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Now 2.4 Million China Electric Car Market Expected for 2021 June 13, 2021 by Brian Wang The China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) has again raised its forecast for new energy passenger car sales for 2021 as the industry grows rapidly. The 2021 forecast for new energy passenger car wholesale sales w...

CATL Will Start Mass Producing Sodium Ion Batteries June 13, 2021 by Brian Wang CATL chairman Robin (Yuqun) Zeng said the firm would start marketing sodium-ion batteries as early as late July, 2021. CATL is the largest producer of batteries in the world. Shares of Shandong Sacred Sun Power Sources (...

Trip to space with Jeff Bezos sells for $28 mn https://phys.org/news/2021-06-space-jeff-bezos-mn.html by Cyril Julien Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket has successfully carried out more than a dozen uncrewed test runs launching from its facility in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas. A mystery bid...

Blinken says China "has to cooperate" with international probe into coronavirus origins Source: CBS Washington — Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that China must cooperate with further investigations from the United States and the World Health Organization into the origins of ...

Google Deploys AI to Build Better AI Hardware Accelerators https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/323638-google-deploys-ai-to-build-better-ai-hardware-accelerators By Joel Hruska on June 11, 2021 at 7:00 am Google reports that it is now using AI to build its future Tensor Processing Units. The company ...

Microsoft Will Drop Support for Windows 10 by 2025 https://www.extremetech.com/computing/323676-microsoft-will-drop-support-for-windows-10-by-2025 By Joel Hruska on June 11, 2021 at 4:27 pm Microsoft has updated its official documentation to reflect Windows 10’s EOL date. According to the company’s ...

Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN By Michael Irving June 09, 2021 A subatomic particle has been found to switch between matter and antimatter, according to Oxford physicists analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider. It turns out that an unfathomably tiny weight diffe...

Archer unveils full-scale, two-seat, autonomous Maker eVTOL prototype By Loz Blain June 10, 2021 Palo Alto's Archer has unveiled a full-scale, two-seat, autonomous prototype of its Maker eVTOL aircraft at the Hawthorne Airport in California. This striking aircraft will begin ground tests and flight ...

Perseverance rover begins first science mission in Mars' Jezero Crater By Nick Lavars June 10, 2021 https://newatlas.com/space/perseverance-rover-first-science-mission-mars-jezero-crater/ After a pretty eventful start to life on Mars that has included capturing the first ever audio recordings on the...

Extraordinary new material shows zero heat expansion from 4 to 1,400 K By Loz Blain June 11, 2021 https://newatlas.com/materials/thermally-stable-zte-advanced-material/ Australian researchers have created what may be one of the most thermally stable materials ever discovered. This new zero thermal e...