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The Quiet Race to Build Batteries That Never Catch Fire
Solid-state cells have been five years away for twenty years. A cluster of pilot plants suggests the wait may finally be measured in months.
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Chipmakers Race to Build the Fab of the Decade
Three consortia, two continents, one question: who can turn record subsidies into working silicon first?
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The Data Center Boom Meets Its Water Bill
Cooling the compute behind modern AI is colliding with drought maps — and utilities are done being quiet about it.
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Electric Cars Cross the Only Threshold That Matters: Boring
No range anxiety headlines, no charging drama — the quiet quarter in which EVs became simply the default choice.
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Your Phone’s Next Camera Won’t Have a Lens
Metasurface optics — flat arrays of nanoscale pillars — are leaving the lab, and the camera bump may be leaving with them.
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Your Next Phone Will Outlive Your Contract — By Design
Seven-year update pledges and screwdriver-friendly frames are turning longevity into the industry’s newest spec sheet line.
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Small Labs, Big Compute: The Rise of the Rented Supercomputer
University groups that once queued months for cluster time are renting world-class compute by the hour — and publishing faster.