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Sponsored by Bluestar Silicones. Thermal runaway is a growing safety concern for large lithium-ion batteries, especially those used within the EV industry. If a battery cell overheats and reaches a critical temperature, it can trigger a self-heating reaction that can lead to catastrophic failure, fires and even explosion. As theContinue Reading

The DVCH3003-700-24 delivers an adjustable 2-30 V at 112 A from an input of 400-900 V. It is the high-voltage end of a three-converter lineup Deutronic USA is offering to North American off-highway vehicle builders, alongside the 450 W DVC453 and the DVC1903, which run from inputs between 24 VContinue Reading

Now a private company, Jamf opened its big annual event for Apple enterprise management teams, JNUC, by taking big steps to exploit artificial intelligence in the management of Apple fleets. During her keynote speech at the Kansas City event, CEO Beth Tschida shared some of the details of the platform-scaleContinue Reading

Convey is a new Linux email client based on the code of Geary , remade with a GTK4/libadwaita UI and support for Microsoft 365 accounts. Somewhat like traditional mail, it arrives not long after I wrote about another new Linux email client, Postcard , which also draws its inspiration fromContinue Reading

Florida driver Lindsey Isaacs will testify how Flock cameras were used to wrongly accuse her of fleeing the scene of a fatal car crash., Florida driver Lindsey Isaacs will testify how Flock cameras were used to wrongly accuse her of fleeing the scene of a fatal car crash., from NewsnationContinue Reading

For years, artificial intelligence researchers have warned of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of Earth into paper clip factories, as one thought experiment goes. Debates inside the AI industry and beyond over the plausibilityContinue Reading

AI is moving fast. Its jargon is moving even faster. Half of it doesn’t mean what you’d guess from the name. After all, tokens are not coins. Terms like harness and quantization are everywhere in local AI conversation, and often people don’t even know what these terms mean. I putContinue Reading

No Starch Press is one of my favorite indie tech publishers. I am a fan of their Linux titles like How Linux Works and System Programming in Linux. This is why I get excited when I see a new book from them. I am telling you all this because HumbleContinue Reading

Obscura VPN has launched a native Linux app, giving desktop users an easier way to access it (without wrangling Wireguard configuration files). Linux isn’t short of VPN providers, but Obscura, founded by former Bitcoin Core contributor Carl Dong, has a different pitch to most. Rather than your traffic being routedContinue Reading

Googlebook, Googlebook, Googlebook. Google’s mysterious new Android- and ChromeOS-combining laptops have been the talk of the town here in the land o’ Googley matters for much of this year already — and their name also makes for an incredibly challenging tongue-twister to say, as an added layer of intrigue. (Seriously:Continue Reading