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 …
THE National Param Super Computer Centre in Pune is developing one of the world's largest computers which will become operational by 1998, according to Vijay P Bhatkar, executive director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The computer, costing between Rs 50 to 70 crore, would first be commercially installed …
THE ardous of the window cleaners are numbered. A self-cleaning window glass is on the horizon, as described by Adam Heller of the University of Texas, Austin, at a meeting of the American Chemical Society of Chicago, held between August 20-24, 1995. A photocatalytic coating of titanium dioxide (Ti02), just …
CLEAN UP TIME: Pollutec Operations, Australia, has come up with a technology to extract litter and other solid debris from urban stormwater drains. The process, known as Continuous Deflective Separation, is likely to prove a boon for cities since it removes virtually all water-borne polluting solids such as packaging materials, …
How does the idea of silk-coats leather sound? Scientists at tic National Institute of Sericultural and Entomological Science Japan are working to realise the ideT with the help of Indem,*3 Petrochemical Co Ltd Silk, now only made into yarn fibip has been crushed to powder forzT for coating various mate …
The Pakistim government's Private Softw are ExpoW Board (PSEB) has solicited bids fro international top guns in the computt field to set up software technology PAN in the country. The parks will cater needs of the software companig according to Shahid Mir, managing director, PSEB. attract foreign investments, the government …
THE World Bank (WE) has made a strong plea for concerted action by the governments of the rich and poor countries alike, to "reverse the long-run trend of widening international inequality." In its World Development Report, 1995, it has argued that the rich countries must preserve open trade relations and …
CYCLONE-PRONE areas are likely to reap the benefits of a wind tunnel devised By the structural Engineering Research Centre(SERC), a unit of the Council of Industrial Research (CSIR) based in Madras. Recently, CSIR the cyclones unveiled plans to commission the tun nel mechanism to carry out experimen I wen are …
An Indian Institute of TechnoN Delhi, researcher has devised a, to produce potable water fi impure water using solar ent efficiently. The device, a solar a produces 20 per cent more w than other stills and gives 3 1 litres of clean water per sq metre day, reports Science For …
FOR vehicle owners using diesel for fuel, clogged air filters Is nothing new. In most cases, they needed to be replaced. However, they can now look forward to a now device which will not only recycle air filters of trucks and buses but also decrease fuel consumption, by means of …
AQUA IS GOLD: Controversial it may be, but aquaculture still holds promise for many an entrepreneur. So much so that the State Bank of India (SBI), the country's leading bank, has expressed the wish to be a iconstructive partner' of the state government for promoting aquaculture in West Bengal. Addressing …
The successful Roll-Royce Tay engine used in 70- and 100-seat Fokker airliners, the Gulfstream GIV executive jet, and the redesigned Boeing 727-100 air-crafts, are to be equipped with an advanced low-emissions combustion system. According to LPS British Industrial News (No 24/95), the new combustor has improved carbon monoxide readings by …
Rotten fish stinks, and so smell had always been held as the conclusive proof of its freshness. But now, one Icelandic company has done away with all that smelling business. A gadget they have developed, says the Financial Times (July 30) London, tests the freshness of a fish by measuring …
THE old banking system is collapsing under pressure from new technologies, causing sleepless nights to big bankers. The bank of the future will be a cyber- space one, which never closes, nor has long queues at its counters and does not even deal with hard cash. These banks' -as they've …
PINPOINTING the location of a fire out- break has often caused a lot of heart- burn to firemen. Not any more: the New Delhi-based National Informatics Centre (Nic) has @ome out with a new software which enables the user to identify a location even with half-baked information about the address. …
TEMPLES of higher technical learning in India have finally admitted some new converts in their hallowed corridors. The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), and the Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, offered 6 Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) money and expertise to commercialise their research. In exchange, …
TREMENDOUS advances in computer technology have been the order of the day in the last decade. The machines have become faster, more robust and capable of handling much more data than before (Science, Vol 269). For instance, the latest Intel 80586 chip (Pentium) works at almost 100 MHZ, compared to …
In what is being termed as a historic venture, the India-China-South Korea consortium to build a 100-seater passenger aircraft could cause a severe jolt to the powerful Western aerospace industry. Civil aviatiation experts opine that the Asian airline industry soon expects to see the maximum growth globally, in the medium-size …
To discourage counterfeiters, signing of important documents with DNA is finding solid ground. Already a practice with American cartoonist Joe Barbara, who signs his creations with his own genetic material, the technique is the brain-child of Charles Butland of the Ios Angeles-based company, DNA Art Guard International (New Scientist, Vol …
Large, flat television screens, up to 127 cm in the diagonal, that can be hung on the wall may soon be available. Japan-based Sony and an American electronics company, Tektronix, have jointly built a flat TV based on liquid crystal display (LCD) technology that can produce high resolution, high-contrast images …
People may soon be able not only to choose from hundreds of television channels, but also use their television and telephone,sets to arrange for a telecast of their favourite movies to watch immediately or store for later viewing, and even receive airline schedules, news and catalogue shopping information whenever they …
