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Five days of clashes rock Tirana as students join a wider movement demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation., Five days of clashes rock Tirana as students join a wider movement demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation. Police in Albania have fired rubber bullets at antigovernment protesters in the capital, Tirana,Continue Reading

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Widgets, widgets, widgets. Has there ever been an Android feature so full of promise that went unloved by Google for so very long? Okay, so maybe there has been — erm, lots of times, actually. But even so, Android’s widgets system is a perfect example of an exceptional advantage thatContinue Reading

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A Russian drone tore a hole in the shield over Chornobyl’s dead reactor. Now the G7 is paying to patch it. The Group of Seven nations plans to allocate 260 million euros ($292 million) to repair the New Safe Confinement at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, First Deputy Prime MinisterContinue Reading

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Would you charge your EV at a charging station owned by an oil giant? Well, lots of people do, every day. Of the six or seven behemoths collectively known as Big Oil, three—Shell, Total and BP—operate EV charging networks. Shell Recharge claims to operate some 85,000 public charging points inContinue Reading

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Lithium-sulfur cathode developer Xponential Battery Materials (XBM) and silicon-carbon anode developer SiCAM Technologies have formed a technology collaboration to develop a silicon-sulfur battery materials platform for US battery OEMs. The platform will pair SiCAM’s silicon-carbon (Si-C) anode material with XBM’s lithium-sulfur (Li-S) cathode materials and cell technologies. The companies sayContinue Reading