DefenseNews

Gallery: Take a flight in the US Air Force’s B-52 bomber

February 14, 2024
B-52 Stratofortress pilots control six-decade-old hardware with a 185-foot wingspan — and the lives of the four or five airmen onboard. But the moment the Vietnam War-era bomber’s wheels leave the ground, anything can happen — and some of the most important lessons cover more than routine flight procedures. Defense News visited Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana to check out the aging…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Texas trailblazes with DC fast chargers with integrated battery storage

February 14, 2024
A “Battery Storage EV Charging Superhub” is launching in Dallas – here’s how the fast chargers with battery storage work. XCharge North America opened its headquarters and 3,500-square-foot factory in Kyle, Texas, in August 2023, and it was there that it launched the first of what it claims is the US’s “first truly battery-integrated electric vehicle charger.” Its parent company…
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CryptoNews

Solana Mobile's Chapter 2 Reaches 100K Preorders, Guarantees Production Hardware

February 14, 2024
Solana Mobile, a smartphone-focused subsidiary of Solana Labs, has announced that its second mobile phone, Chapter 2, has reached 100k preorders in less than 30 days, hitting a milestone that now guarantees the production of the hardware device. The company reported that the preorder price of $450 will be maintained only for the next two days. Solana Mobile’s Chapter 2 Preorders Hit 100K…
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GamingNews

Midnight plans to aggregate games inside Web3 Evergreen MMORPG

February 13, 2024
In a white paper, Midnight announced that it plans to aggregate a bunch of games inside its Evergreen massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Evergreen is a game as well as a first publishing platform that operates as a deconstructed, composable MMORPG, delivering an…
GamingNews

Why Gaming for Good is a cause to get behind | interview

February 13, 2024
I’ve caught up with Mathias Gredal Nørvig, CEO of Sybo, and Jude Ower, CEO of Playmob, to hear them talk about their book Gaming for Good in the past year. Their book is finally out today. We talked about it during the Game Developers Conference in 2023, the Games for…
DefenseNews

RTX to supply 600 Coyote drone interceptors to Army

February 13, 2024
The U.S. Army is buying hundreds of drone-killing Coyote interceptors from defense contractor RTX to fortify its ability to counter unmanned aerial systems. The service agreed to pay $75 million for 600 of the ground-launched, radar-guided Coyote 2C devices, it said Feb. 9. The effort was led by its Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space, tasked with developing overhead defenses…
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