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Critical Materials Recycling (CMR) and Paladin EnviroTech have formed a new joint venture, REcapture, focused on recycling rare earth elements (REEs) from consumer, automotive and industrial electronics. The partnership merges CMR’s processing capabilities for material recovery with Paladin’s environmental technology platform and global collection network. CMR’s scalable technology, which wasContinue Reading

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Mobile battery energy storage specialist Allye Energy has secured its largest purchase order to date: five MAX500 battery energy storage systems for deployment in the construction industry. The MAX500 systems (500 kWh, 420 kW each) will charge zero-emission construction equipment and vehicles at locations where grid constraints and site logisticsContinue Reading

The space billboard that nearly happened

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In 1993, Mike Lawson, an aerospace entrepreneur based in Roswell, Georgia, unveiled his vision for a brave new future of advertising: space billboards.  This wasn’t a half-baked scheme: Lawson had meticulous plans for a proposed 1996 launch: His team of engineersContinue Reading

The James Webb Space Telescope just found the oldest supernova ever seen

The faint spot of light of the supernova responsible for GRB 250314A, seen by the James Webb Space Telescope as it existed 13 billion years ago. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Andrew Levan (Radboud University); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).) The light of the oldest supernova ever seen, dating back 13 billion years to just 730 million yearsContinue Reading

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Canonical is adding AMD’s ROCm to the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS repos, making it faster for developers to install GPU-accelerated AI and HPC libraries for AMD Instinct and Radeon GPUs. The news mirrors September’s NVIDIA CUDA announcement, when Canonical said it would package CUDA tools in the official Ubuntu repositories, negatingContinue Reading

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year as it seeks to curb a surge of deceptive promotions featuring fabricated experts or deep-faked celebrities endorsing food or pharmaceutical products on social media. Following a policy meetingContinue Reading