A giant battery that happens to have wheels — It’s only one truck and one thermostat, but it could be the start of a V2H wave. Kevin Purdy – Dec 8, 2023 6: 02 pm UTC Enlarge / It’s a hefty plug, but it has to be so that an F-150 Lightning can send power […]
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Musk v. SEC — Musk’s last-ditch effort to terminate settlement over «funding secured» tweets. Jon Brodkin – Dec 8, 2023 5: 28 pm UTC Enlarge / Elon Musk at an AI event with Britain Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Getty Images | WPA Pool Elon Musk yesterday appealed to
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Enlarge / Harvard University graduate student Yue Sun won a Milton Van Dyke Award for her video on the hydrodynamics of marbled paper. Y. Sun/Harvard University et al. Marbled paper is an art form that dates back at least to the 17th century, when European travelers to the Middle East brought back samples and bound
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This post was originally intended to come out directly after the UK AI Safety Summit, to give the topic its own deserved focus. One thing led to another, and I am only doubling back to it now. At the AI Safety Summit, all the major Western players were asked: What are your company policies on
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Absorbant agave — A Kenyan tinkerer and Stanford engineer team up to make maxi pads from agave fibers. Diana Gitig – Dec 9, 2023 1: 08 pm UTC Enlarge / Sisal is an invasive species that is also grown agriculturally. Women and girls across much of the developing world lack access to menstrual products. This
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Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling magma, and can make soil less acidic. In that way it’s like limestone, which farmers often use to improve
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