Electrek

Base Power raises $1B to roll out its giant new home battery

Base Power has just unveiled Core, a supersized 39.2-kWh home battery that it says can keep a house running for up to 36 hours and be installed in under an hour. The Austin energy company designed ...
TechCrunch

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Where most energy storage companies look for big tracts of land near large connections to the grid, Base Power is betting that it can beat them all by putting batteries in people’s backyards instead.
Reuters

Base Power raises $1 billion, launches US-made home battery amid surging power demand

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Energy startup Base Power said on Monday it has raised $1 billion at a $13 billion valuation and launched a U.S.-made home battery as expanding AI and ‌data center infrastructure ...
Chicago Tribune

Base Power launches backyard battery backup system for ComEd customers

As energy prices continue to rise and power outages become more frequent amid extreme weather events, ComEd customers have a new option to help navigate both problems. A giant backyard battery. Base ...
Diginomica

Couchbase AI Data Plane tests whether NoSQL’s cloud-era strengths can carry into agent memory

Summary: As Couchbase launches its AI Data Plane, the more interesting question is whether the NoSQL-era strengths it built for cloud-scale applications can now be carried into the messy, fast-moving ...
Astronomy

How NASA plans to build a Moon Base

NASA announced new contracts for the rovers and landers that will lay the groundwork for the agency’s proposed $30-billion Moon Base — some of which they plan to launch as soon as this fall — during a ...
PBS

WATCH: NASA shares plans to construct moon base

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II's record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency ...
NPR

'It Takes Two' rapper Rob Base, who helped bring hip-hop mainstream, dies at 59

Rob Base, a rapper and one half of the Harlem hip-hop duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 59. Base, whose real name was Robert Ginyard, was best known for the 1988 ...
Los Angeles Times

Rob Base, rapper known for ‘It Takes Two,’ dies at 59

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Billboard

‘It Takes Two’ Rapper Rob Base Dead at 59

The Harlem native, who was half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, died Friday (May 22) following a battle with cancer. By Michael Saponara Rob Base died on Friday (May 22) just days after turning 59 years ...
Variety

Rob Base, ‘It Takes Two’ Rapper, Dies at 59

Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died. He was 59. The rapper, who celebrated his 59th birthday just four days ago, died on May 22 while ...