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Technology News 16.12.2025
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Technology News 16.12.2025

LIVETechnology news rolling coverageStarted: December 16, 2025, 12:00 AM ESTUpdated: December 16, 2025, 10:06 AM EST Google Phone App adds Expressive Calling beta to flag urgent calls December 16, 2025, 10:06 AM EST. Google's Phone app is piloting a new Expressive Calling
December 16, 2025
Vertical Solar Farms: How Bifacial Panels Are Revolutionizing Solar Energy in 2025
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Vertical Solar Farms: How Bifacial Panels Are Revolutionizing Solar Energy in 2025

Vertical solar farms mount panels upright at 90° in north–south rows, using bifacial panels to harvest morning east light and afternoon west light for two daily power peaks. The Ashikaga City rice paddy project in Japan was installed in May 2024, yielded
August 10, 2025
CO₂ Capture Breakthroughs: Advanced Materials and Mega-Projects to Pull Carbon from Air and Industry
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CO₂ Capture Breakthroughs: Advanced Materials and Mega-Projects to Pull Carbon from Air and Industry

In 2024 atmospheric CO2 reached about 426 parts per million, roughly 50% higher than pre-industrial levels. UC Berkeley researchers developed a zinc hydride MOF called ZnH-MFU-4_l that can capture CO₂ from hot flue gas at 300°C with over 90% efficiency, enabling potential
August 9, 2025
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): Sponge-Like Crystals Poised to Transform Carbon Capture, Clean Energy and More
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Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): Sponge-Like Crystals Poised to Transform Carbon Capture, Clean Energy and More

MOFs hold a world-record internal surface area of up to about 7,000 m^2 per gram, with theoretical designs up to 14,600 m^2/g. Over roughly 20 years researchers have created nearly 90,000 unique MOF structures, with hundreds of thousands more predicted by theory.
August 9, 2025
Inside the $500‑Billion AI‑Chip Gold Rush: How Blackwell, Gaudi, Trainium & Friends Are Re‑Wiring the World in 2025
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Inside the $500‑Billion AI‑Chip Gold Rush: How Blackwell, Gaudi, Trainium & Friends Are Re‑Wiring the World in 2025

1. Executive snapshot 2. What exactly is an AI accelerator? Category Typical role Leading examples (2025) GPU (general‑purpose but massively parallel) Training & inference NVIDIA B200, AMD MI350, Intel Falcon Shores ASIC (custom fixed‑function) Cloud training/inference Google TPU v5p, AWS Trainium2, Microsoft Maia 100 NPU / XPU
August 7, 2025
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Technology News

  • Google Phone App adds Expressive Calling beta to flag urgent calls
    December 16, 2025, 10:06 AM EST. Google's Phone app is piloting a new Expressive Calling feature in beta that lets you explain why you're calling and mark calls as urgent. On launch, you can select urgent, and the recipient will see an It's urgent! label beside the red siren emoji. Depending on device settings, an urgent call may still ring through Do Not Disturb (DND) or appear as important. If missed, the urgent flag remains in the call log to note a non-regular call. The goal is to avoid permanently whitelisting contacts and still reach you in emergencies. Availability is limited to testers with the feature, and both sides must have it enabled. To join, use Phone settings > General > Expressive Calling or the Google settings panel > System services > Privacy & Security > Join beta.