A carbon-free future “will require many millions of batteries, both to drive electric vehicles and to store wind and solar power on the grid,” reports IEEE Spectrum. Unfortunately, today’s battery chemistries “mostly rely on lithium — a metal that could soon face a global supply crunch.” Recently, Rystad Energy projected a “serious lithium supply deficit”…

SpaceX chief Elon Musk is a big proponent of the cryptocurrency. …read more Source:: CNet

All signs look good for a September Apple event and iPhone 13 unveiling. Here’s everything we’ve heard. …read more Source:: CNet

We take a look at the rumored iPhone 13 specs and see how they stack up against the iPhone 12. …read more Source:: CNet

America’s leading social media companies “pledged to put warning labels on COVID-19 and COVID vaccines posts to stop the spread of falsehoods, conspiracy theories and hoaxes that are fueling vaccine hesitancy in the USA,” reports USA Today. “With the exception of Facebook, nearly all of them are losing the war against COVID disinformation.” That’s the…

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NBC News reports on what exactly happened during Elon Musk’s appearance on Saturday Night Live — starting with a surprisingly personal monologue: “I don’t always have a lot of intonation or variation in how I speak,” Musk said, “which I’m told makes for great comedy.” He admitted he’s socially awkward and said he was the…

Buying tires can be a daunting and costly task. We’ve put together a list of the best places to buy tires online and what you should look for when shopping. …read more Source:: CNet

As Mother’s Day approached, CNN Business Editor Samantha Murphy Kelly clipped a keychain with one of Apple’s tiny new “AirTag” Bluetooth trackers onto her son’s book bag, in an experiment that “highlighted how easily these trackers could be used to track another person.” Location trackers aren’t new — there are similar products from Samsung, Sony…

It didn’t hit us, so it’s OK to make jokes about it, right? Right? …read more Source:: CNet