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Feb 9, 2024

Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge

Posted by in categories: innovation, materials

Researchers achieve EV battery breakthrough with silicon-based materials and gel electrolytes, moving closer to a 1,000-kilometer range on a single charge.

Feb 9, 2024

EV sales would benefit from more auto show exposure

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Electric vehicles sales could account for 10 percent of the market in 2024, but getting there will take additional effort from dealers and manufacturers, including participation in auto shows.

Feb 9, 2024

How to use Vision Pro as an external display for your Mac

Posted by in category: futurism

One of the most popular features for Vision Pro is the ability for it to serve as an external display for your Mac. Here’s how this feature works and how to enable it on your Apple Vision Pro.

There are three ways to connect your Apple Vision Pro to your Mac in external display mode.

Feb 9, 2024

Apple Vision Pro review answers the question of ‘how much computer is Apple’s spatial computer?’

Posted by in category: computing

The first Apple Vision Pro reviews arrived last week on January 30 ahead of the February 2 product launch. A week and change later, tech journalists have had even more time to spend with Apple Vision Pro. My new favorite review is from Raymond Wong at Inverse. He spares no words when evaluating Apple Vision Pro, including as a spatial computer.

Feb 9, 2024

This modular ‘pop-up solar canopy’ charges EVs off-grid

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

Meet PairTree – a solar-powered canopy that charges EVs off-grid – that’s made by US-based solar charging infrastructure manufacturer Paired Power.

PairTree, which started to roll out commercially late last year, is quick and easy to set up – it takes only about four hours – and its ballasted steel foundation fits right into a regular parking space. What sets it apart is its use of bifacial solar panels. These 4.6 kW units increase energy yield by up to 15% compared to traditional panels. This means that in practice, a PairTree unit’s performance rivals that of a 5.3 kW solar array.

PairTree features a UL 9450-listed lithium iron phosphate battery energy storage system, offering a spectrum of daily ranges from 75 to 230 miles, depending on the capacity chosen. It can support either one or two Level 2 EV chargers.

Feb 9, 2024

Using Nanotechnology to Uncover Details of a Medieval Manuscript

Posted by in categories: media & arts, nanotechnology

How Columbia conservators, Nano Initiative scientists, and a music scholar used state-of-the-art technology to examine a score.

Feb 9, 2024

Pioneering technique reveals new layer of human gene regulation

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A technique can determine for the first time how frequently, and exactly where, a molecular event called “backtracking” occurs throughout the genetic material (genome) of any species, a new study shows.

Published online February 9 in Molecular Cell, the study results support the theory that backtracking represents a widespread form of gene regulation, which influences thousands of , including many involved in basic life processes like and development in the womb.

Led by researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the work revolves around genes, the stretches of DNA molecular “letters” arranged in a certain order (sequence) to encode the blueprints for most organisms. In both humans and bacteria, the first step in a gene’s expression, transcription, proceeds as a protein “machine” called RNA polymerase II ticks down the DNA chain, reading genetic instructions in one direction.

Feb 9, 2024

Webex App Now Available for Apple Vision Pro

Posted by in category: futurism

Cisco today announced the launch of a Webex video conferencing app designed for the Apple Vision Pro. The app is designed to provide an immersive meeting experience that fills the space around the user.


The Webex app supports Personas, allowing Vision Pro wearers to have a visual representation of themselves in video calls while wearing the headset, and it also works with spatial audio.

Feb 9, 2024

Microsoft’s Super Bowl AI Ad Will Get Dumbest People You Know Absolutely Hyped

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Microsoft is back with another Super Bowl ad, this time for its AI chatbot called Copilot. And it kind of sucks.

Feb 9, 2024

In a new era of astronomy, we’re feeling for vibrations in space-time

Posted by in category: space

For most of humanity’s existence, we have observed the universe using light, but these days photons aren’t the only game in town, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein