Clare Watson reports via ScienceAlert: By replacing the hazardous chemical electrolytes used in commercial batteries with water, scientists have developed a recyclable ‘water battery’ — and solved key issues with the emerging technology, which could be a safer and greener alternative. ‘Water batteries’ are formally known as aqueous metal-ion batteries. These devices use metals such
Read MoreEnergia Group veteran David Macartney discusses how the island of Ireland’s energy landscape has evolved over the years, along with the key challenges ahead and the need for more women engineers. Read more: The energy grid is changing, but what challenges lay ahead?
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The Files by Google app is getting a document scanner on Pixel phones. The feature lets you digitize your documents and convert them into PDF files. Google is rolling out a document scanner to the Files by Google app (h/t Mishaal Rahman). The feature seems to be part of
Read MoreGoogle is now rolling out Fast Pair for Android devices more widely. All Google TV devices running Android 12 should now support the feature. Google is now rolling out Fast Pair for modern Google TV devices more widely. The feature was first announced in 2022 but only made its way to the Chromecast with Google
Read MoreMacworld Updated March 7: Apple sent us a statement explaining why it terminated the account. After the DMA forced Apple to open up its app ecosystem in the EU, Epic Games announced that it would bring its own game store to iOS in Europe and bring Fortnite back to the platform there. Though the company
Read MoreDespite a growing demand for laptop-tablet hybrid computers from producers like Lenovo, HP, and Microsoft, Apple has been stubbornly withdrawn this arena despite having arguably the best hardware and user experiences within the separate domains of laptop and tablet. Charitably one could speculate that this is because Apple’s design philosophy mandates keeping the user experiences
Read MoreWacom took its Wacom One tablet back to the drawing board and heavily improved it over the first iteration with the new Wacom One 13 Touch. Wacom One 13 Touch If you’re beginning your digital art journey or looking to improve your creative tools, there are many options, and figuring out what one is best
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority T-Mobile has activated new spectrum, aiming to significantly improve network performance, especially in rural areas. Nearly 60 million customers will see an immediate boost in 5G speed and performance within days. T-Mobile has announced a significant expansion of its 5G network by activating its brand-new spectrum. With this move,
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: VMware is urging customers to patch critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for hackers to break out of sandbox and hypervisor protections in all versions, including out-of-support ones, of VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation products. A constellation of four vulnerabilities — two carrying severity
Read MoreTarget is launching Target Circle 360, a $99 annual subscription that will offer free, unlimited delivery and rush shipping on online orders. First announced during Target’s earnings call on Tuesday, the new plan will rival similar offerings by Walmart and Amazon that axe shipping costs for an annual fee. Target Circle 360 members will receive
Read MoreSpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, in 2021. | Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images A SpaceX employee says that she spent seven years working at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California enduring sexual abuse, unequal pay, discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation, in a new lawsuit against the company. But her story
Read MoreLinwei Ding, a former Google software engineer, has been indicted for stealing trade secrets related to AI to benefit two Chinese companies. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each criminal count. Reuters reports: Ding’s indictment was unveiled a little over a year after the Biden administration created an
Read MoreOne of the biggest issues facing the solid-state lithium-based batteries we all depend upon is of the performance of the anode; the transport of lithium ions and minimization of dendrite formation are critical problems and are responsible for charge/discharge rates and cell longevity. A team of researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a method for using
Read MoreTarget is launching Target Circle 360, a $99 annual subscription that will offer free, unlimited delivery and rush shipping on online orders. First announced during Target’s earnings call on Tuesday, the new plan will rival similar offerings by Walmart and Amazon that axe shipping costs for an annual fee. Target Circle 360 members will receive
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google today is sharing more details about the fees that will accompany its plan to comply with Europe’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA), the new regulation aimed at increasing competition across the app store ecosystem. While Google yesterday pointed to ways it already complied with the DMA
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Read MoreIra Glass and Ariel Shapiro on stage at Hot Pod Summit. | Alexa Hoyer This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Hello! I have almost recovered from Hot Pod Summit. Thank you so much to everyone who came out this year. People from across
Read MoreHuawei is back from the dead after recording a sales jump of 64% in the first six weeks of 2024 compared to a year earlier. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone sales in China fell by 24% during the same period. The BBC reports: Aside from a resurgence of Huawei sales at the more expensive end of the
Read Moredcblogs writes: A recent study in the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that companies are quietly adapting to rising temperatures by shifting operations from hotter to cooler locations. The researchers analyzed data from 50,000 companies between 2009 and 2020. “To illustrate the economic impact, the researchers found that when a company with equal
Read MoreA detailed report on Apple’s decade of Apple Car development reveals five ditched concepts, hubris, and executive failings. Apple Park viewed from Apple Maps Analysts will no doubt examine Apple’s worst-kept secret, Project Titan, for years. With every new report, tidbits emerge that were forgotten with time or never shared outside of closed doors. The
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A federal grand jury has indicted a Google engineer, Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, for allegedly stealing trade secrets around Google’s AI chip software and hardware on March 5th, before he was arrested Wednesday morning in Newark, California. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement that
Read MoreTrust in AI technology and the companies that develop it is dropping, in both the U.S. and around the world, according to new data from Edelman shared first with Axios. Axios reports: Globally, trust in AI companies has dropped to 53%, down from 61% five years ago. In the U.S., trust has dropped 15 percentage
Read MoreThis week, Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie talk with Julian Lam about NodeBB! It’s modern forum software that actually has some neat tricks up its proverbial sleeves. From forking of forum threads when conversations differ, to new integration with ActivityPub and Mastodon. It’s forums like you’ve never quite seen them. — https://nodebb.org/ — https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/ —
Read MoreAn anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Criminals have probably stolen nearly 30,000 Fidelity Investments Life Insurance customers’ personal and financial information — including bank account and routing numbers, credit card numbers and security or access codes — after breaking into Infosys’ IT systems in the fall. According to Fidelity, in documents filed
Read MorePhoto by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Just one day after Meta’s network went offline for a while, LinkedIn was inaccessible around the world, cutting off job listings, resumes, and even influencers. DownDetector started noting reports of problems after 3:45PM ET. Both the apps and website went offline temporarily, while LinkedIn’s status page confirmed the issues with
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