• COMPUTERS
    ARTIFICIAL SYNAPSES COULD LEAD TO BRAINIER, SUPER-EFFICIENT COMPUTERS

    BRAINS, BEYOND THEIR signature achievements in thinking and problem solving, are paragons of energy efficiency. The human brain’s power consumption resembles that of a 20-watt incandescent lightbulb. In contrast, one of the world’s largest and fastest supercomputers, the K computer in Kobe, Japan, consumes as much as 9.89 megawatts of energy—an amount roughly equivalent to the […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Harmless elements can replace toxic lead in electronics

    Henrik Soensteby holds a silicon wafer covered with a thin film consisting of sodium, potassium, niobium and oxygen. The colors are caused by unintentional thickness variations. Credit: Bjarne Roesjoe/UiO Most smartphones and other electrical or electronic products contain small amounts of lead, which doesn’t sound like a big problem on its own. But when there […]

  • Left on clothing tags lead Barrie police to alleged shoplifter

    BARRIE, Ont. — Police in Barrie, Ont., say tags still hanging from a man’s clothes led to his arrest on theft-related charges. They say a store security guard noticed a man allegedly putting on socks and then slipping his feet back into his shoes on Tuesday afternoon. After making the man remove the socks and […]

  • NEWS
    First, Fast, Fearless: How to Lead Like a Navy SEAL

    Nominated for a Small Business Book Award in: Motivation Read more about this nominee “First, Fast, Fearless” is a practical guide for the business leader who wants to learn from the best of the best how to build and lead effective teams in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity, and constant change. As one of […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    New Thin Film Transistor May Lead to Flexible Electronics

    New Thin Film Transistor May Lead to Flexible Electronics Researchers have invented a thin film transistor that could lead to the development of flexible electronic devices with applications such as display technology, medical imaging and renewable energy production. Researchers were exploring new uses for thin film transistors (TFT), which are most commonly found in low-power, […]

  • NEWS
    Flipkart, Paytm founders lead $1 million investment round in online learning platform Unacademy

    Image credit: Unacademy – YouTube Online learning startup Unacademy has secured $1 million (approximately Rs 6.7 crore) in an investment round in which entrepreneurs such as Flipkart co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal as well as Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma participated. The round, led by Blume Ventures, is the second such for the company, which […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    New skinny movie Transistor may additionally lead to bendy Electronics

    Researchers have invented a thin film transistor that might lead to the development of flexible electronicgadgets with applications which include display technology, medical imaging and renewable energymanufacturing. Researchers were exploring new makes use of for skinny movie transistors (TFT), which might be mostcommonly observed in low-energy, low-frequency gadgets like a computer show display screen. Efforts […]