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After less than half a year, another record has been broken. KAUST University in Saudi Arabia has succeeded in developing tandem solar cells combining silicon and perovskite with a record efficiency of 33.2%. Late last year, tandem solar cells with a record 32.5% efficiency were unveiled. These were backed by Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB), b...
In Heidelberg, Germany, construction is underway on the largest 3D printer building in Europe. This is an extremely ambitious project that shows the great potential of building printing technology. It is a fast, relatively cheap and environmentally friendly way of constructing buildings, writes the VoxelMatters website. It will be the largest...
A team from North Carolina State University has made a discovery that could finally harness the practical potential of the so-called miracle material perovskite for solar cells. Its unusual properties could significantly improve the efficiency of solar energy harvesting compared to traditional silicon-based cells, but until now scientists have b...
There's probably huge panic at Google right now, because today marks the start of a new era for ChatGPT! What annoyed you the most was outdated information, but that's now finally over! ChatGPT Plus now has internet access. It's still not a finished beta version (we can call it alpha), so there might be some bugs, but it's definitely a step ...
Hollywood star Orlando Bloom lived in Prague for several years. During the filming of Amazon's recently concluded series Carnival Row, the actor apparently became a big fan of Czech beer. Bloom has now become the new brand ambassador for Prague brewery Staropramen, an announcement made by parent company Molson Coors. Bloom, who is also a UNIC...
An important Samsung Electronics employees union warned on Thursday that its members might strike over a salary dispute, potentially leading to the South Korean tech giant's first strike in its history. According to the National Samsung Electronics Union, Samsung management has pulled the union out of pay discussions. The NSEU, which claims t...
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, who once strongly supported Elon Musk's purchase of the social media platform, now has harsh words for the company's new boss. A year ago, Dorsey described the billionaire's proposed takeover as "the only solution" for Twitter and wrote that he believed in its mission. But when a user of the fled...
Pandemic COVID-19. Elections in every state... Fact-checkers around the world have had a busy year. More than 50,000 new fact-checks appeared on Google's search engine in the past year, with all fact-checks recording more than 2.4 billion search impressions in that period. A growing body of external research suggests that fact checks can help...
WhatsApp now supports more than one phone to connect to a single phone account. WhatsApp finally introduces support for signing in from multiple devices for a single phone number. Mark Zuckerberg announced the introduction of this feature on Facebook and Instagram. "Starting today, you can sign in to the same WhatsApp account on up to four ph...
