Apple Will Finance The Clean Energy Projects With $1,5 Billion Worth of Bonds

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The company has issued $1.5 billion in bonds that will use to finance clean energy projects across the world. This is the largest bond to be issued by U.S. corporation.

The company will use this green bond on renewable energy, energy storage, energy efficiency projects, green building and resource conservation efforts. Apple’s vice president Lisa Jackson said; ” This will allow the investors to show they willing to give money where their concerns and hearts are,”. Moody’s Investor Service said; they are expecting to raise $50 billion worth of green bonds this year. In 2015 this number was $42.4 billion, after the global change agreement in Paris, amounts of green bonds are on the rise. Apple also prompted by Paris agreement in December. Since then hundreds of companies start to plan to invest in the green renewable energy field.

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Before the Paris agreement, Apple already did some significant changes to lower its carbon footprints. In California and the facilities across the globe told by Apple to switch to renewable energy. One of biggest producers of Apple in China starts to switch to cleaner energy sources, including Foxconn and others.

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What is a green bond?

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“The key difference between a ‘green’ bond and a regular bond is that the issuer publicly states it is raising capital to fund ‘green’ projects, assets or business activities with an environmental benefit, such as renewable energy, low carbon transport or forestry projects. Bonds can also be used to fund projects with a social or community benefit such as improving healthcare or social services, and these are typically known as ‘social’ or ‘social impact’ bonds.” Source: KPMG INTERNATIONAL

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Why FBI needs Apple’s Help to Bypass a Simple 4 Number Security Code

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When we watch the Hollywood movies, we see the agents doing some crazy hack stuff. They are hacking camera systems, cell phones or any ultra secured facilities systems. But looks like hacking an iPhone or an Android device is not one of them.

That is why; FBI is asking Apple to hack the phone of the shooter in San Bernadino. But Tim Cook said, ” The government is asking Apple to hack our users… not only the shooter” And, added they will not hack their users’ devices. Yes, I think many of agree that people who connected with the shooting should be found and arrest, but users and Apple don’t want to do it with hacking an iPhone. We all know, if the manufacturers leave a backdoor in any smart device in the future government might use this for bad purposes or other people can access to our phones and steals our valuable data.

But, how the government that has lots of agents, super computers, and the NSA, can not pass one simple four digit code – which is mostly birthday or 1234-. The problem is this code is the only way to the safe, even there not too many possibilities they can’t able to access the data. The reason is; if you enter the passcode wrong couple of times, iPhone makes you wait for a while, and after you enter the wrong code again, the device erases every data in the memory.

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Don’t think that Apple can access your data in seconds, they can not, but the company holds a set of keys which won’t unlock the device but allow them to modify the vault’s locking mechanism and make the changes that allow the FBI open the luck.

The shooter had an iPhone 5c. iPhone’s passcode used to be passed by using a method called ” brute-force attack”. Which is keep trying every possible passcode, after several wrong attempt device lock itself and make you wait for a while after it is active you try again, and this goes on and on. But with the new models including 5c. After several wrong entry, devices erase all the data. So that is not what FBI wants, they want to use ” brute-force attack ” on the device and requiring Apple to change how this security system works.

So this is what Tim Cook against. The company doesn’t want to give access to their costumers’ smart devices. And including Google and many regular users supporting Tim Cook because of his decision on this issue. And many of users thinks, it supposed to be this way. Users who against this back door are not supporting criminals, drug lords or any terrorist. They just want some privacy in their life, and they have a right to want this.

Extracting Fuel From the Air We Breathe

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Carbon dioxide is a colorless and odorless gas that vital for the life on Earth. Life depends on CO2, plants and trees use it to grow food and oxygen, and we all need them the most. Our Atmosphere needs it to keep us warm from the extreme temperature changes.

But, we humans ruined this circle in a short period with the releasing high amount of CO2 to the atmosphere, and still the vast majority of the vehicles we use run on fossil-based fuels. There are many Fossil-fueled power stations around the world which are still active. This couple year we see severe changes in energy gathering methods. New renewable energy gathering stations are built; many countries start to invest on big solar or wind power gathering projects every day. The number of hybrid car manufacturing is increasing, and the plug-in automotive industry is finding new investors for itself. And, these changes are very hopeful for cleaner Earth for the future. Still, we need more investments in plug-in cars and renewable energy fields, this will take years. At the same time, we are pumping an enormous amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere more than our Earth fragile ecosystem can handle. Earth is getting hotter, polar ice melts rapidly, the sea temperature is rising with the salinity.

So, we need a solution to get rid of the CO2 that our Earth does not need until the Sun powered technologies are enough for our energy need. There are some ways to get rid of this extra gas, the researchers from the University of Southern California discovered a way to convert CO2 into methanol ( CH3OH ). The system sucks the CO2 from the air through a solution called ” pentaethylenehexamine ” ( which has lots of carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen in it). So when the carbon dioxide sucked in with some heat, CO2 latches onto available hydrogens and the reaction left with methanol and water.

The research team in California aren’t the only ones that are working in this area. In the center of Canada’s Oil region, a company called Carbon Engineering (CE) is currently developing a system that sucks the CO2 from the air. For that, they are using a large wall of fans, after several chemical steps later, the system produce pure CO2, which can be used to generate ultra-low emission fuels. The Canadian company is planning to build a plant which can capture 1,000,000 tons of CO2 a year, which can be released by 213,000 cars based on EPA’s numbers.

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Methanol can be used to produce biodiesel. Also, this technology can be very helpful for our Earth to keep the balance. For now, the system can’t compete with the low oil price today but soon we will run out of oil and gas, and we will rely on these kinds of technologies and the sun. And we are hoping to have a brighter future.

For more info about this project, please visit the company’s website.

New Trend is Internet of Things For The Intelligence Agencies

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The US National Intelligence Agency director James Clapper told that the internet of things devices can be used by the intelligence services. And These words made a big debate.

NSA’s largest social network monitoring, reorganizing Samsung’s smart TV users contract by adding substances and unauthorized listening to your voice by Chrome are actually the major developments shed light on these days.

Likewise unauthorized listening by Chrome,the smart devices in our lives that again questioned.But smart technology companies always defend themselves being user-oriented. The intelligence services need to work on everything in the information-gathering that could threaten national security and does not hesitate to say that it extends to every device connected to the internet.

‘In the future, intelligence services might use the internet of things for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment’, says James Clapper, US director of national intelligence. To give a few examples, Fitbit and Dropcam in the case of services data has been requested as evidence in various cases. Your child may even spy in your home with a connected to the Internet doll.

In short, there is a linear correlation between increasing internet connected devices and probability of unauthorized listening. Because cyber hackers also use these methods like intelligence agencies.

An Electronic Sensor That Detects Bacteria

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George Washington University developed an electronic sensor that can detect bacteria within seconds with a high success rate 71 percent in tests.

As biologist know to learn whether the inflammation occurs or not usually need at least 24 hours in laboratory tests. If a harmful bacteria growth can be too late when you are aware. And it can be easy to predict negative consequences of this situation. But a new method developed by George Washington University, can now identify the bacteria in seconds.

Today, bacteria control can be done by carried out samples of bacteria from the wound. Samples are placed in a bowl is taken to wait for the formation of the bacterial cell. And treatment does no start without taking the laboratory results. If you do not want to wait for this testing process, it is possible to start antibiotic treatment immediately. Hoverer this method may cause a different effects if there is not inflammation and you use it in vain.

Dr. Victoria Shanugam and her team developed this device can detect a specific molecule called ‘pyocyanin’ seen in strains of bacteria in open wounds within seconds. Therefore, it is reduced from hours-long process to seconds. The success rate in clinical trials was recorded as 71 percent. With the development of technology of device will reduce the error rate.

China is Building A Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor

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China, one of the biggest consumers of the energy. The country has already built 30 nuclear power stations, building 24 new ones and more are on the way. Now, China announced that in 2017; they will bring a new type of nuclear power plant which will immune to meltdown. The technology’s born place is Germany, but this is the first time that someone built on a commercial scale in the world. This new construction project is critical for our Earth. If China pulls this off, this will eliminate the biggest negative point of the nuclear power plants.

So How this meltdown-proof system works? The new reactor prevents the meltdown in two ways. Firstly, the fuel of the reactor which is Uranium encased in graphite spheres that are almost a size of a tennis ball. These spheres prevent the fuel from a breakdown, even the temperature gets higher than what it supposed to be. Secondly, the reactor blasted with helium gas to keep the temperature at 950 degrees Celsius. With this coating system reactor does not need any external cooling system which failed at Fukushima, Japan. The graphite coating protects the uranium from breaking down, even the core temperature passes the certain threshold the system control the reaction and cool itself down.

China Will to Open A Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor

With this new system, there will be no more Chernobyl or Fukushima – we hope – but still nuclear waste is a big problem. We see some changes in the energy sector, many countries are starting to invest in renewable energy systems but also Earth population is rising rapidly. For now, renewable energy investment is not enough for our needs, but some countries including China, are currently working on plasma technology which also called ” power of the sun “. This plasma technology could be next high amount of energy provider for our needs.

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Article via ScienceAlert

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Youngster Are Abandoning Facebook or Twitter for Good Reasons

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The new generation who made the Social media giants; Facebook and Twitter popular are starting to quit using them. Now, when they are checking up the news or updates of their friends, they use other social media platforms like Instagram or Snapchat. Instagram for their favorite brands’ updates, Snapchat for the updates from friends.

In time, they learned that they shouldn’t share every event of their life in Facebook because those moments will stay on the site, and it is hard to get rid of them. When they are applying for a new job, they judged by their shared content. They do some crazy stuff which is very normal – nobody is a robot, right! they are young people – and one elderly that act like he or she never did any stupid thing when they were young, judge them just for some photo or the content they share. Or grandparents might like the crazy event pictures, and that might put the youngster in a weird position in the family.

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Particularly for the new generation, Facebook is getting old, and Twitter is getting unpopular – almost didn’t change until the first day it came up -. But in Snapchat and Facebook Messenger, you share your moments with the people that you want to share, also in these apps, data can be erased after you shared, so there will be no embarrassed in the future.

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Yes, Youngster stop using Facebook, but they are using Facebook-owned Instagram, still the company earns from the new generation. But the Facebook platform still the primary money maker for the business, since 2013; 11 million young people fled from Facebook. According to the PEW ( Pew Research Center ) 49% of smart device users between the age 18 to 29, are using Kik, Whatsapp or iMessage which apps deleted the messages automatically. There is one serious problem for Facebook here in the long term, which is; if the young generation people are no longer liking pages or share stuff. It will change the decision of the corporation who gives millions of dollars for advertisement. The company earned almost $18 billion every year from these adds. If young people stop feeding the Facebook algorithm by clicking stuff. The big corporations which give sh@T loads of money to Facebook may start to using the other social platforms for reaching the new generation.

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A New Algorithm Found to Print the Impossible Objects by Using 3D Printers

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The method that discovered; create a mathematical process before the 3D printing, it automatically calculates the object’s structure on desired data input. The team in Department of Computer Graphics and Algorithms led by Przemyslaw Musialski. They printed the object in the photo. To create the necessary geometrical needs for the object, the algorithm software calculates every aspect of the object such as; exact structure, hollow spaces and wall thickness. For the Turtle in the photo, the rotation axis of the turtle had to be precisely balanced to use as a spinning top, but for the fish, software has to adjust the exact structure and size to be floating in the position like the original one.

“Our method has a whole range of advantages,” Musialski explains. “It is fast, as the calculation is completed within seconds, it is resilient to errors, and as we proved, it can be used for many different optimisation processes compared to other methods.”

If you watched the video above, you saw the Cola bottle that oddly printed, and if you put water in the bottle it tips over but if it filled with alcohol it stayed in place. This result in the video happens because of the lower density of alcohol compared to the water. To achieve this result, the algorithm not only calculated the out shape, it also shapes the hollow space in the bottle. With this new algorithm, 3D printer users would be able to print technical spare parts or ornamental parts for their project. The algorithm software will ensure the object that user want to print will also feature the necessary physical properties.

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Take a Inside Look of Tesla’s Fremont Factory in California

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Tesla becomes a popular company of many around the world. The company’s CEO Elon Musk becomes a celebrity. Many of the followers of him think he is the new Steve Jobs with the less mean attitude. His investment boosts the markets, such as All-electric car vehicle market. Tesla models change the future of the market. Big auto manufacturers who just makes electric concept vehicles just for showing off, start to be really serious about making an all-electric vehicle. He designed Hyperloop and gave it away. Now one company will start testing the Hyperloop technology in Nevada. His space program getting good feedbacks, SpaceX signed and agreement with the Nasa for carrying cargo and astronauts to the ISS ( International Space Station ). But of course, everyone’s favorite is Tesla.

In 2016, Tesla will start selling new two models Model X and Model 3. Pre-orders for predict to start at April for Model 3 and according to the last rumors the car will be around $25.000; this price is affordable in USA market. And of course, there is Model X, there was some news about its perfectly cool doors that Tesla had some problem with the door manufacturer but, for now, looks like the problems solved. Now Tesla lets a TV crew enter their car assembly factory after five years later. Enjoy!…

Feature Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu

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— Tesla (@TeslaMotors) February 12, 2016

UCLA Released a Powerful Image Detection Algorithm For Everybody’s Use

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A UCLA Engineering group made an algorithm public that process images at high speeds and see them in ways that human eyes cannot. The code could be used to detect a face, a fingerprint or an iris recognition for security purposes also, can be used in autonomous cars’ navigation systems or for inspecting industrial products. The algorithm developed by a group of UCLA engineers which led by Bahram Jalali. Algorithm performs a mathematical operation which can able to identifies the edges and detects and extract every feature of the target. Also, can enhance images and recognize objects texture.

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The algorithm is available for download from two open source website; Github and Matlab File Exchange. The reason for making the algorithm as open source, make the other programs work on the algorithm and make this system improve. The algorithm helped the team to find a new system which has been used for ultrafast imaging and detecting cancers cells in the blood (The Phase Stretch Transform algorithm ). The algorithm even can detect the images which can not able to scanned, for example, it can detect LED lamp’s internal structure, this would be helpful to see distant stars that not normally be visible in astronomical images.

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