds of applications on top of the language model. Butbuilding successful GPT-3 productspresents unique challenges. You must find a way to leverage the power of OpenAI’s advanced deep learning models to provide the best value to your users while keeping your operationsscalable and cost-efficient....

10 min · 2085 words · Joseph Schwartz

Building the Perfect Entrepreneur

Today I attended one of those entrepreneurship meet-ups,TechAviv, the Israeli startup scene at its finest. Founders, VC’s and everything in between attended. I saw founders in different ages, ideas, pitching capabilities, experience, and technical and networking capabilities. As three companies went on stage to present their kick-ass ideas I started wondering to myself if I could define the perfect founder. What characteristics would I say make a perfect entrepreneur? A lot has been written about the perfect entrepreneur and my immediate reflex was to think of companies and founders I look up to....

4 min · 661 words · Courtney Li

Bulletproof vest material helps this lithium-sulfur battery quintuple EV range

Lithium-sulphur batteries may well be the next generation of power cells that we use in our electric vehicles — if scientists can get them to last longer. And that’s exactly whata team of researchers at the University of Michigan has tried to accomplish with the development of a 1,000-cycle battery that could quintupleEVrange. What’s the potential of lithium-sulfur batteries? Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have a series of advantages over their lithium-ion (Li-ion) counterparts:...

3 min · 590 words · Catherine Hall
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