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Swedish battery maker Northvolt and Finnish-Swedish forestry company Stora Enso are trying to develop batteries from forestry byproduct lignin, the companies said. Lignin is a part of wood that binds tree fibers together. It accounts for 20-30 percent of a tree and is burned for energy. After years of research and development, it could be […]

Google apps have been a blessing in disguise for users. The search engine giant has left no opportunity unlocked to give users a sense of reliability and authority. Taking forward, Google has come with a new app– Google Wallet that allows users to perform the same drill but in a much smoother way. Earlier, Google

It is a common misconception that unused apps can’t drain the mobile phone battery. Users may have accumulated a handful of apps, but haven’t used them in months or maybe years. In this guide, let’s run through some quick and easy ways to get rid of apps that are longer used or barely used. 1.

A Google Cloud data center in London faced an outage recently, according to an update on the Alphabet Inc unit’s status page, as temperature in the UK soared to a record high. Google Cloud said it was a “cooling related” failure at one of the buildings and began at 1:13 PM ET (6:13 PM BST).

Slack said it will increase prices for its platform, the workplace messaging app’s first price hike since its 2014 launch, as the company seeks to invest more in innovation. The pricing change will go into effect as of September 1, the company said in a blog, and will affect only users on Slack’s Pro subscription.

Tesla chief executive officer (CEO) Elon Musk has said that the electric vehicle company is getting closer to integrating Valve’s Steam to take its in-car gaming platform to a whole new level. According to the auto-tech website Electrek, Tesla has been investing heavily into integrating video games into its in-car entertainment system. But it still

Didi’s digital payments unit was fined 4.27 million yuan ($632,170) on Friday by China’s central bank for a dozen rule violations, amid an effort by the ride-hailing company to appease regulators. The unit was fined for violations that included transactions not meeting the requirements for traceability and authenticity, opening payment accounts for enterprises involved in

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc is considering cutting its 2023 capital expenditure by about a quarter to 16 trillion won ($12.16 billion), Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The move by SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memory chip maker after Samsung Electronics, is in response to slower-than-anticipated electronics demand, according to

Private sector rocket maker Agnikul Cosmos on Wednesday opened its first 3D printed rocket engine factory located at the IIT Madras Research Park. According to Agnikul Cosmos, the factory has been designed keeping in mind the ability to produce two rocket engines per week for its rocket Agnibaan. Agnibaan is a two stage rocket with