VW Claims Solid State Battery Made By QuantumScape Only Lost 5% Capacity After 1000 Charge Cycles
January 7th, 2024As someone who has wanted to believe the solid state battery hype over the last decade, it’s a bit like waiting for fusion power plants to spring up.
Via: PC World:
Volkswagen did not create the new battery; it was developed by QuantumScape, a California-based battery technology company. QuantumScape provided a prototype to Volkswagen Group-owned PowerCo, which then tested its performance over several months.
The results far exceeded expectations. PowerCo says the cell retained 95% of its range capacity after 1,000 charging cycles, or the equivalent of roughly 300,000 miles. The current industry standard for EVs targets 20% capacity loss over 700 charging cycles, which means an EV that starts out with a 250-mile range could end its life with a 200-mile range. But with the QuantumScape solid-state battery, it would theoretically only go down to approximately 240 miles of range after much more driving.
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Keep in mind, this battery isn’t likely to show up in EVs in the next few years. Singh says the company still has “more work to do” to bring it to market. The next step is finalizing the mass production process.
Bret Weinstein on the WHO’s Plans for You
January 6th, 2024“This is a great tragedy of history.”
Via: Tucker Carlson:
Ep. 60 Is the lesson of the Covid disaster that we should give its architects more power? Bret Weinstein on the WHO’s plans for you. pic.twitter.com/ku3O5BdeoF
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 5, 2024
Is This What Normyland Is Like Now?
January 6th, 2024Is this what life is like in Normyland now?
I honestly don’t know. I stopped doing the “city” thing close to two decades ago.
Via: joeybtoonz:
City of Los Angeles Attempts to Find Next of Kin of Unclaimed Dead for Three Years Before Burying Remains in Mass Graves
January 5th, 2024Via: AP:
Martirosyan and her colleagues spend three years investigating a case before relinquishing the deceased to a communal gravesite, a last resort in the county cemetery. Similar work is done in cities across the U.S. but in Los Angeles, with one of the nation’s largest homeless populations, the efforts are particularly difficult.
U.S. Government Funding Arizona Facility That Transports Illegal Immigrants Around Country
January 5th, 2024Via: O’Keefe Media Group:
Whitney Webb: Foreign Intelligence Affiliated CTI League Poses Major National Security Risk To The Most Critical U.S. Infrastructure
January 4th, 2024Via: Kim Iversen:
Research Credit: Snowman
Microsoft Adding an AI Key to PC Keyboards
January 4th, 2024Microsoft can pry my right CTRL key from my cold, dead fingers.
Via: Ars Technica:
Microsoft pushed throughout 2023 to add generative AI capabilities to its software, even extending its new Copilot AI assistant to Windows 10 late last year. Now, those efforts to transform PCs at a software level is extending to the hardware: Microsoft is adding a dedicated Copilot key to PC keyboards, adjusting the standard Windows keyboard layout for the first time since the Windows key first appeared on its Natural Keyboard in 1994.
The Copilot key will, predictably, open up the Copilot generative AI assistant within Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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A quick Microsoft demo video shows the Copilot key in between the cluster of arrow keys and the right Alt button, a place where many keyboards usually put a menu button, a right Ctrl key, another Windows key, or something similar. The exact positioning, and the key being replaced, may vary depending on the size and layout of the keyboard.
New Epstein Documents: ‘Clinton Likes Them Young’
January 4th, 2024Update: What They’re NOT Telling You About Epstein:
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This was being hyped for weeks ahead of the release, which was a good indication that it wouldn’t contain any bombshells.
And it doesn’t:
Ghislaine Maxwell, who in June 2022 was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for her role in the sex trafficking ring, has ‘nothing to say’ about the files, according to her attorney, Arthur Aidala.
Aidala however said the papers may disappoint many, who think they will reveal a conspiracy or previously-unknown names.
Mmm hmm.
Where’s all of the stuff the FBI confiscated?
Don’t hold your breath waiting for any of that to come out.
The entire situation has been effectively contained.
Via: Daily Mail:
Bombshell [sic] new Jeffrey Epstein documents claim Bill Clinton ‘likes them young,’ as the former president and other big names once again find themselves embroiled in the appalling sex scandal.
Which Country Ran Boston and D.C. ‘Honeypot’ Operation?
January 3rd, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
Intelligence experts are becoming increasingly convinced that six high end brothels in the suburbs of Boston and Washington, D.C. were set up by a foreign nation as an espionage ‘honeytrap’.
They believe the brothels – allegedly masterminded by a 41-year-old South Korean woman – targeted politicians, high ranking government officials and defense contractors.
But the mystery is which country was behind the scheme. Russia, China, Korea itself, or even Israel are al seen as possibly being behind the scheme.
Florida Surgeon General: DNA from Covid Shot Is “Hitchhiking Into Human Cells”
January 2nd, 2024Via: The Highwire:
