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Soteria Battery Innovation Group has licensed Q-TRED, a thermal event detection technology developed by defense and security company QinetiQ, adding it to Soteria’s Battery Safety IP Exchange (IPX)—a licensing platform that bundles complementary battery safety technologies under a single framework. Standard battery pack sensing relies on temperature probes at aContinue Reading

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BudsLink is a Linux app giving you more control over Bluetooth earbuds from the likes of Apple, Sony, Samsung and Nothing – battery levels, active noise cancellation (ANC) and more, all without needing to use a mobile app. Most Bluetooth audio devices ‘just work’ on Ubuntu and other Linux distributionsContinue Reading

How to Protect Earth Against Violent Space Weather

The weather in space can be pretty dramatic, and we’re not very good at forecasting it. A single solar flare can release more energy in a few minutes than human civilization has produced in a million years, but unlike a hurricane that you can see on a satellite, it’s largely invisible to us on Earth.Continue Reading

Webb Sees Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Being Roasted by Its Star

HD 80606b has one of the most extreme orbits of any known exoplanet and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just caught it getting flash-fried as it whipped past its star. An artist’s impression of the hot-Jupiter exoplanet HD 80606b. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Joseph Olmsted, STScI. First discovered in AprilContinue Reading

“he-just-bit-a-passenger”:-chaos-erupts-on-mid-air-american-airlines-flight

Yesterday morning, an American Airlines domestic flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) in the state of North Carolina to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) in Pennsylvania took a rather alarming turn. Indeed, air traffic control transmissions involving the service have surfaced online, with one particular clip featuring a pilot tellingContinue Reading

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The Airbus A350 has become one of the most consistently praised and popular long-haul aircraft in modern commercial aviation. Built around a new-generation composite fuselage, advanced aerodynamics, and refined cabin pressurization systems, it offers passengers a noticeably quieter and more stable flight than many earlier widebodies. Airbus designed the aircraftContinue Reading