Shlomo Strauss — Technology, Science, Business
A bilingual (Hebrew / English) blog by Shlomo Strauss — short, carefully researched posts on technology, science, and business, plus a weekly Taste of Science.
Recent posts
- Beyond Food: How Soybeans Power Jet Engines and Plastics — Beyond agriculture, soybeans possess unique biological properties driving innovations in jet fuel, winter tires, and safer plastics.
- How AI threatens reading yet enables custom printed books — As visual media and AI reduce our reliance on text, generative tools offer a paradoxical solution by creating highly personalized physical books.
- Power Grid Anomalies Expose Transnational Crypto Laundering — A Chinese crime syndicate's hidden Bitcoin mining and money-laundering operation was dismantled after algorithms detected power grid anomalies.
- The Technologies Turning Carbon Into a Profitable Industry — New technologies are turning carbon capture from a costly necessity into a profitable industry by using emissions to create resources like concrete.
- The Foxconn worker who built a $70 billion manufacturing giant — Founded by a former factory worker, Luxshare now assembles the Apple Vision Pro and is raising billions to expand into AI server infrastructure.
- The impending collapse of GoPro and its technological legacy — Facing financial struggles and fierce competition, GoPro nears the end of its path while leaving a lasting legacy in digital image stabilization.
- Earthquake Lights, Mie Scattering and Venezuela's Red Sky — While dust caused Venezuela's red skies via Mie scattering, true earthquake lights stem from tectonic pressure and may help predict future tremors.
- The dopamine trap of building useless AI projects — The ease of generating code with AI creates a dopamine loop of unused projects, highlighting the need to focus on fundamentals and real value.
- The structural flaws driving OpenAI toward collapse — Without its own infrastructure, OpenAI's growing user base deepens its debt, risking a collapse that could trigger a broader tech recession.
- Supercritical fluids and the future of geothermal energy — Advanced electromagnetic drilling aims to reach deep supercritical fluids, potentially providing limitless geothermal energy for the AI revolution.
- Google uses AI and Wolbachia bacteria to fight deadly mosquitoes — Google combats deadly diseases by releasing millions of AI-sorted, bacteria-infected male mosquitoes designed to crash local mosquito populations.
- Why rocket explosions on the launch pad keep happening — From cryogenic fuel physics to the New Glenn explosion, this piece explains the chain of failure modes that make every successful launch an engineering…
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