Battery materials and technology company Talga has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with United Catalyst, marking its entry into the US market and laying the groundwork for potentially building new battery graphite recycling and anode facilities. The three-year agreement combines UCC’s capabilities in automotive recycling with Talga’s expertise in batteryContinue Reading
Canada-based HPQ Silicon has been awarded up to $3 million in funding by the Government of Canada to accelerate the building of its first continuous production system to manufacture silicon-based material for lithium-ion batteries. The investment in the facility, which will have the capacity to produce 50 tons annually, comesContinue Reading
The United States is making a play to join the ranks of the world’s largest lithium suppliers. At present, the country – and the rest of the world – is highly reliant on just a few nations for lithium supplies, as well as downstream manufacturing of lithium-based products like batteries to power electric vehicles andContinue Reading
You may be tired of hearing about measles by now, but measles is not tired of infecting Americans. It’s worth reminding ourselves that this is a disease that was declared gone in America. Cases and transmission rates were so low in 2000, thanks almost entirely to the widespread promotion andContinue Reading
When the James Webb Space Telescope examined young galaxies with its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), it uncovered the messy early stages of formation in these distant objects. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), P. Cargile (CfA)) Like cosmic toddlers, galaxies in the young universeContinue Reading
The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading The full Nautilus archive eBooks & Special Editions Ad-free reading A huge hunk of burning metal appeared in the Australian desert this past weekend, discovered by mine workers in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. Yesterday, the Australian Space Agency confirmed thatContinue Reading
Oracle has released VirtualBox 7.2.4, the second maintenance update to the latest 7.x series of the open source virtualisation software. Like other maintenance updates it mainly brings bug fixes and minor tweaks includes updated Traditional Chinese, Greek, Swedish, Hungarian and Indonesian translations. VirtualBox 7.2.4 also includes initial support for LinuxContinue Reading
The layoffs will remove roughly 600 roles from within Meta’s Superintelligence Labs division., (NewsNation) — Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced plans to lay off around 600 employees within its AI unit, as first reported by Axios. The layoffs will remove roughly 600 roles from within Meta’s Superintelligence Labs division. Meta’sContinue Reading
Iraq has joined several countries — including China, Turkey, Oman and Qatar — to ban U.S. user-generated video game platform Roblox over child safety., (NewsNation) — Iraq has joined several countries — including China, Turkey, Oman and Qatar — to ban U.S. user-generated video game platform Roblox over child safety. TheContinue Reading
Designation hands CMA broad oversight of their app stores and platforms The UK’s competition watchdog has officially slapped Apple and Google with “strategic market status,” a new legal label that gives the regulator far-reaching powers to rein in how the tech giants run their empires.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
We round up the best new features of the Ubuntu 25.10 (“Questing Quokka”) release. Ubuntu 25.10, released on October 9, 2025 (supported until July 2026 for 9 months), is the final interim release before the next long term version of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. This release prioritizes modernization through Rust-based componentsContinue Reading
Brooklyn-based curbside charging pioneer it’s electric has contracted with the city of Alameda, California to install the city’s first building-powered public curbside EV chargers at Everett Commons, an Alameda Housing Authority (AHA) property. The EV chargers—designed for residents without driveways or private garages—will use its electric’s low-impact Level 2 curbsideContinue Reading
Energy Fuels, a US producer of rare earth elements and other critical minerals, has announced that high-purity neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) oxide produced at its White Mesa Mill in Utah has been manufactured into commercial-scale rare earth permanent magnets for drive unit motors used in EVs. The permanent magnets were produced aContinue Reading