43 posts tagged ‘Environment’

• NASA's Mars Missions Hit Two-Week Snooze Button Because Sun

  Gizmodo, Nov 13, 2023

  For the next two weeks, NASA will not be sending commands to its fleet of Martian rovers, orbiters, and spacecraft until the Sun moves out of the way. Read more...

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• Apple’s Blue Ocean

  mjtsai, Nov 1, 2023

  John Siracusa (Hacker News): I just can’t shake the idea that a return to removable, user-accessible batteries has now become a blue-ocean opportunity just waiting for Apple to seize it.[…]There’s more headroom than there has ever been to accommodate a tiny bit more size and weight in Apple’s portable products.[…]Second, people still crave the advantages […]

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• The Average Lifespan of a Smartphone

  mjtsai, Oct 20, 2023

  Isabel Rubio (via Hacker News): While Marcos Fernández managed to last six years with his previous device, the average lifespan of a smartphone is much lower. In Europe, for instance, it’s about three years, according to the European Environment Office (EEB). This figure is far less than the 25 years that a phone would need […]

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