Aug 10, 2021
By John K Williams, Ph.D – 2020 saw the worst wildfire season on the US west coast since records have been kept. By the end of the year, roughly 4% of California’s acreage had been burned. The fires also broke the weather forecasts. When there are active...
Aug 6, 2021
A spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The X-ray images of the giant rings have revealed new information about dust located in our galaxy, using a similar...
Aug 5, 2021
Worldwide 5G network infrastructure revenue is on pace to grow 39% to total $19,1-billion in 2021, up from $13,7-billion in 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Communications service providers (CSPs) in mature markets accelerated 5G development in 2020...
Aug 4, 2021
IBM Research is working with the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) on a new AI model that groups typical symptom patterns of Parkinson’s disease. The research is detailed in the paper “Discovery of Parkinson’s disease...
Aug 3, 2021
Employees spend hours every week trying to make their IT and connectivity work properly – time that could be clawed back if they had the right devices. An Intel-commissioned UK-based survey found that more than 40% of employees polled said they spent two to...
Aug 2, 2021
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. This water vapour forms when ice from the moon’s surface sublimates — that is, turns from solid to gas. Scientists used new and...
