Finding the Right Chemistry: Investing in the Future of Advanced Materials By Arti LoftusApril 13, 2021
Like Gorilla Glass for smartphones, the application of Advanced Materials has the potential to revolutionize products, and this is driving an increasing level of interest in finding, experimenting with, and designing from the next generation of Advanced Materials.
The pace of innovation and investment is staggering, as is the variety of options and continuous evolution of materials that can make smartphones stronger, airplanes lighter, car parts more efficient, building materials more affordable, roads less prone to damage, and so much more.
It seems impossible to keep track of this growing market, especially given the incentives to find materials that cause less harm to the environment (carbon net-neutral) and can transform plastics and other materials that traditionally end up in landfills into high-quality materials.
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Phase-outs of two forms of telecoms technology are under way in Russia and Ukraine. While the contexts differ, both phase-outs aim to improve and modernise end user connectivity – eventually.
In Russia, the state-opened operator Rostelecom plans to decommission all payphones in settlements with a population of more than 1,000 people. It will do the same where the population is less than 1,000 people in cases where 2020 traffic was less than one minute per month.
By GCN Staff
Apr 12, 2021
Kentucky is planning to equip all the commonwealth’s 120 county clerks with Yubikey devices to enable two-factor authentication that will better protect the state’s voter registration system from unauthorized access.
Users insert a Yubikey token into the USB ports on their laptops and touch its button to verify they are a local human user and not a remote hacker.
The Yubikeys will be made available thanks to a federal grant obtained via a joint partnership of the Kentucky Secretary of State, the mayor of Lexington, Ky., the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley ranked nine technologies according to technical vulnerability, attractiveness to nation-state attackers and potential impact of a successful attack.
Driving the Future Forward with Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries: Made in Alabama By Arti LoftusApril 12, 2021
At the end of 2020, the market capitalization of Tesla was roughly equivalent to that of the nine largest automakers in the world combined. In 2019, over 3 million Electric Vehicles (EVs) were sold, and with a forecast CAGR of 21% until 2030, it is expected that nearly 27 million EVs will be sold in 2030.
Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, Nissan, Toyota, GM, and Honda have all announced ambitious goals for their EV offerings, and deadlines between 2022 and 2025 are fast approaching.
EVs are part of many major and positive trends globally, including the need to address carbon emissions, reduce dependence on fossil fuels, improve safety when combined with assisted and autonomous driving, support the more cost-efficient transportation of goods (commercial vehicles) and establish smart city ecosystems.