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Scientists say they may have cracked one of solar energy's biggest hurdles. Researchers have developed a liquid battery capable of storing solar energy in chemical form, essentially bottling sunlight for use after dark. If it scales, this could quietly reshape how we think about the grid.
On the storage front of a very different kind, Kioxia has unveiled its XG ten SSD series, running on PCIe five point zero with read speeds reaching fourteen thousand megabytes per second. That is the kind of throughput that could meaningfully change workflows for AI developers, video creators, and anyone pushing serious data through a workstation every day.
And Apple is playing a familiar card as it tries to close the gap on AI. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the revamped Siri arriving in iOS twenty seven will let users auto-delete conversation histories, with retention options of thirty days, one year, or indefinitely. It is a privacy-first pitch at a moment when trust in AI systems is still very much up for debate.
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