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May- 2021 -2 MayApple
A broken 12.9-Inch M1 iPad Pro will set you back by $699 if you don’t have AppleCare+
The latest 2021 iPad Pro series is an example of the pinnacle of advanced engineering, but that will also be the reason you have to pay a hefty sum to repair it, assuming you do not have AppleCare+ purchased. .If you don’t have AppleCare+ for the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, the company can charge you $699. This also happens to be the starting price of the iPhone 12 Mini in the US. The fee update was added to Apple’s iPad Service and Repair chart earlier today after iPad Pro orders went live. At $699, it is $50 more expensive to…
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1 MayAMD
AMD in an earnings call promised to ramp up production of RX6000 GPUs throughout 2021
Last year, AMD finally released a family of graphics processors that can compete against Nvidia’s high-end offerings in terms of performance. Unfortunately, AMD could not meet demand for new GPUs. But apparently there is light at the end of the tunnel as AMD is ramping up production.In their latest earnings call, AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, promised to ramp up production of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 RDNA 2 Gaming graphics cards. The RDNA 2 powered gaming graphics cards from AMD have been in short supply ever since they launched. Both AMD and NVIDIA have been facing severe supply issues…
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1 MaySolar
Researchers found the main factor limiting solar cell performance: Hydrogen in Hydrogen Perovskites
Researchers in the materials department in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering have uncovered a major cause of limitations to efficiency in a new generation of solar cells. Various possible defects in the lattice of what are known as hybrid perovskites had previously been considered as the potential cause of such limitations, but it was assumed that the organic molecules (the components responsible for the “hybrid” moniker) would remain intact. Cutting-edge computations have now revealed that missing hydrogen atoms in these molecules can cause massive efficiency losses. The findings are published in a paper titled “Minimizing hydrogen vacancies to enable…
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1 MayAMD
The new HPE supercomputer which will be built in Singapore will bring AMD and Nvidia together
Hewlett Packard Enterprise this week said it had landed an order to build a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore. More than two years ago, Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) announced a $200 million SGD (~$151 million USD) investment to boost its supercomputing power by an order of magnitude. Today, those plans come closer to fruition with the announcement that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been awarded $40 million SGD from that fund to deliver a new, more powerful supercomputer for the NSCC. The new NSCC system will be built using a HPE Cray EX supercomputer comprising nearly…
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Apr- 2021 -29 AprilScience
A new type of bacteria will clean our oceans of microplastics, founded by microbiologists
Microbiologists have found a way to use bacteria to trap microplastics, removing them from the environment and making them easier to recycle. At the Microbiology Society’s Annual Conference held this day on 28th April, Yang Liu, researcher at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, discusses a new technique to trap and recover microplastics. The method uses bacterial biofilms, a sticky substance created by micro-organisms, to trap microplastic particles. The biofilm is then processed and dispersed, releasing the microplastic particles for processing and recycling. Liu and colleagues used the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa to capture microplastics in a bioreactor. This species of bacteria is…
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