Tesla to charge cars exclusively from the sun

Elon Musk has thrown down the nay-sayers and stated that all supercharger stations will eventually be off-the-grid.  Given their recent acquisition of Solar City this was always on the cards.

Elon Musk has thrown down the nay-sayers and stated that all supercharger stations will eventually be off-the-grid.  Given their recent acquisition of Solar City this was always on the cards.

I have recently been researching the viability of power from the sun and it is looking to be more reality than dream.   My goal is to be able to run the air-con and charge my car completely from the sun.   The investment required to set up such a system is nowhere near as high as I feared.   More on that project later.

All Superchargers are being converted to solar/battery power. Over time, almost all will disconnect from the electricity grid.

via Tesla plans to disconnect ‘almost all’ Superchargers from the grid and go solar+battery, says Elon Musk | Electrek

What Ello/Theranos can teach – HBR

Good article from Harvard Business Review on the hubris of courting too much media attention too early on in a startup.

This is a good article from Harvard Business Review on the hubris of courting too much media attention too early on in a startup.   Somewhat relevant as only this weekend I was clearing out dead LastPass accounts and Ello was one of those that got axed.  One of the biggest reasons for this media seeking attention is to make funding so much easier.

I am always amused at how the validation from a fresh-faced 20 something ‘journalist’ republishing a polished up press release can make the difference in millions of venture funding.

Ello’s story shows what can happen when a startup achieves media success that outpaces its progress in other areas. While some founders suffer from a naïve “If you build it, they will come” attitude, many others swing to the opposite extreme. Tempted by the allure of media exposure, they seek it out before they’re ready. Case in point: Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos, who chased TED talks, New Yorker profiles, and Fortune covers before her company’s core technology even worked

via Why Startups Shouldn’t Chase Media Buzz

Tim Armstrong on being a CEO

30 min interview with Tim on how he stepped up to the challenge of taking over as CEO of AOL.

A very good, short 30 minute interview, with Tim Armstrong CEO of AOL and CEO of the upcoming AOL/Yahoo company once Verizon completes the deal. He talks about the challenges of taking over a depressed public company and turning it around with a new culture.

via AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: Career secrets I used to reach the top | Success! How I Did It on acast

Get Android on Windows 10

Digital Trends has a comprehensive guide on the various emulators and distributions that will let you run Android Apps on your Windows desktop, including playing nice with Windows Apps.

Digital Trends has a comprehensive guide on the various emulators and distributions that will let you run Android Apps on your Windows desktop, including playing nice with Windows Apps.   Many of these I hadn’t even heard of.

getting apps from your phone or tablet to your PC isn’t as easy as installing a Windows program. To help simplify things, we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide on what software and utilities you need to install Android apps on almost any Windows computer.

via How to Run Android Apps on Your Windows Computer | Digital Trends

Heating the home with heat from servers

Placing cloud servers in individual homes, and turning them into heating systems. Your house will serve as a data center for companies that depend on cloud computing

This is one of those ideas, that sounds great on principal, but fails quickly when you think about the logistics.   The reason we have data centers in the first place is for convenience, security and backup.  Distributing this around peoples homes just for some heat, is ridiculous.

Placing cloud servers in individual homes, and turning them into heating systems. Your house will serve as a data center for companies that depend on cloud computing

via Your next heat source could come from a server, if Nerdalize has its way

US military data found unprotected on Amazon S3

This is definitely one of those situations where someone forgot to throw the switch and make an Amazon S3 bucket secure. Easy done, but grave consequences.

This is definitely one of those situations where someone forgot to throw the switch and make an Amazon S3 bucket secure. Easy done, but grave consequences.

More than 60,000 sensitive US military files have been found on a publicly accessible Amazon server by a security researcher.  The files contained passwords for US government systems and the security credentials of a senior engineer at defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton

via US military data found unprotected on Amazon web server – BBC News