links for 2010-07-28
On 28 July 02010 with 3 comments
The Super Charge ion Battery looks like the first real break-through in battery technology in a long time. It can charge to 90% of capacity in five minutes, and hardly loses any capacity after 6,000 cycles. It's a lithium-ion battery, so the fundamental technology is the same—Toshiba has just made a big leap forward in their use of that technology.
I have lost hours of my life, over the years, to trying to write code that finds URLs in arbitrary chunks of text. I have failed every time. It looks like John Gruber has pulled it off here.
Just what it says on the tin. Amazing.
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