Quick, get in the DeLorean, we’ve got to go back. A new renewable powered battery made of radioactive waste product just dropped, and someone’s gotta tell Doc Brown it’s uranium, not plutonium

Hold onto your holographic caps because researchers in Japan have managed to turn depleted uranium into futuristic rechargeable batteries. According to IEEE.org, Scientists at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have been working to turn the depleted uranium waste products of nuclear power generation into batteries designed to be recharged by renewables. Sadly, this doesn’t mean…

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30 Years Ago, PlayStation Used These Bizarre Ads To Sell British Games To The Japanese

“It’ll certainly challenge those clever little fellas”. Although there are notable exceptions—Tetris and Populous being two that spring to mind—it wasn’t always easy to sell Western-made games to Japanese players back in the 1990s. While North American and European gamers would gleefully lap up Japanese output, games moving in the opposite direction often failed to…

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