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24 April 2021 At the second day of the ‘Leaders Climate Summit’ convened by President Joe Biden, the former CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator Audrey Zibelman, announced that the United States and the United Kingdom will be joining the Global Power Systems Transformation Consortium (GPSTC). “[Balancing supply and demand] has always been a difficult engineering challenge, but is becoming even more so as we decarbonise the grid,” she said. Zibelman cites her experience in the AEMO control room during the Black Summer 2020 bushfires. “We were losing major parts of the system....

Alphabet’s X lab reveals project to develop technology for power grids SHARE Alphabet Inc.’s X moonshot unit is working on a project to develop tools that can help utilities monitor and predict activity on their power grids.  The project was announced this morning by X Vice President Audrey Zibelman during remarks at the White House Leaders Summit on Climate. Zibelman joined the Alphabet unit earlier this year to lead its power grid moonshot after a several-year stint as the Australian Energy Market Operator’s managing director and chief executive officer. The...

JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Alphabet has a secretive team working on quantum technologies. It's called Sandbox. The team is separate from Alphabet's futuristic X lab, but works in the same building and consists of several former X employees. It's led by tech entrepreneur Jack Hidary and recently the company started revealing more info about what it's up to. Google's parent company Alphabet has a secretive team working on t...

Getting all 7.8 billion humans online: What will it take? Will thousands of satellites close the digital divide forever? Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos think so. Image: Bob al-greene / mashable 2021-03-07 10:30:00 UTC Moving forward requires focus. Mashable's Social Good Series is dedicated to exploring pathways to a greater good, spotlighting issues that are essential to making the world a better place. At some point in 2021, someone somewhere on Earth may become the planet's fifth billion internet user. We will get no text message when this happens; no banners will drop, no fireworks will go of...

It's been a while since we've seen a really out-there device come from Google, along the lines of Project Ara or Google Glass. A new leak from the X division of Google's (technical) parent company Alphabet certainly qualifies. According to the unconfirmed report, "Project Wolverine" is a device that lets the user isolate audio to focus on a specific person or source. Details are light, though Business Insider reports that the technology has been in development since before 2018. The application is obvious: plenty of people have difficulty hearing one person in a crowd, to say nothing of thos...