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May 7, 2022

Making Electricity Cheaper: A Cellphone-Sized Device Automatically Adjusts a Home’s Power Use to Save Money

Posted by in categories: climatology, economics, mobile phones, sustainability

A cellphone-sized device automatically adjusts a home’s power use up or down to save the consumer money and increase the resiliency of the electric grid.

The effects of climate change are pushing electrical grids around the world to their limits. Last year, unprecedented cold weather caused people in Texas to turn up their thermostats, which overwhelmed the power grid and caused days-long power outages. And in California, the power is turned off before there is a high possibility of a fire.

To combat the electric grid’s vulnerabilities and cut down on the use of non-renewable sources of energy, researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed technology that automatically adjusts a home’s power use up or down in response to fluctuating prices that are established by real-time market demand.

May 7, 2022

Google Releases Android Update to Patch Actively Exploited Vulnerability

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, security

Google releases monthly security patches for Android with fixes for 37 vulnerabilities in various components.

May 6, 2022

New Eye Drops Improve Aging Vision Without Glasses. Here’s How They Work

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

When people get into their 40s and beyond, their close-up vision starts to worsen. For many people, cranking up the font size on a phone or maxing out the brightness on a computer is the only way to be able to read some text.

This condition is known as presbyopia, and it affects around 128 million people in the US and more than a billion people worldwide.

In late 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new eye drop medication to treat presbyopia. As an optometrist, I was initially skeptical.

May 6, 2022

Scientist’s INSANE NEW Light Speed CPU Changes Everything!

Posted by in categories: computing, Elon Musk, mobile phones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3FjQmnDu6Q

Do you want your gadgets to be faster? What if your phone can cut the time it takes to.
complete tasks? Or your computer can compute way faster? Most of us do, but with the.
state of current technology, the truth is, they aren’t likely to get much faster than they.
are! For the past decade and a half, the clock rate of single processor cores has stalled.
at a few Gigahertz, and it is getting harder to push the boundaries of the famous.
Moore’s law! However, a new invention by IBM may change all of that! What are optical.
circuits, how do they work, and how will they make your devices faster? Join us as we.
dive into the new optical circuit that surpasses every CPU known to humans!

Disclaimer.
• Our channel is not associated with Elon Musk in ANY way and is purely made for entertainment purposes, based on facts, rumors and fiction. Enjoy Watching.

May 5, 2022

Apple, Google, and Microsoft will soon implement passwordless sign-in on all major platforms

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Soon, you could log in to everything with just your phone.


On World Password Day, Apple, Google, and Microsoft committed to broad support over the next year for secure FIDO “passkey” sign-in technology that removes the need for passwords at all.

Apr 29, 2022

MIT’s new desalination unit generates drinking water without the need for filters

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, solar power, sustainability

Apr 29, 2022

A clock beats inside the heart of every atom

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, particle physics, transportation

In the pre-industrial age, people only needed to measure years and months to a fair amount of accuracy. The position of the sun in the sky was good enough to break up the day. Timing at the level of fractions of a second was simply not needed.

Eventually, modern industry arose. Fast-moving machines came to dominate human activity, and clocks required hands that could measure seconds. In the current era of digital technology, the timing of electronic circuitry means that millionths or billionths of a second actually matter. None of the high-tech stuff we need, from our phones to our cars, can be controlled or manipulated if we cannot keep close track of it. To make technology work, we need clocks that are faster than the timing of the machines we need to control. For today’s technology, that means we must be able to measure seconds, milliseconds, or even nanoseconds with astonishing accuracy.

Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum. Something must swing back and forth to beat out a basic unit of time. Mechanical clocks used gears and springs. But metal changes shape as it heats or cools, and friction wears down mechanical parts. All of this limits the accuracy of these timekeeping machines. As the speed of human culture climbed higher, it demanded a kind of hyper-fast pendulum that would never wear down.

Apr 29, 2022

From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, particle physics, solar power, sustainability

MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water.

The suitcase-sized device, which requires less power to operate than a cell phone charger, can also be driven by a small, portable solar panel, which can be purchased online for around $50. It automatically generates drinking that exceeds World Health Organization quality standards. The technology is packaged into a user-friendly device that runs with the push of one button.

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Apr 28, 2022

Ultra-thin speakers roll out like wallpaper for sound-blasting surfaces

Posted by in categories: materials, mobile phones

Engineers at MIT have developed an ultra-thin speaker that could be used to make entire surfaces produce sound. The unique design should be energy efficient and easy to produce at scale, the team says.

In a basic sense, speakers work by vibrating a membrane, which manipulates the air above it to produce sound waves. In speakers commonly found in audio systems or headphones, that’s done using electrical currents and magnetic fields.

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Apr 27, 2022

Light-based memory chip is first to permanently store data

Posted by in categories: computing, mobile phones

This new innovative can lead to near infinite computation speeds without the need for complex components and it can put on a smartphone. Also it requires less hardware and weight.


Light is the most energy-efficient way of moving information. Yet, light shows one big limitation: it is difficult to store. As a matter of fact, data centers rely primarily on magnetic hard drives. However, in these hard drives, information is transferred at an energy cost that is nowadays exploding. Researchers of the Institute of Photonic Integration of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have developed a ‘hybrid technology’ which shows the advantages of both light and magnetic hard drives.

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