Scientists led by Finlandâs Aalto University have a found a way to revive lithium-ion batteries and to facilitate their reuse, pv magazine reports. âRe-lithiationâ explained The process, called âre-lithiation,â aims tÎż reverse the gradual loss of lithium which accounts for the batteryâs performance loss. Through an electrolysis process the scientists managed to rejuvenate lithium in battery electrodes, and then compared the performance of the ârefreshedâ electrodes with those from a... Read more âș
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YouTubeâs search works well enough in English, but what if you want to search for English-language videos in your native tongue? Currently, if you search for terms in your local language, youâll get results of videos made in that language. But that might soon change. According to a report from Android Police, the video streaming giant is experimenting with a feature that you search across videos in all languages, using... Read more âș
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It has been a big year for cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is worth six times what it was 12 months ago, and the joke currency Dogecoin has seen a hundredfold increase in price. A boom in ânon-fungible tokensâ, or NFTs â tradable tokens based on the same technology as cryptocurrency â is transforming the art market. With this growth has come renewed scrutiny, with critics attacking Bitcoin in particular as a speculative... Read more âș
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Huboo â a British e-commerce fulfillment startup â hired its very own corporate bard. Yup, Iâm not kidding. Just like the Celtic kings of old, they actually have a person on the payroll whose job it is to tell stories of the companyâs achievements through song. Whatâs weird about it though, is that Iâve been convinced this isnât just a cheap marketing stunt. Itâs actually a great lesson for startups... Read more âș
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Instagram is today adding a small but incredibly welcome feature: you can now add subtitles to your Stories. And in a very Instagram-y move, you do so via a special sticker. Sound off đŁâŠwith sound off đ Now you can add a captions sticker in Stories (coming soon to Reels) that automatically turns what you say into text. Weâre starting in a handful of countries and hope to expand soon.... Read more âș
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Even for the most casual Star War fans like myself, the dream of one day owning a lightsaber that actually, you know, looks like a lightsaber is extremely alluring. Sure, existing lightsabers might look close to the real thing when all lit up, but the magic is really in the retractable blade. Meanwhile, existing retractable lightsabers tend to be cheap plastic things. But it seems Disney has finally done it.... Read more âș
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Donald Trump today launched a private social media site. Its membership is so exclusive that only former US presidents whoâve been impeached twice are allowed to post there. The siteâs called âFrom The Desk of Donald J Trump.â That doesnât quite roll of the tongue like Twitter or Facebook. But Iâm holding out hope that weâll soon find out Trumpâs posts are called âDeskies.â That would be cute and this... Read more âș
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Oh Google. The company is notoriously bad at containing leaks, and after apparently leaking its upcoming budget Pixel Buds a month ago, itâs done so more explicitly this time around. As spotted by 9to5Google, the official Android account today tweeted about the new âPixel Buds A-Series,â all but confirming the headphones are on their way. Credit: 9to5Google The tweet was promptly removed a few minutes later, so it was clearly... Read more âș
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There can be no doubt that automation is the future of work. Thereâs plenty of debate as to what extent AI will displace workers in the near and far future, but the general consensus is that blue collar work is an endangered species. Itâs only a matter of time before robots can perform skilled human labor better and cheaper than we can. What happens then? Companies will embrace automation The... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The German city of Leipzig is set to gradually introduce a âŹ365 (US$442) annual pass for public transport. From August 1, any... Read more âș
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Campaigners today demanded that Spotify renounces a patent for speech recognition tech that recommends music based on someoneâs âemotional state, gender, age, or accent.â The patent, which was granted on January 12, outlines a method of using audio signals picked up by a microphone to infer the userâs mood and social setting. It also details ways of identifying their age, accent, and gender by analyzing their voice. The campaigners say... Read more âș
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The Global Boardroom returns for its third edition to examine the most impactful strategies for a world transformed by crisis. Attend carefully curated, in-depth discussions with leading policy-makers, CEOs, and investors from across the world. In collaboration with TNW, the Financial Times brings you curated, in-depth discussions, like this interview with Melinda Gates, Co-chair and Trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Register now for a free ticket, and... Read more âș
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TLDR: The EvaChill EV-500 Personal Air Conditioner cools, humidifies, and purifies your room in a hurry, all without incurring one of those huge summer utility bills. If last yearâs summer work from home routine did a real number on your utility bill, you werenât alone. In addition to the containment being rough on everybodyâs psyches, it put a serious hit on our bank accounts as well. Average electrical usage was... Read more âș
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Ride-hailing mega-platform Uber, and Arrival, a British electric van and bus manufacturer, are teaming up to make an electric car specifically for gig-working drivers. On the one hand it sounds great, on the other⊠it takes Uber even further down the path of becoming like an old-school taxi firm. The deal Announced earlier today, the pair are working together to develop the âArrival carâ an âaffordable, purpose-built electric vehicle for... Read more âș
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On Tuesday, the French parliament will vote for a new climate law aiming to support President Emmanuel Macronâs green policies, France 24 reports. The measure includes bans on domestic flights under two and half hours that can be done by train, restrictions on renting badly insulated properties, and the designation of âecocideâ as a punishable crime. While the draft legislation will most likely pass by the parliamentâs lower house, where... Read more âș
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Apple has hired former Google AI scientist Samy Bengio, who resigned from the Big G following the controversial firing of ethics researcher Timnit Gebru. Bengio will lead a new AI research unit and report to fellow ex-Googler John Giannandrea, Reuters reports. In his role at Google, Bengio oversaw hundreds of workers and was a strong supporter of Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, who co-led the ethical AI teams before their terminations.... Read more âș
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Standards is a series explaining various tech protocols, looking at their practical implementation, and where we could find them in devices around us. At the beginning of this year, WhatsApp debuted a new privacy policy that raised many eyebrows. The updated policy aimed to make the app work better with its other Facebook-owned cousins and facilitate business chat in a smoother manner. But this displeased many users, and the mass... Read more âș
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A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tonnes, is currently on an uncontrolled reentry phase (thatâs space speak for âout of controlâ), and parts of it are expected to crash down to Earth over the next few weeks. If that isnât worrying enough, it is impossible to predict exactly where the pieces that donât burn up in the atmosphere might land. Given the objectâs orbit, the possible landing... Read more âș
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WhatsAppâs privacy policy change earlier this year sparked a huge debate on how much data your messenger is collecting. After this update, plenty of people flocked to Telegram and Signal, ditching the Facebook-owned app. But apart from these two, some niche secure messengers have also come to the fore. One of them is an open-source app called Session, which doesnât require any email ID or phone number to sign up.... Read more âș
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Following Volkswagen Group and Toyota, Ford and BMW are investing big in solid-state battery tech, which promises to be a game changer for EVs. Back in 2019, Ford had already put some money down on the US solid-battery firm Solid Power, but now together with BMW they made an investment of $130 million. And thatâs not all. The investment group also includes Volta Energy Technologies, a venture capital firm that... Read more âș
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