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Japanese Nippon Paper Industries Co. is examining how to replace EV lithium-ion batteries by using… trees, reportsBloomberg. The company wants to create supercapacitors that will use cellulose nanofibers, which are produced from wood-derived pulp, and refined tothe size of hundredths of a micron or smaller. As per Nippon Paper, such supercapacitors could potentially store and release energy with better performance and smaller environmental impact, compared to existing batteries. Well, on the one hand it’s true that supercapacitors have been already considered as a viable alternative to lithium-ion batteries....

Did you know SHIFT istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of mobility during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! One day, all trucks will be electric. But it won’t be soon.Still, they still struggle with a number of big-ass painpoints: cost,range anxiety, and the need for charging infrastructure. But what if there was a way to not have to worry about charging your pickup truck on a sunny day?...

TLDR:Across 12 courses, The 2022 Curious Guitarist Master Class Bundle can turn you into a guitar player who really knows their stuff, all for under $20. When Keith Urban was a youngster, helearned to play guitar by slowing down recordslike Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing with his fingers, figuring out songs note by note until he knew how to play them perfectly. While that approach paid off for Urban, it definitely is the painstaking path to guitar mastery....

With Apple due to announce its new next-generation iPhone in the coming weeks, a new photo posted by the team over atPocketNowhighlights what could be the first publicly available photo taken using an iPhone 5 handset, identified using EXIF data associated with the image itself.Update below with image of iPhone. PocketNow says that the “test photo” data identifies the device as an iPhone 4 but the rest of the specifications provide deeper insight into the characteristics of the device that snapped it:...

John D. Brittonwas taking apart remote control cars until he got his first computer in the 2nd grade. The 25-year old made his first web page in the 6th grade when MP3s first came out; he simply signed up for Angelfire and started using HTML. Britton spent his first year of college atRPIstudying nuclear engineering, then switched to computer science and began programming in PHP. He quickly realized he didn’t like school, but not wanting to drop out, he had to game the system....