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E-Waste: An Urgent Problem That’s Largely Ignored

By Dick Weisinger

Every year enormous amounts of electronic products are discarded as they are updated with newer and more advanced replacements. Unfortunately, less than 20 percent of discarded electronics are recycled. The surprising fact is that this is happening despite the fact…

Protein Folding: Google AI’s AlphaFold to Revolutionize BioEngineering

By Dick Weisinger

At the end of 2020, Google AI announced a program called AlphaFold that they developed to determine the 3D shape of a protein from its amino-acid sequence. The prediction of protein shape is expected to greatly assist life science and…

Semiconductors: US Tries to Play Catch-Up

By Dick Weisinger

Shortages in semiconductors used for computers, electronic devices and cars is causing concern for the new Biden administration. A slowdown of chips in the supply chain could slow down growth in the manufacturing industry. In 1990, the US produced 37…

Phase Change Memory: Faster Access Time and Lower Power Consumption

By Dick Weisinger

Phase Change Memory (PCM) is a new type of non-volatile computer memory that can respond very quickly, making it competitive with RAM memory, while capable of storing data with very low power requirements. Phase change materials store data as bits…

Strategic Technologies 2021: Pandemic has Changed the Trajectory of Technology

By Dick Weisinger

This year, Gartner released their annual top strategic technologies for the new year. Unlike previous years that named ten technologies, this year there are only nine. Brian Burke, research vice president at Gartner, summarized the reasoning behind the selection for…