The race is on to produce more lithium in the United States. The U.S. will need far more lithium to achieve its clean energy goals—and the industry that mines, extracts and processes the chemical element is poised to grow. But it also faces a host of challenges from environmentalists, Indigenous groups and government regulators. Although lithium reserves […]
Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman expects Apple will release its next-generation iPad Pro sometime this fall. In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says he anticipates the new tablet will feature MagSafe inductive charging and Apple’s long-rumored but as yet unannounced M2 chip, corroborating a previous report from 9to5Mac. As of the company’s most recent hardware […]
According to Bloomberg’s habitual ‘Apple correspondent’ Mark Gurman, Apple is working on a new kind of payment scheme for iPhones. However, quite apart from being just another kind of credit-based or installment plan, it is apparently one in which a user can pay a monthly fee to keep using the smartphone in question. In fact, […]
Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk said in a recent interview that he doesn’t believe humans should live longer because their old ideas would create “asphyxiation of society,” preventing advancement. While the tech billionaire categorized declining birthrate as the “single biggest threat to the future of human civilization,” Musk told Mathias Döpfner, the CEO […]
As Tesla started rolling out its Full Self Beta system to Canada, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that the company’s AI Director, Deep Learning expert and OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, is currently on a ~4-month sabbatical. Karpathy confirmed the news on Twitter. According to the AI Director, he is currently taking some time off […]
Earlier this month, we learned about the zero-day Chrome exploit that state-sponsored hackers based in North Korea were able to access for just over a month before a patch was issued in mid-February. In that case, the hackers were able to fool the unwary with compromised real websites and sites they’d spoofed by securing similar […]
Earlier this week, the consumer electronics industry went into a tizzy following a report claiming that Apple was mulling a hardware subscription service. To put it simply, Apple wants to start a Netflix-like service, but one that dishes out iPhones and Macs instead of films and TV shows. Actually, those too, but more on that […]
Researchers uncover new avenue for overcoming the performance decline that occurs with repeated charge-discharge cycling in the cathodes of next generation batteries. Battery-powered vehicles have made a significant dent in the transportation market. But that market still needs lower cost batteries that can power vehicles for greater ranges. Also desirable are low-cost batteries able to […]
Raleigh homeowners Gary and Jane Smith are very concerned about climate change. They added a solar array in 2019 to help reduce their carbon footprint. “There was a tax credit and a rebate from Duke, and it began to make financial sense to put the solar panels on,” Gary Smith said. The panels frequently make […]
This week’s teasers and rumors about the upcoming OnePlus launch cycle are setting 2022 up to be a particularly rough year for the once plucky smartphone brand. The company’s official announcement today even lacked any mention of arguably the tastiest morsel — a regular OnePlus 10. So it’s become abundantly clear that OnePlus is relying […]
Nvidia’s latest AI demo is pretty impressive: a tool that quickly turns a “few dozen” 2D snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene. In the video below you can see the method in action, with a model dressed like Andy Warhol holding an old-fashioned Polaroid camera. (Don’t overthink the Warhol connection: it’s just a bit of PR […]
Netflix is continuing its push into gaming with an acquisition of independent developer Boss Fight Entertainment. The company, founded in 2013 by David Rippy, Bill Jackson and Scott Winsett, operates studios in Allen and Austin, Texas and Seattle. It’s best known for the mobile game Dungeon Boss, in which players collect and build teams of […]
