Tuesday, 17 December 2013
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Las sondas espaciales que hemos perdido en 2013
We saw it burn up from the Falklands at about 9.20pm last night. Came from the South breaking up into bits. pic.twitter.com/54DwAiTI0k
— Bill Chater (@Cheds23) noviembre 11, 2013 Fin de la sonda GOCE de la ESA
Pues tienen razón en Wired con lo que cuentan en In Memoriam: The Space Robots We Lost This Year , ya van unas cuantas sondas espaciales que este año han terminado sus misiones:
- El Landsat 5, desactivado en junio, tras 28 años de servicio observando la Tierra.
- El Jason-1, un proyecto conjunto de la NASA y el CNES, que durante 11 años midió el nivel del mar, la velocidad del viento, y la altura de las olas alrededor del mundo, desactivado también en junio.
- El GOES-12, que se pasó más de diez años vigilando la meteorología de la costa oeste de los Estados Unidos, y desactivado en agosto a causa de sucesivos fallos en su sistema de propulsión.
- El Kepler, que con dos ruedas de reacción estropeadas ya no puede mantenerse lo suficientemente estable como para seguir buscando planetas extrasolares, aunque se manejan ideas que igual podrían permitir ponerlo de nuevo en marcha.
- La Deep Impact de la NASA, la primera en tomar contacto con un cometa, y con la que se perdió el contacto en septiembre cuando iba camino del asteroide 2002GT, ya en su misión extendida.
- El Planck de la ESA, que realizó un detallado estudio de la radiación de fondo de microondas en la que podemos leer detalles del origen del universo, apagado el 23 de octubre al quedarse sin refrigerante.
- El GOCE de la ESA, que en noviembre se desintegraba en la atmósfera tras casi cuatro años haciendo el mapa más detallado de la gravedad de la Tierra.
Y se olvidan del Herschel, también de la ESA, que estudiaba los objetos más lejanos y fríos del universo en las bandas del infrarrojo lejano y submilimétricas, apagado el 17 de junio.
Eso sí, todas ellas han durado mucho más de lo originalmente previsto.
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/las-sondas-espaciales-que-hemos-perdido-en-2013.html
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Póngame un pendrive de 1 TB aunque sea en lonchas gordas, que no es para los niños
Kingston ha lanzado este pendrive de memoria Flash de 1 TB, llamado cariñosamente HyperX Predator . Y no solo el nombre acojona, también los 1.300 dólares que cuesta (unos 950 euritos, casi a euro el gigabyte).
Los que somos más viejunos y hemos llegado a comprar RAM por kilobytes, a la equivalencia de un byte por peseta no podemos dejar de calcular mentalmente que ese terabyte serían unos 6.000 millones de euros a «precios de la RAM de 1983». ¡Wow!
(Vía Nikktech + Coolest Gadgets.)
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ordenadores/pendrive-1-tb.html
Póngame un pendrive de 1 TB aunque sea en lonchas gordas, que no es para los niños
Kingston ha lanzado este pendrive de memoria Flash de 1 TB, llamado cariñosamente HyperX Predator . Y no solo el nombre acojona, también los 1.300 dólares que cuesta (unos 950 euritos, casi a euro el gigabyte).
Los que somos más viejunos y que hemos llegado a comprar RAM en kilobytes al precio de un byte por peseta no podemos dejar de calcular que eso serían unos 6.000 millones de euros a «precios de la RAM de 1983». ¡Wow!
(Vía Nikktech + Coolest Gadgets.)
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ordenadores/pendrive-1-tb.html
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FlyCleaners, An On-Demand Laundry Startup Rolling Out In Brooklyn, Raises $2M
FlyCleaners, a startup that picks up your laundry, cleans it, and drops it off on-demand, is announcing that it has raised about $2 million in seed funding from Zelkova Ventures and undisclosed angel investors.
There are a number of variations on the “Uber for laundry” idea already on the market, including Wash.io and Prim. As far as I know, all of them are limited geographically (FlyCleaners is only available in North Brooklyn), but I assume they all have hopes for expansion.
When I asked how FlyCleaners is different, CEO David Salama told me via email:
More than anyone else, we started with the question of what would be the ideal customer experience and then filled in the rest of the details from there. We didn’t want to provide just a satisfactory experience that happened to be a little more convenient. We aim to “wow” each customer with all elements of our service.
This lead us to focus on a handful of key features, including true on-demand service, simplicity, transparency, extended hours, and most importantly, competitive prices and superior customer service.
I tried FlyCleaners out myself, and I have to admit that the service was great — after I signed up, downloaded the iPhone app (there’s an Android version too), entered a few preferences, and ordered a pickup, someone from FlyCleaners arrived within a few minutes. My laundry was ready the next day, so I just opened the app again and said I was at home, and within minutes (again) it was dropped off. Oh, and they appeared to do a fine job with the laundry, too, though I admit that I don’t have particularly high standards on that front.
(The app itself is a little less impressive, lacking the polish of, say, Uber, but hey, it gets the job done.)
Behind the scenes, Salama said FlyCleaners is working with local dry cleaners and laundromats for the actual cleaning while hearing its own “Fly Guys” for pickup and and delivery and its own customer service agents. As for expanding into other areas, he said the immediate goals are Manhattan and more neighborhoods in Brooklyn, and the company is “considering various options as we look for the right metropolitan area to expand into next.”
By the way, discussions of on-demand service companies like this tend to bring up the question of whether (as George Packer memorably put it in the New Yorker) they’re focused on “solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand.” In this case, I can imagine that plenty of people don’t want to spend lots of time in a laundromat, and at $4.95 for five pounds of laundry, FlyCleaners isn’t that much more expensive than the laundromats in my neighborhood. (On the other hand, if you actually have in-unit laundry, then you’re probably just being lazy.)
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With Another $6M, Maxwell Health Is On A Mission To Be The Operating System For Employee Benefits
For companies of all sizes, particularly small businesses, managing benefits can be a serious headache. With health insurance being pushed online by Obamacare and healthcare as a whole plodding its way into the digital era, a new generation of companies has popped up that’s looking to make it easy not only to manage health insurance, but a business’ entire fleet of benefits — from medical to 401(k)s.
Maxwell Health launched in February to provide small and medium-sized businesses with an affordable benefits management service that simplifies the process of creating and managing employee health plans, benefits and payroll. The startup quickly followed with a $2 million Series A raise, with Tribeca Venture Partners leading and contributions from Lerer Ventures, Vaizra Investments, BoxGroup and TiE Angels, among others.
Unlike other fast-growing startups playing in this space, like Zenefits, Maxwell is going after companies with fewer than 1,000 employees and, rather than move to replace insurance brokers, the startup is partnering with health insurance companies and brokers.
In other words, Maxwell co-founder and CEO Veer Gidwaney tells us that health insurance players want to talk to employers directly. So, whether it’s individual policies or larger group policies, insurance companies can use Maxwell’s enterprise software platform to talk to employers directly. Brokers pay monthly fees to use Maxwell’s platform, which in turn makes Maxwell free for employers.
With nearly 40 percent of the top 100 brokerages now using Maxwell, Gidwaney says, the founders are looking to expand. To do that, the company is taking on $6 million in Series A1 financing, led by Vaizra Investments, with participation from Catalyst Health Ventures and existing investors, Tribeca Ventures, Serious Change, Lerer Ventures, BoxGroup and angels. Combined with its $2 million raise in August, this brings the company’s total Series A raise to $8 million and total to date to just under $10 million.
The interest in Maxwell Health comes as a result of the company’s effort to become a full-service management platform, or an operating system, for employers and any business under 1,000 employees — of which there are millions. This means that employers can use the platform to manage a range of HR functions as well, beyond simply onboarding employees into group health insurance policies and offering payroll administration.
The company is trying to go one step further by offering HR functionality that starts with onboarding and goes all the way down the chain to retirement planning. The idea is to allow businesses to work with their benefits advisors at their insurance companies over the duration of their employees’ lifetime at their company to set up and manage private health and benefits exchanges that sync with their existing plans.
To go beyond the basic suite of benefits, Maxwell offers an incentivization system for employees, which encourages them to eat healthy and get their exercise more regularly, using their fitness devices or phones to log activity. Maxwell then allows companies to reward their employees with points for meeting fitness and health goals, which can then be traded in for rewards, prizes, cash and, someday hopefully, a raise.
The startup also offers a concierge service, which essentially acts as an advisor for employers, allowing them to ask health-related questions and receive recommendations on physicians, compare prescription prices, schedule appointments and resolve insurance disputes. Employees can send photos of medical claims to the Concierge Service, for example, which will then take care of filing and managing the claim so that the employee doesn’t have to worry about it.
Today, Maxwell has a customer base that’s now “well into the triple digits,” with membership having doubled over the past two weeks, according to Gidwaney. The company’s revenue has also doubled, quarter-over-quarter, over the last six months. So, with its growth accelerating, the platform has been able to attract companies like TED and the Acumen Fund, and with its new capital in tow, the company plans to “invest heavily in customer service” and ramp up its sales and engineering teams.
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