Asia-Pacific: 5G Rollouts and Policy Shifts India – Keeping 5G carrier-led: A policy debate in India reached a climax as the GSMA (mobile operators’ alliance) weighed in on private 5G networks. In a letter to India’s telecom department dated August 29, GSMA’s APAC public policy head Jeanette Whyte cautioned against carving out mid-band 5G spectrum […]
Ultra‑thin perovskite photovoltaics laminated onto flexible films are moving from lab to market. Japan is investing big (billions) and early products and pilots are appearing. The promise: lightweight power on curved or weight‑limited surfaces with fast, low‑temperature, roll‑to‑roll manufacturing. The hurdles: durability (moisture/heat), safe lead management, and bankable certification. Financial Times, ScienceDirect, Nature What we […]
Imagine wearing a shirt that monitors your heart rate, a dress that lights up with your mood, or a soldier’s uniform that can transmit location and health data in real time. This isn’t science fiction – it’s the emerging reality of smart fabrics with sensors, also known as smart textiles or e-textiles. These are high-tech […]
Imagine a rock in space worth more than the entire global economy. It sounds like science fiction, but remote asteroid mining – using robotic spacecraft to extract valuable resources from asteroids – is fast moving from fantasy toward reality. Enthusiasts call it the next gold rush in space, with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson famously predicting […]
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are gaining global attention as a potential game-changer in nuclear energy. An SMR is essentially a miniature nuclear power reactor, typically producing up to 300 MWe – about one-third the output of a conventional reactor iaea.org. What makes SMRs special is not just their size, but their modularity: components can be factory-built […]
Imagine solar farms that stand upright like fences, capturing the sun’s rays from both sides and sharing land with crops and livestock. Vertical solar farms – essentially solar panels mounted vertically (90°) – are emerging as a game-changing trend in renewable energy. These installations often use bifacial solar panels (solar cells on both front and […]
Zero Trust Security is a modern cybersecurity model built around the motto “never trust, always verify.” Instead of assuming anyone or anything inside a network is safe, Zero Trust treats every access attempt as untrusted until proven otherwise cloudflare.com. This approach has gained widespread adoption in recent years as organizations respond to escalating cyber threats […]
Nano-satellites (nanosats) are small satellites defined by mass – typically between 1 kg and 10 kg nanosats.eu. They are part of the broader “small satellite” family, which includes microsatellites (10–100 kg) and even smaller classes like picosatellites and femtosatellites nanosats.eu. Nano-satellites are tiny compared to conventional satellites (which often weigh hundreds or thousands of kilograms), […]
A Game-Changer in Advanced Materials and Sustainability Imagine a material with so much internal surface area that a pinch of it contains the equivalent of six football fields of area news.berkeley.edu. Such metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous, crystalline compounds made of metal nodes connected by organic linkers, creating sponge-like networks at the molecular scale. Scientists […]
1. Executive snapshot 2. What exactly is an AI accelerator? Category Typical role Leading examples (2025) GPU (general‑purpose but massively parallel) Training & inference NVIDIA B200, AMD MI350, Intel Falcon Shores ASIC (custom fixed‑function) Cloud training/inference Google TPU v5p, AWS Trainium2, Microsoft Maia 100 NPU / XPU (edge & PC) On‑device inference Apple M4 Neural Engine, Intel Lunar Lake NPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon X […]