Transcend has introduced a new lineup of PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs, designed to meet the requirements of various industries including AIoT, edge computing, and smart retail. The new models — MTE760T, MTE480T, and MTE380T — offer impressive speed, durability, and security. All three SSD models feature the latest 112-layer 3DContinue Reading
Europe’s second-largest commercial truck maker is going to build 200 hydrogen-powered semi trucks, but remains skeptical about the viability of hydrogen as a transport fuel. more…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Popular Science reports that early last week, researchers at the U.S. Energy Department’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory revealed their new “MUSE” stellarator — “a unique fusion reactor that uses off-the-shelf and 3D-printed materials to contain its superheated plasma.” The researchers’ announcement says the technique suggests “a simple way to buildContinue Reading
The new FFmpeg 7.0 major release brings parallel processing, MPEG-5 EVC support and more. FFmpeg, the open-source multimedia framework that enables the conversion, streaming, and playback of multimedia content, has announced the release of its latest version, FFmpeg 7.0. The new version comes after five months of development and includesContinue Reading
Japanese electric systems manufacturer Nidec has begun production at its newly upgraded facility in Cleveland, Ohio. The expansion includes new manufacturing lines for Nidec’s DC fast EV chargers and power conversion systems for battery energy storage systems. Nidec aims to expand its battery storage installed base and EV charger deploymentsContinue Reading
Austrian technology firm Easelink and Dutch manufacturer NXP Semiconductors have jointly developed a positioning system for automated EV charging based on ultra-wide band (UWB) technology. The system integrates UWB—a wireless technology that securely, precisely, and efficiently estimates the relative positions of two electronic devices—to help bring a vehicle into theContinue Reading
‘Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content’ interview We know Google search results are being hammered the proliferation of AI garbage, and the web giant’s attempts to curb the growth of machine-generated drivel haven’t helped all that much.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Many organizations realize the benefits that lie within the data they collect daily. This modern approach to data empowers businesses to leverage data for innovation and monetization while at the same time enhancing security and privacy. While this may seem like a conundrum as companies have traditionally buried their dataContinue Reading
DOJ-Collected Information Exposed In Data Breach Affecting 340,000 Information Collected An anonymous reader shared this report from Security Week: Economic analysis and litigation support firm Greylock McKinnon Associates, Inc. (GMA) is notifying over 340,000 individuals that their personal and medical information was compromised in a year-old data breach. The incidentContinue Reading
Zero-day vulnerabilities are frequently reported on, but remain a major challenge for organizations, especially when it comes to quantifying the real threat posed by an unpatched instance of a vulnerability. In 2023 the number of disclosed zero-days, or emerging vulnerabilities (EVs), increased from the previous year, rising from 55 inContinue Reading
Police departments are issuing warning around the viral “senior assassin” game played by teens, (NewsNation) — Police across the country are issuing warnings around a new social media game called the “senior assassin challenge,” saying the toy water guns used in the game could be mistaken for real firearms which has alreadyContinue Reading
A team at Penn State has reported using cold sintering to reprocess solid-state composite electrolytes. According to research published in an open-access paper in the journal ChemSusChem, the technique was used to reprocess Mg- and Sr-doped Li7La3Zr2O12 with polypropylene carbonate (PPC) and lithium perchlorate (LLZO–PPC–LiClO4). The low sintering temperature allowsContinue Reading
In two recent papers, an international team of scientists describes the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell, which the researchers are calling a nitroplast. Phys.Org reports: The discovery of the organelle involved a bit of luck and decades of work. In 1998, Jonathan Zehr, a UC Santa CruzContinue Reading