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Factorial, the start-up, said the listing would provide money that would help it bring new solid-state batteries to market as soon as 2027. By Jack Ewing Factorial Energy, which is developing advanced ...

Two years ago, Factorial Energy opened its battery-making plant in Methuen to much fanfare, drawing Governor Maura Healey and Representative Lori Trahan to celebrate at the facility in an industrial ...

Peter Waldman Artisan, glassblower, and balloon man. Peter Waldman is never without a balloon. Even out to dinner, he will pause and twist up a creation if there’s a child nearby. For the past 40 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Ctrl+F is a keyboard shortcut that lets you find words or phrases within a document or a webpage on a Windows computer. If you didn’t know such a shortcut existed, don’t worry. You’re not the only ...

Factorial’s solid-state battery cells are being flight tested in Avidrone’s tandem-rotor long-range cargo drone. Credit: Avidrone Aerospace Factorial Energy has shipped its first solid-state ...

Factorial Inc., an industry leader in solid-state battery technology, today announced the shipment of its first solid-state lithium-metal battery cells for drone use to Avidrone Aerospace Inc., a ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...