An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla co-founder J.B. Straubel wants to build his startup Redwood Materials into the world’s top battery recycling company and one of the largest battery materials companies, he said at a technology conference Wednesday. Straubel aims to leverage two partnerships, one with Panasonic, the Japanese battery manufacturer that is teamed with Tesla at the…
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Power Pioneer Invents New Battery That’s 90% Cheaper Than Lithium-Ion
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Lithium-ion batteries play a central role in the world of technology, powering everything from smartphones to smart cars, and one of the people who helped commercialize them says he has a way to cut mass production costs by 90% and significantly improve their safety. Hideaki Horie, formerly of Nissan Motor Co., founded Tokyo-based…
Windows 10’s Latest Updates Are Causing Havoc On Printers
Windows 10 received its monthly host of security patches earlier this week, and the latest cumulative updates are causing serious problems with printers — particularly Ricoh devices, but also other models. TechRadar reports: The so-called ‘Patch Tuesday’ fixes released earlier in the week which are causing chaos are KB4557957 and KB4560960, which are for the May 2020 Update and the November…
Discover how the Google IT Support Professional Certificate helped Jason pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
My name is Jason Niro, and I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I graduated from Bay State College, in Boston, with a bachelor’s degree in entertainment management with a recording arts concentration. After graduation, I moved to Southern California to pursue a career as an Audio Engineer. While I was interning at a few record […]
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Panasonic Is Ending Its Solar Cell Partnership With Tesla
Panasonic said it will stop producing solar cells and modules at Tesla’s factory in Buffalo, N.Y., ending a four-year joint venture with the electric automaker. TechCrunch reports: Panasonic said it will cease solar manufacturing operations at the Tesla factory by the end of May. The company will exit the factory by September. Panasonic employs about 380 people at the factory. Those…
Microsoft Announces Secured-core PCs To Counter Firmware Attacks
Microsoft today announced a new initiative to combat threats specifically targeted at the firmware level and data stored in memory: Secured-core PCs. From a report: Microsoft partnered with chip and computer makers to apply “security best practices of isolation and minimal trust to the firmware layer, or the device core, that underpins the Windows operating system.” Secured-core PCs will be available…
How Netflix Is Using Its Muscle To Push Filmmaking Technology Boundaries
Carolyn Giardina from The Hollywood Reporter writes about the growing influence Netflix has from hardware and software development to industry display standards. For example, as recently as six months ago, Netflix forbid Hollywood cinematographers from using a highly-popular camera because the standard model employed a 3.2K resolution sensor instead of a 4K sensor required for the streamer’s original programming. Netflix also…
Panasonic ‘Suspends Transactions’ With Huawei After US Ban
Japan’s Panasonic has said it is scrutinizing whether any of its products break U.S. restrictions on trading with Huawei. “Panasonic announced in [an] internal notification that it should suspend transactions with Huawei and its 68 affiliates that were banned by the U.S. government,” the company said in a statement provided to the BBC. From the report: Panasonic caused confusion earlier by…
Tesla’s Solar Factory Is Exporting Most of Its Cells
Most of the solar cells Tesla is producing at its Gigafactory in upstate New York “are being sold overseas instead of being used in the company’s trademark ‘Solar Roof’ as originally intended,” reports Reuters. “The exporting underscores the depth of Tesla’s troubles in the U.S. solar business, which the electric car maker entered in 2016 with its controversial $2.6 billion purchase…