Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
S R Manalis and his colleagues at the Stanford University, in the US, have reported the fabrication of a new type of cantilever which uses optical deflection and is extremely sensitive. A movable grating is used to diffract a laser beam which is then detected by a photodiode. The basic …
CARDI0 Voice Monitoring, a New Jerseybased company has developed a telephone with a built-in heart monitor which will storm the us market this year. Called CardioVoice, the telephone looks exactly like the conventional one but has an electrode in its receiver that can be used to monitor the heart rate …
HERBAL REMEDY:A sore throat reliever, the first of a new range of herbal oral care products, has been launched by the Mumbai-based Kopran Pharmaceuticals. The company will also introduce a mouth ulcer gel, a mouth deodoriser a destaining toothpaste and a cracked voice healer under the Smyle range of products. …
Researchers D A Redelmeier and R J Tibshirani of the University of Toronto, US, say that driving while talking on cellular phones is as dangerous as driving while slightly drunk. A perusal of the telephone records of drivers involved in 699 roadway collisions in Canada showed that the risk of …
Given the extraordinary number of handwritings that exist, it has proved extremely difficult for a computer to recognise handwritten script. Now, researchers at the State University of New York in Buffalo, US, have developed a system that can read upto 20 per cent of script addresses. This system, which is …
though the word laser conjures up images of Star Wars in most people's minds, it is among the most widely used technologies in our times. From bar code scanners to producing holograms, from fibre optics to cd rom drives, lasers are ubiquitous. A highly monochromatic beam of coherent radiation, laser …
diamond - the hardest natural substance known and one of the two crystalline forms of carbon -- has a variety of uses in industry. Since the first synthesis of diamond in the laboratory in 1956 by F P Bundy and others in 1956, there have been many attempts for producing …
two Indian scientists, Rustum Roy of Pennsylvania State University and Pravin Mistry of qqc Process, Dearborn, Michigan, both in the us, are spearheading a cheaper and more flexible process to boost the worldwide demand for synthetic diamonds. A process that creates pure diamonds and binds it to a surface with …
smokeless autos: Two low-emission cars recently rolled out of Honda Motor Co of Japan. The emission levels of the two models - Civic Ferio LEV and the Partner 1.6 LEV - are only one-tenth of those specified by current regulations in Japan. The Civic Ferio is priced at around US …
Four US manufacturers (Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Rockwell and US Robotics) will soon launch modems and related devices that can receive data at 56 kbps (thousand bits per second) and send at 33.6 kbps. This will noticeably improve the speed with which users can receive large amounts of data. The new …
a process for coating metals so that they never rust has been developed for Russian military projects but could soon be made available to the world. The process has been developed at the Kola Science Centre (ksc) in Arctic Russia. Objects coated with tantalum are almost 100 per cent non-corrosive, …
to say that science and technology is progressing at lightning speed is an understatement. What, however, needs to be questioned is whether it is moving in the right direction or not. Since reports appeared about the existence of Dolly, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from the cells …
On-line avatar The Internet supports many on-line worlds but at present each one demands that the user create a new on-line identity. All this is set to change as the developers of on-line realms prepare to standardise the way a participant's on-line persona - known as an avatar - is …
Curtains and drapes will soon be turned into pollution control systems. They will be made of thin graphite sheets, which when hung inside a room or factory will absorb most atmospheric pollutants like oxides of nitrogen and carbon, fumes of kerosene and strong-smelling acids and alkalis that cause respiratory and …
skyscrapers could soon be one of the solutions to urban pollution problems. A proposal to that effect has been introduced by Melvin Prueitt, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, us, who has been awarded four patents for several tower configurations. These towers will transform hundreds of …
the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's (saarc) Integrated Programme of Action identifies 12 areas in which the member countries could cooperate. Science and technology (s&t) is one of them. A technical committee
the clouds of black smoke from the tailpipe of a bus may become an old story if a recent British invention, an oil recycler, proves its efficacy. The recycler can produce oil savings of at least 600 per cent as well as attain 50 per cent reduction in hydrocarbon emissions …
A lot of debate over Indian science & technology (s&t;) is focused around funding. Currently, India spends about 0.8 per cent of its gross national product on s&t;, down from almost one per cent spent in 1992-93. This includes investments made by central and state governments as well as the …
environment-technology is "nice to have but ugly to pay for', in the words of Peter Fritz, managing director of Preussag Noell, a German company which deals exclusively with green technology. His grouse reflects the sentiments of an increasing number of German producers who believe that the market for such products …
