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We often see very high clock frequencies listed for our CPUs.
The new LFP battery charges from 10 to 70% in 4.5 minutes at just 65˚C.
Airships are quietly staging a comeback. From stratospheric surveillance platforms to heavy-lift cargo carriers and months-long scientific balloon missions, lighter-than-air vehicles promise stable,
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How a MrBeast ad progress bar became a timer for my daily treadmill walk.
Hype merchants have a habit of overdoing it , but there’s no denying that China is making the US look more than a little antiquated when it comes to electric vehicles. Some of that is due to a deep integration of connected services and an extension of the car as part of the owner’s digital life—think additional infotainment screens and AI personal assistants, but with an Android phone-maker’s cadence of updates rather than that of a traditional car company. Other advances sound more appealing. China’s OEMs are in a battle over who can charge the fastest, and this week, Geely fired its latest salvo. China might have a much younger driving culture than North America or Europe, but it has still been long enough to condition those drivers to how long it takes to fill a tank of gas. For all their many improvements over internal combustion engine vehicles—far greater efficiency, instant torque, very little NVH, more reliabiity, and so on—EVs do still take longer to recharge than it takes to refuel a car with a liquid. At least until now, it seems. Read full article Comments