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Flora Zhang, a market analyst at the Malaysia Energy Storage Association (MESA), advises BESS developers to closely examine two major schemes driving Southeast Asian deployments. This examination must go beyond the headline numbers of Malaysia’s solar-storage mandate and corporate PPAs.

Spain-headquartered power electronics manufacturer Ingeteam has supplied power conversion systems (PCS) for battery storage projects in Australia. These projects, located in Victoria, New South Wales (NSW), and South Australia, total around 65MW/130MWh.

Rondo Energy and Rio Tinto have started engineering and design work on a 360MWh thermal energy storage (TES) project in Australia, described as the country's largest such project. The work is at the engineering and design stage.

The developer of the first-person cave horror game SUBSUMED ($4.99) added a free, optional VR mode. This new mode allows players to experience the entirety of SUBSUMED with full VR immersion, though it does not support Vive wands.

In a CleanTechnica piece, Melissa Flaherty, Director of Sustainable EV Battery Ecosystem at GM, describes how recycled minerals from GM EV batteries are helping power new ones. The excerpt also notes common consumer questions about range and battery life; further details were not included.

A new unofficial Android app allows users to turn off their phone's screen while USB-C display glasses continue to show the picture. This free and open-source 'Glasses Mode' has been tested by its developer on an Oppo Find N6.

The article recounts a warehouse robotics team that spent eleven weeks debugging an AMR stalling near a charging dock; software logs looked clean until an engineer put a scope on the motor rail and found a voltage sag was the cause.

Jeff Fisher, Nvidia's senior vice president for its PC business, said in a post-event interview that the GeForce RTX 5090 has not been discontinued and will keep shipping, while acknowledging that supply capacity behind the card is constrained.

Guinea-Bissau police said hepatitis B vaccine doses were taken as part of an investigation into an office raid involving allies of RFK Jr., whose team was reported to be planning an "unethical" vaccine trial on babies.

During Steam Next Fest, 42 VR games displayed Valve's banner and an installable demo on their store pages. However, five of these 42 games were tagged for VR on the game or demo page but lacked proper tagging elsewhere.

A new approach is being explored to address the shortage of physical therapists for stroke patients, who suffer long-term impairments. This method combines artificial intelligence with human therapy, according to Johannes Lachner, an assistant professor and former MIT postdoc.

Tech Xplore reports that LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are increasingly used to help robots perform tasks, raising concerns that they could potentially be exploited to turn helpful robots into harmful ones.

Three owners reported that turning on a Steam Machine stops HDMI-CEC functionality for other devices connected to their television. All three users own Samsung televisions, and one of them suspects Samsung might be the cause.

Reservoir has launched an agricultural robotics incubator for Washington growers, aiming to place agricultural robotics startups to work in orchards, vineyards and berry fields alongside researchers and growers.

Waymo plans to grow its fleet of driverless cars five-fold. Semafor reported that this expansion is targeted for the end of 2027.

NASA announced at its "Ignition" event that Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom, intended for Mars and beyond, will be humanity's first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth's orbit, demonstrating nuclear electric propulsion in deep space. Work is underway on its nuclear power module.

A Steam library kept under /var disappears from the Linux beta client, with installed games showing an Install button instead of Play and the client's log labeling mounted drives as "not mounted". Simon McVittie, a Steam Runtime developer at Collabora and not at Valve, explained on Valve's tracker that the beta client now runs in a container.