Three months after launching its off-grid, solar-powered EV charging network on South Africa’s N3 highway corridor, Zero Carbon Charge (aka CHARGE) has confirmed plans to double charging capacity at both the company’s CHARGE hubs in response to growing demand. CHARGE generates solar energy on-site, delivering off-grid charging for both passengerContinue Reading
Asahi Kasei has opened a Hipore wet-process lithium-ion battery separator coating line at its Celgard manufacturing facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, establishing North America-based coating and supply capability for its wet-process separators. The coating line adds wet-process separators to a plant that has produced dry-process separators in the US sinceContinue Reading
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.93bn, confirming a deal that had been reported for the past week. The chipmaker is acquiring the platform where much of the open-source AI community stores and shares its models, while promising to leave the platform itself largely unchanged. The price values the ten-year-old company at roughly 86 timesContinue Reading
New Hubble observations have revealed a dramatic, 10-sided jet surrounding Saturn’s south pole, and it appears to be evolving before our eyes. The Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped a high-resolution view of the striking “atmospheric wave,” which appears to have begun forming in 2023, archival Hubble images show. Scientists are curious about how this “decagon”Continue Reading
This image was taken by the BepiColombo mission on Jan. 8, 2025 as the spacecraft sped by Mercury for its sixth and final gravity assist at the planet. (Image credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM) Mercury, the tiniest and least-explored planet in the inner solar system, is hiding mysteries far larger than itself — and finally, scientists will soon beContinue Reading
Vivaldi 8.2 rolled out today (3 September 2026) and lets you do quick and private math calculations directly in the address bar. This may prove useful when you don’t want to open to a new tab or a calculator app. I’ve often narrowed my eyes at an online checkout pageContinue Reading
James Giordano said the “acute” effects of a directed energy attack can snowball., James Giordano said the “acute” effects of a directed energy attack can snowball., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Despite being in the name of the act, Flock — a prominent ALPR company — would not be the only company affected., Despite being in the name of the act, Flock — a prominent ALPR company — would not be the only company affected., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system. But utility and energy companies increasingly want to treat them like one. A virtual power plant…Continue Reading
To quote the opening line from the court opinion that this post is based upon, “Millions of American teenagers have sex.” This post is has nothing to do with whether that sort of thing is good or bad, natural or otherwise, nor the moral implications of it all. Whatever youContinue Reading
Debian has gotten some good press thanks to Federico Vaga and Nikos Tsipinakis, who presented a talk at MiniDebConf Winterthur this past weekend. The two CERN engineers laid out why the organization is moving its particle accelerator control computers onto Debian 13, with more than 2,200 industrial computers and embeddedContinue Reading
Kōhei Kadowaki, NOTHING NEW’s film opens in Japan on September 25…Read MoreContinue Reading
A quiet shift unites two different computing worlds…Read MoreContinue Reading