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The Tiny Dutch Startup Solving the IoT Industry’s Battery Problem

Dutch startup Nowi is today launching a small energy-harvesting chip that could solve one of the biggest bottlenecks in the internet of things industry: the need to change batteries. The tiny device, which is being showcased as part of Huawei’s latest narrowband IoT chip, can turn light — even from relatively dim indoor bulbs — into enough energy to power a small IoT device indefinitely. …


Stranger Things Lawsuit Dropped Just Days Before Going to Trial

The 2018 lawsuit that alleged that Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer stole the idea from someone they worked with in the past has been dropped. Director Charlie Kessler, who alleged that the brothers stole his idea for what they later made into Stranger Things, dropped the lawsuit just 48 hours before the trial was scheduled to start on Tuesday. The Duffer brothers always maintained …