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Thomas Ricker

Thomas Ricker

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    Anker’s sleek whole home backup solution heads to Europe.

    The modular Solix X1 already announced for the US is now available in Europe in single- or three-phase configurations. LFP battery capacities start at 5kWh and expand to 180kWh with up to 36kW of power output. That’s enough to juice any device — even your EV — for hours, days, or indefinite operation when integrated with solar.

    Think Powerwall, but not from Elon Musk.

    <em>Neat, I just saved €5.79 this month using my €20,000 whole home backup solution.</em>
    <em>Yes, it’ll charge your EV with another box Anker will sell you.</em>
    I love you AND your giant battery.
    <em>Bring on the apes.</em>
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    Neat, I just saved €5.79 this month using my €20,000 whole home backup solution.
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    Thomas Ricker
    Our first official look at Huawei’s tri-fold.

    The full reveal isn’t coming until September 10th — a date surely chosen to upstage Apple’s event that finishes just hours before — but here’s a teaser posted to Huawei’s Weibo account. It briefly shows the Mate XT Ultimate Design unfolded and folded, but mostly shows actor and singer Andy Lau being extremely cinematic.

    Importantly, it doesn’t answer our biggest question: how thick is this boi?

    EcoFlow’s battery-powered A/C and heater combo is too overblown

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    The Wave 2 heat pump is very capable for its size, but EcoFlow’s absurd marketing sets unrealistic expectations.

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    Thomas Ricker
    Thomas Ricker
    Margrethe Vestager will not return as EU competition chief.

    The Danish minister feared by Big Tech and who Donald Trump called the EU’s “tax lady,” will not be reappointed for a third term, the FT reports.

    “She is astonishing in terms of stamina,” said one EU official who regularly worked with Vestager. “It’s absolutely crazy. She read all the stuff . . . round the clock and had hundreds of meetings and she is still alive.”

    US tech CEOs shouldn’t celebrate too quickly, though, as the attention-seeking Musk-baiting French commissioner Thierry Breton is said to be in contention for the role

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    Thomas Ricker
    Donald Trump x Elon Musk is tonight.

    The “conversation” starts at 8PM ET on the former president’s X account on the service formerly known as Twitter which Musk previously said “must be politically neutral” to deserve our trust.

    Musk says he’s doing some “system scaling tests,” hoping to avoid another system meltdown like we saw when he tried to launch Ron DeSantis’ 2024 presidential campaign on Spaces.

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    Thomas Ricker
    Here come YouTube’s community notes.

    Invitations are going out for Google’s community-led pilot to moderate misinformation by letting users append highly-rated notes to confusing or inaccurate videos. Per 9to5Google, you can sign up to participate on mobile in the US by clicking your profile pic in the app, then selecting “help inform viewers” under general settings.

    Let us know in the comments if you’re seeing notes on videos.

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    Thomas Ricker
    Neuralink implanted in second human.

    “I don’t want to jinx it, but it seems to have gone extremely well with the second implant,” Elon Musk said on the Lex Fridman podcast. “There’s a lot of signal, a lot of electrodes.” The wires on Neuralink’s first human brain implant retracted, resulting in fewer electrodes that could measure brain signals. 10 more implants could come before the end of this year if regulators approve.