Interesting Links for 11-09-2024

[andrewducker]

1. What is Labour trying to achieve with Europe, and will it get anywhere?

(tags:uk europe )

2. Work set to begin at Edinburgh's Lawnmarket and Upper Bow

(tags:edinburgh transport roads )

3. It began with sibling rivalry. Now he has 181 Guinness World Records.

4. A short guide to the Copyright Wars

(tags:copyright history Technology )

5. You can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000

(tags:diamonds )

6. Labour gives renters the right to have pets as it ends no-fault evictions

(tags:Labour rental pets )

7. 'Good Omens': Production Paused On Amazon Drama From Neil Gaiman

(tags:tv neilgaiman terrypratchett )

Comments

[armiphlage]

5. One thing not mentioned is that diamond is (theoretically) a better material for making computer chips than silicon. Like silicon, it can be an electrical insulator, conductor, or semiconductor depending on how doped. Because carbon forms crystalline patterns smaller than silicon, you can (theoretically) fit 2.3 times as many transistors onto the same size chip. Although you'd have to drop the operating voltage even lower for those transistors to be useable.

[fub]

I think dropping the voltage for chips is the opposite of a problem: less energy use!

[armiphlage]

Agreed, but it does make the design more challenging.