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Redwood Materials, founded by former Tesla Inc. executive JB Straubel, plans to spend $3.5 billion on a battery-materials factory in northwest Nevada. The plant under construction outside Reno is expected to be one of the first US facilities to produce key ingredients needed to make the batteries that power electric vehicles, the report said. The … Read more

Google has expanded its list of phones that support its ARCore certification. ARCore is Google’s platform for building augmented reality (AR) experiences. Using different APIs, ARCore enables users’ phones to sense its environment and interact with the information using its AR capabilities. To certify each device, Google says that it checks the quality of the … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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. … Read more

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). … Read more

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. … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more