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Nvidia nudges Omniverse closer to connected digital twins — and full automation
Disclosure: Nvidia is a client of the author. Nvidia this month announced a series of enhancements to its Omniverse creation and simulation tool. Collectively, they more tightly connect metaverse instances with the real-world devices they emulate, assuring that any related digital twins are synchronized in real-time with their real-world counterparts, substantially increasing realism. This will…
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FTX meltdown likely to spur crypto regulations, cool digital currency push
The crash last week of FTX, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, is likely to push lawmakers to create central oversight of an otherwise unregulated marketplace. And while cryptocurrencies like those traded on FTX are different from others backed by fiat money or other assets, the meltdown of the exchange looks likely to cool…
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Q&A: RPI president says CHIPs Act will spur quantum computing, next-gen tech
Even before it was signed into law in August, the CHIPS and Science Act had attracted the biggest manufacturers of semiconductors to commit to buidling fabrication plants in various parts of the United States, essentially “re-shoring” an industry the nation once dominated. The measure is a $52.7 billion package of subsidies and grants to the…
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Corporate execs confident on sustainability goals, admit more work needed
About six in 10 executives believe they can achieve their corporate sustainability goals over the next year, according to a recent global survey commissioned by Honeywell International. But only about 16% think they’ll do so primarily through technology-driven changes, such as upgrading or replacing existing systems with newer, more efficient or more sustainable technologies. The vast majority of…
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Can today’s videoconferencing tech evolve into tomorrow’s metaverse?
I’ve been covering videoconferencing since the late 1980s, when I was brought in to review a very early deployment at Apple by AT&T. It failed spectacularly. A decade later, I watched efforts by Intel and HP also fail. The latest video development wave was driven by the pandemic, when people were forced to work from…