Samsung Electro-Mechanics is mass-producing a new set of ultra-high-voltage multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) rated from 1000 V to 1500 V, extending its C0G and X8G temperature-stable series to cover 800 V EV inverter systems and next-generation onboard chargers. All four devices share a 1210 package (3.2×2.5 mm) and hold capacitanceContinue Reading
AYK Energy’s 6 MWh battery system has passed sea trials aboard the Svitzer Balder, a harbor tug built by Uzmar shipyard in Türkiye, now heading to the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden. AYK describes it as the world’s most powerful electric escort tug and the first battery-methanol harbor tug everContinue Reading
An $899 CPU? In this economy? Review Ever since AMD’s cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better. With the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (DE), we finally have ourContinue Reading
90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there’s paperwork Ministers are moving to turn England’s patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill in a Monday vote.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
If you plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, you’re going to inherit two years’ worth of improvements. As an LTS-to-LTS jump, you don’t simply benefit from what’s new in Ubuntu 26.04, but everything else added in the 3 interim releases prior, namely UbuntuContinue Reading
Voyager 1, launched in September 1977, is currently exploring the farthest edges of the solar system. (Image credit: NASA) NASA engineers have shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent into space. The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment (LECP) was turned off on Friday (April 17)Continue Reading
(Image credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Follow/ Flickr, CC BY-NC) It turns out that living in space can have a lasting impact on how your brain works, researchers have found. In space, astronauts have to learn to live without gravity — whether they’re aboard the International Space Station (ISS) or on a journey toContinue Reading
Whenever oil prices go up, the mainstream press responds with a spate of articles about EVs. However, it’s not at all clear whether this corresponds to any substantial increase in EV sales. The link between oil prices and EV sales has always been tenuous—and temporary. As Viet Nguyen-Tien, Gavin D.Continue Reading
French multinational electric utility Engie has won a public contract to install and operate 2,926 EV charging points in the Belgian region of Wallonia. The new AC charging stations, each with a capacity of 22 kW per charging point, will be distributed across 242 municipalities in Wallonia. Installation will takeContinue Reading
Electric vehicles could store renewable energy when there is excess supply and give it back to the grid when demand peaks, but car companies disagree on the best way to do that…Continue Reading
It’s barely been a few days back since we discussed just how open to mistakes and abuse YouTube’s copyright takedown system is, when NVIDIA’s demo video for its controversial DLSS 5 tech got briefly pulled down because an Italian news channel did a piece featuring the footage which it copyrighted.Continue Reading
Tutorials are a fundamentally broken approach. There’s a much better way, and it applies to everything you learn, not just Linux…Read MoreContinue Reading
Valve has released a new beta version of Proton, the company’s official compatibility layer for improving Linux gaming. Proton 11.0-beta1 is a notable update for several reasons, including improved support for running classic games from the 90s. The release also lays the groundwork for further improvements expected in the near…ReadContinue Reading