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TECHNOLOGY Tuesday 1 augusT 2017

Albuquerque startup developing material for hydrogen cars

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) into the hydrogen fuel cells.
— A New Mexico startup He dubbed the material
is betting on automakers Pajarito Powder, which is
to develop hydrogen cars inspired by Pajarito Mesa —
and wants to provide ma- the site of Los Alamos Na-
terial for them as nations tional Laboratory.
and companies scramble Japan announced in May
to bring pollution-free ve- that it was backing a push
hicles to drivers. for pollution-free vehicles
The Albuquerque-based that run on hydrogen. It is
Pajarito Powder is develop- planning to build more hy-
ing material for hydrogen drogen fueling stations so
fuel cells that CEO Tom that fuel-cell vehicles on
Stephenson hopes will one roads will grow to 40,000 by
day aid those concept 2020.
hydrogen-powered cars, Now, only a handful of such
KOB-TV in Albuquerque re- vehicles are on the roads,
ported. partly because of the scar-
“Every fuel cell vehicle is city of hydrogen stations.
going to need material like Tokyo-based Honda, for in-
what we produce,” Ste- stance has delivered only
phenson said. 245 of its latest Clarity fuel-
Fuel cell vehicles are zero- cell vehicles in Japan, and In this Nov. 17, 2010, file photo, Mercedes- Benz USA unveils then their latest DaimlerChrysler fuel
emission, running on power the U.S. Toyota has deliv- cell vehicle, Mercedes-Benz, the “F-Cell” fuel cell, a zero emission vehicle fueled by compressed
produced when hydrogen ered about 3,000 of its Mirai hydrogen at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles.
combines with oxygen in fuel cell cars. Associated Press
the air to create water. The need for vehicles cerns about pollution and working together on fuel infrastructure of hydrogen
Stephenson’s company equipped with such futuris- global warming. cells, viewing such collabo- stations, and agreeing on
of 17 employees is creat- tic technology is expected Automakers and energy ration on investing in the standards as crucial for its
ing a thin film built directly to grow because of con- companies have been technology, including the success.q

Telegram denies Iran’s claim it installed servers there

AMIR VAHDAT to The Associated Press on ny rents from an unnamed
Associated Press Sunday. “No Telegram serv- network provider. He said
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s ers will be moved to Iran,” the company relies on
communications and in- he wrote, while providing a CDNs in countries includ-
formation technology min- link to an earlier post. Vaezi ing Turkey, Iraq, Iran, India,
ister was quoted Sunday said Telegram planned Indonesia and Argentina
as saying the widely used to use third-party systems where it does not want to
Telegram messenger ser- known as content delivery install servers of its own.
vice has transferred some networks, or CDNs, in Iran. Those nodes are not able to
of its servers into the coun- But Durov said CDNs, which decipher encrypted mes-
try, but the encrypted ap- internet-based services like sages sent by Telegram,
plication’s founder swiftly Telegram use to make data he said. “CDNs only get
denied the claim. available faster, “have encrypted data and they
The report from Iran’s semi- nothing to do with relo- never have the keys,” he
official ISNA news agency cating Telegram servers or wrote. “Even if they are ac-
quoted Mahmoud Vaezi complying with unreason- cessed by hackers or third
as saying: “As a result of able local laws.” parties, the attacker won’t
meetings with Telegram Durov later released be able to decipher the In this Saturday, July 15, 2017, file photo the messaging app
managers, some of its serv- a statement saying the files.” Telegram allows us- Telegram is displayed on a smartphone in Bangkok, Thailand.
ers have been moved to claim about servers in Iran ers to send text messages, Associated Press
the country.” But Telegram was “probably another pictures and video over the destruct” after a certain foreign-based social net-
CEO Pavel Durov said piece of fake news or in- internet. The service touts period, making it a favorite works that they must move
that’s not so, reiterating the correct translation” and itself as being highly en- among activists and oth- their servers into the coun-
company’s previous posi- may have referred to a crypted and allows users to ers concerned about their try if they want to continue
tion in a Twitter message CDN node that his compa- set their messages to “self- privacy. Iran has informed operations in the country.q