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Why some companies want you to rent the battery in your EV

If you want to own that battery, and you don’t want to visit swap stations, your vehicle will cost you roughly $58,500. If, on the other hand, you prefer to lease the... Read more »

Future space food could be made from astronaut breath

To solve the problem of feeding astronauts on long-duration missions, NASA started the Deep Space Food Challenge in January 2021, asking companies to propose novel ways to develop sustainable foods for future... Read more »

How 5-minute battery swaps could get more EVs on the road

The specter of Better Place hangs over battery-swap efforts today, but de Souza says Ample’s approach addresses issues that sank previous iterations of the technology. For a third-party company like Better Place... Read more »

The Download: unlocking Chinese social accounts, and AI voice analysis

—Zeyi Yang When I recently visited China, for the first time since the pandemic, I traveled to Shenzhen in a bid to unlock my 15-year old Tencent social media account. I have... Read more »

Inside Tencent’s weirdly secretive customer service center

One of my stops in China was Shenzhen, the southern city that’s home to many Chinese tech companies, like Tencent, Huawei, and DJI. I had several reasons to go to Shenzhen, but... Read more »

Leading the energy transition

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” The “Infosys-HFS Research Energy Transition 2023” report reveals that shifts in climate, regulation, and sustainability are nudging global... Read more »

The Download: corporate climate action, and killer asteroids

As thousands of companies trumpet their plans to cut carbon pollution, a small group of sustainability consultants has emerged as the go-to arbiter of corporate climate action. The Science Based Targets initiative,... Read more »

Inside the little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda

Others give the group credit for helping persuade a rising share of the private sector to take meaningful steps to address emissions. SBTi says companies with targets that it’s approved are typically... Read more »

How do you solve a problem like out-of-control AI? 

Google’s approach is to introduce these new functions into its products gradually. But it will most likely be just a matter of time before things start to go awry. The company has not solved... Read more »

Business resilience in the evolving cloud economy

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Watch this webcast on how enterprises can build a resilient approach with accelerated cloud adoption. Ray Wang, founder,... Read more »