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18+ min ago (719+ words) Do yourself a favor and download iFixit's new app. The free app from iFixit, a repair and advocacy organization, has one extremely handy feature for any smartphone model: It shows a personalized "death date" of when you should replace your phone's battery, long before it fails on you. Think of it like a check engine light for the phone part that's likeliest to go kaput. (Download the app for iPhones or Android.) This iFixit feature is a step up from the vague battery health status built into phone settings. As a bonus, the iFixit app has a handy artificial intelligence chatbot, too. The iFixit app is a reminder that the most helpful technology doesn't always come from mammoth companies. Organizations like iFixit that obsess over your needs can outgun the big guys in delivering actually useful apps and AI. After…...

20+ min ago (261+ words) India has a huge need to move from a service provider to a product nation, taking advantage of emerging technologies, including quantum computing, high performance computing and artificial intelligence, said Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Railways, Information and Broadcasting, and Electronics & Information Technology, here on Tuesday. The Minister was addressing online supercomputing experts and entrepreneurs and policy makers gathered from across India and overseas'at the'inaugural ceremony of the maiden edition of Supercomputing India 2025 (SCI 2025) held at the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Yelahanka. Speaking on the occasion, Jitin Prasada, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, highlighted that the government has various mission mode programmes which have been initiated as part of moving towards a product nation. Responding to a query on why quantum computing has suddenly received so much hype, Thomas Zacharia, senior vice president, technology partnership at AMD,…...

28+ min ago (105+ words) F Quick QuoteF LCID Quick QuoteLCID RIVN Quick QuoteRIVN Rivian has outperformed the Zacks Automotive-Domestic industry year to date. RIVN's shares have gained 32.4% compared with the industry's growth of 16.2%." "From a valuation perspective, RIVN appears overvalued compared to the industry. Going by its price/sales ratio, the company is trading at a forward sales multiple of 3.25, higher than the industry's 3.42." "The Zacks Consensus Estimate for RIVN's 2025 and 2026 loss per share has narrowed by 2 cents and 5 cents, respectively, in the past 30 days." Lucid Group, Inc. (LCID) - free report >>...

50+ min ago (437+ words) Mr. Julien Davy reports: Figure 1: Location of the Company's 5 projects within the Bathurst Mining Camp and the 40km long corridor along the Rocky Brook-Millstream Deformation Zone hosting numerous high-grade gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper occurrences Past public reports returned attractive exploration results as: The new management team has initiated an extensive compilation and reassessment of historical exploration data, which includes more than 500 diamond drill holes, 200 trenches, numerous soil surveys, and multiple airborne and ground geophysical programs. The objective is to establish updated exploration priorities and develop a modern, coherent geological model. A central component of this program is hyperspectral core scanning of approximately 20,000 metres of the 50,000 metres of archived historical drill core available. This modern dataset will support a more consistent interpretation across multiple generations of exploration work. New Brunswick's policy of enabling exploration companies to return drill core once…...

52+ min ago (428+ words) The Arizona Republic and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. Every household has that mysterious bag of dead batteries that never seems to get disposed of. With Christmas around the corner, many households may find themselves with an excess of batteries, new and old. It's important to know the correct way to dispose of them to minimize risk to the environment and others around you. There is a specific way to discard dead batteries, yet in Arizona, the correct way isn't exactly clear. As many know, batteries are not to be thrown away like other household items because they can cause fires and environmental issues. Learn how and where to get rid of your old batteries this holiday season. No, batteries can not be put in household recycling bins. Batteries,…...

53+ min ago (671+ words) Smart's first saloon steps beyond its city-car roots as they take aim at the BMW 3 Series SMART, the iconic maker of little city cars, has seemingly left the titchy Fortwo behind as it has revealed the brand's very first saloon. To be called #6, it's its largest model yet and is positioned as a sleek rival to the BMW 3 Series and Tesla Model 3. Marking a clear move away from the brand's city car roots, it will launch first as a plug-in hybrid " becoming its second PHEV after the updated #5 in China " with a fully electric version due next year. While UK sales have yet to be confirmed, Chinese officials " with Smart, founded by Mercedes-Benz in 1994 and now a 50:50 joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and Geely based in China " suggested exports are likely as the brand looks to expand. Indeed, in the UK…...

57+ min ago (343+ words) If you're new to the battery world, don't worry, I'll explain that in plain language. The anode is the part of a battery where lithium ions are stored during charging, and what they leave during discharging, when the battery is in use. The anode is essentially responsible for how much energy a cell can hold and how quickly it can charge." "I've spent years watching the industry chase silicon's promise and hit the walls of complexity, cost, development time, and narrow performance," Ed Williams, president and CEO of Sionic Energy, said in a statement. "That's why I'm proud to share this Sionic benchmark and the Group14 partnership that breaks through those walls and accelerates silicon's broad market adoption," Williams added." Silicon-anode batteries are already delivering blowout battery capacity on high-end Chinese smartphones that would put the latest iPhones and Google Pixels…...

58+ min ago (321+ words) So it's surprising that Eli Akira Kaufman, the executive director of the LA county cycling advocacy group BikeLA, is pretty excited about a car. Specifically, a car driven by a robot. For more than a year now, the Alphabet subsidiary Waymo has been picking up riders in the western half of the city. Kaufman likes what he sees. "They don't drive stressed, tired, inebriated, racist," he says. He finds Waymos pilot predictably, mostly adhering to traffic laws. When he's riding, "I deprioritize them in terms of my level of concern. I can focus on the human drivers." But as more self-driving vehicle services pop up around the country, they have racked up a safety record that, while far from definitive, seems to improve on the performance of humans. Waymo's latest data suggests that, in the cities where it operates, its…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago (476+ words) Ford asks the EU and UK to reset their strict approach to emmisions and EVs or risk becoming a "a museum of 20th-century manufacturing" Not long after carmakers caught a break from former US President Donald Trump, who relaxed stringent fuel economy standards, Ford chief executive Jim Farley has written an op-ed urging the European Union to adopt more pragmatic EV targets. Without them, he warns, the region could be swallowed up by fast-moving Chinese entrants. Read: Ford's Jim Farley Was "Shocked" After Tearing Down Chinese And Tesla EVs In a Financial Times op-ed, Farley accuses European policymakers of crafting unrealistic regulations, only to revise them late in the year, creating what he calls a "recipe for turmoil." Ford's CEO argues this approach costs automakers billions in investment by interrupting the "complex cycle of product design, engineering, and supply chains....

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (545+ words) The Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub can power up to 200,000 homes during evening peak demand. Australia has just launched one of the largest batteries in the world, with a storage capacity of 1.6 gigawatt hours (GWh) and the ability to supply electricity to up to 200,000 homes during the evening peak. The Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub is a battery and solar facility near Hillside, about 17 miles (28 kilometers) northwest of Melbourne's central business district. It provides 600 megawatts (MW) of capacity and 1.6 gigawatt-hours of storage. Co-owned by the State Electricity Commission (SEC) Victoria and Equis Australia, it features 444 Tesla Megapack units across three battery storage systems. Two systems reportedly have a 200 MW capacity and a 2-hour storage duration. The third system delivers the same amount of power but with a four-hour storage duration. Chris Miller, SEC CEO, said that the hub is expected to add…...