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Inside the "disappearing battery" revolution — how forest-powered supercapacitors could keep wireless…

Forest-powered supercapacitors could replace batteries in IoT devices and sensors
Swedish startup uses forest-derived lignin polymer to replace toxic metals
S-Power offers quick charging, a long 8-10 year lifespan, and other savings

Swedish startup Ligna Energy hopes its new S-Power technology could solve the unsustainable demand for batteries as demand for indoor environmental sensors, wearables and other IoT endpoints surges.

The company argues that a growing number of these devices don’t actually require built-in energy storage due to the fact that they consume minimal energy and can operate intermittently. Those that can harvest environmental energy, like light, RF signals, vibration and temperature differences, could be among the most suited to this futuristic tech.

Ligna’s flagship S-Power 2S offers 1.2F capacitance, a 2.7V operating voltage, 0.5Ω Equivalent Series Resistance and more than 250,000 charge cycles, but more importantly, this ultra-thin pouch-format cell is designed to be suitable for even the smallest...

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IBM says it can fit nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip - why the milestone matters

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * IBM's sub-1-nanometer NanoStack architecture holds almost 100 billion transistors on a chip. * These chips are cheaper to run and more powerful than previous generations. * NanoStack technology will be great for deploying AI workloads.

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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

The Think Family Database holds records on close to half a million people who live in the city of Bristol, England. For many years, few of them knew anything about it. Launched in 2016 by the Bristol City Council and the regional Avon and Somerset Police, the database has stored

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IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future

Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom IBM has developed a sub-nanometer (nm) chip technology it says could be used to produce commercial chips within five years, and has mapped a path to 0.1 nm. Big Blue claims its new process node

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'I got a disc drive for my PS5 Pro just for this' — GTA 6 fans disappointed with the lack of physical edition disc aren't alone, as some retailers have dropped the game from sale completely

* GTA 6 physical editions won't have a disc and only come with a digital code * Fans are disappointed with the announcement after some bought PS5 Pro disc drives solely for GTA 6 * Some retailers have dropped the game from sale due to their policies of only selling physical

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IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future

'I got a disc drive for my PS5 Pro just for this' &mdash; GTA 6 fans disappointed with the lack of physical edition disc aren't alone, as some retailers have dropped the game from sale completely

'I got a disc drive for my PS5 Pro just for this' — GTA 6 fans disappointed with the lack of physical edition disc aren't alone, as some retailers have dropped the game from sale completely