The assumption was not entirely new. When the 17th-century ship was raised in 1961, remains of crew members were found, including a hip bone that appeared to belong to a woman. Because it was not possible to identify the person, they called her “G”. Most of those who drowned were probably crew members. But then who was the female person?
A Tesla car owner in California sued the electric car maker on Friday, in a lawsuit that might become a class action, accusing it of violating customers’ privacy, reports Archyde.com.
Elon Musk at the opening of the Tesla factory in GermanyFoto: Action Press / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia
The lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California came following Archyde.com reported on Thursday that groups of Tesla employees privately distributed, through an internal messaging system, sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded of the video cameras of customers’ cars, between 2019 and 2022.
The lawsuit, filed by Henry Yeh, a San Francisco resident who owns a Tesla Model Y, alleges that Tesla employees were able to access the images and videos for their “tasteless and malicious entertainment” and “humiliation of those surreptitiously recorded.”
“As anyone would, Mr. Yeh was outraged by the idea that Tesla’s video devices might be used to violate his family’s privacy, which the California Constitution scrupulously protects,” said Jack Fitzgerald, an attorney representing Yeh. Yeh, in a statement to Archyde.com.
He also said that “Tesla must be held accountable for these intrusions and for misrepresenting its lax privacy practices to him and other Tesla owners.”
Tesla did not immediately respond to Archyde.com’ request for comment.
The complaint says Tesla’s behavior is “particularly egregious” and “highly offensive.”
Yeh filed the complaint ” once morest Tesla on behalf of himself, a class of similarly situated members, and the general public.”
The complaint says the potential class will include people who have owned or leased a Tesla in the past four years.
Archyde.com wrote that some Tesla employees might see customers “doing laundry and really intimate things. We might see their children,” according to a former employee.
“Indeed, parents’ interest in their children’s privacy is one of the most fundamental freedom interests that society recognizes,” the complaint states.
The lawsuit asks the court “to enjoin Tesla from engaging in its wrongful conduct, including violating the privacy of customers and others, and to recover actual and punitive damages.” (News.ro)
If you’re out of ideas for dinner, don’t think too much, follow this recipe for minced meatballs to the letter, you’ll come out with a full stomach and a delighted palate. Plus, it only requires ingredients that you probably have in your pantry. What are you waiting for? Get to work and arm yourself with your apron to attack this delicious recipe… All in a good musical atmosphere. Here are the good recipes…
Meatballs in the oven. Source: spm
Forget the minced meat of these franchises whose origin, freezing or cooking rules are unknown. Those who eat organic have understood everything! Eating healthy and good, there is no better… If the media boasts regarding the best gastronomic restaurants, this recipe will falsify all these echoes. Moreover, you will witness it yourselves once you smell the steaming smell of these tender meatballs following they come out of the oven. Are you tempted by this culinary journey full of flavors? Let’s travel together…
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Why put sandwich bread and milk in minced meat? Easy recipe in the oven step by step
Soft meatballs. Source: spm
If chefs brag regarding their tricks and secret ingredients, we’re going to present ours to you on a silver platter. Here we go for the list of ingredients:
- 1 Kg of beef (we adapt the quantities according to the need);
- 3 to 4 medium-sized potatoes previously cooked in boiling water;
- 1 large onion or 2 medium;
- 2 slices of sandwich bread;
- 1 egg ;
- A cup of milk;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoon olive oil;
- 2 tbsp. heaping tablespoons of chopped parsley;
- 1 C. mustard;
- Salt and pepper to taste
Now that your ingredients are well washed, dried and laid out on your work surface, make a unique recipe out of them. To do this, we invite you to follow the following steps… Always in a good mood, yes, that’s the basis!
- We put the minced meat in a large salad bowl, we add chopped parsley, salt and pepper as well as the egg, mustard and olive oil;
- At the same time, the onions and potatoes are grated or ground in an electric mincer;
- We randomly cut the slices of bread, dip them in milk and let them swell as much as possible;
- Without pressing them out of the milk, we take the pieces of bread and add them to the minced meat without forgetting the chopped potatoes and onions;
- We mix everything by hand (we wear kitchen gloves) until the mixture is homogeneous;
- We soak our hands with a little water and form balls of the size you like while kneading them lightly;
- Place the balls on an oven tray lined with baking paper before baking them for 15 minutes at 250°. After the first 10 minutes of cooking, turn them over so that they cook evenly and especially so that they take on a thin crispy crust.
That’s it, the thing is done, all that remains is to taste them all hot and steaming. But wait, where’s the fun in the sauce? We are talking regarding gluttony, see!
Want to prepare a good tomato sauce to accompany your soft meatballs? Wait until the question of sandwich bread and milk is answered first. Do you remember? Here, it’s for a simple reason: the milk is quickly absorbed by the bread, which makes the meat tender even if it is cooked in the oven. With these succulent meatballs, you’ll have a complete meal made up of potatoes and bread, so there’s no need to accompany it with extra starches… Good and organic, who might say better?
Italian tomato sauce: the best accompaniment to meatballs
Tomato sauce. Source: spm
Do you know those days off when you want to pamper yourself thoroughly, but really thoroughly? This is where you have to prepare this recipe for love and especially accompany it with a succulent tomato sauce. Mmmh that’s good… In addition, do you know who is responsible for this feat? To the Italians of course, those skilled in this area! This is exactly what you will see in the following video:
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Treat yourself and even your guests with this recipe! A good dish to enjoy with family or friends… Simple and easy to make, you will fill up on protein.
But beware ! To preserve your health, do not abuse red meat…
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Founded in 2017, the start-up Stirweld has developed a new friction stir welding system, which has the particularity of being installed directly on a machining center. His process makes it possible to divide the cost of accessing this technology by ten. Meeting with the CEO and the co-founder of the company.
Invented in the 1990s, Friction Stir Welding, also known as FSW for Friction Stir Welding, is a solid state welding process without the addition of filler metal. Since 2017, the start-up Stirweld has been developing a system to install this technology directly on a machining center. Its ambition is to democratize the use of FSW by dividing its acquisition cost by ten. Its system is the result of applied research work within the Maupertuis Institute and the École Normale Supérieure in Rennes. Located on the outskirts of Rennes, the company markets its FSW welding process all over the world. Interview with Laurent Dubourg, CEO and co-founder of Stirweld.
Engineering Techniques: How does FSW welding work and what is its interest?
Laurent Dubourg : This is a cutter that rotates and is plunged into the parts. Friction causes heat and helps to mix and knead the two parts to be welded. This technology works with ductile materials such as aluminum, copper, magnesium, tin and lead. It represents a revolution in the welding of aluminium, a very complicated material to weld. Conventional welding, of the TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas), MIG (Metal inert gas) or laser type, in fact causes several defects with problems of porosity, sticking, cracking, and a sharp drop in mechanical resistance. Thanks to the FSW, we manage to cancel these defects, because the welding is carried out up to a temperature of 500 degrees, while the melting point of aluminum is at 600 degrees. Since one heats up much less, the material is almost not degraded.
How did you manage to adapt this technology to a machining center?
We add four functions on machine tools. First of all, force control, because FSW welding requires constant pressure to be applied to the part, whereas in machining, the position remains constant. To solve this problem, we have integrated a piston which goes up and down and whose role is to ensure constant pressure and a plating of the tool on the part.
Then, a tool cooling system was integrated to prevent it from heating up and the temperature reaching the melting point of the material, while still welding in the solid state. To overcome this difficulty, we have integrated a double cooling of the head, with water and air, associated with temperature sensors.
The purpose of the third function is to protect the machining center once morest welding forces and vibrations which might damage it. Regarding the forces, we have added three bearings in the head, whose role is to support the welding forces, then to transmit them directly into the solid structure of the machining center. For vibrations, I prefer not to make our technological solution public, for reasons of confidentiality.
Finally, the last function concerns quality control. Our head is equipped with sensors that record the force and different temperatures to allow us to carry out a 100% control of the quality of the weld being welded.
What are the benefits of your technology solution?
Our process costs €97,000, whereas it costs almost a million euros to use FSW with our competitors. By dividing its acquisition cost by ten, our ambition is to democratize this technology, the price of which has until now been the main obstacle to its use. Then it remains to make it known and to train people. This technology is still little known, because it is new, but I think the same thing will happen with metal 3D printing, an area in which I did my doctoral thesis. 10 years ago, apart from a few experts, nobody knew regarding this technology, whereas now it is present in all trade fairs. There is, however, a difference between these two technologies: the parts manufactured using our FSW welding process cost less than other existing solutions, which is not the case with metal 3D printing.
Then, FSW welding will partially compensate for the lack of manpower, by automating the welding. In the next 5 years, there will be a shortage of approximately 400,000 welders in Europe and the same number in North America. This is a disaster for the industry. Thanks to our technology, the need for an operator will be less important, and in addition the skills sought are shifted, since we will be recruiting more machining center programmers.
To whom do you market your process?
There are a wide variety of industries that may be affected by FSW welding. Today, we have marketed 32 FSW heads all over the world, including 7 in France. Our top three customers in France are Ariane, Valeo and Airbus. At Valeo, our process is used to weld electrical boxes that regulate car electric motors. Our process is also used to weld certain electric car control boxes from the manufacturer Tesla in the United States. For Airbus, our technology will be used to weld the tanks in which liquid hydrogen will be stored at cryogenic temperature for their future aircraft. These tanks are made of aluminum and FSW welding is the most efficient for this type of material.
What are the prospects for your business?
We are in a phase of very strong growth, since we plan to market 24 FSW heads this year. At the moment, we are installing a head in South Korea, and another soon in Mexico. We deliver to our customers and train them in the use of our process. For now, we are the only company in the world to offer the use of FSW on a machining center, and we have protected our technology with a worldwide patent. But we know we’re going to be copied, and innovation is a constant race, so don’t rest on your laurels. In 2017, we launched our first standard FSW head, and since then we have developed three new heads, with new functionalities for our customers. One of them is a retractable head, to avoid that at the end of an FSW weld, when the tool withdraws from the part, it leaves a hole. In 95% of applications, we have different solutions so that this defect is not apparent. On the other hand, on hydrogen tanks, it can lead to a leak. We have therefore developed a retractable pin head which allows the hole to be closed. We continue our R&D work in order to release new versions of FSW heads.
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