Kevin Montien
They’re not the future anymore: traditional home batteries are losing ground to plug-in rivals like Pila, and the reason is permits, not power
Leaked high-quality images reveal Samsung’s next Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, and the sapphire glass and 10 ATM rating hint at who it’s really built for
Europe wanted to prove that it was capable of manufacturing its own large military drone without relying so heavily on the United States or Israel, but the Eurodrone has ended up facing delays, funding problems, and a dispute between Airbus and Dassault
USB-C promised to put an end to cable clutter, but there’s a strange quirk that many users have already noticed: if you rotate the connector and plug it back in, it suddenly charges better or transfers data faster
The race for electric cars, artificial intelligence data centers, wind turbines, and defense has just turned its attention to Mrima Hill, a Kenyan deposit rich in strategic minerals that raises numerous uncomfortable questions
China is building a 400-kilometer solar wall across the desert, and the project is large enough to be seen from space
NASA’s X-59 flew supersonic for the first time, and the quiet-boom experiment could change flight over land
The rare-earth race is moving to Greenland, and the minerals that matter most are still the ones China controls
NASA’s silent X-59 breaks the sound barrier for the first time without a sonic boom, paving the way for the return of civilian supersonic flights
Recycled-plastic blocks can snap into a small house in five days, as construction starts to look like a puzzle
A battery built for aircraft and defense hit 465 Wh/kg, and the safety tests may be the bigger story than the energy density
Nebraska is building a $10 million wastewater line to cool a data center, and AI’s heat problem is reaching the sewer
A Mexican student turned air-conditioner runoff into water for crops, linking extreme heat to food production in a simple system
Germany’s wooden blocks can raise a house structure in 7 days, without cement, glue, screws or metal anchors
Denmark is replacing white streetlights with red LEDs on one road, and the reason is hidden in the flight path of bats
A 9-mile tunnel through the Andes could redraw cargo routes between Argentina, Chile and the Pacific before Asia feels closer
A $60 magnetic power bank is making semi-solid-state batteries feel ordinary, and that may be the bigger shift for portable charging









