Technology

Spectrum recently published a post about a new lithium sulfur battery technology specifically aimed at electric aviation applications. Although many electric cars could benefit from the new technology, aircraft are particularly sensitive to heavy batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries can weigh much less than modern batteries of equivalent capacity. The Spectrum …

Gates (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been waiting for the anti-trust check that Big Tech is facing. His take: They all deserve “rude, unjust and difficult questions.” He is right. Unfortunately, Gates’ comments come via a somewhat unsatisfactory podcast called Armchair Expert. In the last episode, …

The Week in the Review is a collection of both all the goodies I wrote over the internet over the past week, as well as a small stack of links that I found interesting – generally related to endurance sports. I have often wondered what to do with all the …

American broadcaster William Brent Christensen arrived at the Taiwanese president on Sunday to mark the 62nd anniversary of a deadly Chinese attack, amid growing tensions between Washington and Beijing. Christensen, the de facto U.S. ambassador to Taiwan, became the first U.S. envoy to attend ceremonies commemorating the 1958 Chinese bombing …