A team of researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and NASA has designed a special power suit that’s giving “superpowers” not to us — but to our EVs. Made of layered carbon composite material and nanoscale graphene sheets, the suit works as a supercapacitor-battery hybrid device, able to store and provide energy. It’s envisioned to be used as a car’s body shell, which you can see in the image below: Just like a battery, the suit gets its power through charging, as well as from the EV’s regenerative braking system....

“Re-lithiation” explained The process, called “re-lithiation,” aims tο reverse the gradual loss of lithium which accounts for the battery’s performance loss. Through an electrolysis process the scientists managed to rejuvenate lithium in battery electrodes, and then compared the performance of the “refreshed” electrodes with those from a brand new battery. According to the results, the re-lithiation process succeeded, and the capability and recharge capacity of the old battery were almost the same as in brand new ones....

The Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway unloaded 3.7 million shares between October and December last year, when Apple’s share price rose by more than 30% (from $219 to $294). Despite selling off 3.7 million shares, Apple persists as a Berkshire Hathaway favorite. It owns around $72 billion worth of Apple shares — 5.6% of the computing giant. [READ: Apple, Facebook, and Warren Buffett: Here’s the top 25 stocks for millennials] As Apple still represents more than 32% of Berkshire Hathaway’s overall portfolio, one simple explanation for the move is diversification....

Russia is seeking to control the narrative by muffling dissent. Last month, the Kremlin blocked several social media platforms and threatened lengthy jail terms for spreading “false information” about the invasion. A series of domestic alternatives to American apps are now being promoted, from RuTube to Rossgram. Critics describe the latter as “absolute shit.” The next service that may require a Putin-approved replacement is Wikipedia. Regulators last week threatened to fine the site up to 4 million rubles (around $47,000) if it doesn’t remove “prohibited information” about the “special operation....

I’ll be the first one to admit it: I’m not the most generous spender when it comes to headphones. Frankly, I’m not all that into music anymore — and I prefer to stay alerted to my surroundings. But if there’s one time I’d make an exception, it’d be for noise-canceling cans, especially if they’re wireless, and especially if they’re Bose’s QuietComfort 35 II… at $100 off. Does it sound too good to be true?...

There are plenty of smartwatches out there. But year after year, the Apple Watch lords over the competition. Heck, Tim Cook makes a point to remind us all that it’s the best-selling watch in the world. That’s why you shouldn’t ignore a deal when Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS) is selling for just $199, down from $279. This particular model has a 38mm screen. It comes with a sport band and a black colored aluminum body....

I don’t really know why, but video doorbells have always seemed hella futuristic to me. Maybe it’s a youth spent absorbing sci-fi movies and TV shows, but there’s something crazy cool about being able to see who’s ringing your doorbell. Basically — and to paraphrase Mac from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia — it lets you give whoever’s at the door an ocular pat down. If that’s something you’ve been pining for, well, you’re in luck....

They will use the results of this experiment to better understand an archaeological find: the broken pieces of an old marmalade jar, last used for breakfast around 100 years ago. The children had recently excavated the jar from woodland in which they usually build dens and play hide and seek as part of an archaeological investigation. When children are invited to visit archaeological excavations, they rarely have much specific knowledge about the site’s history....

The promoted tweets — which were captured on social bookmarking site Pinboard — delve into how the escalating violence in the territory has “taken a heavy toll on social order,” while some others were about Hong Kong citizens allegedly calling China is “our motherland.” Xinhua News has also been running multiple ads on Facebook related to the unrest in Hong Kong — all starting August 18 or after — targeting countries like the US, China, India, and Mexico....

The specs use a thermal imaging camera to measure someone’s temperature from up to 1 metre away. The glasses were developed by AI startup Rokid, which claims each set can check the temperature of several hundred people in just two minutes, the South China Morning Post reports. When the devices identify someone with a fever, they send an automatic alert to staff and make a digital record. [Read: Google’s AI-powered smart glasses help the blind to see] The specs are being donned by security guards in Hongyuan Park, part of a wetland preserve in the eastern city of Hangzhou....

If you’re logging in to a website with compromised credentials, Chrome will display a warning notifying you of the breach. This only works with passwords that are synced and stored within Chrome. In February, Google introduced this feature through an extension and later in October made it a part of the password check-up in your Google account. Now, the functionality is directly baked into the Chrome browser. Google stores usernames and passwords compromised in data breaches in an encrypted strong hash format....

Sources familiar with the matter told CoinDesk that Barclays is no longer working with Coinbase. It’s unclear if the sources are representatives from either of the companies mentioned, or are independent. The news has caused undue disruption, and Coinbase users have reportedly been indirectly affected. Coinbase’s relationship with Barclays gave its UK customers access to the Faster Payments Scheme which allowed users to directly deposit and withdraw sterling into their exchange accounts....

Some might view the blood, sweat and tears as a necessary and unavoidable part of life. Others, such as the radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, writing in her book The Dialectic of Sex (1970), assume a less forgiving view of the process as ‘barbaric’ or akin to ‘shitting a pumpkin’. Most, like myself, oscillate between the two positions, or else sit somewhere in between. Whatever one’s position on the matter of the ‘naturalness’ of pregnancy, it can’t be denied that the development of artificial-womb technology (known as ectogenesis) would radically change the debate....

So when social distancing measures are eased, will protest return to the streets, or do these events mark a turning point? In 1970, an estimated 20 million Americans (10% of the US population at the time) participated in the first Earth Day. Back then, US senator Gaylord Nelson conceived of a national “teach-in” to raise environmental awareness and recruited Harvard law student Denis Hayes to organize the event. Teach-ins had emerged in the mid-1960s as a hybrid of student sit-ins and informal lectures in opposition to the Vietnam War....

The cookie banner purports to offer you a choice: consent to only the essential cookies that help maintain your browsing functionality, or accept them all – including cookies that track your browsing history to sell on to targeted advertising firms. Because those additional cookies generate extra revenue for the websites we visit, cookie banners are often designed to trick you into clicking “accept all”. The UK’s information commissioner recently urged G7 countries to address this problem, highlighting how fatigued web users are agreeing to share more personal data than they’d like....

— Detroit Lions (@Lions) May 8, 2020 The nearly 7 minute-long video was posted to the official Lions Twitter, thanking Animal Crossing for “holding it down while we wait for football season.” The team used the in-game mechanics to make reference to their opposing teams in each of the matches: eating a peach to announce their game with the Atlanta Falcons, for example, or burying a teddy bear for the Chicago Cubs....

Core to the S1 are its Mecanum wheels, a design that allows a robot to move in any direction, including strafing side to side. The S1 is able to stop on a dime and move back, forth, left, and right over uneven terrain with ease. Riding the wheels is a gimbal equipped with both infrared and gel bead blasters that basically allow you to play a remote-controlled version of laser tag or paintball....

Recently, a rumor made the rounds that Apple is planning to remove the charger and earbuds from the iPhone 12 box. This was heightened — more fuel poured onto the fire if you will — by leaked package designs that show no space for the peripherals. Even better, it appears that Samsung is gearing up to get rid of the charger in its phone boxes too. Because other companies like to human centipede themselves onto Apple’s beefy rectum and just eat shit, rather than take it — remember the headphone jack?...

Popular on-demand food delivery platform DoorDash has confirmed a data breach affecting 4.9 million customers, workers, and merchants. The data was accessed by an unnamed third-party service provider on May 4, including profile information such as names, emails, delivery addresses, phone numbers, hashed and salted passwords, as well as the driver’s license numbers of nearly 100,000 delivery executives. The leak is also said to have exposed the last four digits of payment cards for some consumers and the last four digits of the bank account numbers for some delivery executives and restaurants....

The artificial skin was developed by scientists from RMIT University in Australia, who claim it reacts to painful sensations as quickly as it takes nerve signals to reach the brain. Lead researcher Professor Madhu Bhaskar said the feedback system could pave the way for next-generation biomedical technologies and intelligent robotics. [Read: These tech trends defined 2020 so far, according to 5 founders] The researchers built their prototype devices by combining stretchable wearable electronics, temperature-reactive coatings, and electronic memory cells that mimic the way the brain recalls and retains information....