Chip maker Intel has signaled a slowing of Moore’s Law, a technological phenomenon that has played a role in just about every major advance in engineering and technology for decades.
Since the 1970s, Intel has released chips that fit twice as many transistors into the same space roughly every two years, aiming to follow an exponential curve named after Gordon Moore, one of the company’s cofounders. That continual shrinking has helped make computers more powerful, compact, and energy-efficient. It has helped bring us smartphones, powerful Internet services, and breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence and genetics. And Moore’s Law has become shorthand for the idea that anything involving computing gets more capable over time.
The funds from the round will help LifeBeam further develop its “awareable” products, which promise users the “most personalized and insight-driven workout experience.”
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips, announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup, seeking to become more nimble as growth slows.
Samsung’s executives will sign a pledge to move away from a top-down culture and towards a working environment that fosters open dialogue.
The flagship firm of South Korea’s dominant conglomerate will also reduce the number of levels in its staff hierarchy and hold more frequent online discussions between business division heads and employees.
“We aim to reform our internal culture, execute as quickly as a startup company and push towards open communication and continuously innovate,” it said in a statement.
“Food, housing, healthcare, transportation. Life essentials made better and more affordable.” These are the types of startups that partner Paul Buchheit said were demoing today at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 2. Yesterday, we covered the first 60 startups from the batch, and picked our 7 favorites.
Just breathe into a Technion invention, and it’ll tell you with nearly 90 percent accuracy whether you have deadly lung cancer — hopefully in time to save your life.
“NaNose” should be on the market in a few years, according to developers. It addresses the key obstacle to treating lung cancer — finding it in time to knock it out.
NaNose sniffed out malignant tumors with up to 90 percent accuracy in recent tests. At the heart of the device — which looks like a “breathalyzer,” the tool police use to detect alcohol levels — is a chip based on the NaNose technology developed by a Technion researcher.
Durante tres años un consorcio de 16 ONG europeas ha estado analizando el rendimiento energético de los electrodomésticos puestos a la venta en la UE, cotejándolos con lo que indica su etiquetado energético, y el resultado es que uno de cada cinco aparatos testados con detalle consume más de lo debido.
Los test, realizados por laboratorios independientes, han encontrado una aspiradora -el modelo Kunft KVC1119, de Worten- que consume un 54% más de energía de lo declarado, un frigorífico -el AEG S53530CNX2- que consume un 12% más, un aspirador -Rowenta RO6673EA- etiquetado como B, cuando debería ser C, un lavavajillas -el OK ODW 451 FS- que precisa dos ciclos de lavado para dejar la loza en condiciones, etcétera.
«El plan del Gobierno Vasco es un recorta y pega del que le propusimos en septiembre de 2015 y que rechazó». Así valoró ayer ArcelorMittal el documento que la consejera de Desarrollo Económico, Arantxa Tapia, presentó el martes al comité de empresa y a los alcaldes afectados por el cese parcial de la actividad en la planta de Zumarraga. La consejera justificó ayer aquel rechazo señalando que exigió a la compañía que, a cambio de las ayudas, garantizara el empleo, algo a lo que ArcelorMittal no se comprometió.
Using robots to perform medical treatment has been the thing of science fiction for decades, but an operation completed in Paraguay this month has made the stuff of fantasy a reality. In what is thought to be the first in human use of a miniaturized robotic device for surgery, the tiny robot, developed by California-based company Virtual Incision, helped cut away potentially cancerous growths and lesions in the patient’s lower gut.
The manufacture of cement has a very large carbon footprint. Huge amounts of fuel are used to heat limestone — the raw material — at 1450 degrees, producing tons of CO2. We have a seen a number of greener building solutions, such as the a building block that is carbon negative, and an eco-friendly brick, which is made from industrial waste. Now, researchers at SINTEF have developed another solution using impure clay to make a more eco-friendly material.
