Author: luken7

An avid and passionate sailor, drummer and technologist. My career focuses around computing and storage technologies. My passion is sailing and playing drums. I love music, especially progressive jazz and rock.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 16 times larger than we thought, according to the journal Scientific Reports — Quartz

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This is really difficult to grasp, the magnitude of this and the silence that goes with it. A garbage patch twice the size of Texas now. Obviously, this requires an international effort, a global effort because in the end, it’s affects all seven billion of our family and friends.

It’s not the size of France—it’s the size of three Frances

Source: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 16 times larger than we thought, according to the journal Scientific Reports — Quartz

Uber partner Fair gets $385M led by Softbank to grow its flexible car ownership model globally | TechCrunch

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Speaking of innovation, I can see this idea taking storm. As car ownership in metropolitan areas decreasing and the need to full ownership not in the needs for many people, fractional ownership, renting and leasing on demand is a good idea. I’d look into the feasibility of it when it hits my area.

Uber partner Fair gets $385M led by Softbank to grow its flexible car ownership model globally | TechCrunch
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