Vesper Technologies, a new microphone technology developer, has raised $23 million from some of the biggest names in audio technology to finance the commercialization of its piezoelectric microphones. As audio technology and voice controlled devices become more ubiquitous, manufacturers are hoping to turn to higher performance MEMS (micro-electro mechanical systems) microphones that use acoustic sensors […]
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Green Power Exchange enables peer-to-peer energy sharing
True friends share everything, from purses to lawnmowers to the limitless energy they pull from the sun, wind, and deep underground. Green Power Exchange aims to make one of those sharing scenarios a bit simpler. Green Power Exchange or GPX is running an ICO to create a coin that lets you trade energy. While there […]
View More Green Power Exchange enables peer-to-peer energy sharingThousands of academics spurn Nature’s new paid-access Machine Learning journal
Nature, one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world, has just announce plans to create a Machine Intelligence imprint, and researchers are not happy. The field has been doing fine with open-access journals — why clog it up with the paid-access model everyone has been trying to escape for decades? Over two thousand have signed a statement saying they won’t publish in it.
View More Thousands of academics spurn Nature’s new paid-access Machine Learning journalSolar project lending startup Wunder Capital raises $112 million as renewable energy shines
As renewable energy continues to gobble up more and more of the new energy capacity coming online, the solar project lending company Wunder Capital has raised $112 million in primarily debt financing to boost its business. The 90 percent debt and 10 percent equity commitment came from the multi-strategy investment firm Cyrus Investments, which has […]
View More Solar project lending startup Wunder Capital raises $112 million as renewable energy shinesMajestic dad eagle loses cool in front of his family as earthquake hits
Earthquakes are already scary. If you’re a bird, then they’re extra terrifying.
This family of eagles was having a typical eagle day, with daddy eagle (known as A-40) watching protectively over his little eaglets, when a 5.3 magnitude earth…
This sculptor handcrafts entire wind forests that capture the invisible movements of air
Lyman Whitaker aims to bridge the gap between the machine world we have created and the natural world we have swiftly left behind.
His sculptures remind us of the invisible forces, like wind, that underly all life on our planet. Read more…More abou…
Satellite images of Earth taken from an angle show the world in new beauty
While it’s fun to explore the world by zooming around on Google Earth, there’s just something uninspiring about most satellite images. While the earth is 100 percent most definitely round, many of these images are taken straight down, making the worl…
View More Satellite images of Earth taken from an angle show the world in new beautyA deep dive into the Antarctic Ocean reveals stunning views of wildlife
A strange alien world lies beneath the Antarctic Ocean. In the deepest dive ever conducted in this region, the filmmakers of ‘Blue Planet II’ uncover the abundant wildlife hidden in the depths of #OurBluePlanet.
This video is a part of Our Blue Plane…
No outlet, no problem — this eco-friendly charger uses water to power your phone
Take your power to the outdoors with ‘Blue Freedom.’ This mini hydroelectric power plant allows you charge all your USB devices with the help of a flowing water source. Read more…More about Mashable Video, River, Blue, Nature, and Portable
View More No outlet, no problem — this eco-friendly charger uses water to power your phoneThe ice on Lake Michigan has turned blue. Here’s why.
The ice on portions of Michigan’s Great Lakes has turned blue, but don’t worry, there’s a perfectly good reason why.
The phenomenon is common on glaciers, but not so much on large swathes of lake ice. It’s happening where Lake Michigan meets La…
This portable pod is actually a smart, self-sustained home for two
Slovak studio NICE&WISE has just launched the production of Ecocapsule, a portable, wind and solar-powered pod that can be transferred almost anywhere in the world and be used like a pop-up hotel room. Each unit offers 68 square feet of useable fl…
View More This portable pod is actually a smart, self-sustained home for twoHorrifying video shows a snake wearing a decapitated fish head
Today in absolutely horrifying things found in nature: a snake slithering around in a shallow body of water wearing a huge fish head.
The clip, which was submitted to the appropriate subreddit r/WTF on Tuesday, was a hit on the notoriously dera…