TECHNOLOGY

As many countries around the world scramble towards a green transition, a new era of electric cars is being ushered in and with it comes the need for batteries.

While these batteries – also needed for home, industrial and grid energy storage – are being newly manufactured, Statista's Anna Fleck reports that the market for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries is growing too, especially since it “conserves the critical minerals and other valuable materials that are used in (more…)

Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, have moved beyond their original role of rendering video game graphics and are now used in a variety of high-performance computing applications (HPC), from AI training to zooplankton classification.  

To help understand this pivot, Visual Capitalist teamed up with HIVE Digital to look at how GPUs differ from traditional CPUs and what gives them an edge.

CPU vs. GPUs

CPUs, or Central Processing Units, and GPUs, generally have three main (more…)

Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Amazon is ditching its “Just Walk Out” technology that allows customers to shop and leave stores without having to visit a typical physical checkout, company officials have confirmed.

An Amazon Fresh grocery store in Irvine, Calif., on Feb. 26, 2021. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)

Instead, the Seattle-based company will replace the technology with smart carts, also known as “dash carts,” through which (more…)