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Developing countries face severe under-investment for clean energy financeResearch from Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) shows that the lack of funding in many of the 20 high-impact countries across Africa and Asia has reached “acute levels”. Furthermore, it found that huge amounts of planned investment and funding support continue to be delayed or face multiple […]

Virtual meets: Kevin Warwick on human cyborgs now and in the future”Somebody can have an implant in their brain and even if they’re paralysed or they have motor neurone disease, or a whole range of neurological problems, they can control things just by thinking about moving or thinking about whatever it is they’re controlling. So […]

Virtual meets: Poppy Crum on the path from music through neuroscience to technology”We have different experiences of the same stimulus, whether it’s a physical stimulus or it’s a sensory stimulus,” says Poppy Crum, chief technologist for Dolby Laboratories, yet “a lot of technology has been built frankly for white men.” So engineers and developers need […]

Cerebras AI compute system 200x faster than supercomputerThe CS-1 is powered by Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), which was first presented in November 2019. While chipmakers typically cut a wafer into hundreds of separate chips, Cerebras creates a single enormous chip from a wafer with interconnected 400,000 AI cores, 1.2 trillion transistors, and 18GB of […]

Home breast screening device takes international James Dyson AwardJudit Giro Benet came up with the idea for ‘The Blue Box’ after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. The device uses a machine-learning algorithm to detect specific urine metabolites in a urine sample. Twenty-three-year-old Benet was motivated to develop a “pain-free, accurate, non-irradiating, low-cost, in-home” […]

Portable device cleans medical equipment in situ using solar powerIt uses a transparent, cloud-like aerogel coupled with a solar heater to generate steam that is hot enough and at high enough pressure to sterilise medical instruments even under hazy and partly cloudy weather. The researchers believe it can be used to help alleviate infection-related healthcare […]

Apple lowers App Store fee for small developers but monopoly criticisms remainThe ‘Small Business Program’ follows legal action taken by Fortnite developer Epic Games, which in August accused Apple of following monopolistic practices for its App Store. Currently, the iPhone maker takes a 30 per cent cut of most purchases made on the store with […]