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SpaceX’s 700th Falcon flight completes SES’s 13-satellite MEO broadband constellation

SpaceX's 700th Falcon mission on September 13 delivered the final three Boeing-built O3b mPOWER satellites, completing SES's ...
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Used electric cars sold with an 8-year battery warranty often have only 3 years of that coverage left, and the federal clock started the day the first owner drove away

That 8-year EV battery warranty on a used electric car started the day the first owner drove off the lot, not the day you ...
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A used car with 45,000 miles can show a full dashboard of buttons for remote start and hands-free driving, and all of it goes dark when the first owner’s trial clock runs …

Millions of used cars list remote start, hands-free driving and connected nav as features — but the factory trial tied to the ...
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With 46 cents of every server CPU dollar spent on its chips in early 2026, the challenger has overtaken the longtime leader in data center revenue for the first time

AMD earned $5.8 billion in data center revenue in Q1 2026, topping Intel's $5.1 billion for the first time ever, as EPYC ...
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Seven in 10 older US grandparents stay in regular contact with grandchildren, Pew finds

A new Pew Research Center analysis finds 70% of US grandparents ages 65+ are in touch with grandchildren at least a few times ...
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Across 82,000 US courts, 24 million pickleball players swing a paddle built on aerospace sandwich engineering, and the hexagonal honeycomb core inside it give…

Americans now play pickleball, and the polymer honeycomb core inside every paddle uses aerospace sandwich engineering to make ...
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Inside 50-megawatt geothermal plants, a 72-hour silica shutdown can cost operators more than $300,000, and the research community calls it the largest unsolved probl…

Geothermal power is sold as low-cost baseload energy, but silica mineral scaling chokes pipes, cuts output up to 25%, and one ...
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GM begins notifying owners today as battery fire risk recall hits Silverado EV, Sierra EV, Escalade IQ and Escalade IQL

GM's NHTSA campaign 26V494000 covers 10 US vehicles across four 2026 electric nameplates for a high-voltage battery fire risk ...
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AWS opens private cloud link to Azure, extending its multicloud network to all three non-AWS major cloud providers

AWS Interconnect – multicloud now connects AWS and Azure in public preview, letting enterprises privately link the two ...
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A charging network backed by eight rival automakers claimed the top satisfaction score in the US, while the longtime fast-charge leader’s share of 76,000 public ports …

A joint venture of eight automakers just topped JD Power's DC fast-charging rankings as Tesla's share of 76,236 US ...
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New peer-reviewed framework shows renewable-aligned EV charger siting can help utilize surplus midday solar power

A new open-access study shows placing public EV chargers to capture midday solar surplus can reduce grid stress and cut ...
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Once building more than 40 percent of new US fast-charging ports, the dominant Supercharger network slipped to 26 percent in a single quarter, and six of the top 1…

Tesla's share of new US DC fast-charging ports fell from above 40% to 26% in Q1 2026, as Ionna, Red E and a fragmented field ...