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Ford and Kia EVs keep the lights on after California earthquake

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Ford has taken its technology even further, allowing customers to use their F150 Lightings as home backup generators, and more legacy brands are following with their offerings in the near future. What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns? Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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Cambridge team demonstrates light-driven photoreforming of unprocessed biomass to H2 at room temperature

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A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has reported the light-driven photoreforming of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin to H 2 using semiconducting cadmium sulfide quantum dots in alkaline aqueous solution. CdS is an inexpensive, visible-light-absorbing photocatalyst with a bulk electronic bandgap of around 2.4

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The future of mobility: Innovations in fuel aggregation and congestion monitoring – ET Auto

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As India accelerates towards a future marked by innovation and progress, its roads are witnessing a transformation of unprecedented traffic and congestion. The once-dominant ethos of the light-vehicle market is swiftly giving way to a preference for larger models, with SUVs all set to surpass the mark of 6.1 million units by 2030.

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Linking Chips With Light For Faster AI

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Stephen Cass: Hi, I’m Stephen Cass, for IEEE Spectrum’s Fixing the Future. And recently, you wrote an article about the race to replace electricity with light inside computers, which is letting chips talk to each other with fiber optics rather than just using fiber optics to communicate between computers. So what’s going on?

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The Future of Moore's Law Is Inside This Willy Wonka Machine

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Transcript Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future , an IEEE Spectrum podcast, where we look at concrete solutions to some big problems. And with extreme ultraviolet lithography, you are using a wavelength of light that’s only 13 and a half nanometers long. I’m your host, Stephen Cass , a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum.

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ANL researchers report photo-excitation can speed up Li-ion charging by factor of two

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Here we show that the charging rate of a cathode can be dramatically increased via interaction with white light. We find that a direct exposure of light to an operating LiMn 2 O 4 cathode during charging leads to a remarkable lowering of the battery charging time by a factor of two or more. —Lee et al.

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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by SimpliSafe. From video doorbells to robot vacuums, automated lighting, and voice assistants, smart home technology has invaded consumers’ homes and shows no sign of disappearing anytime soon. At SimpliSafe , an award-winning home security company based in Boston, Mass.,