When an aging business starts to take on water, the quickest, easiest — and most destructive — solution is to make moves that will generate more money now but may cost the company later. And that’s exactly what Meta has started to do. In the first three months of this year, the company started cramming more ads onto its platforms while charging advertisers more. Those choices may have allowed the company to increase its revenue per user by a significant 27 percent in the first quarter of 2026, but they are also likely to further alienate users (and annoy advertisers).
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Technology@lemmy.world•Japan finds a way to recover 90% of lithium from old EV batteriesEnglish
223·5 months ago“The process starts with old batteries being separated and burned to strip away non-metal components. What’s left gets crushed into something called black mass. This is essentially a powder packed with recoverable metals. From there, a water-based chemical treatment called hydrometallurgy pulls the lithium out. One clever distinction in this new process is that the recovered lithium hydroxide actually replaces a chemical traditionally used during refining. This cuts the carbon footprint by about 40% compared to older methods.”
Article also said that previous methods got about 45% of the lithium from recycling.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensateEnglish
5·9 months agoI guess my old car (from 2005) does the same thing. Has no tyre pressure sensors but gave me a tyre pressure fault on time. Turned out my rear left had a small leak. Error light came on at 1.6 bar (rears are supposed to be at 2.1-2.3)
I have the same issue on Kubuntu 24 LTS. Every time (so every day) there is an update the game fails to launch. Have to verify integrity of games files and then i can play again without issues. Until there is an update (so the next day usually). So far it has been a problem with rockstar and ubisoft titles.