Battery "breakthroughs" are a dime a dozen, so excuse me for sounding a bit jaded here. But a battery that can charge in seconds? Without fatigue? If this wasn't published in Nature, I'd probably......

Fusion-io's original ioDrive was stupid fast, but the next generation makes even that look pathetic. Try 1.5GB sustained read speeds and 1.4GB sustained write speeds. Yeah, let that sink in for a......

As it ventures into renewable energy, 3M is also making strides in its other energy business: batteries. The Minnesota-based manufacturer is already a primary supplier of cathode and anode materials to most of the world’s major battery suppliers and is credited with helping battery makers deliver ...

Electric car makers and clean energy developers can’t take all the credit for a battery boom, but they have earned a nod from analysts for their potential to boost an industry already on the rise. According to new research from SBI Reports, the market for rechargeable batteries could grow to $...

Hardware news was surprisingly lively this last week of February. If you were focused on the run-up to Obama's State of the Union address or Governor Bobby Jindal's "response," you just might've missed some interesting back-and-forth. At Ars we aim to please, so here's a snapshot of the hot topics o...

It's easy to overlook amidst all PowerPoint-fueled fisticuffs but, in addition to slinging rebuttals at Intel and muttering insults under its breath, NVIDIA also appears to have dropped a bit of news about its next-generation Ion platform. While we had already heard that Ion 2 would be supporting VI...

Despite NVIDIA's claims that we'd have an Ion desktop sometime this Spring, we still haven't really seen it in consumer-bound hardware -- until now, that is. Although unconfirmed, slides have purportedly leaked out of what is said to be the Acer Hornet Ion-based nettop. Aside from the platform and a...

If you don't look too closely, many of the companies in the IT industry appear to be on friendly terms with each other. Every time Company A releases a new product, other companies chime in with positive-sounding rhetoric meant to imply enthusiastic support. This rule holds true even in situations w...

deals, energy, lithium-ion Ryan McBride wrote: Boston-Power, a Westborough, MA-based maker of long-lasting lithium-ion batteries, says that it has struck a deal with battery maker GP Batteries to dedicate GP’s entire plant in Taiwan to the production of Boston-Power’s Sonata batteries. T...

Desire Unchained is the second installment in author Larissa Ione's Demonica series, and although it's been six months since I read the first novel, Pleasure Unbound, I had no trouble remembering the characters, the series premise, or picking up the storyline. Desire Unchained offers two strong prot...