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More Belgian (Flemish?) households with solar panels, batteries or electric vehicles will be able to benefit from the flexibility they can offer the energy system as energy retailers Bolt and Trevion collaborate with VPP operator Powernaut.
https://powernaut.io/press/powernaut-a

Powernaut, Bolt, Trevion and Partners launch Belgium’s first energy contracts that pay consumers for grid support - Powernaut
Using Powernaut’s smart software, households with solar panels, home batteries, or EVs can now earn money by allowing their energy retailer to manage their devices intelligently. For example, devices may charge or reduce output during peak times to avoid grid overload. Retailers like Bolt and Trevion are offering these new contracts, allowing customers to benefit financially without sacrificing comfort. Partners such as Qbus and Innovoltus support the initiative, which is seen as a key step …

In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-dials-back-liquid-glass/

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass | TechCrunch
The early version in the first developer beta of iOS 26 and the accompanying updates for Apple's other devices still left room for improvement in terms of usability, accessibility, and legibility.

Can slow recombination in ordered superconductors explain the excess quasiparticle population?
Eva Gurra, Douglas A. Bennett, Shannon M. Duff, Michael R. Vissers, Joel N. Ullom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03217

Can slow recombination in ordered superconductors explain the excess quasiparticle population?
An excess density of quasiparticles is widely observed in superconducting films. This excess causes performance degradation in a variety of superconducting devices, including decoherence in qubits. In this Letter, we evaluate the hypothesis of [1] that the quasiparticle excess is caused by anomalously slow recombination at low quasiparticle densities due to localization in sub-gap states. We probe the density of states in aluminum and niobium films using current-voltage measurements of tunnel j…

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/romanian-national-pleads-guilty-bank-fraud-involving-over-500000-ebt-funds-illegal
Marian obtained EBT cards numbers by using skimmer devices on ATM and point of sale mac…

Romanian National Pleads Guilty To Bank Fraud Involving Over $500,000 In EBT Funds, Illegal Reentry, And Asylum Fraud
OAKLAND – Marius Marian pleaded guilty in federal court today to fraudulently obtaining over $500,000 in Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) funds, illegally reentering the United States following an aggravated felony conviction, and making false statements on his asylum application

A Novel Methodology of Visualizing Orthorhombic Phase Uniformity in Ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Devices Using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy
Wei-Cheng Peng, Hsien-Yang Liu, Cheng-Yu Yu, Artur Useinov, Tian-Li Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01707

A Novel Methodology of Visualizing Orthorhombic Phase Uniformity in Ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Devices Using Piezoresponse Force Microscopy
Ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 (HZO) thin films are promising for next-generation memory and logic devices due to their CMOS compatibility and scalability. The spatial uniformity of the orthorhombic (O) phase is crucial for optimizing ferroelectric properties like remnant polarization. This work introduces a novel piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) approach for 2D mapping of O-phase uniformity in HZO films (5 nm, 9 nm, and 20 nm), further quantifing O-phase distribution by distinguishing polarize…

Laser spectroscopy and CP-violation sensitivity of actinium monofluoride
M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, M. Au, A. Kyuberis, C. Z\"ulch, K. Gaul, H. Wibowo, L. Skripnikov, L. Lalanne, J. R. Reilly, A. Koszor\'us, S. Bara, J. Ballof, R. Berger, C. Bernerd, A. Borschevsky, A. A. Breier, K. Chrysalidis, T. E. Cocolios, R. P. de Groote, A. Dorne, J. Dobaczewski, C. M. Fajardo Zambrano, K. T. Flanagan, S. Franchoo, J. D. Johnson, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, D. Hanstorp, S. Kujanp\"a\&quot…

From Wye-Delta to Cross-Square Recursion Configurations in Graphene-Based Quantum Hall Arrays
Ngoc Thanh Mai Tran, Marta Musso, Dominick S. Scaletta, Wei-Chen Lin, Valery Ortiz Jimenez, Dean G. Jarrett, Massimo Ortolano, Curt A. Richter, Chi-Te Liang, David B. Newell, Albert F. Rigosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03347

From Wye-Delta to Cross-Square Recursion Configurations in Graphene-Based Quantum Hall Arrays
In electrical metrology, the quantum Hall effect is accessed at the Landau level filling factor ν = 2 plateau to define and disseminate the unit of electrical resistance (ohm). The robustness of the plateau is only exhibited at this Landau level filling factor and thus places a constraint on the quantized resistances that are accessible when constructing quantized Hall array resistance standards (QHARS) using epitaxial graphene on SiC. To overcome devices constrained by using Hall elements in …

Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

1/ f noise and two-level systems in MBE-grown Al thin films
Shouray Kumar Sahu, Yen-Hsun Glen Lin, Kuan-Hui Lai, Chao-Kai Cheng, Chun-Wei Wu, Elica Anne Heredia, Ray-Tai Wang, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Juainai Kwo, Minghwei Hong, Juhn-Jong Lin, Sheng-Shiuan Yeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01850

1/ f noise and two-level systems in MBE-grown Al thin films
Aluminum thin films are essential to the functionalities of electronic and quantum devices, where two-level systems (TLS) can degrade device performance. MBE-grown Al films may appeal to these applications due to their low TLS densities. We studied the energy distributions of TLS densities, g(E), in 10-nm-thick MBE-grown and electron-beam evaporated Al films through 1/f noise measurements between 80 and 360 K. At 300 K, the noise magnitudes in MBE-grown films are about three times lower than in…