Earlier this month, we learned about the zero-day Chrome exploit that state-sponsored hackers based in North Korea were able to access for just over a month before a patch was issued in mid-February. In that case, the hackers were able to...
Raleigh homeowners Gary and Jane Smith are very concerned about climate change. They added a solar array in 2019 to help reduce their carbon footprint.
"There was a tax credit and a rebate from Duke, and it...
Researchers uncover new avenue for overcoming the performance decline that occurs with repeated charge-discharge cycling in the cathodes of next generation batteries.
Battery-powered vehicles have made a significant dent in the transportation market. But that market still...
Earlier this week, the consumer electronics industry went into a tizzy following a report claiming that Apple was mulling a hardware subscription service. To put it simply, Apple wants to start a Netflix-like service, but one that dishes out iPhones and...
Google will show the next available appointment with a health care provider directly on search, the company announced today.
The company is working with MinuteClinic at CVS and other unnamed appointment schedulers during the initial rollout, which will start in the coming weeks, product manager Jackie DeJesse said during a...
Netflix is continuing its push into gaming with an acquisition of independent developer Boss Fight Entertainment.
The company, founded in 2013 by David Rippy, Bill Jackson and Scott Winsett, operates studios in Allen and Austin, Texas and Seattle. It's best known for the mobile game Dungeon Boss, in which players...
Nvidia’s latest AI demo is pretty impressive: a tool that quickly turns a “few dozen” 2D snapshots into a 3D-rendered scene. In the video below you can see the method in action, with a model dressed like Andy Warhol holding an old-fashioned Polaroid camera. (Don’t overthink the Warhol connection:...
This week’s teasers and rumors about the upcoming OnePlus launch cycle are setting 2022 up to be a particularly rough year for the once plucky smartphone brand. The company’s official announcement today even lacked any mention of arguably the tastiest morsel — a regular OnePlus 10. So it’s become...
Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), belonging to the CMT-Motores Térmicos research institute, are working on different national and international projects to improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries, the most currently used in electric vehicles.
One day, the demand for electricity to charge electric vehicles may overwhelm the power grid, unless the electricity sector is prepared for the challenge.
With a growing fleet of EVs on the road, grid planners depend on...
