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It is such a demeaning thought. A smartphone that has been able to do nothing more than pick up calls and take photos for nearly 20 years now, is on a new race. To get folded. A dumb expensive brick that it already is, today's so called smart-phones are the epitome of anti-innovation and waste of Earth's resources. A company today chooses to advertise its camera compared to its own from last year; and call it innovation. Obviously, siring five thousand talented staff from around the world means at least one line of improvement deserves to come out in the camera department. The same in the processor. But is this innovation? Innovation stopped on the day smartphone was made public. To give it a little credit: today's cameras take better pictures, but other that that, it's nothing. It has become a a slab, a brick! And now companies are on a new race to fold this brick. What could be more humourous and pathetic at the same time? Wasting so much of Earth's resources plus...

  https://unsplash.com/photos/blue-and-black-can-on-black-surface-vorH-CF_SZI Here's the good news in battery form: scientists at the University of Surrey are cooking up lithium-carbon dioxide batteries that don't just store energy — they gobble up CO₂ while doing it, turning it into a harmless white powder. They could theoretically pack way more punch per charge than today's lithium-ion batteries thanks to a bigger electron exchange during the reaction, and the team has found a promising new way to tackle the tricky recharging problem that's held the tech back. The dream applications are wonderfully wide-ranging: imagine cutting emissions from cars and factories, or even one day powering long missions on Mars, where the atmosphere is almost entirely CO₂. Researchers are now testing how it holds up under real-world conditions like car exhaust pressure — and if it works, a single kilogram of catalyst could soak up enough CO₂ to offset a car's daily emissions.  Early...