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DOE launches $500,000 STEP Prize to push next-generation energy storage into manufacturing

The DOE's Office of Electricity launched the $500,000 STEP Prize on July 14, 2026, challenging innovators to build ...
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A $3.5 million hidden bill sitting inside companies that use open source for free, and the February report that flipped what every developer thought about the act of givi…

A Linux Foundation report found passive open source consumers face hidden costs up to $3.5 million, while active contributors ...
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Trump signs Section 232 proclamation imposing 15% tariff and price floors on solar supply chain materials

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 6, 2026, imposing a 15% ad valorem tariff and minimum import prices on polysilicon and its derivatives under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion ...
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A $1.5 billion infrastructure bet Apple just locked in with a satellite company, and the free iPhone feature that tens of millions of Americans never noticed had an expirati…

Apple's iPhone satellite messaging has been free since 2022, but a $1.5 billion Globalstar deal signals a paid tier is coming ...
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U.S. solar module manufacturing added no new capacity in Q1 2026 as FEOC uncertainty stalls factory growth

SEIA and Wood Mackenzie find zero new U.S. solar module manufacturing capacity was added in Q1 2026, as FEOC rules and trade ...
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California’s grid batteries unleashed a record 12.99 gigawatts on a single July evening, and what that number reveals about an infrastructure race already reshapi…

California's CAISO battery fleet hit an all-time discharge record of 12.99 GW on July 9, 2026, covering 36% of regional ...
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips begin shipping to cloud providers as AI factory buildout accelerates

NVIDIA confirms Vera Rubin AI chips are shipping to AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and others, targeting a 10x inference cost ...
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Starlink’s average revenue per customer fell from $99 to $66 in three years, and the $11.57 billion satellite deal that just handed its only real rival a shortcut nobody in ...

Starlink's revenue per user has dropped 33% in two years. Now Amazon Leo's $11.57B Globalstar deal is accelerating a serious ...
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A set of earbuds that sits loosely on the outside of your ear delivered Apple’s first active noise cancellation without a seal, and the 48,000-times-per-second loop hidden ...

AirPods 4 brought real active noise cancellation to an open-ear design for the first time. Here's how the H2 chip's 48,000Hz loop actually pulls it off.
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Microsoft Copilot merges into one unified app with a new paid Autopilot agent tier

Microsoft is collapsing its fragmented AI assistant lineup into a single application, and the trigger is a conversion rate that makes uncomfortable reading for the company’s AI leadership. Fewer than ...
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U.S. battery storage developers plan a record 24 gigawatts in 2026 as new supply-chain rules bite

EIA data show U.S. developers plan 24 GW of new utility-scale battery storage in 2026, but FEOC supply-chain restrictions ...
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A refreshed electric SUV cleared 17,500 sales in six months and leapfrogged 10 rival brands in the U.S. rankings, and the automaker that every analyst called the biggest …

Toyota's updated bZ electric SUV more than doubled U.S. sales in H1 2026, vaulting the brand past 10 rivals including Ford, ...