Arquivos de Tag: Sunlight

Sunlight Activated Lid Insert Clears Garbage Odors for Over a Month

Rolling garbage bins out to the curb on a hot afternoon often means accepting a sharp vinegar smell that drifts across the driveway by evening. Food scraps left in wheeled outdoor containers break down faster once temperatures climb, releasing acetic acid that carries the familiar sharp odor associated with rotting waste. Standard charcoal filters can […]

Project Suncatcher Flies Google AI Chips Into Orbit to Learn If Compute Can Live on Sunlight

Google will send its first AI chips into space next week as the opening flight of Project Suncatcher, a long-term research effort to find out whether machine learning hardware can run in low Earth orbit on solar power. A refrigerator-sized prototype named MVP, built with Planet Labs and carrying four Tensor Processing Units, is booked […]