Category: Newsmarks

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

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

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