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- New Lithium Battery Design Eliminates Costly Cobalt and Nickel https://www.machinedesign.com/materials/new-lithium-battery-design-eliminates-costly-cobalt-and-nickel 76 comments
- Mexican Truck Carrying "Extremely Dangerous" Cobalt-60 Stolen http://bigstory.ap.org/article/mexican-truck-radioactive-load-stolen 2 comments
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- Refurb weekend: Cobalt RaQ 2 https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/03/refurb-weekend-cobalt-raq-2.html 4 comments hardware , historical
- Next-generation batteries could go organic, cobalt-free for long-lasting power https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1031668 4 comments technology
- IBM’s cobalt-free EV battery uses materials extracted from seawater https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/12/heavy-metal-free-battery/ 5 comments technology
- Biologists have studied a plant with shimmering, iridescent blue leaves (Begonia pavonina) living in the unending dimness of the Malaysian rain-forest floor. They found the plant's cobalt-blue leaves use a quirk of quantum mechanics to slow light and squeeze out more photosynthesis in near-darkness. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a23514/quantum-mechanics-turns-leaves-blue/ 379 comments science
- China is ahead of Europe and US in recycling lithium, cobalt and nickel for batteries, finds study https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-china-europe-recycling-lithium-cobalt.html#google_vignette 10 comments environment
- EU digs for more lithium, cobalt and graphite in green energy push https://www.ft.com/content/363c1643-75ae-4539-897d-ab16adfc1416 3 comments energy
- Quick Malware Analysis: TA578 Thread-hijacked email, Bumblebee, and Cobalt Strike pcap from 2022-06-14 https://blog.securityonion.net/2022/06/quick-malware-analysis-ta578-thread.html 2 comments netsec
- Idaho’s Cobalt Rush Is Here https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/cobalt-clean-energy-climate-change-idaho/621321/ 4 comments environment
- Understanding cobalt’s human cost. After studying the impacts of mining cobalt -- a common ingredient in lithium-ion batteries -- on communities in Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo, researchers are calling for more data into how emerging technologies affect human health & livelihoods. https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/12/understanding-cobalts-human-cost/ 3 comments science
- How Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/hunter-biden-china-cobalt.html 61 comments moderatepolitics
- A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/china-congo-cobalt.html 2 comments worldnews
- A nickel, copper and cobalt mine in Western Australia’s is installing a vanadium flow battery that will power it almost 100% of the time from renewables using the current diesel hardware as backup. Test period will have it run on battery+clean electricity 85-90% of the time. https://onestepoffthegrid.com.au/wa-nickel-mine-taps-vanadium-flow-battery-to-go-100-per-cent-renewable/ 10 comments futurology
- The Energy Future Needs Cleaner Batteries - To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-23/future-of-energy-requires-cleaner-electric-batteries-to-solve-cobalt-problem 22 comments futurology
- DRC bans export of cobalt, copper concentrate - Congo supplies nearly 70% of world cobalt, an essential element in lithium batteries https://www.mining.com/drc-bans-export-of-cobalt-copper-concentrate-fastmarkets/ 138 comments worldnews
- In a lithium-ion battery, when electrons flow into the cathode during discharge, do they reduce the cobalt ions (4+ to 3+) or the incoming lithium ions (+ to 0)? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/m699dl/in_a_lithiumion_battery_when_electrons_flow_into/ 19 comments askscience
- International Cobalt prices soar as China stockpiles metal used in phones, electric cars https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3125373/cobalt-prices-soar-china-stockpiles-metal-used-smartphones 365 comments worldnews
- Cutting battery industry's reliance on cobalt will be an uphill task - Electric cars and consumer electronics use mineral mined in exploitative conditions in Congo https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/05/cutting-cobalt-challenge-battery-industry-electric-cars-congo 44 comments technology
- Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell sued over cobalt mined by children in Congo for batteries https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-google-microsoft-tesla-dell-sued-over-cobalt-mining-children-in-congo-for-batteries-2019-12-17/ 40 comments worldnews
- Microsoft, Apple, Google, Tesla, Dell hit with lawsuit over alleged children cobalt mining in Congo https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/tech/apple-microsoft-tesla-dell-congo-cobalt-mining/index.html 3 comments worldevents
- Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths | Global development https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/16/apple-and-google-named-in-us-lawsuit-over-congolese-child-cobalt-mining-deaths 15 comments apple
- Tech giants including Tesla and Apple sued after Congolese children die in cobalt mines https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cobalt-mining-apple-tesla-dell-microsoft-google-congo-lawsuit-a9249446.html 87 comments worldnews
- Apple, Google, and Tesla accused in lawsuit of 'aiding and abetting' child deaths in Congolese cobalt mines https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-google-tech-congo-child-labor-lawsuit-2019-12 5 comments technology
- Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and Dell are accused of exploiting child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo by African families whose kids have been 'maimed or killed' mining cobalt to be used in lithium batteries https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7797489/apple-google-tesla-microsoft-sued-aiding-abetting-child-mining-congo.html 20 comments worldnews
- New Lithium Battery Design Eliminates Costly Cobalt and Nickel https://www.machinedesign.com/materials/new-lithium-battery-design-eliminates-costly-cobalt-and-nickel 107 comments technology
- Cobalt Robotics raises $35 million for security robots that patrol offices, warehouses, and parking lots https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/25/cobalt-robotics-raises-35-million-for-security-robots-that-patrol-offices-warehouses-and-parking-lots/ 22 comments technology
- TIL A dagger discovered in King Tutankhamen’s tomb, in 1925, was made of meteoric metal. It wasn’t until recently that scientists were able to confirm, using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, that it was composed of iron, nickel, and cobalt, “strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin.” https://abcnews.go.com/International/king-tuts-dagger-made-meteorite-researchers/story?id=39560270 30 comments aliens
- Cobalt Enables Power and Performance Scaling at Single-Digit Logic Nodes http://blog.appliedmaterials.com/cobalt-enables-power-and-performance-scaling 3 comments hardware
- Bypassing Memory Scanners with Cobalt Strike and Gargoyle https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/experimenting-bypassing-memory-scanners-with-cobalt-strike-and-gargoyle/ 5 comments netsec
- Cobalt Could Untangle Chips' Wiring Problems https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/cobalt-could-untangle-chips-wiring-problems 6 comments hardware
- HTTPS Domain Fronting using Google Hosts and Cobalt Strike https://www.cyberark.com/threat-research-blog/red-team-insights-https-domain-fronting-google-hosts-using-cobalt-strike/ 3 comments netsec
- Cobalt Robotics Introduces a (Mostly) Autonomous Mobile Security Robot http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/cobalt-robotics-introduces-mobile-security-robot#.WLb7Roppo-I.reddit 4 comments robotics
- Cobalt mining for lithium ion batteries has a high human cost https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/batteries/congo-cobalt-mining-for-lithium-ion-battery/?tid=sm_tw 28 comments technology
- Researchers have developed carbon fibers to form electrodes that outperform conventional graphite electrodes. The remarkable thing about these electrodes is that the carbon fibers are derived from wild mushrooms. The fibers are modified with cobalt oxide nanofibers. http://www.thelatestnews.com/remarkable-batteries-made-wild-mushrooms/ 3 comments technology
- Children as young as 7 are mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for smart phones and other products of major electronic brands https://www.today.ng/news/world/68278/congolese-children-mine-cobalt-for-smartphones-amnesty-intl 7 comments worldnews
- Apple battery suppliers use cobalt mined by child laborers, report says http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/18/apple-battery-suppliers-use-cobalt-mined-by-chid-laborers-report-says 8 comments apple
- How to crack Cobalt Strike AND backdoor it http://blog.strategiccyber.com/2013/09/05/how-to-crack-cobalt-strike-and-backdoor-it/ 16 comments netsec
- Cobalt is coming to Linux http://mojang.com/2011/08/18/introducing-cobalt/ 3 comments linux_gaming
- Professor may disprove accepted magnetic theory. Iron and nitrogen compound that is 18 percent more magnetic than iron cobalt, the substance previously believed to be the most magnetic material on Earth. http://www.mndaily.com/2010/04/01/prof-may-disprove-accepted-theory 20 comments science