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Hey, good morning! Welcome back! We hope you had a great weekend. We've been playing with some cool dinosaur toys (we're grown-ups, I promise), hearing about Tesla's next power grid experiment, and the end of free Wikipedia data for developing countries. A hybrid of wind power and Tesla batteries. Tesla starts its latest smart-power-grid experiment in Canada Tesla's experiments with smart-power grids are headed further north. Canada's Nova Scotia Power recently finished setting up a pilot project that will use a combination of Tesla's Powerwall 2 home batteries and utility-grade Powerpack batteries to create a more reliable wind-power system. The Elmsdale-based Intelligent Feeder Project fills gaps in the electrical grid by topping up the Powerpacks whenever a nearby wind-turbine system generates excess power and delivering that stored energy to local homes (including those with Powerwall 2 batteries) when there's an outage or the turbine system fall...

Hey, good morning! Welcome to February, which we're starting off with lost-in-space satellites, a piano that plays in response to interpretive dance and Samsung getting into bitcoin. Oh, and Nintendo snuck out a bunch of announcements. Let's hit those first. All Nintendo everything. Switch Online, 'Mario Kart' mobile and a 'Mario' movie After announcing how great sales of the Switch are going, Nintendo decided to celebrate with a surprise dump of info. First up is its online gaming service for the Switch, which will officially debut in September. Second is Mario Kart Tour , its next mobile game for smartphones following Super Mario Run and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp , which will arrive by next spring. Last but not least: There's a Mario movie on the way (no, it's not live-action). Sensors relay movement to AI, which triggers an automatic piano. Yamaha's AI transformed dance moves into piano notes Artificial intelligence touches the a...