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Lithium-metal “hybrid” battery promises lighter, longer-range EVs by 2025

Enlarge / Smaller vehicles like the Kia EV6 could benefit from lighter, more energy-dense batteries. (credit: Kia ) Solid-state batteries have been hailed as the Holy Grail for electric vehicles, and while that might be an overstatement, they do promise to boost range and slash charging times, bringing zero-emissions vehicles that much closer to parity with […]

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Microsoft’s new data Centre in a box May use SpaceX Starlink broadband

Microsoft today introduced a modular data centre which may be set up to distant places, in addition to an enterprise with SpaceX to link people information centres to the Web using Starlink satellite broadband.  Microsoft stated that the Azure Modular Datacenter (MDC) is”for clients who require cloud computing capacities in hybrid or hard environments, such […]