Category: butterfly

App allows citizen scientists to track monarch butterfly migration

Post author By Randall
Post date August 16, 2019
Categories In app, butterflies, butterfly, citizen scientists, collector for arcgis, database, decline, east coast, extinction, gear, gis, green, insect, migration, model, monarch, population, prediction, Research, Tech, testing, tracking, validation

[ad_1] According to the researchers, monarch butterflies conduct one of the most dramatic migrations in the world. Each fall, the monarchs in New England turn south and begin a 3,000-mile journey to their overwintering grounds. But like all insects, monarchs are dwindling. The number that complete that long migration has fallen by 90 percent in […]

Apple’s rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro may ditch the flaky keyboard

Post author By Randall
Post date July 25, 2019
Categories In 16-inch, analyst, Apple, business, butterfly, butterfly keyboard, Design, gear, keyboard, Mac, Macbook Pro, mechanism, ming-chi kuo, personal computing, personalcomputing, rumor, scissor, Tech

[ad_1] This is just the latest rumor to come from Kuo. He previously predicted that the 16-inch MacBook Pro will arrive before the end of this year. He also believes future Macs, coming in 2020, will use the scissor mechanism rather than the butterfly mechanism. That wouldn’t be surprising, given all the complaints over Apple’s […]

Apple will soon ditch its butterfly keyboard design

Post author By Randall
Post date July 4, 2019
Categories In Apple, business, butterfly, Design, gear, keyboard, keys, Macbook, personal computing, personalcomputing, scissor, Tech

[ad_1] Apple’s butterfly keyboards have been troublesome from the get-go, and are well known to fail as a result of debris or overheating. Apple rolled out a worldwide repair program for 2015-and-later MacBooks, and subsequently updated the keyboard last year to include a thin silicone barrier behind each key to help thwart dust and crumbs. […]