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Hydrogen fuel cell maker Loop Energy said that its latest cell system can deliver better fuel economy than a diesel engine at current price levels. The Burnaby, British Columbia-based company said that - based on a pan-European diesel cost of $1.91 per litre on September 5 and $10 per kg of hydrogen - a truck could travel just over 111 miles (179 km) on $100 worth of fuel using its new S1200 hydrogen fuel cell system versus a little over 109 miles for an equivalent diesel truck. Read Also As the auto industry makes the…

Sony released another new PS5 and it’s basically a full internal redesign. https://t.co/KEFs8GKGO3 pic.twitter.com/7sMftFD9LY— Austin Evans (@austinnotduncan) September 7, 2022A major change in the revised PS5 model is its upgraded motherboard. The new motherboard has been shrunk by two inches, and the console comes with a slightly different cooling tech with an additional heat pipe and a smaller heatsink. Thanks to these changes, the PS5 now weighs around 0.45 kgs lighter. The CMOS battery is now hidden under the…

CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai during press conference at the Chancellery in Warsaw, Poland on March 29, 2022.Mateusz Wlodarczyk | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesGoogle and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he wants to make the company 20% more efficient and that could include headcount cuts as it reckons with a slew of economic challenges as well as years of rapid hiring.Speaking at Code Conference in Los Angeles, Pichai gave more details about how he’s thinking of making the company run more efficiently ahead of…

Chiral Quasi Bound States in the Continuum for High-Purity Circularly Polarized Light SourceScientists demonstrate high-purity, highly directional, and high-Q circularly polarized light source from spontaneous emission to laser.An ultra-compact circularly polarized light source is a crucial component for the applications of classical and quantum optics information processing. The development of this field relies on the advances of two technologies, quantum materials and chiral optical cavities.Disadvantages of…

LenovoOut of the box, ChromeOS is one of the most efficient operating systems on the market. Part of that is due to the simplicity of the OS. Another reason is that ChromeOS was designed -- from the ground up -- to be as easy as possible to use. To that end, the developers have built in plenty of features that make navigating the UI far easier than you might believe.I want to offer up five easy tips that can help you navigate the ChromeOS platform much faster and easier. Also: The two smart devices I will never…

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics recently demonstrated a record-breaking experiment that could turn the quantum computing industry on its head. The quantum slalom One of the biggest challenges facing STEM researchers today is the difficulty of building a fault-tolerant, stable quantum computer. In essence, modern physicists are darting back and forth between trying to scale quantum computers to functional sizes and attempting to squelch all the noisy errors…

Ahead of the IFA 2022 event, Samsung has revealed its plans for its upcoming home appliances and the SmartThings platform. JaeSeung Lee, Head of Digital Appliances at Samsung Electronics, penned an editorial and revealed how the company is striving to become the world’s most energy-efficient home appliances brand. Lee said that users “have become more aware of the impact their choices are having on the environment and are practicing eco-conscious activities in their daily lives to compensate.” So, to cater to consumer…

Ethereum, the network behind the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap (after Bitcoin), will move from a proof-of-work consensus mechanism to a proof-of-stake blockchain next month in a process called "the merge". That will make Ethereum at least "99 per cent more energy efficient".The Ethereum Foundation has said that the Merge Blockchain upgrade is scheduled on September 6 and the upgrade will be fully completed between September 10 and 20."Following years of hard work, Ethereum's proof-of-stake upgrade is finally…

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Engineers at the University of Vienna have developed a new composite material that makes an efficient filter for removing organic pollutants from water. The system uses super-porous “nano-sponges” embedded on a sheet of graphene.The key to the new filters is a class of material called covalent organic frameworks (COFs). These structures are extremely porous, giving them a massive surface area contained within a small space, which means they’re effective at grabbing onto large amounts of molecules. Related materials known…