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Apple's marketing team called the iPhone eighteen Pro Max's battery improvement the largest increase in battery life ever, but independent lab tests are telling a more measured story. The gains are real, but not dramatic — a reminder that superlatives in press releases rarely survive contact with a stopwatch and a test bench.
Meanwhile, in a story about infrastructure that actually matters, a university student got tired of manually SSH-ing into machine after machine just to find an available GPU. So they built a simple monitoring tool called Who-GPU — a dependency-free webpage and CLI that checks GPU usage across multiple machines at once. It's a small fix to a genuinely tedious problem, and it's a good example of necessity driving practical engineering.
And in energy news with much longer stakes, a clean tech startup called Fluxnium says it has developed fiber technology capable of extracting uranium directly from seawater. The oceans hold enough of the fuel to power human civilization for roughly fifty thousand years. Whether the economics ever pencil out is a separate question, but the underlying science is drawing serious attention.
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