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After raising $26M, Hyme Energy signs global deal to scale thermal storage

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With lithium battery storage too weak for many industries, companies are desperately looking elsewhere for energy storage. Molten-salt batteries offer high energy and power density, and can work for long periods. Now, Denmark’s Hyme Energy — which has raised $26 million to date — has signed a deal which could see its technology scale to […]

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Meta updates its smart glasses with real-time AI video

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Meta’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are getting several new AI-powered upgrades, including the ability to have an ongoing conversation and translate between languages. Ray-Ban Meta owners in Meta’s early access program for the U.S. and Canada can now download firmware v11, which adds “live AI.” First unveiled this fall, live AI lets wearers continuously converse

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It’s a Raspberry Pi 5 in a keyboard, and it’s called the Raspberry Pi 500

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Single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer-meet-keyboard device with better specifications. Named the Raspberry Pi 500, this successor to the Raspberry Pi 400 is as powerful as the current flagship Raspberry Pi, the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s available to buy now from Raspberry Pi resellers. The Raspberry Pi 500 is the

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Fitness startup Ladder comes after Peloton for allegedly copying their app

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Ladder, an Austin, Texas-based fitness startup that makes a popular strength-training app, is accusing Peloton of ripping off its work with the launch of Peloton’s new Stength+ app, which exited beta on Wednesday. After receiving feedback from Peloton’s beta testers that the app looked, felt, and functioned much like Ladder’s own, the company says it

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Apple to shell out $1 billion on a manufacturing plant in Indonesia

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Negotiating with one of the largest companies in the world doesn’t sound easy, but that’s precisely what Indonesia has been doing for the past few weeks with iPhone maker Apple. The backstory here is that after the country required smartphones which are sold domestically to be made of at least 40% locally manufactured parts, Indonesia

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The OpenWRT One router is designed with ‘software freedom and right to repair’ in mind

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A new router designed in collaboration by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and OpenWRT Project is touted as the first router “designed and built with your software freedom and right-to-repair in mind.” OpenWRT is an open source, customizable operating system based on the Linux kernel, designed primarily for networking devices — such as routers. While

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Akhetonics gets fresh funding for a contrarian bet on all-optical chips

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Photonics — a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data — has a bright future, as the rise of AI demands better computing performance, but it has yet to be fully applied to a new generation of chips. German startup Akhetonics hopes to change that. It’s raised a €6 million seed funding round (approximately

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DIY and synth-curious? Try putting together the analog POM-400 from Teenage Engineering

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The Pocket Operator Modular 400 from Teenage Engineering is an analog modular synthesizer that you put together yourself. If you’re at all interested in DIY kits or synths, this might be a great weekend project. You bend the bright yellow chassis into shape to start, mounting the various modules into place with tiny little screws.

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