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The RoboBee lands on a leaf. Credit: Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory The RoboBee lands on a leaf. Credit: Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory Several years ago, Harvard University roboticist Robert Wood made headlines when his lab constructed RoboBee, a tiny robot capable of partially untethered flight. Over the years, RoboBee has learned to fly, dive, and hover. The latest improvement: RoboBee has learned how to stick the landing, thanks to biomechanical improvements to its landing gear modeled
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Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries used in its scooters and e-bikes to Redwood Materials, which will extract and recycle critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The agreement announced Monday makes Redwood Materials the exclusive battery recycling partner for Lime’s shared scooters and e-bikes located in cities throughout the United States, Germany and The Netherlands. The agreement doesn’t cover every region in which Lime operate
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Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries used in its scooters and e-bikes to Redwood Materials, which will extract and recycle critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The agreement announced Monday makes Redwood Materials the exclusive battery recycling partner for Lime’s shared scooters and e-bikes located in cities throughout the United States, Germany and The Netherlands. The agreement doesn’t cover every region in which Lime operate
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Lime is partnering with Redwood Materials to recycle batteries from its fleet of shared electric bikes and scooters. Redwood was founded in 2007 by JB Straubel, a co-founder of Tesla and close confidant to CEO Elon Musk, with an aim to address the anticipated soaring demand for materials needed to produce electric car batteries. As part of the deal, Lime will send batteries that have reached their end of life to Redwood’s facilities in Nevada, where it will determine how much of the battery—fro
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Lead research author Stephen Peters-Collear measures a log in a stream. Credit: Bill Keeton Living trees absorb carbon, aiding climate change mitigation. But what role do dead trees play in carbon storage? UVM researchers found that large, downed trees in streams tie up tremendous stores of carbon—and this pool of c
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Lime, the largest bike- and scooter-sharing company in the world, announced that it has struck a deal with Redwood Materials to recycle its lithium-ion batteries. Lime says its e-bike and e-scooter batteries typically last 500 charge cycles, or between five and seven years. Once those batteries reach their end of life, Lim
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 19:19:08
Last weekend, A Minecraft Movie made $15 million in China in its opening weekend. Thanks to President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on the country, that success story might be the last of its kind, for a while at least. On Thursday, Trump announced 145 percent tariffs on Chinese goods, even as he has placed a 90-day pause on some of the hefty tariffs he’d imposed on other countries around the world. As part of the country’s response to the escalating trade war, the China Film Administration announ
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Google has unveiled a new AI processor, the seventh generation of its custom TPU architecture. The chip, known as Ironwood, was reportedly designed for the emerging needs of Google's most powerful Gemini models, like simulated reasoning, which Google prefers to call "thinking." The company claims this chip represents a major shift that will unlock more powerful agentic AI capabilities. Google calls this the "age of inference." Whenever Google talks about the capabilities of a new Gemini version
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Today at Google Cloud Next 25, we’re introducing Ironwood, our seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) — our most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator to date, and the first designed specifically for inference. For more than a decade, TPUs have powered Google’s most demanding AI training and serving workloads, and have enabled our Cloud customers to do the same. Ironwood is our most powerful, capable and energy efficient TPU yet. And it's purpose-built to power thinking, inferen
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google Cloud unveiled its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Ironwood on Wednesday, a custom AI accelerator that the company claims delivers more than 24 times the computing power of the world’s fastest supercomputer when deployed at scale. The new chip, announced at Google Cloud Next ’25, represents a significant pivot in Google’s decade-long AI ch
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Google During its Google Cloud Next 25 event Wednesday, the search giant unveiled the latest version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), the custom chip built to run artificial intelligence -- with a twist. Also: Why Google Code Assist may finally be the programming power tool you need For the first time, Google is positioning the chip for inference, the making of predictions for live requests from millions or even billions of users, as opposed to training, the development of neural networks
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During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip. The new chip, called Ironwood, is Google’s seventh-generation TPU and is the first optimized for inference — that is, running AI models. Scheduled to launch sometime later this year for Google Cloud customers, Ironwood will come in two configurations: a 256-chip cluster and a 9,216-chip cluster. “Ironwood is our most powerful, capable, and energy-efficient TPU yet,” Google Cloud VP
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Woodpecker drumming may not be as immediately distinctive as birdsong—but by carefully listening to speed, duration, and rhythm you can still tell many species apart. Here are some tips. Downy Woodpeckers have short, relatively slow drums. Video by Seth Honig / Macaulay Library. One of the first indications of springtime in North America is the rat-a-tat sound of woodpeckers drumming. Even on mild, sunny days in late winter you may hear them trying out their drumming. Compared with the melody
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As Donald Trump’s unprovoked trade war against the world continues, countries are starting to look to respond in ways that will erode more than just America’s bottom line. According to the Hollywood Reporter, China is looking into banning American-made films and TV shows from its market, cutting into the United States’ cultural influence. The reporting cites two influential media figures in China, who apparently shared a very similar report at the same time. Liu Hong, a senior editor at the sta
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Redwood Materials has been on an expansion tear in recent years — growth that has extended the lithium-ion battery recycling and materials startup’s footprint well beyond its Carson City, Nevada headquarters as it locked up deals with Toyota, Panasonic, and, GM, started construction on a South Carolina factory, and made an acquisition in Europe. And yet, Redwood Materials CTO Colin Campbell saw a gap in the company’s 1,100-person workforce. San Francisco was the answer, Campbell told TechCrunch
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OnePlus TL;DR OnePlus 13 users are reporting extreme difficulty in taking off the official Wood Grain magnetic case. One unfortunate user even bent their phone while trying to pry the case off. User-suggested methods of removing the problematic case include strategic corner pulling, brute force, and even using a hairdryer. The OnePlus 13 is one of the best flagship phones you can buy right now, boasting top-tier design and performance. But if you want to embrace OnePlus’ take on MagSafe-styl
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Mud, water and wood: The system that kept a 1604-year-old city afloat 1 day ago Share Save Anna Bressanin Share Save Emmanuel Lafont/ BBC (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/ BBC) Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept this watery city afloat for more than 1,600 years – using only wood. As any local knows, Venice is an upside-down forest. The city, which turned 1604 years old on March 25, is built on the foundations of millions of short woode
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Evan Blass TL;DR A leak suggests there could be a version of the Motorola Razr Plus 2025 with a wood back panel. It’s unclear if the finish uses real wood or not. Motorola’s Razr phones are some of the best flip-style foldable devices on the market. If you’re looking for a new handset, last year’s models just went on sale. Coincidently, the next version of the Plus just leaked as well, revealing a unique finish you may not have expected. Well-known leaker Evan Blass has shared a GIF that sho
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Rubio approved a waiver for “life-saving” humanitarian assistance on January 28. “This resumption is temporary in nature, and with limited exceptions as needed to continue life-saving humanitarian assistance programs, no new contracts shall be entered into,” he said in a statement at the time. The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which invests millions of dollars in the global AIDS response every year, was also granted a waiver February 1 to continue “life-saving” work.
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Rubio approved a waiver for “life-saving” humanitarian assistance on January 28. “This resumption is temporary in nature, and with limited exceptions as needed to continue life-saving humanitarian assistance programs, no new contracts shall be entered into,” he said in a statement at the time. The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which invests millions of dollars in the global AIDS response every year, was also granted a waiver February 1 to continue “life-saving” work.
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Each year 36 million trees fall due to decay, disease, natural disasters or clearing for new development. The vast majority of those trees are either burned, sent to a landfill or ground up for mulch, which wastes energy and causes carbon emissions. Now, new technology is being used to find, transport and recycle that wood and make it useful once again. Cambium is a startup aiming to disrupt the wood recycling space. Its Baltimore-based researchers are working on new ways to track, treat and t
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World's tallest tree Hyperion is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in California that is the world's tallest known living tree, measured at 116.07 metres (380.8 ft) tall in 2019.[1][3] Hyperion was discovered on August 25, 2006, by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor.[4] The tree height of 115.55 m (379.1 ft) was verified by Stephen Sillett in 2006 using both a laser range finder and a fiberglass tape to measure the tree from the base to the crown.[5][6] The tree has grown since t
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Yesterday, Warner Bros. Japan announced an anime film adaptation for All You Need Is Kill, the sci-fi light novel that inspired the 2014 Hollywood film, Edge of Tomorrow, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. All You Need Is Kill, originally created by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, follows a soldier named Keiji Kiriya trapped in a time loop where he must improve his fighting prowess in order to stop an alien invasion. Keiji is later joined by Rita Vrataski, a legendary U.S. special forces soldier with the
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Sorry to everyone who was waiting for Sonos to release a streaming video device — it seems that's not happening anytime soon. The company is said to have canceled the long-expected product, which was reportedly far along in development. Sonos leadership announced the cancellation in an all-hands call on Wednesday, according to The Verge . Interim CEO Tom Conrad says that, "for now," the company won't enter the streaming video market. The team that was working on the project, codenamed Pinewood,
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is a senior reviewer who has worked at The Verge since its founding in 2011. His coverage areas include audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, and more. Sonos has abandoned far-along plans to release a streaming video player this year, the company’s leadership announced in an all-hands call today. The product, codenamed Pinewood, was set to be Sonos’ next major hardware launch. It was already deep into development and has spent months in beta testing. Bu
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Every week, Netflix reveals its Top 10 lists, ranking its most-viewed movies and TV shows. For the week of Feb. 24 through March 2, one of the streamer's biggest global hits is the British drama Toxic Town, a real-life story of a group of mothers seeking justice after a toxic waste dump in their town caused birth defects in their kids. The show co-stars Aimee Lou Wood, who's also starring in the new season of The White Lotus and seems to be having a much-deserved moment right now. The White Lot
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Split in two by a highway—as communities of color often are—the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was once known as America’s Black Wall Street. At the start of the 20th century, Greenwood was home to one of America’s most affluent Black communities, including a notable density of doctors, lawyers, bankers, and entrepreneurs. I didn’t fully appreciate the neighborhood’s significance when I pulled up to the Greenwood Cultural Center during my first visit to Tulsa in January 2019. With its qu
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Roberto Orci, one of the most prolific and successful Hollywood writers and creators in recent memory, died Tuesday from kidney failure. He was 51 years old. Orci is best known for his work with fellow writer and creator Alex Kurtzman. Together, the pair wrote and produced a slew of massive hits such as Mission Impossible III, Star Trek, Transformers, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and more. There really was a time when anything the pair touched turned to gold and two of the best words you could hea
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It’s a scene that plays out in cities and suburbs across America: A tree gets cut down, and instead of being milled into lumber, the whole thing gets shredded. There are a range of reasons why, none of which have sat well with Ben Christensen. Christensen grew up in New Mexico among the state’s towering pines, and if that wasn’t enough to instill a healthy respect for trees, his family is steeped in timber, including his father who is a carpenter and woodworker. In nearly every case, the bigge
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