America just had its lowest number of births in 32 years, report finds

America just had its lowest number of births in 32 years, report finds

The number of births for the United States last year dropped to its lowest in about three decades, according to provisional data in a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Even though the number of births we’ve seen in 2018 is the lowest that we’ve seen in 32 years, the total fertility rate is at a record low,” said Brady Hamilton, a natality expert at the center and first author of the report. The provisional data — which will be finalized later in the year — showed that the total fertility rate for the United States last year was 1,728 births per 1,000 women, a decrease of 2% from 2017 and a record low for the nation.

Source: www.cnn.com

Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug

Mac: Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug

This bug effectively renders the App Shortcuts feature unusable in Mojave 10.14.3. The bug has occurred because of a simple programming error using what I believe Apple refers to as an Outline View. For this bug to have occurred, one of Apple’s software engineers has changed some code (or the view’s configuration in Xcode’s Interface Builder).

Source: eclecticlight.co

YTMND has shut down

YTMND has shut down

YTMND was an early “web 2.0” site that let anybody create a page pairing an image or GIF with a looping sound file and vote on their favorites. Now, one year after closing new account creation, the site has disappeared from the web entirely.2006 Wired account: A Brief History of YTMND 2016 Gizmodo retrospective: Who Killed YTMND? Some of my personal favorite pages:Anybody else here a YTMND veteran?

Source: www.resetera.com

Interview with Type Designer Erik Spiekermann

Interview with Type Designer Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann is based in San Francisco and Berlin, he has founded successful design companies like MetaDesign, FontShop and Edenspiekermann, to name just a few. Last year I was in Austria and they introduced a typeface I designed – with the help of Ralph de Carrois – way back for the European road network. Take the Berlin Public Transport project for example: When we started, they said: “Our signage is good – when we lock our stations at 2 AM, there is no one left over, they all find their way home.”

Source: johannesippen.com

VMWare to Acquire Bitnami

VMWare to Acquire Bitnami

Bitnami enables this by providing the latest versions of validated and highly secure application packages—many of them from open source ISVs—that enable developers to hit the ground running when building new applications and services on any cloud. At VMware, we are increasingly enabling our customers for a multi-cloud world across three primary vectors:

Upon close, Bitnami will enable our customers to easily deploy application packages on any cloud— public or hybrid—and in the most optimal format—virtual machine (VM), containers and Kubernetes helm charts. This will also be an opportunity for VMware’s existing Managed Service Provider (MSP) and VMware-based Cloud Service Provider (CSP) partners to provide Bitnami’s application content to their end customers, and deliver value beyond infrastructure to help their customers with their respective digital transformation journeys.

Source: cloud.vmware.com

Orthorexia nervosa: Who’s at risk for obsessive healthy eating?

Orthorexia nervosa: Who’s at risk for obsessive healthy eating?

In a review published in the journal Appetite, researchers from York University’s Faculty of Health examined numerous studies on a condition called orthorexia nervosa (ON), which is described as a pathological obsession with healthy eating. “For some people, they can become obsessed with pure or clean eating to the point where it becomes distressing and can actually impair them in certain areas of life,” the study’s senior author Jennifer Mills, an associate professor in York University’s department of psychology, told CTV News Channel. The team looked at how certain psychosocial risk factors could make someone more vulnerable or more likely to develop ON and found those who have a history of an eating disorder, obsessive-compulsive traits, dieting, poor body image, and a drive for thinness are more likely to develop a pathological obsession with healthy eating.

Source: www.ctvnews.ca

VMWare to Acquire Bitnami

VMWare to Acquire Bitnami

Joining forces with VMware means that we will be able to both double-down on the breadth and depth of our current offering and bring Bitnami to even more clouds as well as accelerating our push into the enterprise. Over the past years, we expanded our focus to help enterprises use Bitnami in production, often as part of a migration of their application to the cloud or their adoption of Kubernetes. Bitnami has become what it is today thanks to the hard work of an incredible team that we have assembled over the years and that has stuck with us through all the ups and downs of the startup rollercoaster.

Source: blog.bitnami.com

Ytmnd has shut down for good

Ytmnd has shut down for good

YTMND was an early “web 2.0” site that let anybody create a page pairing an image or GIF with a looping sound file and vote on their favorites. Now, one year after closing new account creation, the site has disappeared from the web entirely.2006 Wired account: A Brief History of YTMND 2016 Gizmodo retrospective: Who Killed YTMND? Some of my personal favorite pages:Anybody else here a YTMND veteran?

Source: www.resetera.com

Tesla’s solar factory is exporting most of its cells

Tesla’s solar factory is exporting most of its cells

(Reuters) – The “great majority” of solar cells being produced at Tesla’s factory in upstate New York are being sold overseas instead of being used in the company’s trademark “Solar Roof” as originally intended, according to documents reviewed by Reuters. Tesla has only sporadically purchased solar cells produced by its partner in the factory, Panasonic Corp, according to a Buffalo solar factory employee speaking on condition of anonymity. Panasonic also produces traditional solar panels at the Buffalo plant for Tesla, but has been selling many of them to other buyers since at least last year due to low demand from the California car company, Reuters reported in August 2018.

Source: www.reuters.com

A critical step to reduce climate change

A critical step to reduce climate change

Here are some key areas of innovation:

Carbon capture and storage and nuclear: I often hear that lower cost solar and wind power along with the emerging breakthroughs in energy storage mean that these sources will be enough to get us to a carbon-free power grid. A recent study from researchers at MIT found that supporting renewable energy with a mix of clean energy solutions—including nuclear and carbon capture and storage (CCS)—would make carbon-free electricity up to 62 percent cheaper than using renewables alone. High-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission technology—as opposed to the alternating current power lines most electric grids in the U.S. use today for transmission—would help us integrate renewable energy into our world’s power supply.

Source: www.gatesnotes.com