TikTok has launched its first European data centre, as part of its efforts to address Western fears over surveillance-related privacy risks. The Chinese-owned company says it has started migrating European user information to its new data centre in Dublin. Two more centres under construction, one in Norway and another one…
Analysis by the global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources has stressed that many companies have not been able to progress their carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) projects due to a slowdown in the negotiations for government funding. The difficulty in securing public and private investment would…
When Russian troops flooded into Ukraine last year, an army of propagandists followed them. Within hours, Kremlin-backed media were reporting that President Zelenskyy had fled the country. Weeks later, a fake video of Zelenskyy purportedly surrendering went viral. But almost as soon as they emerged, the lies were disproven. Government…
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Neural networks designed to analyze medical images may help predict where landslides are most likely to occur, a new study finds.Globally, landslides cause thousands of deaths and many billion dollars of damage each year,…
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a technique that can produce polarized photons more easily and cheaply than existing methods. The technique uses an atomic force microscope to form indentations in a two-layer stack of atomically thin materials. The indentations produce small magnetic fields that polarize photons emitted…