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What is CMOS 2.0?

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Julien Ryckaert , vice president of logic technologies at Imec , the Belgium-based nanotechnology research center, told IEEE Spectrum where things are headed. Julien Ryckaert Julien Ryckaert is vice president of logic technologies at Imec, in Belgium, where he’s been involved in exploring new technologies for 3D chips, among other topics.

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The Seabed Solution

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Later this year, as David Schneider notes in “ Deep-sea Mining Stirs Up Muddy Questions ,” a Canadian firm called the Metals Company (formerly DeepGreen Metals) plans to begin testing a nodule-collecting system comprising a seafloor robotic collector vehicle connected to a mammoth surface support ship.

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Travels with Perplexity AI

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Dawn and I used Perplexity as an on-demand travel guide throughout our tour of the Flemish region of Belgium and Northern France. Despite the occasional miss, we agreed that the app significantly enhanced our real-world experience and connected us to Flemish culture and people. The company’s app rests on GPT-3.5 (the

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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This isn’t the connection utility that lets you run some phone apps through the car’s screen; Android software actually powers the interfaces for phone, navigation, and other functions—including truly excellent voice recognition. The electric XC40 comes from Ghent, Belgium, incidentally. Android above all else. Watch this space.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5 The article was countered the next day by an AOSIS statement that its proposed mitigation path would be expected to temporarily result in average temperatures of slightly more than 1.5

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New bio-inspired macro-meso-microporous material offers significant improvement in battery performance

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The entire natural porous network, connected within a finite volume, minimizes transport resistance for all the pores and ensures fluent transfer throughout the network. b) Hierarchical pore model with a parent pipe connecting with many children pipes. (c) a) Individual pore model. (b)

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Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes

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chief scientist at Imec , a leading independent nanoelectronics R&D institute, in Belgium, I saw the opportunity to extend advanced semiconductor technology to serve broad new swaths of biomedicine and brain science. This article appears in the June 2022 print issue as “Eavesdropping on the Brain.”. A Fab and a Vision.