Category: 3. Tech

  • 3D Printing in Microgravity: WVU’s Breakthroughs for Space Exploration

    3D Printing in Microgravity: WVU’s Breakthroughs for Space Exploration

    A recent study published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces investigates the potential for using 3D printing in weightlessness, also known as microgravity, with titania foam. This study was conducted by a team of researchers in the Microgravity Research Team at West Virginia University (WVU) and holds the potential for scientists and astronauts to better…

  • Salt solution cools computers, boosts performance

    Salt solution cools computers, boosts performance

    Graphical abstract. Credit: Device (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.device.2023.100121 Researchers at the City University of Hong Kong found the secret to a more efficient, less expensive approach to keeping massive computer systems cool: Just add salt. A growing concern in computing is the enormous amount of heat generated in ever-increasing global computer arrays churning… Continue Reading News…

  • Energy-cutting efforts by big firms, partners see mixed results

    Energy-cutting efforts by big firms, partners see mixed results

    Impacts of buyer collaboration on energy efficiency investment x and social welfare W for high and low levels of e, where ↑ (↓) indicates an increase (decrease). Credit: SSRN Electronic Journal (2023). DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4577708 New research from the University of Oregon and Western University has shed more light on the social effects of large corporations…

  • Quantum Control Breakthrough a Game Changer for Next-Gen Electronics and Computers

    Quantum Control Breakthrough a Game Changer for Next-Gen Electronics and Computers

    Penn State researchers unveil an electrical method to modify electron flow in quantum materials, paving the way for advanced electronics and quantum computers. For the first time, researchers demonstrated how to electronically alter the direction of electron flow in promising materials for quantum computing. A new electrical method to conveniently change the direction of electron…

  • Scientists propose perovskite films homogenizing strategy to increase conversion efficiency

    Scientists propose perovskite films homogenizing strategy to increase conversion efficiency

    Perovskite solar cell. Credit: Pan’s team In a study published in Nature, researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a new and promising method of fabricating homogenized perovskite films for solar cells. The process involves inhibiting phase segregation caused by internal cation inhomogeneity to increase…

  • Biden’s new executive order on AI expected to boost Silicon Valley

    Biden’s new executive order on AI expected to boost Silicon Valley

    Credit: Photos Hobby, Unsplash A lengthy executive order on artificial intelligence signed Monday by President Joe Biden is expected to give a big boost to AI development in Silicon Valley. Bay Area experts say the guidelines and government oversight promised in the order, a whopping 20,000-word document, will lend confidence to significant numbers of potential……

  • Ørsted scrapped its ambitious plan for a New Jersey offshore wind farm

    Ørsted scrapped its ambitious plan for a New Jersey offshore wind farm

    The wind energy company Ørsted has officially shuttered plans for two New Jersey offshore wind farms, citing rising inflation, interest rates, and supply chain problems. The blow to US green energy infrastructure arrives less than two weeks after the Danish wind industry giant promised to pay the Garden State a $100 million penalty if its…

  • How to ensure Alberta’s oil and gas workers have jobs during the energy transition

    How to ensure Alberta’s oil and gas workers have jobs during the energy transition

    Credit: CC0 Public Domain Retraining Alberta’s oil and gas workers for the solar industry costs far less than you think. The results of our new study clearly show that a rapid transition to sustainable energy production is feasible, as costs of retraining oil and gas workers are far from prohibitive. Probable futures The oil and…

  • Google’s 2019 ‘Code Yellow’ blurred line between search, ads

    Google’s 2019 ‘Code Yellow’ blurred line between search, ads

    Credit: CC0 Public Domain The former head of search at Alphabet Inc.”s Google told colleagues in February 2019 that his team was “getting too involved with ads for the good of the product and company,” according to emails shown at the Justice Department’s landmark antitrust trial against the search giant. Google maintains a firewall between…

  • Google trims Bay Area jobs at offices it had leased a few years ago

    Google trims Bay Area jobs at offices it had leased a few years ago

    Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Google has revealed plans to trim dozens of jobs in the Bay Area in a fresh round of job cuts—but these most recent reductions represent a tiny fraction of the layoffs the tech titan had disclosed early this year. Mountain View-based Google has decided to cut 75 jobs at two adjacent…