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Be cautious of the generative AI bubble potentially bursting, Deloitte said. Plus, cloud sovereignty may be hot in 2024. Continue reading Deloitte’s Tech Predictions for 2024: Generative AI Will Continue to Shape Chips Market
In an effort to drive down the production cost of biodiesel, researchers have developed an eco-friendly way of extracting triacetin, a combustion-enhancing additive, from an abundant waste source: cigarette butts. Recycling cigarette butts in this way … Continue reading Recycling cigarette butts may reduce biodiesel production costs
It’s that wonderful time of year: The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards panel has judged and the results are in. Taking out top prize is a kangaroo seemingly rocking out on air guitar, while the other winners and finalists were dominated by two perenn… Continue reading The 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photo winners – naturally, they’re a hoot
Of the business decision-makers surveyed by IBM, 68% have created formal policies around generative AI. Continue reading IBM Study: Businesses Work on Adapting to Generative AI, Hybrid Cloud
Extended reality, cloud computing, 5G and electric vehicles are also in the top five, according to the global survey of CIOs, CTOs and tech leaders. Continue reading AI Ranked the Most Important Technology in 2024, IEEE Survey Finds
Whether motivated by the environment and sustainability, the rising price of eggs, or how the pandemic profoundly changed home life for many families, it’s estimated that more than 17 million US households now have backyard chickens, with the numbers r… Continue reading Smart coop AI ‘Albert Eggstein’ can now translate your chickens’ chatter
Researchers have found that concrete can be made 30% stronger by replacing a percentage of sand with spent coffee grounds, an organic waste product produced in huge amounts that usually ends up in landfill. The method also reduces the use of natural re… Continue reading Waste coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger
AWS, Cisco, Apple and others are deploying a variety of tactics to achieve lower carbon footprints, with everything from lower-energy coding to AI applied to power sources. Continue reading Tech Takes Diverse Approaches to Sustainability Including Net Zero Carbon by 2030
Plastic is one of the most useful materials in our modern world, but unfortunately it’s also one of the worst in a sustainability sense. Now, scientists at Berkeley Lab have developed a way to engineer bacteria to produce raw materials that can be made… Continue reading Bacteria recruited to build endlessly recyclable plastic
Conventional breeding of trees takes time, but CRISPR gene editing should help speed things up. Now, scientists at North Carolina State University have used CRISPR to adjust the genomes of poplar trees to make them easier to turn into paper products.Co… Continue reading CRISPR tweaks tree genetics to make paper more suastainably