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Bill Ford, Executive Chair of Ford Motor Company, speaks during the debut of the next generation 2024 Ford Mustang at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan on September 14, 2022. Ford unveiled Wednesday its seventh-generation Mustang in a brash and boisterous launch event in downtown Detroit that pointed to the staying power of gasoline-powered vehicles.…

Last updated: September 8th, 2022 at 14:32 UTC+02:00 Market watchers expect demand for memory chips to drop in the second half of the year due to sluggish PC, data servers, and smartphone shipments. Samsung warns that the sharp downturn in memory chip sales could extend into 2023. In a media briefing earlier this week, Samsung co-CEO and head of the semiconductor unit, Kyung Kye-hyun, said: “The second half of this year looks bad, and as of now, next year doesn’t really seem to show a clear momentum for much…

A diamond quantum sensor-based detection technique can more accurately estimate battery charge, leading to an extended range for electric vehicles.High-<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>accuracy</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>How close the measured value conforms to the correct value.</div>"…

General view of the miners’ town of Barentsburg on May 7, 2022, on the Svalbard Archipelago, northern Norway.Photo: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP (Getty Images)The war between Russia and Ukraine has extended operations at Norway’s last functioning coal mine in the Arctic.The Norwegian-owned coal company, Store Norske Spitsbergen Kullkompani, has opted to keep its last mine in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago in operation for an extra two years. The mine was supposed to close sometime in the fall of 2023, but it will now be open…

Artistic rendering of the gels encapsulating a viral vaccine. Credit: ETH Zurich / Jonathan ZawadaNearly half of all vaccines produced go to waste. This is because transporting them to diverse regions of the world involves many logistical challenges. Another major factor is that most vaccines require strict temperature regulation from the manufacturing line to injection into a human arm. Maintaining a constant temperature along the cold (supply) chain can be a challenging feat in the best of circumstances. Moreover, in…

Vodafone is working with Google to extend the battery life of a smartwatch by reducing the "chatter" between the device and the network, a bigger drain of energy than screen brightness and other settings targeted by low power modes.The mobile operator has developed an API (application programming interface) that enables apps and operating systems, such as Google Android's Wear OS, to reconfigure how they communicate with its network, said Vodafone's director of network architecture Santiago Tenorio."With wearables, such…

Port bottlenecks that have tied up U.S. supply chains are spreading from the docks to the country’s freight rail networks, raising costs and adding new shipping complications for importers trying to manage the flow of goods.Some retailers are waiting weeks to move cargo by train out of Southern California’s ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, while others are giving up on the railroads and shifting shipments of furniture, apparel and other consumer goods to trucks for long inland journeys on highways. The backups stretch…

New applications for unemployment benefits dropped last week, marking four months of historically low claims in a tight U.S. labor market. Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 200,000 last week from the previous week’s revised level of 211,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The weekly tally of new unemployment claims has remained near its lowest levels ever for months as employers hold on to workers and try to hire more, with the gap between job…

Bitcoin is a volatile asset, and has been known to swing more than 10% higher or lower in a single day.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBitcoin continued to slide after a broader stock sell-off in the U.S. last week sent the cryptocurrency market into a frenzy and prompted bitcoin to plummet by roughly 10%.Bitcoin, the world's largest digital currency by market value, was down more than 3% at $34,582.36 on Sunday, according to data from Coin Metrics. This year, Bitcoin has been trading in a narrow range as it…