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NASA Invites Media to New OSIRIS-REx, Asteroid Bennu Study Briefing
The mission spent over two years with Bennu, gathering information about its size, shape, mass, and composition while monitoring its spin and orbital trajectory.
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, Aug. 11, to discuss an important finding from…
JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia
August 10, 2021
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JPL Director Michael Watkins to Return to Academia
After having served five years as director of JPL, Michael Watkins will move to the Caltech campus as professor of aerospace and geophysics. Larry D. James becomes interim director of JPL.
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Samsung has announced the Exynos W920, a new processor designed for smartwatches and other wearables. The company says it’s the world’s first wearable-specific chip to be built on a 5nm process, helping improve performance and efficiency.
The Exynos 920 has two…
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NASA, International Panel Provide a New Window on Rising Seas
A new online visualization tool will enable anyone to see what sea levels will look like anywhere in the world in the decades to come.
NASA’s Sea Level Change Team has created a sea level projection tool that makes extensive data on future sea level rise from the Intergovernmental Panel on…
A Florida utility ditches coal, doubles its solar, and leaves out a big part of its story
August 10, 2021
Florida utility Tampa Electric Co. has announced it will retire three coal units and double its solar output within two years. That’s good news, but in an interview published last week, its CEO doesn’t mention the fact that the vast majority of its power comes from…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 9, 2021
August 10, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Rumors about the Apple Car have slowed down over recent weeks, except for the company expanding its California self-driving test fleet. Now, according to the Korea Times, Apple is seeing developments in its car talks with Korean partners.
As told by industry sources, Korea Times reports that Apple has made contact with multiple Korean EV component manufacturers.
“Apple officials have been in…
The world’s largest-ever report about climate change was published today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations group of nearly 200 leading climate scientists that looked at more than 14,000 scientific papers. It’s pretty grim – but…
Tesla released more details about its effort to deploy large-scale battery recycling, and it claims that it can recover about 92% of battery cell materials with its recycling process.
When it comes to emissions throughout the entire lifecycle, electric vehicles have two…
EGEB: Oil kingdom Saudi Arabia launches its first wind farm, the Middle East’s largest
August 10, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Saudi Arabia’s first wind farm is now connected and producing clean energy.
Arizona may get its very first electricity provider that offers 100% clean energy.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop…
