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The P.I.G. is lifted into a sewer for an inspection. Credit: Leiden University They never cross our minds until they become damaged and then they’re a huge problem: our sewers. Their maintenance could be much faster and more accurate, Ph.D. candidate Dirk Meijer has discovered. Algorithms are also proving to be a godsend deep underground. Sewer inspections are usually done by specialized companies. A small electric car (P.I.G.) on which a camera is mounted is sent into the sewer. An inspector then assesses whether cracks, leaks or other problems can be seen. And that, according to Meijer, is where things…

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Guest author: Danish Ahmed, Founder of Startuptools.ai. If it wasn’t for Stripe’s exceptional $6.5 billion round, the US would have seen a funding decline of 21%. While some companies continue to raise large rounds in struggling industries, others are way off the mark. So, how do you get noticed in a funding downturn? From immortality-as-a-service to smell tech, countless 2022 inventions are shaking up the tech landscape, tapping into underserved markets and shifting consumers’ perceptions of “normal.”  Competition is high and diverse, which means entrepreneurs need flawless business planning to launch products successfully.  Entrepreneurs are adopting AI left, right, and…

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Why it matters: Rumors of impending “Super” variants of Nvidia’s latest RTX 40 series graphics cards could allow the company to address some of that lineup’s shortcomings. The latest information suggests Nvidia might deliver improvements without increasing power consumption, easing the recurring fear of requiring ever-hungrier power supplies. Prominent leaker Kopite7kimi’s latest rumor on the supposedly upcoming RTX 40 Super series indicates its GPUs will consume just as much power as the standard RTX 40 cards. If true, the stats demonstrate efficiency gains, allowing users to easily upgrade without buying new power supply units. Leakers like Hongxing2020 and MEGAsizeGPU began…

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AppleApple Silicon, SoC, Rosetta 2, M1, M2, M3, Pro, Max, and Ultra… If you’re interested in Macs, you’ve probably heard one or more of these terms. But unless you’ve been closely following Apple’s technical progress, it might not be clear what they all mean and why they matter to your future buying decisions.In this article, I answer a relatively common reader question: What does it all mean?Also: Get M3 MacBook Pro for an extreme mobile desktop. Everyone else, see M2 MacBook Air Understanding the CPU A computer — whether Mac, PC, Linux machine, Raspberry Pi, or even the embedded brain in…

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is almost upon us (its campaign early access is upon us for those eager enough to have pre-ordered the game), and system requirements are pointing to an absolutely behemoth install size of more than 200GB in some cases come its full launch next Friday, 10th November – and Activision has now moved to explain what’s going on. In a statement shared on social media, the publisher blamed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s potentially massive hard drive footprint on an “increased amount of content available Day 1”, which includes open world Zombies,…

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Apple shared its quarterly financial results for the period ending on September 30 with total revenues of $89.5 billion and $22.9 billion in profits. The revenue numbers are down by 1% compared to the same period last year while the net income figure is up 10% on a yearly basis. Apple consolidated financial statement for period ending September 30 The latest generation iPhones contributed $43.8 billion in net sales or nearly 49% of Cupertino’s total quarterly revenue while the services sector which includes the likes of Apple Music, TV+ and iCloud reached a new all-time high $22.3 billion…

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An advanced form of liquefied stabilized soil (LLS), known as high-flowability liquefied stabilized soil (HFLSS) has been developed from construction sludge. It exhibits superior mechanical properties and flowability than conventional (LSS), promoting the concept of sustainable construction. Credit: Shinya Inazumi from SIT, Japan The construction industry is a highly resource-intensive and polluting sector, with significant water consumption and notable contribution to environmental degradation. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism in 2018, the Japanese construction sector discharged about 74.4 million tons of construction by-products, including 6.2 million tons of construction sludge. In recent…

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45 The “Back to the Future” car is getting a futuristic upgrade, thanks to an Atlanta-based EV conversion startup. Ampere EV has created an aftermarket kit that retrofits a car from running on gas to electric. The team recently converted an old DeLorean (the model of “Back to the Future” fame) to a fully-electric vehicle that can reach 60 mph in just over 4 seconds.  Car enthusiasts might not expect a DeLorean to be a natural fit for such a conversion, since Ampere EV CEO Matt White says the car has “lame motor and poor suspension.” But adding a Tesla…

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The first benchmark results for Apple’s M3 Max chip surfaced in the Geekbench 6 database today, providing a look at CPU performance. Based on the “Mac15,9” model identifier shown, the results appear to be for the new 16-inch MacBook Pro. The highest multi-core score for the M3 Max with a 16-core CPU is currently 21,084 as of writing. If this early result is accurate, this means the M3 Max is around as fast as the M2 Ultra chip, which has an average multi-core score of 21,182 in the Mac Pro tower and 21,316 in the Mac Studio, according to a…

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The India-made iPhone is projected to account for 12% to 14% of Apple’s global iPhone shipments in 2023, according to a leading analyst, who further anticipates that the importance of the South Asian market to Apple will notably rise in the coming year. Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities said Wednesday that Apple, contingent on favorable conditions, will elevate its India-made iPhone shipments to constitute 20% to 25% of its global total by next year. Kuo’s projection aligns with an earlier forecast from JPMorgan last year, which suggested that Apple might shift 25% of its total iPhone production to India…

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