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It has been a big few weeks for smart electrical panel-maker Span. They announced major deals with Pulte Homes and through some of the largest energy utilities with Landis + Gyr. The startup also expanded its lineup to include small home and apartment-sized panels and even subpanels. But why do we even need smart electric panels? We last caught up to Span last year when they announced a smart EV charger and funding. Founded by the former head of Powerwall development and Tesla Energy Arch Rao, Span…

In January 2007, when Steve Jobs introduced the first-ever iPhone, just 3% of Americans owned a smartphone. Within a decade that number had skyrocketed to more than 80%.This widespread adoption changed everything. Smartphones put all the world’s knowledge in our pockets. They fostered social platforms and fomented revolutions. And they shortened our attention spans.In 2015 Microsoft announced the average human attention span was just eight seconds—shorter than even the attention span of a goldfish. This research, covered…

We here at CinemaBlend think Poor Things is one of the best movies of 2023. While there are many different elements to credit for the film's success, like Emma Stone's performance, its production lifespan is one of the more unexpected ones. So, in a recent interview, the Easy A actress engaged in a conversation with Maestro star and director Bradley Cooper, and they delved into the intricacies of their 2023 movie releases, shedding light on the significance of the six-year development span for both projects, describing…

As this past October came to a close, it marked the hottest 12-month period ever recorded, a new analysis finds. This stark milestone is the latest in a string of superlatives to emerge this year that show how much carbon pollution has warmed the planet—and how that trend is accelerating. It also comes just weeks before international negotiators are set to meet and hash out issues around achieving the Paris climate accord’s fundamental goal: limiting global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees…

"Customers can purchase a single pool of compute that powers all Fabric workloads," says Microsoft. "The universal compute capacities significantly reduce costs, as any unused compute capacity in one workload can be utilized by any of the workloads."Also: Microsoft Build 2023: How to watch and why you shouldA new data lake is offered, called OneLake, which is a parallel to the OneDrive used for file upload across Microsoft applications. OneLake, claims Microsoft, allows developers to tap into a pool of storage…

If you’ve ever had a hard disk drive (HDD) fail on you, you’re certainly not alone. It turns out that this is actually a lot more common than most people think. According to research carried out across a sample of over 17,000 hard drives, the average life span of an HDD is only two years and 6 months. Does that make the HDD one of the weakest components inside your PC? Benjamin Lehman / Unsplash Cloud storage and backup company Backblaze released an interesting report about the average time it takes for an HDD to…

Picture this: Fast-growing startup raises a high eight-figure round. Then, a year later, it decides to raise another. Investors line up, and this time they pledge more money while giving the company a healthy valuation bump. What’s wrong with this picture? It’s 2023, a year in which plenty of investors have rolled up the welcome mat, and the company in question isn’t a fintech or a web3 or even a SaaS startup. But bucking the trend is Span, a hardware-focused climate tech company that’s trying…

Today, smart electrical panel maker SPAN announced a Series B2 fundraise of $96 million – here’s what it’s going to do next. This follows a $90 million Series B fundraising round in March, and today’s announcement brings the company’s total funding to $231 million. This latest round was led by Wellington Management. SPAN, whose CEO, Arch Rao, is the former head of products at Tesla, began selling its smart electrical panel in 2020. As consumers electrify their homes, the panel is able to…

After a glancing blow by coronal mass ejections (CME) on February 20, that produced a very weak solar storm, it was expected that the Sun would be quiet for a while. However, that does not seem to be the case. Yesterday, February 21, another new sunspot, AR3234, has turned unstable and has been crackling with solar flares. In the last 24 hours, it has also produced multiple M-class solar flare eruptions, which have resulted in radio blackouts all across the planet. As the Earth struggles with this ordeal, there are…

ANI Kanpur, January 9 A rare Himalayan Griffon vulture, captured by locals from the Eidgah cemetery of Kanpur's Colonelganj and later handed over to the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department, has created a lot of buzz on the Internet. People in the Kanpur village could not contain their excitement after the rare capture over the weekend. The young population at the village was seen posing with the scavenger bird, pulling its wings to a full stretch to show off their capture.…