Daily Archives: July 12, 2016

How A.I. Is About To Disrupt Corporate Recruiting

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Corporate recruiting is broken, as you probably know if you have ever tried to obtain a job using company job boards. Inexplicably, even the best resumes and most qualified candidates fall into a black hole, never to be seen again, when they’re submitted through the traditional corporate pipeline. In fact, statistics show that 85% of applicants don’t hear back after submitting an application—and, 71% of employers claim that they can’t find a candidate with the right skill set.

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New Dwarf Planet Beyond Pluto Hints At No Planet Nine

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Out beyond Neptune, the icy collection of distant, frozen worlds known as the Kuiper belt orbits slowly around the Sun, with each body taking hundreds or even thousands of years to complete a revolution. Most of them are incredibly small and faint, and the more than 60 years that elapsed between the discovery of Pluto and the second Kuiper belt object — 1992 QB1 — illustrates exactly that. Now, a dedicated survey, the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS), is committed to cataloguing as many of the brightest, largest Kuiper belt objects present in our Solar System as possible. In its first big find, the collaboration just announced the discovery of a new, giant world 700 kilometers in diameter: 2015 RR245.

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First Solar Looks Address Its Balance Of Systems Handicap With Series 5 Modules

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Although First Solar’s Cd-Te solar panels have been recording significant efficiency gains over the last three years, they have lagged behind their silicon peers in terms of rated peak power. This means that a larger number of solar panels are required for a given system size, translating into higher balance of systems costs (such as mounting and labor). However, the company looks set to address this handicap with the introduction of its much anticipated Series 5 modules, which were unveiled in late June. Below we take a look at why the module may be very important to First Solar’s business.

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Here’s Why Facebook Is Testing Offline Video Access In India?

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Facebook‘s increased focus on video content has hit the slow internet connectivity wall in emerging economies and the company is now testing ways to bring these users to the video fold. Weeks after YouTube launched a “Smart Offline” feature in India, which allows users to schedule a video to be pushed offline overnight to take advantage of cheaper download rates, Facebook is now testing a new video download option with a small percentage of users in India. This feature will allow users to sync videos to their device when they have a WiFi connection, for offline viewing later within the Facebook app. With poor mobile connectivity in some regions of the country, users do not have the ability to watch videos on the move, limiting the reach of Facebook’s video content. As the company is pushing more and more content via video, this feature should ensure that its huge base of users in emerging economies gets access to this content and subsequently advertisers reach a wider audience.

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