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Malta has raised a $50 million Series B round to bring its super-long-duration energy storage to market, the company said Wednesday. The startup spun out of Google parent company Alphabet's moonshot factory, X, in 2018. Many startups tackling energy storage breakthroughs have looked to batteries and other electrochemical devices. Malta turned instead to thermal energy: It uses grid power to compress air for storage in hot molten salts and cold antifreeze liquid. A heat engine later converts the energy back to electricity for consumption. This apparatus, in theory, allows for storing power...

"Taking moonshots is always a risky proposition," said X director Astro Teller.

To a story about someone who might become a millionaire but in the right way to silicon valley there's a start up with a difference in oklahoma farm boy had a vision he thought he could feet the world and in the process solve some of the most pressing problems faced by farmers and farming practices on the planet brandon alexander has started the world's first robotic farming enterprise other automated indoor farms have been tried previously a project by google x. laboratory flopped because the multi-well to have million dollar the tech giant couldn't make the economics work. after two years of...

In this week's american opportunities segment she's a tech big wig who used to run google x, the group behind google glass and the driverless car. megan smith packed up earlier this year and moved to washington to become the chief technology officer of the united states. one of her goals is finding ways to bring access to technology and opportunity from it to those who need it most. >> for the country that has a rover on mars and we also have one in four american children in poverty, and so the opportunity to be part of the leadership team to unlock the talent of the american people both on th...

And really can be and can include everyone in. >> it sounds to me like poverty and income inequality is something that tugs at your heart a lot. >> i just think it's an extraordinary waste of talent. we have such low expectations for how to solve and for some of our young people like one group of young people gets to go to the science fair and work on all these internships and do this stuff and one group of young people is not expected to do that. we need to change that point of view. >> you can see more of poppy's interview on cnn.com. donald trump's not afraid of controversy as you know bu...