Autos
EU 2035 combustion-engine ban review: What’s at stake
The European Commission is expected to announce on Tuesday measures relaxing a 2035 ban on new gasoline and diesel car sales.This post was originally published on this site.
Articles by Tech Xplore.com
Business
Instacart is charging different prices to different customers in a dangerous AI experiment, report says
The grocery delivery service Instacart is using artificial intelligence to experiment with prices and charge some shoppers more than others for the same items, a new study found.This post was originally published on this site.
Green Technology
Making clean energy investments more successful with forecasting tools
Governments and companies constantly face decisions about how to allocate finite amounts of money to clean energy technologies that can make a difference to the world’s climate, its economies, and to society as a whole. […]
Business
Crypto firm Tether bids for Juventus, is quickly rebuffed
Cryptocurrency firm Tether said Friday it had submitted a bid to Juventus’s main shareholder, Exor, to acquire its entire stake in the Turin football club—but was quickly rebuffed.This post was originally published on this site.
Green Technology
A two-stage decision-making framework for lithium governance in Latin America
The evolving global order, intense geopolitical competition, and anxiety over supply chain vulnerabilities in this century have led to urgent concerns over supply chain resilience as well as national security. Amidst these upheavals, governments across […]
Green Technology
More brines could be mined for lithium with counterintuitive method
Lithium could be selectively extracted from “low quality” brines using a surprising mechanism discovered at the University of Michigan. The technology could help make brine lakes rich in magnesium a more sustainable source of lithium […]
Green Technology
Organic solar cells achieve 20.02% efficiency with new giant acceptors
A research team has developed novel giant acceptors with an oxygenated linker, enabling the creation of highly efficient nonhalogenated-processed organic solar cells (OSCs), with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of up to 20.02%.This post was […]
Green Technology
Molecular fine-tuning boosts tandem solar cell efficiency to 31.4%
Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells are considered a key technology for photovoltaics. Because of their design, they use sunlight more efficiently than conventional silicon cells. While the upper perovskite layer absorbs the high-energy blue part of […]
Hardware
First monolithic 3D chip built in U.S. foundry delivers major AI speed gains
A collaborative team has achieved the first monolithic 3D chip built in a U.S. foundry, delivering the densest 3D chip wiring and order-of-magnitude speed gains.This post was originally published on this site.
Autos
Ford turns to stepped-up tech and cooperation with police to thwart F-150 pickup thieves
Ford Motor Co. has stepped up technology in its popular F-150 pickup to combat the ever-evolving techniques car thieves have at their disposal.This post was originally published on this site.