Society
Zillow data shows man caves losing ground to pickleball courts
Home listings mentioning pickleball courts and golf simulators have each jumped 25% over the past year, while mentions of traditional man caves…
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Hugo Rojas
Hugo Rojas is the editor of GCN. With a Master of Science in Engineering, he specializes in technology, data, and science, and brings a human-centered perspective informed by psychology.
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Technology
Intel’s new laptop chips flip their power wiring to the back of the silicon, and the company says an early test version of that design hit 90 percent cell utilization
Flip a laptop over and nothing about the hinge or the keyboard hints at what just changed underneath the lid.Inside the processor,…
Energy
TOYO completes 2 GW solar module expansion in Texas
TOYO Co., Ltd. has completed the expansion of its solar module factory in Humble, Texas, lifting the facility's nameplate capacity to 2…
Energy
Toyo expands Texas solar factory amid tariff circumvention probe
Japanese solar manufacturer Toyo Co., Ltd. celebrated the expansion of its Humble, Texas module assembly plant on October 6, even as a…
Society
A single steel die stamps out a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle in one press stroke, and researchers say puzzle-solving skill tracks closely with several measures of adult brainpower
A finished puzzle sits flat and ordinary on the table, four straight edges and a picture nobody questions.But before it ever reached…
Society
A disc golf course goes up every eight hours across America, and the sport’s 11,165 courses have passed Dunkin’s 10,014 US locations nationwide
A metal basket with hanging chains sits at the edge of a public park, scuffed from thousands of plastic discs clattering into…
Automotive
Volkswagen recalls 22,524 ID.4 EVs over battery fire risk
Volkswagen is recalling 22,524 ID.4 electric vehicles in the United States after the automaker identified a high-voltage battery defect linked to reports…
Energy
A Texas plant will tear apart one retired solar panel every 60 seconds, and still cannot find anywhere to send the thin plastic layer holding each one together
A panel that spent twenty five years bolted to a rooftop now sits on a steel table, its glass face clouded and…
Energy
A solar cell reached 31 percent efficiency without a gram of scarce indium inside it, and the replacement costs a fraction as much to produce
Inside almost every high-efficiency solar cell sits a nearly invisible layer of metal oxide, thinner than a human hair.That layer holds the…
Technology
Indiana approves $737 million grid plan for Google data center
Indiana utility regulators have unanimously approved a plan for AES Indiana to build $737.3 million worth of solar, battery storage and transmission…
Technology
AWS pledges $1 billion to data center host communities
Amazon Web Services will invest more than $1 billion over the next five years in communities where it builds data centers, and…
Automotive
A charging network built by eight rival automakers passed 180 live sites this month, doubling its US footprint since January, while independent trackers show the industry leader’s charger share keeps slipping
A driver pulls off the interstate near Durham, North Carolina, and finds something new at this exit.A canopy of fast chargers with…