However, the biggest problem has been with the deletion of user files located in the C:/Users/[username]/Documents/ folder.
Source: Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October Update (version 1809) | ZDNet
For Now, at Least, the World Isn’t Making Enough Batteries
There’s booming demand for one of the product categories Tesla makes that gets far less focus than its cars. Residential-energy storage has been surging in the U.S., with more capacity installed in the second quarter than in all of last year. Tesla sells its Powerwall to homeowners.
Source: For Now, at Least, the World Isn’t Making Enough Batteries – Bloomberg
This 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan’s Leading Right to Repair Advocate
In 2012, Massachusetts passed a law forcing automotive companies to share diagnostic information with third party repair shops. The law set a precedent and the industry rolled out the changes nationally. Now, Massachusetts has commissioned a study to see if similar legislation should extend to consumer electronics such as smartphones and video game consoles.
Source: This 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan’s Leading Right to Repair Advocate – Motherboard
Why Tesla’s Elon Musk asks job applicants this key interview question
“People [who] really solved the problem, they know exactly how they solved it,” Musk explained. “They know the little details.” These candidates are able to talk in-depth about the struggles that they faced and the strategies they used. Says Musk, great candidates can answer this question on “multiple levels.”
Source: Why Tesla’s Elon Musk asks job applicants this key interview question
Watch This Net Capture Orbital Space Debris for the First Time in History
The RemoveDEBRIS satellite consists of a large, 220-pound main satellite that carries two smaller cubesats and a net. The mission involves deploying these cubesats as artificial space junk and them capturing them to demonstrate the effectiveness debris removal technology. The first cubesat was successfully captured on Sunday evening with a net after six years of testing the technology on Earth.
Source: Watch This Net Capture Orbital Space Debris for the First Time in History – Motherboard
Software disenchantment
As a general trend, we’re not getting faster software with more features. We’re getting faster hardware that runs slower software with the same features.
Source: Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me
16Gb Android phone was perfectly fine 3 years ago. Today with Android 8.1 it’s barely usable because each app has become at least twice as big for no apparent reason. There are no additional functions. They are not faster or more optimized. They don’t look different. They just…grow?
San Francisco threatens to block access to Millennium Tower
The problem is that the 60-to-90-foot-long friction piles underpinning the building were driven into sandy soils rather than bedrock at 200 feet down. While no concrete explanation has been given for continued sinkage, developer Millennium Partners has blamed construction of the neighboring Salesforce Tower for pumping out too much groundwater and causing the soil to settle.
Source: San Francisco threatens to block access to Millennium Tower – Archpaper.com
Chinese Researchers Are Outperforming Americans in Science
For decades, China’s growth was driven by shifting workers from agriculture to manufacturing. As the country started to approach the so-called Lewis turning point, when such shifts no longer raise overall productivity, the government made an increasingly concerted effort to build the scientific base to provide another vector for growth. The results of those efforts are showing up in both the rankings of Chinese universities (11 of the top 100 globally) and in scholarly output.
Source: Chinese Researchers Are Outperforming Americans in Science – Bloomberg
Plan to tow icebergs from Antarctica to parched Dubai
Alshehi told NBC that even if 30 per cent of the iceberg melts on the journey, it will still be able to provide between 100 million and 200 million cubic metres of fresh water – enough for 1 million people to stay hydrated for five years.
Private investors have bankrolled the project to the tune of US$60 million (NZ$91 million), according to NBC.
Source: Plan to tow icebergs from Antarctica to parched Dubai | Stuff.co.nz
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Going up! Japan to test mini ‘space elevator’
The test involves a miniature elevator stand-in—a box just six centimetres (2.4 inches) long, three centimetres wide, and three centimetres high.
If all goes well, it will provide proof of concept by moving along a 10-metre cable suspended in space between two mini satellites that will keep it taut.