ASML makes big machines that make chips smaller, faster and greener.
This video provides an overview of the semiconductor evolution and advances in miniaturization.
The video highlights ASML’s lithography machines that use extreme ultraviolet light. EUV lithography uses light with a wavelength of just 13.5 nanometers (nearly x-ray level), a reduction of almost 14 times that of the other enabling lithography solution in advanced chipmaking, DUV (deep ultraviolet) lithography, which uses 193-nanometer light.
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the role of the cyber technology in quickening economic development and innovation. He said it’s essential to promote related research and core technologies to give China an edge in the sector. Xi believes blockchain can play a key part in the real economy, as it helps address financing difficulties and financial risks.
Robots aren’t like humans who can do a lot of different things. They’re designed for very specific tasks like vacuuming our homes, assembling cars in a factory, or exploring the surface of other planets. So even though it may be a while before we have a general household robot that can do it all, robots are still really important because they can do some things incredibly well even better than humans. So today, we’re going to take a look at the role of AI in overcoming three key challenges in the field of robotics: localization, planning, and manipulation.
We’re marking a major milestone in quantum computing research that opens up new possibilities for this technology. Learn how the Google AI Quantum team demonstrated how a quantum computer can perform a task no classical computer can in an experiment called “quantum supremacy.”
Nanotechnology is the future of all technologies. it is a platform that includes biology, electronics, chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering. Although nanotechnology is the study of ultra-small structures, it not simply about making things smaller for the sake of it. It is because the game of science has different rules when you play it in the nanoscale. Noushin Nasiri received her PhD in Nanotechnology following which she continued working on nanostructured materials for health, energy and environmental applications. In 2018, she joined the Macquarie University School of Engineering as a lecturer and group leader. Her research lies at the intersection of science, technology and engineering. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
Scott Stornetta, blockchain co-founder, speaks of how blockchain enables manufacturing companies to have secure, transparent and permissioned end-to-end visibility across their supply chain, all in one place.
Florian Krueger and Florian Bollen present at CC Forum Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London.
The Craft Coin Company aims to create a future where small and medium-sized companies have access to alternative funding mechanisms. This allows them to grow sustainably, ultimately growing in a way that benefits the people, our planet and the profitability of their venture.
The inaugural coin, The Craft Beer Coin (CBC), went live in 2019 and is a transactional, asset-backed digital currency that enables fresh local beer purchase via the holders’ smartphone. A coin is always underwritten by a fresh pint of craft beer.
Their ‘asset backed’ Craft Coins are designed as currencies that enable digital business ecospheres to leverage modern distributed ledger technologies.
‘Asset backed’ means that the coins are not ‘stores of value’ like Bitcoin, but rather are backed by and facilitate transactions around real products and services with a value understood by everyone: a pint of craft beer. Future craft coin offerings will underpin foods and other craft products, helping to create and distribute quality sustainable products with foundations built around modern digital coins and currencies.
This video outlines 5 core elements of blockchain that support a ledger as well as the future of blockchain with artificial intelligence and integration with the Internet of Things.
HADES, or the High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer, is an internationally collaborative piece of equipment located in Germany. HADES is used by scientists all over the world to study matter as it might exist in some of the most intense events in the cosmos, like the merging of neutron stars.
And it’s getting hot enough in HADES to create and analyze a fireball of quantum matter
But…how?
So the HADES team decided to pursue some answers with a physical experiment. And by physical experiment we mean the team smashed gold atoms into a gold target at nearly the speed of light, creating a fireball of quark matter.
After its initial creation, the quantum fireball starts to shed particles called rho mesons, which are made of a quark and an antiquark. These rho mesons decay into ‘virtual’ photons, which then further decay into electron-positron pairs.
HADES measured the electron-positron pairs that were left at the end of the experiment and researchers gained a brand new understanding into the behavior of the quark matter fireball itself. The measurements indicated that the quark matter fireball could reach really, really hot temperatures, like 800 billion degrees celsius level hot.
