Finnish startup Polar Night Energy and local Finnish utility Vatajankoski have together built the world’s first commercial sand-based, high-temperature heat storage system that can be powered by solar and wind.
Sand-filled energy storage in Finland
Polar Night Energy’s heat storage system is a 23-foot-tall steel container filled with 100 tons of sand. (Polar Night Energy uses the lowest…
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NASA Highlights Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets Coverage
Editor’s note: The Climate Conversation prelaunch event on Wednesday, July 13, begins at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT).
Riding aboard will be EMIT, a mission developed at JPL to…
Nearly a year later, the Google Home app has made no progress in cleaning up its Nest disaster
July 9, 2022
Last year, Google refreshed the Nest camera lineup for the first time in several years, but it also came with a change on the software side of things. The Google Home app is supposed to replace the Nest app, but the transition period has been a maddening limbo. Nearly a year…
Saints Row officially coming to Google Stadia on August 23, day-and-date with other platforms
July 9, 2022
After months of uncertainty, it was today officially announced that Saints Row will be released on Google Stadia the same day as other major platforms.
The reboot of Saints Row was originally scheduled for release this past February, but was delayed to August. The game is still on track for its August 23 release date, but it’s now adding a new platform.
Officially announced on Twitter today…
Report: Google offers to split parts of ad business into Alphabet to avoid antitrust lawsuit
July 9, 2022
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that Google has “proposed splitting parts of its business that auctions and places ads on websites and apps into a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella.”
This concession is meant to avoid a US Department of Justice…
LG V50 ThinQ picks up its Android 12 update
July 9, 2022
LG is long gone at this point, but the company isn’t quite done supporting its existing smartphones. Today, LG has released the Android 12 update for the LG V50 ThinQ in the US.
The LG V50 ThinQ first hit the scene in 2019 and pushed forward LG’s middle-ground on the…
To celebrate BTS and their massive fanbase, the BTS ARMY, Google, and YouTube have launched a variety of collaborations, including a new easter egg and a Street View tour.
For the past month, YouTube has been hosting a “#MyBTStory challenge” that invited the innumerable fans of South Korean pop band BTS to share their favorite memories of the band’s nine-year career. That event is coming…
Android TV and Google TV are great options for streaming media, playing cloud-based games, or even turning your TV into a virtual fireplace. Ok, well, mostly the first two. But did you know that you can use your phone as a remote control for your Android TV/Google TV?
Google has updated Android’s Data Restore Tool with a handful of new animations in preparation for the upcoming Pixel tablet.
About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play…
Exclusive: This is Samsung’s One UI 5 based on Android 13 and everything we’ve found new
July 9, 2022
With rumors of the official One UI 5 beta starting soon and internal previews already underway, people are getting excited to see what Samsung has up its sleeve for Android 13. Luckily, I’ve managed to get my hands on the latest One UI 5 beta before the public beta even starts. Let’s take a look at everything that’s new in One UI 5.
To provide some context, this build was provided by a…
