Author: JohnVlahos

• China’s Massive Effort to Purify Seawater Is Drying Up
  Stalled projects and underperforming plants have hampered China’s desalination plans.

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• A New Way of Looking at Solar Cells
  Perovskite crystals could be engineered to far outperform silicon.

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• The Internet of Things Could Keep Dirty Coal Plants in Business
  Digitization promises lower annual emissions but could increase them over plants’ lifetimes.

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• Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race.
  The available evidence suggests that face matching systems don’t work equally well for different races.

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• Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits
  Want to make a smart coffee mug that signals “hot”? A customized printer can make the flexible circuits and supercapacitors you’ll need.

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• Funding of Space Ventures Gets a Lift
  Extraterrestrial ventures are no longer limited to deep-pocketed tycoons.

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• Unicorn Instacart Hopes Its Data Scientists Can Calculate a Path to Profits
  Same-day grocery delivery is a notoriously difficult business, but Instacart believes it’s found a way to make money.

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• Wind Fuels the North Sea’s Next Energy Boom
  As oil declines, huge wind farms are providing electricity to Northern Europe.

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• As It Searches for Suspects, the FBI May Be Looking at You
  Questions about accuracy and transparency plague the bureau’s five-year-old face matching system.

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• Tesla-SolarCity Success Depends on Battery Technology That Doesn’t Yet Exist
  Elon Musk is making bold claims about creating a new energy company, but the key ingredient to make it work remains elusive.

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