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Semiconductor
What is a semiconductor? A semiconductor is a substance that has specific electrical properties that enable it to serve as a foundation for computers and other electronic devices. It is typically a so ...
Finding new life for electric vehicle batteries
LANCASTER (KABC) -- There are unintended consequences in the efforts to get more electric vehicles on the road. One of the most glaring: What happens to the batteries that need to be replaced? Electri ...
Study Buddy (Challenger): Are robot waiters going to take over jobs of human servers at restaurants?
You may already have seen them in restaurants: waist-high machines that greet guests, lead them to their tables, deliver food and drinks, and ferry dirty dishes to the kitchen. Some have catlike faces ...
Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a “soup” of language
The rise of the robot reporter implies profound changes to the nature of the news. Asensational scoop was tweeted last month by America’s National Public Radio: Elon Musk’s “massive space sex rocket” ...
Interdependent superconducting networks
In 2010 Prof. Shlomo Havlin and collaborators published an article in the journal Nature proposing that the abrupt electricity failure causing the famous 2003 Italy blackout was a consequence of the i ...
Back to the Future: Next-Generation Vacuum Electronics
Millimeter wave vacuum tubes, including ones like the traveling wave tube (TWT) depicted here, amplify signals by exchanging kinetic energy in the electron beam (shown as a blue line) with electromagn ...
Global Copper Sputtering Target Market Definition
Physical vapor deposition (PVD), a method that involves the high-velocity ejection of atoms from solids, is applied to materials that are used as sputtering targets. After depositing on the workpiece, ...
Military Drone Maker In Powell Developing Drones To Eradicate Invasive Agriculture-Killing Weeds
Companies are looking at how to use drones in agriculture, including GT Aeronautics in Powell, which is developing drones for seek-and-destroy missions against a weedy threat to Wyoming. Leafy Spurge ...
The iPhone 15's USB-C Port Might Need Special Cables For Full Functionality
Apple will reportedly use its MFi standard, limiting charging and data transfer with some third-party cables. Leave it to Apple to comply with the EU’s USB-C mandate, only to find a way to keep its te ...
5G mobile subscriptions to rise to 5.5 billion in 2027
5G mobile subscriptions is expected to rise from 1.7 billion at the end of 2022 to 5.5 billion in 2027 occupying a total share of 48%, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. GlobalData’s ...
Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality
A mechanical backpack can enhance the sensation of jumping or falling in virtual reality by sliding a weight up or down. Simulating forces on the body while in virtual reality (VR), like those you mig ...
NVIDIA A800 HPC GPU for China now available for around $14.5K
To comply with US imposed export restriction on high technology to China, NVIDIA had to castrate their A100 high-performance accelerator for datacenter. The chips codenamed A800 and H800 have certain ...