When you live far from the sprawling fields befitting utility-scale solar and wind farms, it’s easy to feel like clean energy isn’t coming online fast enough. But renewables have grown at a staggering rate since 2014 and now account for 22 percent of the nation’s electricity. Solar alone has...
Teenage Engineering, the company behind ultra-stylish synthesizers, speakers, and PC cases, has released a new audio gadget: it’s called the TX-6, and it’s a tiny (in size, not price) field mixer absolutely festooned with knobs. In addition to letting you mix...
When it comes to Galaxy Buds deals, it’s certainly hard to beat a massive 50 percent discount on brand-new units available directly from Samsung. Of course, you can’t buy the company’s first-gen AirPods rivals at half off their list price all by themselves,...
Your power bill is more expensive, in part, because Duke Energy is changing the way it delivers electricity.
Duke Energy is transitioning away from fuel sources like coal, but also looking at how they weave in other energy sources.
Duke Energy recently got approval for rate increases across the state.
The North...
After developing a system that captures solar energy that can be stored for up to 18 years, scientists at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have recently come up with an innovative solution for electronic devices to make use of this system to recharge on demand, regardless of...
The Surface Pro was once the star of Microsoft’s hardware lineup. It’s unique approach to the 2-in-1 form factor was risky at launch, but over the past seven years, it’s become a household name in consumer electronics.
But these PCs...
A study, published in Nature Energy, is among the first to explore the floating photovoltaics (FPV) at the continental scale, finding that FPV installed at existing major reservoirs could produce 20–100% of the electricity expected from Africa's planned hydropower dams. Using a state-of-the-art energy planning model covering the continent's...
Taking a look back at seven days of news and headlines across the world of Android, this week’s Android Circuit includes hacking the Galaxy S8 Iris scanner, details on the new Google Pixel 2, leaked images of the Nokia 9, rumors of the Galaxy S8 Active, how OnePlus is...
Microsoft has open sourced the code for the 27-year-old program 3D Movie Maker — and it's all thanks to someone who asked on Twitter. Foone, whose Twitter profile says they're a "hardware and software necromancer," asked the tech giant for the source code to the program so they could...
Recently we reported how Google has been warning Chromium Edge users when they visited Chrome Web Store to download extensions. It turns out Chrome Web Store is not the only place where Google is showing pop-ups asking users to switch to Chrome.
