Saudi Arabia has taken a fresh step toward building a homegrown electric vehicle industry. The Local Content and Government Procurement Authority (LCGPA) signed two agreements with CEER National Automotive Company this week, and officials expect the deals to generate SAR 9.213 billion ($2.4 billion) in economic impact over the next decade…Continue Reading
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SpaceX Will push to new technology to improve the most important part of TERAFAB. These are the secrets that will enable 50 times more chips by 2030-2035 and the thousands more by 2040-2045. ASML technology will be taken to the next level. They only replace and improve the light source, which is about half ofContinue Reading
Wispr, the startup behind dictation tool Wispr Flow, has created an AI note-taking assistant that records meetings and generates conversation summaries for users. The Wispr Flow Notetaker tool “captures your meetings so you can stop splitting your attention between listening and writing things down,” said Sahaj Garja, Wispr CTO andContinue Reading
Demis Hassabis, the driving force behind Google DeepMind, is ascending to the role of chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, replacing Jeff Dean who is leaving to work at a start-up. The role will enable Hassabis to “put his full attention on actively shaping the future of AGI,” orContinue Reading
Police have been accused of misusing Flock data to access the private information of people not suspected of any crimes., Police have been accused of misusing Flock data to access the private information of people not suspected of any crimes., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The study is a major step toward preventing deadly unstoppable pathogens., The study is a major step toward preventing deadly unstoppable pathogens., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
As EVSE, onboard chargers (OBCs) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems move from pilot programs to mainstream deployment, the AC grid interface has become the hardest part to get right—and the easiest to get wrong. Utilities, regulators, and OEMs now expect these systems to behave predictably under real grid conditions, and toContinue Reading
UL Research Institutes’ Fire Safety Research Institute has released a new report on EV fires and suppression tactics, called “Full-Scale Electric Vehicle Fire Experiments and Recommendations for Fire Incident Response.” ULRI conducted full-scale burns of 18 vehicles (what fun!) to examine the differences and similarities between gas-vehicle and EV fires.Continue Reading
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A new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 fixes a number of PDF-related issues, including a conversion error that could occur on Linux distributions shipping an ‘ancient’ version of the libxml2 library, which is mainly older Debian installs. TheContinue Reading
As Europe swelters in a heatwave, residents probably don’t want to hear about ways to make their homes even hotter, but that’s what Polish property developer Citylink is talking about, with plans to dump waste heat from a new data center in Wrocław into the municipal district heating network. CitylinkContinue Reading
Bending Spoons has snapped up Airtable to add to its portfolio of software companies, alongside AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove and Vimeo Airtable made its name as a builder of low/no code database services, aimed particularly at non-technical staff, but is now one of many vendors facing financial difficulties in theContinue Reading