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Jul 7, 2024 | gizmodo.com.au | Zachariah Kelly

Good morning. It’s a new week, and it’s time to get into the tech news. The Guardian ran a banger article over the weekend on Tesla’s home batteries, which pried into how the company restricts interactions with third parties. In some markets overseas, Tesla is required to open up its batteries to interact with non-Tesla tech in a user’s home, however, the Powerwall 2 battery which is offered to Australians doesn’t have interoperable abilities enabled.

Jul 7, 2024 | gizmodo.com.au | Zachariah Kelly

Good morning. It’s a new week, and it’s time to get into the tech news. The Guardian ran a banger article over the weekend on Tesla’s home batteries, which pried into how the company restricts interactions with third parties. In some markets overseas, Tesla is required to open up its batteries to interact with non-Tesla tech in a user’s home, however, the Powerwall 2 battery which is offered to Australians doesn’t have interoperable abilities enabled.

Jul 5, 2024 | gizmodo.com.au | Harri Weber

At first blush, the remains of an ancient Roman sandal look more like little gnarled carcasses than footwear. But upon closer inspection and using X-rays, archeologists say the shoe parts they found at an ancient military site are unusually well preserved.

Jul 5, 2024 | gizmodo.com.au | Harri Weber

It’s not a big moon relative to some of its neighbors, but Jupiter’s Io is exceedingly active, with volcanoes by the hundreds spewing lava plumes dozens of miles above its surface, per NASA. Infrared tech aboard the space agency’s Juno probe mapped two such eruptions in February, returning valuable data on the mysterious happenings beneath Io’s surface. Researchers shared their insights on the matter in a paper published last week.

Jul 4, 2024 | gizmodo.com.au | Zachariah Kelly

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