Leben (Life aka misc) NewsFlash
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Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
IBM Says It Can Fit Nearly 100 Billion Transistors On a Chip
IBM has unveiled what it says is the world’s first sub-1-nanometer chip technology, designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM’s earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown in 2021… Today, the smallest, most powerful chips top out at about 80 billion Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Trump-Shuttered Climate Change Site Now Back Online In Nonprofit Hands
Donald Trump shuttered the web site Climate.gov in 2025, cutting off public access to climate information from America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But former members of the site’s team have brought much of it back at a new domain. “Trusted climate information should not disappear when politics change,” Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
Renewable Energy Just Hit 30% of America’s Electricity Generation
America generated 10.06% more energy with renewables in the first four months of 2026 than it did in the same period the year before. That’s according to new figures from America’s Energy Information Administration. The growth was led by utility-scale solar (+21.3%), hydropower (+15.7%), small-scale solar In April alone, wind Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years
Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries. According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing
IBM spent a decade “building, testing and improving” quantum computing. This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project. IBM said last month it plans to form a new independent subsidiary called Anderon, a foundry to produce Read more…
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Non-Invasive Stimulation of the Brain Ended Opioid Addiction, Cigarette Craving
The Jerusalem Post reports that doctors at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus “have successfully treated their first Israeli opioid addiction patient using an experimental noninvasive brain technology, easing him through withdrawal in just 20 minutes…” [T]he team of specialists at the Haifa medical center intervened in the electrical activity of Read more…