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 …
Toll-free phone Installing the right software can transform the computer into a toll- free phone. To connect, both parties must have Internet accounts, the same brand of telephone software and multimedia computers with 486 processors or better. Internet Phone, a software developed by VocalTecof Northvale, New Jersey is currently the …
INTERNET, the world's communication network will soon becorne the source for crofters - tenants in Scotland holding small plots of arable land near their homes - to access information al;6ut the ecological impact of fanning a4iions on their land. "We would like to explore @o what extent computer technology @ould …
AIR POWER: Sita Enterprises Ltd, a Mumbai-based export and consultancy company, is all set to breeze into the wind and hydel power sector. The company is planning to construct a hydel power project with a generating capacity of four MW costing around Rs four crore. According to AshokTulsian, managing director …
Wired books Small-time publishers have come up with a novel way of reaching an enormous readership: netting out the material. Aptly titled E-zines, the electronic magazines number more than 750, ranging from the Abraxus Reader to the Zzone's Zmagazine. Categories include everything c('nceivable from paranoia and punk Marxism to classical …
A WESTERN film critic, much moved by the scenes of meandering railway lines and leisurely paced trains in Satyajit Ray"s films, once commented upon the "mesmeric quality" of Indian trains. But that perhaps exemplifies the old adage: all that glitters is not gold. In fact, the state of the Indian …
CAPITAL COSTS The capital cost of an electric loco is 3.22 crore. At least 7 MW is required to run an electric loco an the tracks. With Rs 4.25 crore per MW needed to set up one power plant, Investment per loco is Rs 29.25 crore. The cost of electrification …
THE world's oceans and seas will soon become conduits for carrying conversations across major countries in what is being referred to as the 'information superhighway'. The us $1.5 billion project took off as the laying of the first stages of the FLAG (Fibreoptic Link Around the Globe) cable system took …
The explosive growth in the use of cellular telephones is threatening the field of radio astronomy which investigates everything from the formation of galaxies to finding better ways of predicting earthquakes (Newsletter of the International Telecommunication Union, No 8). The warning came from the authors of the new Handbook on …
TO DATE, most of the research on electric vehicles has concentrated on developing super-efficient batteries in an attempt to maximise their range and power-to- weight ratio. However, until now, even the most advanced vehicles have required a mini battalion of such batteries to achieve a modest performance. The new scooter …
IT is the era of knowledge revolution. And we are living in a 'knowledge society' ever since we learned how to make a fire and where to find food. The values of competition and materialism mostly dominate the human society today. In my mind, a future cannot be built on …
The race to provide the world's first global hand-held mobile phone service has been won by TRW. The US Patent and Trademarks Office has issued two patents related to the mediam earth orbit (MEO) Odyssey system that TRW is expected to launch. Satellites in the MEO would be located at …
IT is very, very Japanese: small, slick and efficient. Called the Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), this mini cellular phone made its debut in Japan on 1 July, 1995. it is Japan's first homegrown telecommunications technology - a low-powered, low-cost version that can be utilised both as a mobile phone and …
A PORTABLE infusion pump that allows patients to carry their 'drip' around, is certainly a boon for them. This electronic pump developed by the UK medical equipment company, Smith and Nephew Industry, will enable patients to undergo treatment in the comfort of their homes while they go about their normal …
VISITS to cinema halls might be a totally different experience if the dreams of the us film industry's high-tech planners come true. In fact, if every-thing goes as per schedule, the traditional mode of sending movies to cinema theatres in tin cans will be replaced by the information superhighway. The …
DESKTOP flatbed scanners are widely used for making layout preview scans and other tasks too. Previously, a drum scanner was needed to achieve true print quality image. Design studies and other firms with moderate volumes of scanning had to commission production scans from outside companies. Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Ltd of …
A DEVICE that fits in a shirt pocket but is still capable of displaying an image a metre wide is being developed by Motorola, the us communications company. When the new high-tech pager hits the shelves in two years' time, it will usher in a new generation of messaging devices …
WHILE cellular operating requirements in India vary greatly from state to state, one thing is certain - the demand for personal communications is increasing at a fantastic pace. India is currently witnessing a cellular frenzy which will boom in the next few years. What does the future hold for Indian …
A cellular phone for the ordinary Chilean is passe as the country advances to heights which even the us is yet to achieve in the field of communications. School students routinely communicate via their internet addresses and taxidrivers and housewives all walk around with cellular phones. Chile has now moved …
EVER since the first synthetic diamond process - the high-pressure catalytic - was perfected by General Electric i and De Beers in South Africa, the mat found many applications in industry. The remarkable mechanical prop diamond make it ideal for many pt Synthetic diamonds are extensively grinding and cutting tools …
To allow villagers access to many4on technologies available to them 140 before they decide to implementAIM them, the Society for Rural %IV Industrialisation (SRI) in Ranchi,A@ Bihar, has set up a rural technology park in the Chaingati village *in Ranchi district. The park is the firstem of its kind in …
