Researchers from South Korea have made a stunning breakthrough in lithium battery technology. The ramifications of their innovation could be profound when it comes to the production of electric vehicles and other large-scale energy storage devices. Lithium batteries have long offered incredible promise as the next generation of energy storage. But scientists have struggled to […]
If you were relying on Microsoft’s Defender VPN, it’s time to find an alternative – Redmond is shutting it down at the end of the month. The heartbreak might be limited: Users had a 50GB data cap per calendar month – after which speeds were throttled to a painful 256 Kbps. On Android and iOS, […]
Elon Musk’s Starlink has already transformed global internet access, but now it’s taking connectivity a step further. The latest innovation—Direct-to-Cell—enables standard iPhones and Android phones to make calls from anywhere on Earth, without requiring additional hardware. This development could change the way we think about mobile networks. Picture yourself deep in a remote jungle, out at […]
A more sustainable new form of electronic tag could help reduce the vast environmental impact caused by single-use RFID technologies, researchers say. Engineers from the University of Glasgow have developed the new wireless tag system, which can identify objects and measure temperature without the use of microchips. Instead, the tags use inexpensive coils and a […]
Tumbling stock market values and wild claims have accompanied the release of a new AI chatbot by a small Chinese company. What makes it so different? The release of China’s new DeepSeek AI-powered chatbot app has rocked the technology industry. It quickly overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free iOS app in the US, and […]
Barclays customers are experiencing intermittent errors with payments and transfers for a second day after serious IT problems that also affected the bank’s app and online banking. Customers have told the BBC they are unable to make essential transactions, ranging from buying baby milk to completing a house move. Barclays said on Saturday that cards […]
Researchers report on Jan. 30 in the journal Joule that a more efficient and environmentally friendly form of refrigeration might be on the horizon. The new technology is based on thermogalvanic cells that produce a cooling effect by way of a reversible electrochemical reaction. Thermogalvanic refrigeration is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than other cooling […]
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, is sending shock waves through the U.S. tech sector by demonstrating its latest AI assistant, which achieves performance comparable to or even surpassing some of the world’s best chatbots. The kicker here is that DeepSeek reportedly accomplished this using significantly less computational power, relying on fewer and less advanced AI […]
While artificial intelligence advancements unlock opportunities in various industries, innovations may also become targets of hackers, highlighting a concerning potential for AI misuse. Google’s threat intelligence department released a paper titled Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI, revealing how threat actors have approached their artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini. According to Google, threat actors attempted to jailbreak the AI […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed sales figures for the company’s Ray-Ban smart glasses for the first time, telling employees that over 1 million units were sold in 2024. In remarks during an all-hands meeting seen by The Verge, Zuckerberg posed a question to staff about whether sales would go from 1 million to as much […]
LG Energy Solution is ‘proactively responding to market volatilities’ that have seen the South Korean battery manufacturer’s annual operating profits slide 73.4%. The company said that those responses include continued switching battery cell lines between manufacturing of electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage system (ESS) products as it announced fourth quarter and full-year 2024 financial […]
ANEMEL researchers have created a catalyst for water splitting that’s efficient and stable, without relying on scarce platinum group metals (PGMs). The study, recently published in Energy & Environmental Science, reports a high-performance PGM-free catalyst for the cathode in water electrolysis, responsible for the reaction that creates green hydrogen. Current anion exchange membrane (AEM) water […]
