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Researchers have sharply increased the sensitivity and speed of quasi-2D perovskite photodetectors by carefully tuning how they interact with silver plasmonic nanostructures, according to a new study in Small. Study: Boosting Photodetection via Plasmonic Coupling in Quasi-2D Mixed-n Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Nanostripes. Image Credit: Foto-Ruhrgebiet/Shutterstock.com Metal halide perovskites are attractive for their use in low-cost, high-performance photodetectors, but their efficiency is often limited by how effectively they harvest and convert light. One strategy is to pair them with plasmonic metal nanostructures, which support surface plasmons and localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPR). These resonances confine light into very small volumes and create intense…

Working on a web extension that ships to an app store and isn’t immediately modifiable, like a website, can be difficult. Since you cannot immediately deploy updates, you sometimes need to bake in hardcoded date-based logic. Testing future dates can be difficult if you don’t know how to quickly change the date on your local machine. To change the current date on your Mac, execute the following from command line: # Date Format: MMDDYYYY sudo date -I 06142024 This command does not modify time, only the current date. Using the same command to reset to current date is easy as…

1. What is Big Rock Planning? Big Rock Planning is a simple yet effective way to set goals and achieve them. The idea is to focus on the most important things you want to accomplish and then break those down into smaller, more manageable tasks. This helps you to stay focused and on track, and it also reduces stress and overwhelm. 2. Why is Big Rock Planning effective? There are a few reasons why Big Rock Planning is so effective. First, it forces you to think about your priorities. When faced with a jar full of rocks, you can’t just put them all…

US Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg has sent letters to several sports organizations in the wake of illegal sports gambling schemes involving professional athletes. Walberg sent queries to various organizations on Tuesday (December 9), including the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA), and the Major League Soccer Players Association (MLSPA), asking how they are working to support players in the wake of various illegal sports gambling schemes. Sports betting is booming and illegal gambling schemes are on the…

What would Christmas be without a classic comedy that the whole family can watch together? Elf, directed by Jon Favreau, is one of those films that no holiday season is complete without. Led by Will Ferrell as Buddy, Elf follows a human who has been raised as… well… Santa’s elf. After discovering he’s not like the other elves, Buddy leaves the North Pole and heads to New York City to meet his biological father. Before Buddy achieves his goal, he encounters many surprising adventures and bizarre events. Elf is a movie that can be enjoyed by adults and children alike…

Two current MIT affiliates and seven additional alumni are among those named to the 2025 cohort of AI2050 Fellows.  Zongyi Li, a postdoc in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and Tess Smidt ’12, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS), were both named as AI2050 Early Career Fellows. Seven additional MIT alumni were also honored. AI2050 Early Career Fellows include Brian Hie SM ’19, PhD ’21; Natasha Mary Jaques PhD ’20; Martin Anton Schrimpf PhD ’22; Lindsey Raymond SM ’19, PhD ’24, who will join the MIT faculty in EECS, the Department of Economics, and the…

In this episode of our predictions series, we consider the evolving nature of Cloud, across architecture, cost management, and, indeed, the lower levels of infrastructure. We asked our analysts Dana Hernandez, Ivan McPhee, Jon Collins, Whit Walters, and William McKnight for their thoughts.  Jon: We’re seeing a maturing of thinking around architecture, not just with cloud computing but across technology provision. Keep in mind that what we know as Cloud is still only 25% of the overall space – the other three quarters are on-premise or hosted in private data centers. It’s all got to work together as a single…

As we look ahead to the next evolution of our multi-tenant cloud platform, understanding how VMware Cloud Director (VCD) is used in the field has never been more important. VMware Cloud Director Environment Assessment Tool (EAT) — a lightweight, on-demand script designed to help Cloud Providers and VCD Enterprise Customers gain insights into their VCD deployments while contributing data to shape future platform enhancements. What is the VCD Environment Assessment Tool? The EAT is a diagnostic utility that collects environment-specific metadata from a VCD instance. It helps you: Review deployment scale, including: Number of Organizations, PVDCs, OrgVDCs, and networks Understand…

There’s a moment every December when the world feels like it’s running on pure magic. Networks hit peak demand. Sales teams sprint to close the quarter. Customer service teams solve urgent requests. Packages appear on doorsteps. Every workplace—from retail to healthcare to manufacturing to offices—becomes a high-performance workshop. Not the storybook workshop we grew up imagining. A real one. Fast. Flexible. Distributed. Always on. If Santa had to run it, even he’d trade the legacy sleigh for something smarter and more powerful. Because to future-proof workplaces in the modern enterprise, magic doesn’t scale, but AI does. As I look across…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. If the EU holds firm on the 2035 target, the European auto industry has a real chance to be competitive global EV players. Next week the EU will make an announcement that will decide the fate of its car industry. The revision of the car CO2 law, and the 2035 electrification target, will tell us whether Europe is going to compete with China and the US, or acknowledge that the future of the automotive industry is not European. The automotive industry and its political allies are throwing all their weight into…