What Makes a Great Nanomaterial?
By this point, we have discovered a slew of natural, incidental, and artificial nanomaterials with a wide variety of properties and capabilities. Particularly prominent are graphene and borophene —...
View ArticleData Centers Clean Up Their Act (and Find a New Rhythm)
The 2017 song “Despacito,” by Puerto Rican artists Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee (and later re-mixed with no less a talent than Justin Bieber), remains one of the most popular songs of all time. Its...
View ArticleData, the “New Oil,” Cannot Be Used If Left Unrefined. Thankfully, AI Can Help.
British data scientist Clive Humby was famously quoted in 2006 as saying that “data is the new oil,” a statement that has been over-analyzed and occasionally criticized, but one that nonetheless...
View ArticleAre NFTs Worth the Environmental Cost?
Not that any further proof was needed, but the night of March 27, 2021 offered definitive evidence of the impact non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are making — that besides transforming the world of digital...
View ArticleA Breakthrough in Graphene-Based Water Filtration
Two new graphene-related developments this year — one by Brown University researchers in January and another by MIT researchers in August — showed that this one-atom-thick layer of carbon might offer...
View ArticleHow AI is Impacting Data Centers
In 2018, Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst David Cappuccio wrote a piece entitled “The Data Center is Dead,” in which he predicted that because of the continuing rise of such things as cloud providers,...
View ArticleThe Unsettling Truth About The Worldwide Tech War
Even before the economic turmoil now exacerbated by the Russian-Ukrainian war, the U.S. and China have been locked in a technology battle that has raised concerns not only in Washington, DC but...
View ArticleHow Blockchain Could Alter the World of Content Creation and Distribution
Spencer Dinwiddie has over the course of his eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) established himself as a solid player. But it is entirely possible that he will make an even...
View ArticleSocial Media Platforms’ Continuing Embrace of NFTs
It was almost one year ago that social media platforms such as Twitter began supporting non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are unique cryptographic tokens that cannot be replicated. They essentially...
View ArticleThe Growing Field of Blockchain Forensics
Blockchain technology has been making waves in the tech industry since it first emerged with the development of Bitcoin in 2008. It offers a decentralized and secure way to store and transfer data,...
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