Новости за 20.03.2024

Austin (AFP) Mar 17, 2024
For people at the trend-setting tech festival here, the scandal that erupted after Google's Gemini chatbot cranked out images of Black and Asian Nazi soldiers was seen as a warning about the power artificial intelligence can give tech titans. Google CEO Sundar Pichai last month slammed as "completely unacceptable" errors by his company's Gemini AI app, after gaffes such as the images of ethn

Paris (AFP) Mar 19, 2024
The chief executive of French automaker Renault called Tuesday for a European "Marshall Plan" to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and reduce carbon emissions in the face of Chinese competition. The post-WWII US programme helped rebuild Western European economies, and Luca de Meo argued for a similar effort in a series of proposals made to launch a policy debate ahead of European

Beijing (AFP) Mar 20, 2024
European companies in China are facing "less predictable" business conditions in the world's second-largest economy, a report said on Wednesday, forcing them to allocate more resources to risk management. The study, published by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, sheds light on the increasing challenges for foreign firms with operations in the country. More than half of tho

San Jose, United States (AFP) Mar 18, 2024
Nvidia on Monday unveiled its latest family of chips for powering artificial intelligence, as it seeks to consolidate its position as the major supplier to the AI frenzy. "We need bigger GPUs. So ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to a very, very big GPU," said CEO Jensen Huang at a developers conference in California, referring to the graphics processors that are vital in t

Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Mar 19, 2024
To combat climate change and adhere to the Paris Agreement's aim of capping global warming at 1.5C, a substantial portion of the planet's coal, oil, and conventional gas reserves must remain untapped. This is the central finding of a study led by the University of Barcelona, recently published in Nature Communications, which introduces an atlas pinpointing the oil reserves that should not be exp

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2024
In a collaborative breakthrough, Prof. CUI Linsong's team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Prof. Samuel D. Stranks' team from the University of Cambridge have unveiled a pioneering method to significantly advance the performance of blue perovskite light-emitting diodes (LEDs), as reported in Nature Photonics on January 26, 2024. Despite the rapid development

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 20, 2024
A team from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania has developed an innovative material poised to enhance the stability and efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). This breakthrough, involving a novel 9,9'-spirobifluorene derivative, promises to address critical challenges in the longevity and performance of PSCs, heralding a more sustainable energy future. Perovskite sola

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2024
Karman Space and Defense ("Karman") is at the forefront as a principal supplier of critical subsystems for the X-59 supersonic aircraft, a result of the collaboration between Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and NASA's Quesst Mission. This partnership signifies a leap in aerospace technology, aiming to revolutionize supersonic flight with minimal noise impact. The introduction of the X-59 by NA

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 13, 2024
The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) meteorological satellite, INSAT-3DS, has begun its mission to observe Earth, successfully capturing its initial imagery on March 7, 2024. The satellite, launched on February 17, 2024, underwent a series of orbit-raising maneuvers before settling into its geostationary orbit on February 28, 2024. Subsequently, it completed its In Orbit Testing

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2024
The solar industry in Los Angeles County is currently at a standstill due to the Los Angeles County Fire Department's (LACoFD) decision to halt permits for solar battery installations. Directed by Chief Stillwagon and purportedly supported by the State Fire Marshal, this blockade, effective since October 2023, has halted the county's progress towards embracing renewable energy. Chief Still

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 20, 2024
International research teams from Massey University, the University of Mainz, Sorbonne University, and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have made notable strides in understanding superheavy elements, reshaping the concept of the periodic table's "island of stability." Their work, featured on the cover of February 2024's Nature Review Physics, alongside a related review in Physics Repor