The Secret Service reportedly urged Traitor 47 to fly onboard one of the original Air Force One Boeing 747s earlier this week due to security concerns. The news comes just days after the President made headlines for unexpectedly ditching his new ex-Qatari 747-8 to return home from a NATO summitContinue Reading
Alsym Energy and ERITY have signed a 9 GWh Strategic Relationship Agreement (SRA) to jointly deploy battery energy storage systems (BESS) for the mining sector. Alsym develops sodium-ion batteries it says are non-flammable and low-cost, and ERITY is an integrated services organization that supports the mining, resources and energy sectors.Continue Reading
The European Commission has formally established the new Battery Booster Facility, providing up to €1.5 billion from EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) revenues in the Innovation Fund to help battery cell manufacturers ramp up production in Europe. It is the first time the Commission is providing direct support in theContinue Reading
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes withContinue Reading
Officials say the building is still moving, but it’s not considered at imminent risk of collapse., Officials say the building is still moving, but it’s not considered at imminent risk of collapse., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Among the mainstream Linux distros, Linux Mint has been an outlier, spending many years easing Cinnamon and its users, into Wayland one careful step at a time while other distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora made it the default experience. Now, that patience is paying off, as the project’s June updateContinue Reading
New alternate “Slayhem” scenario to be about 35 hours long…Read MoreContinue Reading
UK battery materials company Integrals Power will supply its lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) cathode active material to OLiMPUS, a €9-million Horizon Europe project that aims to develop LMFP battery cells using a European supply chain. The company will provide more than 150 kg of the manganese-rich material, and isContinue Reading
Public EV charging has a reliability problem—to put it mildly. Charging provider Xeal Energy believes that 95% of the problems are caused by dependence on cellular or WiFi networks, which create multiple points of failure. Xeal says its patented Xeal Protocol establishes a direct, encrypted communication channel between a driver’sContinue Reading
The Fedora Design Team discovered that using open source tools to run a virtual conference can be quite effective by hosting the first Creative Freedom Summit in January 2023. In this article, I’ll share some background on the conference, why using open source tools to run it was important toContinue Reading
Ideally, designers have a good relationship with their product team and users. However, the relationship between designers and developers is more difficult to build and maintain. The lack of a close relationship makes it difficult to solve problems or improve. In my experience, the open source Open Decision Framework can overcomeContinue Reading
Wally Funk emerging from a Blue Origin capsule after her suborbital spaceflight on July 20, 2021. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Wally Funk, who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime of flying and fighting for women in aviation and aerospace, has passed away at age 87. Born in Texas in 1939, Funk was determinedContinue Reading
An illustration of an ancient quasar. (Image credit: ESA) Using the European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of 31 black-hole-powered quasars in the early universe. The most impressive of these new discoveries is the most ancient and distant quasar ever seen, shining with the light of a trillion sunsContinue Reading