Quantum heat circuits learn electronics' oldest trick: Sharing a power supply
Every electronic and optoelectronic device generates heat, and today that heat is managed almost entirely from the outside. Heatsinks, fans, cold plates and refrigerators are bulky exterior measures bolted onto a chip or package after the fact. They treat heat as a single averaged quantity to be removed in bulk, even though the heat is actually produced locally, component by component, deep inside the circuitry.
The tech section covers stories about technology making life better, not just more profitable. Open-source tools reaching new audiences, accessibility breakthroughs, AI applications in healthcare and education, infrastructure improvements that quietly make cities work better. Product launches and funding rounds are excluded unless they deliver tangible public benefit.
The money will be used to develop new data centres to house, operate, and cool miles of stacked computer chips that proc…
Dogs have been shaping - and being shaped by - humans for about 15,000 years, evolving from early partners of hunter-gat…
Combining drone data and machine learning can help cover more ground in monitoring forest soil health, University of Alb…
At a Massachusetts lab, pebble-sized pellets are transformed into forks and films that won't leave persistent microplast…