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Turning Blu-ray player parts into a cheap laser-scanning microscope
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Designed by German YouTuber Doctor Volt, a recent DIY project uses parts of a defective Samsung BD-J5900 Blu-ray player to put a laser-scanning microscope together. Compared to optical microscopes, laser-based microscopes can capture much more details – and with a higher magnification level – by focusing on a single point…
Horrifying mystery as ‘human body parts found scattered around a park’ could be from someone killed years ago
HUMAN body parts found scattered around a park could be from someone killed years ago, police say.
Officers found the remains in Brackley Park, Hull, ten days ago.
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Human body parts found scattered around Brackley Park in Hull could be from someone killed years ago[/caption]
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On Friday there were four scenes of crime tents within a cordon in the park in east Hull[/caption]
Cops are thought to believe the victim may been hit by a train from the nearby rail line which carries freight from Hull docks.
But police now think the incident, in the eastern area of the East Yorkshire city, may have happened months or even several years ago.
It is unknown if cops have been able to identify the victim, HullLive reports.
The investigation is being led by British Transport Police.
Police were originally called to the scene at 6pm on Wednesday December 7 following “reports of human remains found”.
On Friday there were four scenes of crime tents within a cordon in the park.
Crime scene investigators in white forensic overalls were seen at the site, sparking concerns among locals.
But because the remains have been there for some time it is thought the scene may have been disrupted by animals and wildlife.
Nicola, a mum who lives next to the park said locals have been left “shocked” by the incident.
She told HullLive: “It is a lovely place for families around here but the area has had its trouble before, especially in the summer.”
On Thursday, British Transport Police said: “We’re still searching the area.
“It’s believed to be the remains of one person – and detectives are following a number of enquiries to identify them.”
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Crime scene investigators in white forensic overalls were seen at the site, sparking concerns among locals[/caption]
South Carolina EV battery recycling plant could salvage parts for a million cars a year
The push to recycle electric vehicle batteries just gained some momentum. Redwood Materials has unveiled plans to build an EV battery recycling plant on the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina. The roughly 600-acre facility (previewed in a render above) will break “end-of-life” batteries down to their raw metals and rebuild them as the anodes and cathodes that are crucial to EVs. The parts should support up to 1 million EVs per year. That could not only reduce waste, but reduce the costs and risks associated with importing those components from overseas.
The plant will reportedly amount to a $3.5 billion investment that includes 1,500 jobs. Like Redwood’s Nevada campus, the Charleston hub will rely solely on clean energy and all-electric operations. The company claims its approach lowers CO2 emissions for producing the battery components by about 80 percent compared to the output from the usual Asian supply chain.
Construction should start for the South Carolina plant in the first quarter of 2023. The first recycling process should be ready by the end of that year, Redwood says. The company plans to scale afterward.
The locale choice is strategic. Redwood says South Carolina is part of a growing “Battery Belt” where EV cell manufacturing will ramp up to “hundreds” of gigawatt-hours of production capacity by 2030. Its seaside port helps, too. The state further hosts factories for car manufacturers that include BMW and Redwood partner Volvo, so a brand could quickly repurpose spent batteries for vehicles rolling off the line.
More importantly, Redwood appears to have broader support from the auto industry. On top of Volvo, it has partners like Ford, Toyota and battery makers that include Panasonic and Envision AESC. Large-scale battery recycling facilities are still relatively rare in the US — Li-Cycle’s new Alabama plant can process batteries for about 20,000 EVs per year. This expansion could make recycling far more commonplace, and make a better case for electric cars as the environmentally conscious options.
Ex-Rocket Lab engineer raises $21M for Partly to make buying car parts easier
Car parts buyers require specific parts to fit specific vehicles, making for a supply-constrained environment. New Zealand-based Partly wants to ease those constraints by connecting parts buyers around the world with the correct parts. The two-year-old startup is not a car parts marketplace. Rather, Partly powers marketplaces like eBay and Shopify with its database of […]
Ex-Rocket Lab engineer raises $21M for Partly to make buying car parts easier by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Will USB-C Charging Standard Bring Fewer Other Proprietary Parts and Less e-Waste?
A CNN opinion piece calls this “a hallelujah moment for iPhone owners everywhere.”
iPhone cords are a very big business: There are reportedly about 1.2 billion active iPhones out in the wild. And if their charging cables need to be replaced once or twice a year as many users attest, at roughly $20 a pop, well, you could just about buy a Twitter a year for that sum…. While the new edict only directly applies to devices sold in the EU, India looks set to follow in Europe’s footsteps….
[T]he move is almost certain to serve as the push that gets Apple to finally abandon its bespoke-battery-booster approach for future versions of the world’s most popular smartphone. Even Greg Joswiak, the company’s global head of marketing, admitted that the EU standardization push means the lifespan of Apple Lightning charging cables is likely finally over. And right on time, given that ten years ago Apple called it the “cable standard for the next decade….” It might even dilute some of the tribal tension between iPhone and Android users, assuming the latter don’t lord over us the fact that most of them have already been charging with C for half a decade. (We still have our blue message bubbles, greenies!)
And it might generally reduce the temptation among tech companies, chief among them Apple, to “innovate” by introducing proprietary parts that regularly force an entire domino cascade of costly upgrades. (The fact that every new iPhone seems to be a random millimeter different in size and shape in each direction already means that brand new cases, cradles and screen protectors have to be repurchased along with new handsets, all for the privilege of a few hundred pixels of fresh real estate.) While that process may offer a welcome cash stimulus to the peripherals and accessories industry, it contributes to the massive environmental burden caused by e-waste, estimated at about 60 million tons a year — an amount heavier than the world’s heaviest man-made object, the Great Wall of China.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Brit thought he had ‘man flu’ but lost all his limbs and parts of his face to Strep A
Omega Recreated the Iconic James Bond Opening on This $7,600 Watch Using Only Mechanical Parts
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James Bond has been saving the world on the big screen since 1962, and to help mark the 60th anniversary of the 007 films, Omega, Bond’s preferred timekeeper since 1995, is releasing a pair of Seamaster Diver 300M watches with a subtle tribute to Bond’s Hollywood appearances on the back.
Gales, sub-zero temperatures, ice and fog to strike parts of UK this week
Infographic: Highlights of Advance Auto Parts’ (AAP) Q3 2022 earnings
Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE: AAP) has reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2022. Adjusted earnings decreased 12% year-over-year even as net sales remained broadly unchanged. Net income, […]
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