Tesla’s home battery research could lead to personal superchargers

Tesla Model S, showing its battery pack
Elon Musk is reportedly planning to roll out a new home-based variant of the Model S’ battery pack, to debut within the next six months. Long-term, the project could lead to vastly accelerated charging for electric cars — and provide backup power for off-grid homes that depend on renewable power.

First Samsung Cortex-A57, A53 chips arrive with big performance boosts

ARM-Cortex A72
A new, comprehensive review of the Cortex-A53 and A57 in Samsung’s Exynos shed light on the performance improvements and overall efficiency of the first 64-bit mainstream ARM CPU.

µBlock aims to block ads without draining system resources

uBlock
If we can all just agree that Adblock Plus is a memory hog, maybe µBlock can take its place.