Новости за 06.03.2024

Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2024
China's economic troubles are far from over and leaders admit the country will face an uphill struggle in hitting its goals for 2024, piling on the pressure for stimulus and reforms that experts say are needed to reverse the malaise. Beijing's leadership on Tuesday laid out an objective of "around five percent" gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year - a dream of many developed Wester

Washington (AFP) March 4, 2024
A company that was sued by Nintendo for creating software that allowed the mass pirating of video games agreed Monday to pay the "Super Mario" maker $2.4 million in damages and shutter the tool. The company behind "Legend of Zelda" and "Donkey Kong" last week sued Tropic Haze, registered in the US state of Rhode Island, which owns and runs Yuzu, a popular video game emulator. A video gam

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) March 4, 2024
The EU on Monday hit Apple with a more than 1.8-billion-euro fine ($1.9 billion) for violating the bloc's laws by preventing European users from accessing information about alternative, cheaper music streaming services. The iPhone maker immediately vowed to appeal the first ever antitrust fine slapped on Apple by Brussels, the culmination of a case triggered by a complaint by Swedish streami

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 01, 2024
In a groundbreaking study, Chinese scientists have harnessed the capabilities of the science satellite SDGSAT-1 to address the challenges posed by modern illumination sources in urban environments. This research, spearheaded by the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, represents a significant step forward in the management of urban light pollution. P

Bangkok (AFP) March 5, 2024
Thailand must do more to tackle air pollution, a government agency has warned, saying more than 10 million people required treatment for pollution-related health problems in 2023. The kingdom's cities often rank among the worst in the world for PM 2.5 particles - so tiny they can enter the bloodstream - during the early months of the year thanks to farmers burning stubble and exhaust fumes

Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
The race to create increasingly faster and more powerful computer chips continues as transistors, their fundamental components, shrink to ever smaller and more compact sizes. In a few years, these transistors will measure just a few atoms across - by which point, the miniaturization of the silicon technology currently used will have reached its physical limits. Consequently, the quest for altern

Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
Suppose two speakers of the same language are playing a guessing game where each has the same color swatches, and Player 1 tries to get Player 2 to guess a hue by naming the color. If the second player consistently guesses correctly as often as possible, that indicates their language has an efficient color naming system. Past research has shown that efficient color vocabularies are constra

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
Our ability to cram ever-smaller transistors onto a chip has enabled today's age of ubiquitous computing. But that approach is finally running into limits, with some experts declaring an end to Moore's Law and a related principle, known as Dennard's Scaling. Those developments couldn't be coming at a worse time. Demand for computing power has skyrocketed in recent years thanks in large par

Houston TX (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
Glass fiber-reinforced plastic (GFRP), a strong and durable composite material, is widely used in everything from aircraft parts to windmill blades. Yet the very qualities that make it robust enough to be used in so many different applications make it difficult to dispose of ? consequently, most GFRP waste is buried in a landfill once it reaches its end of life. According to a study publis

Fayetteville AR (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
Score another one for artificial intelligence. In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought. Divergent thinking is characterized by the ability to generate a unique solution to a question that does not have one expected solution, such as "What is the

Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2024
What do you picture in your mind's eye when you hear the word "laser"? A light saber? A cat toy? The sensor at the supermarket reading barcodes as fast as the eye can blink? These are all lasers, but there are so many more in so many sizes and colors with capabilities that have yet to be tapped or even imagined. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Alireza Mara

Singapore (SPX) Mar 04, 2024
Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have pioneered a new methodology of fabricating carbon-based quantum materials at the atomic scale by integrating scanning probe microscopy techniques and deep neural networks. This breakthrough highlights the potential of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) at the sub-angstrom scale for enhanced control over atomic manufacturing,

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2024
In the predawn hours of Sept. 5, 2021, engineers achieved a major milestone in the labs of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), when a new type of magnet, made from high-temperature superconducting material, achieved a world-record magnetic field strength of 20 tesla for a large-scale magnet. That's the intensity needed to build a fusion power plant that is expected to produce a net ou