New research has examined the factors that could lead to the collapse of global civilisation, with New Zealand identified as the country most resilient to future threats.
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New CEO Pat Gelsinger says a “torrid” pace of innovation helped convince Amazon and Qualcomm to pay Intel to build future processors.
Insulin prices have risen exponentially over the last decade. Learn about the team of volunteer scientists working to make it affordable again.
Intel is matching foundry rival, TSMC, node-for-node with its new process naming convention, but has also fired the first shot in the race for sub-nanometer terminology. Below 1nm, we’re moving into what it’s now calling the ‘angstrom era of semiconductors’.
At the Intel Accelerated event CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has unveiled a detailed process roadmap for its future nodes, all tied into a new way to reference them. “We are accelerating our innovation roadmap to ensure we are on a clear path to process performance leadership by 2025,” he says.
Satya Nadella’s Microsoft has become easier for companies to work with, it hasn’t made deals that went bad, and its Teams and Azure assets are now common.
Researchers can roughly project what autistic children’s lives will look like years down the road. But how good is their crystal ball — and what are its benefits?
An “unusually large” meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Scandinavia early Sunday morning before at least some of it came rumbling down near Oslo, the capital of Norway.
The meteor “lit up the sky for a brief time as if broad daylight,” just after 1 a.m., Steinar Midtskogen, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Meteor Network, told CNN.
“A minute later or more a loud rumbling sound could be heard over a large area, perhaps up to 100 km (about 62 miles) away from where the meteor was seen straight overhead,” Midtskogen said in an email.
The Pacific basin is thought to contain more than 30 billion tons of so-called polymetallic nodules, rocks that are rich with cobalt, copper, manganese, nickel, rare-earth elements and titanium. Scientists and entrepreneurs have been researching methods of extracting them since the 1960s. In 1994, the International Seabed Authority was established to regulate mining efforts and protect the seabed environment. Any of the group’s 167 member-states can stake claims to mining concessions on the ocean floor and sponsor private companies to explore them. But the ISA has not yet completed, much less approved, any regulations. So far, it’s only handed out permits for exploration.
Despite the potential riches, more time is needed to study the potential impact on the least resilient ecosystem on the planet.
When Alder Lake arrives, if 12th-gen CPUs are as good as rumors suggest, could supply issues be a concern?
We can all learn from how today’s young people evaluate truth online.
Members of Gen Z are presumably more digitally savvy than their predecessors, but influencer culture perpetuates their sharing of misinformation.