GM buying out SoftBank's $2.1 bn stake in Cruise self-driving cars
American automaker General Motors announced Friday it is acquiring SoftBank's $2.1 billion stake in its autonomous car venture Cruise.
Mar 18, 2022
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Automotive
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Engineering
Could we make cars out of petroleum residue?
As the world struggles to improve the efficiency of cars and other vehicles in order to curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve the range of electric vehicles, the search is on for ever-lighter materials that are strong ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Engineering
Turkey builds massive bridge linking Europe and Asia
The president of Turkey, South Korea's prime minister and other officials inaugurated a massive suspension bridge Friday over the Dardanelles Strait that connects the European and Asian shores of the key waterway.
Mar 18, 2022
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Internet
Nearly 1.6 million Illinois Facebook users could get checks soon after appeals court upholds $650 million settlement
More than a year after a landmark $650 million Facebook privacy settlement was approved, checks for $397 each may finally be arriving for nearly 1.6 million Illinois users of the social media platform.
Mar 18, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Target embraces solar panels, with California store its first net zero building
As it pushes to improve its environmental footprint, Target Corp. on Thursday announced its first net zero store, designed to produce more energy than it uses.
Mar 18, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A unified theory of electrochemical energy storage: Bridging batteries and supercapacitors
For decades researchers and technologists have regarded batteries and capacitors as two distinct energy storage devices—batteries, known for storing more energy but releasing it slowly; capacitors, for quickly discharging ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
To really address climate change, Australia could make 27 times as much electricity and make it renewable
Australia's electricity system is on the road to becoming 100% renewable as coal-fired power stations close and wind and solar takes their place.
Mar 18, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
A 'postcard from the future,' this zero-energy park building creates as much energy as it uses
Plastic pipes snake down 460 feet into the earth, drawing up enough warmth to heat a 7,700-square-foot building—even on the coldest days of winter.
Mar 18, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Intelligent gate driver enhances the lifetime of power converters
Researcher Lie Wang developed an intelligent gate driver for switch components in the power converter, significantly improving power converters' lifetime and reliability.
Mar 18, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Waste not: Turning food scraps into renewable energy
Food for thought: if food waste was a country it'd be the world's third largest greenhouse gas producer behind the US and China. So what's being done about it?
Mar 18, 2022
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