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T1 Energy wins Commerce waiver to import 1.725 GW of solar cells

T1 Energy secured a Commerce Department waiver to import 1.725 GW of solar cells ahead of new Section 232 polysilicon tariffs.
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A thrift rack pulls in shoppers for decades-old jackets none of them ever wore new, and over two-thirds of Americans admit missing eras they never lived through

New research finds Gen X and millennials report the strongest nostalgia for historical eras they never experienced, more than ...
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Buffalo apartment building gets indoor battery storage system

A Buffalo apartment building now runs one of the largest indoor battery storage systems installed in an occupied US ...
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GitLab patches maximum-severity flaw dating back to 2014

GitLab issued emergency patches for a CVSS 10.0 flaw letting attackers run code without logging in, affecting versions back ...
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A Sacramento factory will turn out 4 gigawatt hours of sodium batteries a year starting early next year, and it is the first US plant built solely for this grid chemistry

A Sacramento plant becomes the first US factory built to assemble sodium-ion grid batteries, with 4 GWh of annual output planned starting in 2027.
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A free quantum computer account hands new users 10 minutes of real hardware time a month, but the next step up costs $96 for every single minute

IBM's free quantum computing plan gives 10 minutes a month, but the paid tier jumps to $96 per minute, a steep hidden cost ...
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Barcelona supercomputer opens AI tools to Spanish startups

Barcelona Supercomputing Center's AI Factory Accelerator exits its pilot, giving startups sovereign compute and NVIDIA ...
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A Dongguan factory packages 70 percent of one chipmaker’s output, so a single customs dispute idled a Japanese automaker’s assembly lines within weeks

Cheap transistors from one dominant supplier halted car production worldwide, exposing how fragile the supply chain behind ...
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A geothermal loop under a new home promises a $10-to-$40 monthly lease instead of a $40,000 bill, but selling that house still means disclosing a long-term lease cont…

Geothermal leasing cuts upfront cost to about $20 a month, but the fine print leaves future home sellers transferring a ...
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A backyard geothermal loop sunk feet from the next one, and shared boreholes slowly chill the ground so output fades for decades, engineers find

Ground source heat pumps promise endless free heat, but dense borehole fields can chill the surrounding earth and cut output ...
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A Minnesota battery deal locked in 30 gigawatt hours of iron and air storage, and the pairing became the largest energy storage project by capacity ever announced worl…

A 300 MW, 30 GWh iron-air battery deal in Minnesota is now the largest energy storage project by capacity ever announced.
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A strip mall lot built for 200 cars sits nearly empty most of the day, and economists find America’s surplus parking now costs over a trillion dollars yearly

Transportation researchers find the US carries roughly five parking spaces per vehicle, a hidden cost topping a trillion ...