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Superhot geothermal energy could unearth big power boost for the AI era

cnbc.com Diana Olick 2025-12-23 06:14:53

Geothermal energy has been used for thousands of years, powering heating systems as early as the 14th century. It's getting a big upgrade. Beyond geothermal, there's superhot geothermal, which uses ultra-deep drilling to access extremely hot rocks, extracting 5 to 10 times more power per well. Quaise Energy, a Massachusetts-based startup, is in the market developing the technology, which involves an electromagnetic beam that vaporizes rock. The company's systems are able to reach superhot geot

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The Pixel 10 might finally add the magic of MagSafe to Android phones (if Google gets it right)

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-23 06:22:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET There's been no shortage of Pixel 10 leaks leading up to its expected August launch event -- even Google has taken part in it. But while all eyes are on external design and camera changes, the biggest feature upgrade with the next-gen Pixels may actually be hidden in plain sight. Qi2 certification I'm talking about Qi2 certification, the wireless charging standard introduced at CES more than two years ago that has yet to gain widespread market adoption due to material costs,

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Mark Zuckerberg shares a confusing vision for AI 'superintelligence'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-23 11:39:44

Mark Zuckerberg has spent the last several months and several billion dollars recruiting prominent AI researchers and executives for a new "superintelligence" team at Meta. Now, the Meta CEO has published a lengthy memo that attempts to lay out his big plan for using the company's vast resources to create "personal superintelligence." In the memo, which reads more like a manifesto than a strategic business plan, Zuckerberg explains that he's "extremely optimistic that superintelligence will hel

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The Pixel 10 may have the most significant charging feature of all Android phones (if Google gets it right)

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-12-23 16:57:28

Kerry Wan/ZDNET There's been no shortage of Pixel 10 leaks leading up to its expected August launch event -- even Google has taken part in it. But while all eyes are on external design and camera changes, the biggest feature upgrade with the next-gen Pixels may actually be hidden in plain sight. I'm talking about Qi2 certification, the wireless charging standard introduced at CES more than two years ago that has yet to gain widespread market adoption due to material costs, lack of user demand,

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Google’s Pixel 10 sure looks like it’ll support magnetic Qi2 charging

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-12-23 12:51:53

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Evidence is mounting that Google’s Pixel 10 series will support Qi2 wireless charging, including built-in magnets, finally offering a mainstream Android alternative to Apple’s MagSafe. The latest sign is a leaked image of the Pixel 10 with what appears to be a magnetic wireless charging puck attached to the back. The leaked image comes from the reliable leaker Evan Blass, an

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State capacity and eight parking spaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 12:37:39

Jul 29, 2025 politics government infrastructure seattle State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book, Abundance, makes a compelling case that American government has systematically eroded its own capacity to build things. Through decades of well-intentioned regulations, environmental reviews, and bureaucratic processes, we’ve created a system that prioritizes blocking bad projects over enabling good ones. The result is a country that can’t build high-speed rail,

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Google's Pixel 10 may get magnetic Qi2 charging after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-24 02:30:55

Google's upcoming Pixel 10 may support wireless Qi2 charging natively (without a case), which would make it the first Pixel model and one of the few Android phones to do so. A new image from mega-leaker Evan Blass shows a Qi2 charger attached to the back of a naked Pixel 10 device, meaning it likely has the magnets required to support the fast-charging system. Rumors bubbled up last month that Google was working on a new lineup of "Pixelsnap" Qi2 accessories, leading to speculation that the Pix

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Tesla picks LGES, not CATL, for $4.3 billion storage battery deal

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 02:40:11

Tesla has a new battery cell supplier. Although the automaker is vertically integrated to a degree not seen in the automotive industry for decades, when it comes to battery cells it’s mostly dependent upon suppliers. Panasonic cells can be found in many Teslas, with the cheaper, sturdier lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells being supplied by CATL. Now Tesla has a new source of LFP cells thanks to a deal just signed with LG Energy Solutions. According to The Korea Economic Daily, the contr

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State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-24 06:37:39

Jul 29, 2025 politics government infrastructure seattle State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book, Abundance, makes a compelling case that American government has systematically eroded its own capacity to build things. Through decades of well-intentioned regulations, environmental reviews, and bureaucratic processes, we’ve created a system that prioritizes blocking bad projects over enabling good ones. The result is a country that can’t build high-speed rail,

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South Korea's LG Energy Solution signs $4.3 billion battery supply deal with undisclosed party

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-24 15:46:15

The logo of LG Electronics is seen on the opening day of the Integrated Systems Europe exhibition in Barcelona on January 31, 2023. South Korea-based LG Energy Solution announced Wednesday that it had signed a $4.3 billion contract for supplying batteries to a major corporation, without naming the customer. The effective date of contract — receipt of orders — was Tuesday and it will conclude at the end of July, 2030. During this period, the counterparty will not be disclosed to maintain busine

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Warning: Protect your phone from choicejacking before it's too late - here's how

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-24 14:12:00

Elyse Betters Picaro (with graphic elements from Ameythyststudio, Aleriimingirov, and Romansa design art via Canva) / ZDNET Giving your phone some extra juice via a public charging station is always a handy option, but it may not be a safe one. As described in a new report from NordVPN, cybercriminals can now turn to a trick called choicejacking, in which they're able to transfer data from your phone to a device disguised as a charger. What is choicejacking? With this new method, a malicious

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The Download: how to store energy underground, and what you may not know about Trump’s AI Action Plan

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-24 09:10:00

Texas-based startup Quidnet Energy just completed a test showing it can store energy for up to six months by pumping water underground. Using water to store electricity is hardly a new concept—pumped hydropower storage has been around for over a century. But the company hopes its twist on the technology could help bring cheap, long-duration energy storage to new places. Read the full story. —Casey Crownhart What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan The executive orders and anno

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USB-C for Lightning iPhones

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-21 10:03:42

Taxes included. 🔥 Batch 1, 2 AND 3 already sold out... Sorry 😢 😢 Please sign up with your email to be alerted when your model gets back in stock. The models with the most sign ups get higher priority. ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO: here Just plug your phone in this protection case and get USB-C in just a few seconds. No need to buy a brand new device to get the "update". Wireless charging works perfectly through the case. MagSafe charging works too! The magnetic connection is even stronger with the cas

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Deal: Anker Laptop Charger drops to new record-low price, cheaper than Prime Day!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 02:12:18

While Prime Day brings some of the hottest deals every year, sometimes we come across even better sales. For example, the Anker Laptop Charger 140W was $69.99 during the Amazon sales event, but right now, it’s just $59.99, which happens to be its record-low price so far. Buy the Anker Laptop Charger 140W for just $59.99 ($40 off) This offer is available from Best Buy. The discount is only available for the Silver color version, as Best Buy doesn’t have the Dark Gray iteration in stock. I can n

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How the brain increases blood flow on demand

news.ycombinator.com Catherine Caruso 2025-12-24 23:13:32

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs in the balance due to the government’s decision to terminate large numbers of federally funded grants and contracts across Harvard University. All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions. To supply the energy

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‘Predator: Badlands’ Came From a Desire to Do Something New, With a Dash of ‘Star Wars’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-25 02:20:54

With Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg did something no one ever thought was possible. He took a beloved franchise, Predator, and flipped it on its head. By giving it a fresh perspective and a new timeline, he took something old and brought it into the now. For his follow-up, he wanted to do that again, but it was difficult. Everyone kind of just wanted Prey 2. “Sometimes when you make a sequel, it’s just part two of the cool thing, not a cool thing in and of itself,” Trachtenberg said recently a

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How the Brain Increases Blood Flow on Demand

news.ycombinator.com Catherine Caruso 2025-12-25 05:13:32

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs in the balance due to the government’s decision to terminate large numbers of federally funded grants and contracts across Harvard University. All day long, our brains carry out complicated and energy-intensive tasks such as remembering, solving problems, and making decisions. To supply the energy

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This long-requested Galaxy upgrade might finally arrive on the S26 Ultra

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-25 11:39:21

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR A new firmware leak suggests the Galaxy S26 Ultra will support 60W wired charging. That’s a major jump from the 45W limit on previous Ultra models, though still slower than some rivals. The phone is expected to keep its 5,000mAh battery and use the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chipset. Samsung might not be boosting battery capacity on its next high-end flagship, but it looks like faster charging is finally on the cards for the Galaxy S26 Ultra. Tipter Erenca

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Sharge added a rechargeable battery to its sleek retractable charger

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-12-25 11:22:26

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Sharge has demonstrated again and again that the chargers and power banks you use to keep your devices running don’t need to look like boring gray bricks. The company has updated its transparent Retractable 65 wall charger, released earlier this year, with a 10,000mAh battery so it’s no longer completely dependent on an outlet. The only tradeoff

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Former NASA Boss Says We May Be Destroying America’s Only Shot at Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 20:13:31

One of the driving personalities behind the Hubble Space Telescope is sounding the alarm on president Donald Trump's disastrous space policy. That former NASA associate administrator for spaceflight is Joe Rothenberg, who warns that the agency's current predicament — mass layoffs and deferred resignations resulting in a loss of 20 percent of its workforce and a complete overhaul of agency culture — may already be too bad to fix. "What is happening at NASA has long term and potentially unrecove

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What’s on your desk, Cameron Faulkner?

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2025-12-26 11:00:00

Cameron Faulkner describes himself as “a New York City transplant who’s lived in Brooklyn since 2012.” He continues, “When I’m not at work, I try to get as far away from my computer as I can (I don’t always succeed), spending time with my wife, 15-month-old son, and two cats. I enjoy walking around, playing video games, drinking coffee, and keeping myself busy with a never-ending list of tasks.” He is currently commerce editor at The Verge, where he helps other commerce writers find good deals,

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Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-26 11:30:00

When Esther Hallam welcomed her daughter, Nara, into the world, she faced the challenge of searching for trustworthy brands that offered high-quality, organic infant formula in the U.S. Despite being available for nearly 160 years, the quality of infant formula options in the U.S. is still lacking, she believes. Many manufacturers opt for skim milk to cut costs, which allows them to add oils to meet nutritional requirements. Several formulas contain palm oil, soy, and corn syrup, which aren’t r

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AI Datacenters Are Raising Nearby Residents' Electric Bills

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-26 16:04:46

If you're looking for someone to blame for your ballooning energy bills, we have an increasingly familiar culprit: AI data centers. A new analysis of one the US's largest power grids, PJM, found that a rise in customer energy rates is directly attributable to the tremendous power demands of these data facilities that undergird services like OpenAI's ChatGPT, the Washington Post reports. Serving 67 million customers, the PJM region covers just over a dozen states, including Indiana, Maryland, M

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Bat-Mite Is No Longer Canon in James Gunn’s DCU

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-12-26 16:00:52

Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier talks X-Men, Eddie Murphy provides an update on Shrek 5, and Alien: Earth introduces a “ruthless” cyborg. Your bongo to Theed is now arriving; it’s Morning Spoilers! Shrek 5/Donkey In conversation with Screen Rant, Eddie Murphy confirmed he’s “still in the booth” recording lines for Shrek 5 before beginning work on a Donkey spinoff movie this September. We’re still in the booth, and literally, we’re still doing Shrek. We start in September on Donkey, we’re

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Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t been interested

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-26 16:26:37

“We will drill, baby, drill,” President Donald Trump declared at his inauguration on January 20. Echoing the slogan that exemplified his energy policies during the campaign, he made his message clear: more oil and gas, lower prices, greater exports. Six months into Trump’s second term, his administration has little to show on that score. Output is ticking up, but slower than it did under the Biden administration. Pump prices for gasoline have bobbed around where they were in inauguration week.

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Union Pacific to buy Norfolk in $85B mega U.S. railroad deal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-26 21:36:51

Union Pacific said on Tuesday it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal, to create the nation's first coast-to-coast freight rail operator and reshape the movement of goods from grains to autos across the country. If approved, the deal would combine Union Pacific's stronghold in the western two-thirds of the U.S. with Norfolk's 19,500-mile network that primarily spans 22 eastern states. This would mark the largest-ever buyout in the sector, merging Union Pacific, the b

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This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery

technologyreview.com Casey Crownhart 2025-12-27 05:00:00

In traditional pumped hydro storage facilities, electric pumps move water uphill, into a natural or manmade body of water. Then, when electricity is needed, that water is released and flows downhill past a turbine, generating electricity. Quidnet’s approach instead pumps water down into impermeable rock formations and keeps it under pressure so it flows up when released. “It’s like pumped hydro, upside down,” says CEO Joe Zhou. Quidnet started a six-month test of its technology in late 2024, pr

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Qi2 Wireless Charging: Everything You Need to Know (2025)

wired.com Simon Hill 2025-12-25 02:00:00

It’s ironic, but we here at WIRED have long been wireless charging fans. Not having to fumble with cables is nice! Most wireless charging devices these days follow the Qi (pronounced chee) standard, which has taken its time reaching ubiquity. (The user experience has not always been great.) The Wireless Power Consortium, which manages the charging protocol, announced the next-generation version called Qi2 in early 2023. Qi2 wireless charging promises perfect alignment, with the potential for acc

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Robo-Bunnies Are the Latest Weapon Against Florida’s Invasive Pythons

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-28 02:55:06

Invasive Burmese pythons are a scourge upon South Florida. These massive snakes are one of the region’s most pernicious pests, posing a significant risk to local biodiversity as they chow down on native wildlife. Burmese pythons were introduced to Florida through the exotic pet trade in the 1970s and are now among the state’s top predators. Researchers and conservationists have been working to wrangle the python problem through capture and kill programs but have faced significant challenges. Th

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Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-28 06:50:47

The Trump Organization is seeking to prevent some online businesses from hawking counterfeit merchandise promoting President Donald Trump. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, the company accused unnamed merchants of selling "inferior imitations" of Trump-branded products on several online marketplaces, including Amazon , Walmart and eBay . The Trump Organization company, which is owned by Trump, sells a variety of branded merchandise through its website, including a go

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Superhot geothermal energy could unearth big power boost for the AI era

The Pixel 10 might finally add the magic of MagSafe to Android phones (if Google gets it right)

Mark Zuckerberg shares a confusing vision for AI 'superintelligence'

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State capacity and eight parking spaces

Google's Pixel 10 may get magnetic Qi2 charging after all

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State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces

South Korea's LG Energy Solution signs $4.3 billion battery supply deal with undisclosed party

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Deal: Anker Laptop Charger drops to new record-low price, cheaper than Prime Day!

How the brain increases blood flow on demand

‘Predator: Badlands’ Came From a Desire to Do Something New, With a Dash of ‘Star Wars’

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This long-requested Galaxy upgrade might finally arrive on the S26 Ultra

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This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery

Qi2 Wireless Charging: Everything You Need to Know (2025)

Robo-Bunnies Are the Latest Weapon Against Florida’s Invasive Pythons

Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

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