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 …
A new waste disposal technology has been developed by Mumbai-based Excel Industries Ltd, an agricultural and industrial chemicals company. The company'scost-effective strategy involves waste treatment at points of generation, controlled aerobic composting and mechanical screening of digested compost. (Celrich substrate DF-BF-O1', the biological innoculum the company sprayed on solid waste …
THE days of pointing at a phrase book and loudly asking the way to the railway station in a foreign city - hoping someone would know your language - could soon be over, thanks to a translating computer that Siemens of Germany is set to unveil next month. The Siemens' …
People at risk of flooding in the uk can now be warned by a new automated telephone system called open talk. Developed by the uk Environment Agency and Kingston Communications of Kingston-upon-Hull, the service relies on the combination of weather, radar and river height sensors that radio readings to the …
INDIAN researchers and inventors can look for help from the Internet. They now have access to original patent documents on the Network instead of just abstracts. A new service by Derwent, a uk company, makes available such information on the Network which will help Indian researchers study a us patent …
Members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( apec ) forum have agreed to liberalise global trade in information technology. The apec nations will chalk out a common position on bringing down tariffs on computers, telecommunications equipment and other
Holography with laser beams is commonplace. Now, F Shimizu and others at the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in Tsukuba, Japan, have used waves of neon atoms to form a small physical image. The image is coded as an interference pattern between two laser beams (a reflected and a reference beam) …
interactions between quarks and gluons is a key area which presents gaps in our understanding of the nature of matter. Quarks (the smallest particles comprising matter) and gluons (massless particles that carry a strong nuclear force) are usually not seen by themselves. In ordinary matter and under normal circumstances, these …
Yet another addition to the fleet of satellites peering down on earth is Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (adeos). Bristling with sensors for measuring everything from stratospheric ozone to ocean turbulence, the satellite launches Japan into the upper realms of remote-sensing science. Carrying eight instruments from Japan, France and the …
computer scientists are on the verge of producing chips that hold 1,000 times more information and are 10 times quicker than today's devices. The new generation of superchips could vastly enhance the processing power of computers, enabling devices to be commanded by voice and hold as much information as the …
Users of digital mobile phones may soon be able to send faxes directly from their handsets. Vodafone of the UK is carrying out trials of a service that would allow its subscribers to use the short message service facility to compose faxes. The message can be up to 160 characters-long …
Asia's first drug information network has become operational in Kathmandu from September 23. The network aims at providing pharmacists, students, researchers, consumers and patients among others, information pertaining to drugs like regulatory mechanisms, dosage, storage, availability, prices etc. It can be accessed through telephone, mail or person-to-person contact. The network …
Africa apparently has become the new-found interest for Japs, who are quietly targeting their overseas development assistance (ODA) towards helping African nations create a strong base for science and technology. In Kenya, for instance, they have collaborated with the government to establish the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Kenya Forestry …
companies around the world have been vying with each other to come up with the lightest and easiest to carry mobile phone. Thanks to Japan's penchant for miniaturisation, now you can carry a phone around your wrist. The Japanese telecommunications giant, nit , has developed a wristwatch-telephone that could be …
Branching outThe Tree of Life (TOL) is being rated as the most worthwhile thing on the web by biologists. Planted by the Maddison brothers of the University of Arizona, US, on the World Wide Web, the TOL is growing fast and far to reach institutions around the globe. The tree …
In a significant ruling for Internet buffs, a US court recently ruled that putting a site on the World Wide Web doesn't make a person liable to be sued anywhere in the US. They gave the judgement on a lawsuit filed in New York by the operator of a city-based …
Fibre optics has increased the data transmission speeds between computers considerably but applications like video conferencing require even more speed. Now for the first time, three separate groups have crossed the terabit threshold. These researchers from Fujitsu, Nippon Telephone and AT&T; have used a new technique to transmit more than …
One of the main components of a video conferencing system is the codec (coder-decoder), which converts video pictures, sound and control information into a compressed digital form for transmission. Origin, a UK company, has developed a technology that can double the performance of video codecs. Origin has increased the codecs' …
Naval ships have little time to defend against modern missiles that home in on targets at 32.18 km a minute at surface-low height. But scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, are working on a new radar system that promises to detect such threats faster. It could also improve the …
