Your next ultrafast SSD might be here sooner than you think
Your next ultrafast SSD might be here sooner than you think.....»»
Achieving UV nonlinearity with a wide bandgap semiconductor waveguide
The field of ultrafast nonlinear photonics has now become the focus of numerous studies, as it enables a host of applications in advanced on-chip spectroscopy and information processing. The latter in particular requires a strongly intensity-dependen.....»»
TSMC N4 node trial production will start a quarter sooner than expected, N3 node to be mass-produced in 2H 2022
TSMC's 4nm chips will be based on the N5 design rules but still offer more performance, power efficiency, and transistor density than its predecessor. Risk production is set for the third quarter of 2021, TSMC said......»»
Spotting tar spot disease sooner
Dispatching drones equipped with remote sensing technology in the air and taking smartphone images on the ground, a Michigan State University researcher is helping farmers more quickly predict and quantify tar spot, a disease found in maize crops......»»
United Airlines Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Air Travel
The airline, which plans to buy planes from Boom Supersonic [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], a start-up, could become the first to offer ultrafast commercial flights since the Concorde stopped flying in 2003. From a rep.....»»
Ultrafast, on-chip PCR could speed diagnosis during pandemics
Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been the gold standard for diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the PCR portion of the test requires bulky, expensive machines and takes about an hour to complete, making it dif.....»»
Ford open to speeding up EV shift in Europe
Ford could make the move to all-electric for its passenger vehicles in Europe sooner than 2030. "It's quite possible that we move faster," Ford of Europe CEO Stuart Rowley said......»»
Shaken, not stirred: Ultrafast skyrmion reshuffling
Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient: future requirements to computing and data storage are hard to fulfill and alternative concepts are continuously explored. Small magnetic textures, so-called skyrmions, may become an ingredient in novel memory a.....»»
Lenovo dives into ultrafast screens with its new 360Hz Legion gaming monitor
Lenovo's latest gaming monitor, the Legion Y25g, comes with a wicked-fast 360Hz refresh rate. But that kind of speed doesn't come cheap......»»
To sell or not to sell: Lessons from a bootstrapped CEO
Regardless of a young company’s struggles or success, sooner or later the question of when, how or whether to sell the enterprise presents itself. It’s the biggest question a founder will face. Glen Rabie Contributor.....»»
Transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking inside materials using the method of transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays at SwissFEL. The experiment at PSI is a milestone in observing proce.....»»
Lighting it up: Fast material manipulation through a laser
Researchers from the Physical Chemistry Department of the Fritz Haber Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg have found out that ultrafast switches in material properties can be prompted by laser pu.....»»
Little swirling mysteries: New research uncovers dynamics of ultrasmall, ultrafast groups of atoms
Our high-speed, high-bandwidth world constantly requires new ways to process and store information. Semiconductors and magnetic materials have made up the bulk of data storage devices for decades. In recent years, however, researchers and engineers h.....»»
Apple’s next event is April 20
Apple only dropped info about WWDC two weeks back, but the company just announced another event – this one happening much sooner. After Siri spilled the beans this morning, the company has officially confirmed its next event for April 20. Invites f.....»»
Pandemic-inspired discoveries: New insect species from Kosovo named after the Coronavirus
While the new Coronavirus will, hopefully, be effectively controlled sooner rather than later, its latest namesake is here to stay—a small caddisfly endemic to a national park in Kosovo that is new to science......»»
Official support for Linux on the M1 Macs could come as soon as June
While we’ve seen a variety of different efforts to bring Linux support to the M1 Macs, official support could be coming sooner than expected. As reported by Phoronix, the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle could be when preliminary support for the M1 Macs.....»»
LG’s exit from the smartphone market comes as no surprise
It was time for LG to move on. Frankly, the only surprise was that it didn’t do so sooner. For those who follow the space, LG will be remembered fondly as a smartphone trailblazer. For a decade-and-a-half, the company was a major player i.....»»
Daimler to speed up electric shift as 2021 starts strongly
The Mercedes-Benz maker wants to reach its electrification goal sooner than its previously announced 2030 target, CEO Ola Kallenius said......»»
New technology enables ultrafast identification of COVID-19 biomarkers
Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Francis Crick Institute have developed a mass spectrometry-based technique capable of measuring samples containing thousands of proteins within just a few minutes. It is faster and cheaper than a conventional blood.....»»
Researchers show path to zero-emissions LA
Powering Los Angeles entirely with renewable energy can be accomplished without significant disruption to the economy or lifestyles over the next 25 years, if not sooner, according to new research conducted by USC experts for the city and federal gov.....»»
Facebook Waited Too Long To Stop 10 Billion Pageviews of Repeat Misinformation Spreaders
Facebook could have prevented more than 10bn pageviews of prominent misinformation-spreading accounts in the US if it had acted sooner in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, a new report has claimed [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled.....»»