Seeing Logic publshed an interesting piece on how different coding patterns can affect the understanding of code. The piece includes eight patterns to improve readability, such as never use GOTOs!
UK company Flint Engineering have developed a new efficient energy transfer mat based on heat pipe principles that can be used to distribute and remove heat evenly across a surface with negligable loss. The ISOMat has many applications, such as cooling EV batteries, making produce fridges 30% more energy efficient, and even as heating or cooling panels for buildings.
True Size is a mapping website that allows you to specify and country and move an overlay of it across the globe, to demonstrate how the Mercator projection does not represent the true size of many countries.
Alphabet's Taara division have downsized their internet using light transmission system into a new chip that can transmit internet at speeds of 10GBps over 1km.
Power Roll have developed a new version of their flexible solar panels which can be more easily and more cheaply manufactured and "rolled out", with the aim of producing solar everywhere for everyone.
Buy European Made provides a list of equivalent companies based in Europe across a wide range of products and services such as Clothing, Electronics, Travel, & others.
Through in person user testing, the BBC found that 80% of BBC Sounds users turn up the brightness on devices when viewing a dark mode theme. This rebound effect results in more energy being used for dark mode interfaces.
