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03/01/2025

Long live the solid state battery.

Mercedes-Benz and Factorial Energy unveil a prototype EQS with a solid-state battery, which could achieve a 620-mile range.

10/03/2024

The Sphere is on my bucket list.

If the United States of America is the Roman empire of our time, surely it must have an equivalent of the Colosseum. A year ago, you could've heard a wide variety of speculations as to what structure that could possibly be.

05/23/2024

Good stuff. An Audiophile Bar. It's gotta sound great.

03/29/2024

Neil Young is back on Spotify.
If anybody is keeping score.

09/28/2023

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/27/spacex-wins-first-pentagon-contract-for-starshield.html

The Pentagon is already a high-value buyer of the company's rocket launches and had shown increasing interest in its Starlink satellite internet.

07/12/2023

The future is now in Las Vegas.
"The Sphere" is the world's largest LED video screen installed on the exterior of the building.
The venue seats 17.5k and will feature U2 for the grand opening in September 2023.

VIDEO : Eyes were popping in Las Vegas this week as the city got a glimpse of the illuminating power of the MSG Sphere.

05/18/2023

News from ATSC : May 2023

Thanks to everyone who had a hand in putting the possibilities of ATSC 3.0 center stage at the 100th NAB Show. The ATSC exhibit  was jam-packed with 17 demonstrations, showing everything from enhanced video and audio options to enterprise applications for data delivery, accessibility solutions over...

11/10/2022

ATSC update. It's looking good.

October 2022 has drawn to a close, and I am sure I’m not the only one taking a deep breath from the flurry of industry activity that has occurred. It really does feel like someone flipped the switch – and not just at a transmitter broadcasting ATSC 3.0! October featured TV of Tomorrow in San [.....

10/24/2022

What the petabits is going on here!?!?

"Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second."

The speed record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip has been shattered once again. Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), almost twice the global internet traffic per second.

09/16/2022

The Future is now.

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08/31/2022

Everything you've always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about ATSC 3.0 NextGen Over The Air television broadcasting.

South Korea paved the road to ATSC 3.0, adopting its Ultra High_Definition (UHD) TV standard in 2016 and launching 4K ATSC 3.0 broadcasts in May 2017 that now reach more than 70% of the South Korean population. Jamaica has launched ATSC 3.0 services. India is exploring ATSC 3.0 for direct-to-mobile....

07/20/2022

I second this motion.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/fcc-proposes-minimum-100-20-mbps-broadband-speeds

The current definition of 25/3 Mbps or better is outdated.