Flavours of Technology
Google Nest Renew is leaving Google and merging with energy management platform OmConnect to create a new company called Renew Home. Venture capital firm Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP), which is backing OmConnect and investing $100 million in the new company, announced the move, saying it would create “the nation’s largest energy transition resource.” Both Nest … Read more
Artificial Intelligence: Let’s start with a page from an episode of South Park that achieved the impossible: it was created entirely by artificial intelligence. Given that the use of artificial intelligence in film and television has been an issue during the extended Writers Guild of America strike and in light of the tentative agreement between … Read more
It’s hard to imagine a world without the lithium-ion batteries that power today’s laptops and mobile devices, but the technology has its limits. One way researchers are working to break the energy density barrier and significantly extend the battery life of these devices (and many others) is to bring pure lithium metal into the mix. … Read more