One Congressional aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity dismissed the House panel's recommendation as a "power grab".
Rather than providing local recommendations for making a power grid safe or short-term warnings of big storms, this new map aims to predict where large geoelectric storms can be most severe.
He said he did not have a favorite book but offered three recommendations: "The Power of One," by Bryce Courtenay; "Life of Pi," by Yann Martel; and "My Name Is Asher Lev," by Chaim Potok.
These features are still incubating in the skunkworks, but you can savor the recommendations they power in the Spotify Browse and Radio sections.
Check your laptop manufacturer's recommendations for power adapter voltage.
Ethan Song, CEO of Frank + Oak, told TechCrunch that his company is seeing 2.5X conversions with a new recommendations page powered by Propulse, though it's tough to say how much of that is a result of marketing and the existence of the page itself versus the technology powering it.
In contrast, the new artist recommendations are powered by an algorithm that cross-references data collected over millions of user listening hours, not dissimilar it seems to Last.fm's 'scrobbling' of tracks.
It also pushes out personalised recommendations — powered by a combination of social data provided by each user and traditional ecommerce data such as page visits and purchase data — and lets users follow each other to style stalk trendsetters (aka other users whose style they dig).
But he did say that after the investigation into the crime is finished, recommendations for new powers might possibly emerge.
Among its recommendations is a gigantic power cable that would link solar farms in Spain with energy-hungry countries like Poland.
