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The WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) today published an edition of theHTML5 specification for web developers, compiled by Melbourne, Australia developerBen Schwarz. The developer’s edition is intended to be more readable than the official specification so that developers can find the information they need more quickly, and removes information that’s only relevant to browser developers. The WHATWG was founded in 2004 byApple, theMozilla FoundationandOpera Software. The three organizations became disgruntled with the way theW3Cwas handling the development of XHTML and splintered off to form the group that would begin work on HTML5....

What’s a heat pump and why do EVs use them? Don’t let it get you hot under the collar What is it? Put simply, a heat pump is a device used to move heat around an electric vehicle. Similar concepts are used in combustion engine cars, but we don’t care about those right now. Reversible heat pumps can also generate heat, and then move that around an EV as it’s needed, but we’ll get on to that later....

“Suborbital” is a term you’ll be hearing a lot as Sir Richard Bransonflies aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity winged spaceshipand Jeff Bezos flies aboardBlue Origin’s New Shepard vehicleto touch the boundary of space and experience a few minutes of weightlessness. But what exactly is “suborbital”? Simply put, it means that while these vehicles will cross theill-defined boundary of space, they will not be going fast enough to stay in space once they get there....

Although lithium-ion batteries have long been the focus of EV development, issues such as battery aging and safetystill aren’t fully understood. That’s mainly because current battery management systems can obtainlittle information from a battery, and with poor real-time capability. They also can’t store or process large amounts of data during the operation of a vehicle. But don’t lose your hope just yet, because digital twin tech could actually be a huge game-changer....

Empire Avenueis a curious new site that has attracted the eyeballs of numerous early adopters as it could be used to determine an effective ranking systems for humans using social media channels. In essence, the site lets you buy and sell people as if they were stocks, assigning a value to each person using the virtual currency “Eaves.” Although it’s just a game right now there are interesting spin-offs that could come out of this including people with virtual currency in “their shop” and as an interesting way of ranking people....