Cleantech & EV'sNews

It's a table! It's a solar power plant! It's both!

November 2, 2023
You can generate clean power for your home with this “solar table power plant” and eat your lunch on it too. It’s a solar table power plant German startup Technaxx’s 400 W plug-and-play solar table seats up to eight people. It can also feed electricity into a 230V household grid and cover a home’s base load during the day. The preassembled microinverter allows for 400 W output, and…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Volvo launches new business unit to promote bidirectional charging

November 2, 2023
EVs are not only emission-free ways of getting around town but also potential energy reservoirs sitting right in your garage, capable of powering up homes and appliances or giving back to the energy grid – at least, that is the dream for the bidirectional charging dreamers among us. And Volvo is looking to tap into that potential in a bigger way. Today, the automaker announced the launch of a…
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NewsSpace

JPL Engineers Put Their Skills to the Test With Halloween Pumpkins

November 2, 2023
When mechanical engineers accustomed to building one-of-a-kind spacecraft turn that focus to pumpkins, the results can be hauntingly good. The annual Halloween pumpkin-carving contest at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California may be all in good fun, but to the 200 or so participants, it’s also serious business. Power tools are involved. Dioramas can incorporate…
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GamingNews

Bungie becomes the latest studio to lay off employees

November 2, 2023
GamesBeat Next’s on-demand library is now live! Start catching up on the 30+ sessions you might have missed.  Watch Now One of 2023’s most depressing trends is major games studios laying off employees in an increasingly crowded job market. Now Bungie…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI pioneers Hinton, Ng, LeCun, Bengio amp up x-risk debate

November 2, 2023
In a series of online articles, blog posts and posts on X/LinkedIn over the past few days, AI pioneers (sometimes called “godfathers” of AI) Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Ng, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio have amped up their debate over existential risks of AI by commenting publicly on each other’s posts. The debate clearly places Hinton and Bengio on the side that is highly concerned about AI’s…
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