Innovating to what's next...

Beijing Betavolt New Energy Technology Company Ltd claims to have developed a miniature atomic energy battery that can generate electricity stably and autonomously for 50 years without the need for charging or maintenance. It said the battery is currently in the pilot stage and will be put into mass production on the market.

Pour arriver à un tel résultat, la société utilise la combinaison d'un isotope radioactif nickel-63 (⁶³Ni) et d'un semi-conducteur diamant de 4e génération. La batterie BV100 se compose d'une couche de 2 microns de ⁶³Ni prise entre deux couches semi-conductrices de diamant monocristallin d'une épaisseur de 10 microns chacune.

Microlight3D, meanwhile, produces two-photon photopolymerization (2PP) machines capable of fabricating components with 0.2-micron resolution. The company also offers a DMD maskless lithography machine that can create traces as narrow as 1.5 microns. The partners are particularly focused on integrating the maskless lithography system with FLUI’DEVICE. Their primary target market includes research institutions, medical companies, and universities that currently use such equipment.

Depuis plus de 20 ans, Enercoop tient la promesse de fournir à ses client·es une électricité 100 % renouvelable, en ancrant sa démarche dans un cadre coopératif, local et citoyen. Fort de ce modèle unique en son genre, le réseau des coopératives Enercoop est devenu un acteur phare de la transition énergétique dans les territoires.
Dorénavant, Enercoop appuie son développement sur deux activités essentielles : la production d’électricité et les services visant à la sobriété et l'efficacité énergétique.

The biocompatible coatings market size was USD 17.5 billion in 2024 and is estimated to reach USD 20.8 billion by the end of 2037, registering a CAGR of 9.2% during the forecast period, i.e., 2025-2037. North America industry is projected to garner the largest share of 38.2% by 2037.

À l’occasion de la Journée internationale pour l’élimination de la violence à l’égard des femmes, UN Women et l’agence IMPACT BBDO dévoilent une campagne poignante et symbolique : InkVisible. En détournant le henné traditionnellement associé aux mariages et à la célébration, l’initiative dénonce une réalité bien plus sombre, celle des violences domestiques dont sont victimes des millions de femmes au Pakistan.

From the harmless to the revolutionary, innovations throughout history have often been met with suspicion, fear, and sometimes outright hostility. This pattern is so persistent across cultures and time periods that it reveals something fundamental about human nature: we have a complicated relationship with the unknown. Today's breakthroughs—from artificial intelligence to genetic engineering—face similar resistance. But is this reaction justified, or is it part of a predictable cycle we've been repeating for centuries?

Le 9 mars dernier, un chercheur français du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) a été refoulé par les États-Unis alors qu’il se rendait à un congrès scientifique dans le domaine de la recherche spatiale. Son téléphone et son ordinateur furent fouillés et il fut un temps menacé de poursuites judiciaires en raison de la présence de messages considérés comme hostiles au président Donald Trump.

La révélation par la Commission européenne il y a quelques jours du projet de "loi omnibus" pour réviser les grandes normes du Green Deal a déchaîné les débats dans le monde de l'entreprise et en particulier dans le secteur de la Responsabilité sociale des entreprises (RSE). La directive CSRD sur le reporting social et environnemental des entreprises, celle sur le devoir de vigilance ou encore la taxonomie verte sont ainsi sous la menace d'un projet massif de dérégulation, qui a suscité de vives réactions parmi les acteurs de la transformation durable.

Manus went viral online within just about 20 hours of its preview launch on Wednesday. Manus is reportedly the world's first truly general AI agent. Examples showcased on the official website demonstrate its ability to independently think, plan, and execute complex tasks, delivering complete results, CCTV.com reported on Thursday.

Un simple changement de nom, un message fort. Face aux tensions commerciales entre les États-Unis et le Canada, une initiative originale s’est invitée sur les ardoises des cafés du pays : rebaptiser l’Americano en “Canadiano”. Derrière ce geste en apparence anodin, une véritable déclaration d’indépendance à l’égard des politiques protectionnistes de Donald Trump.

A French start-up, Constellation Technologies & Operations (CTO), aims to usher in a new era of space telecommunications with its Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellite constellation. This means telecom companies could use a satellite network to deliver internet just like their ground-based networks, offering fast, responsive connections from space.

Humane bricked its pricey gadget on Friday afternoon. A short time later, a hacker got the codes to unlock it and potentially turn it into the true smartphone replacement it was meant to be.

A new ranking of Europe’s startup hubs by the Financial Times, Sifted and data provider Statista has rated 150 of the best campuses, labs and other institutions offering incubator and accelerator programmes to rapidly-growing tech companies across the continent.

Neutron irradiation inside a fusion power plant might instantaneously suppress the superconducting magnets’ ability to carry current without resistance (called critical current), potentially causing a reduction in the fusion power output. Now, a series of experiments has clearly demonstrated that this instantaneous effect of neutron bombardment, known as the “beam on effect,” should not be an issue during reactor operation, thus clearing the path for projects such as the ARC fusion system being developed by MIT spinoff company Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

This nanoscale shooting game allows for direct interaction with objects at the nanometer scale. In the world’s smallest video game, the spaceship and its projectiles are digital overlays, but the targets are actual, physical polystyrene balls at a microscopic scale.

Plastics are everywhere! They are essential in today’s world for purposes from sanitation in healthcare, to convenience in food service, and affordability of materials and furnishings that we use in our homes, offices and schools. Yet plastics also present a formidable environmental challenge, using precious natural resources in their fabrication and often disposed of in ways that negatively impact our ecosystem.

Appliance company Beko has been pushing forward with a number of large-scale sustainability initiatives, and has now been awarded the highest “A” score in both Climate Change and Water Security from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). It places Beko on the CDP A List, highlighting its commitment to minimising its environmental impact and advancing its its sustainability agenda.

C’est un phénomène classique dans la sphère IA : la « hype ». Le Larousse propose comme traduction : “battage publicitaire”, “publicité monstre” ou encore “bla-bla”. La voiture autonome en a été victime, mais nous avons passé la crête de la vague. Alors, où en est-on ?

Vision artificielle, traitement du langage naturel, classification, aide à la décision…Toutes ces applications reposant sur des algorithmes d’apprentissage artificiel pourraient voir leur efficacité très sérieusement augmentée grâce au calcul quantique.

L’essor fulgurant de l’IA impose des infrastructures révolutionnaires. OVHcloud, fort de son expertise, se positionne en leader de la prochaine génération de datacenters 1GW, alliant puissance et innovation.

DeepSeek et ModelBest adoptent des stratégies inédites pour rendre les modèles IA plus efficaces. Entre innovation en formation et densification, ces entreprises redéfinissent les standards de l’industrie.

Face à la surcharge numérique, HMD encourage une pause hebdomadaire des smartphones. Un appel à la détox technologique soutenu par des téléphones minimalistes et des conseils pratiques.

Innovation has always had its problems. It’s a meaningless buzzword that leads to confusion and false hope. It’s an event or a hobby that allows executives to check the “Be innovative” box on shareholders’ To-do lists. It’s a massive investment that, if you’re lucky, is break-even. So, it should be no surprise that interest and investment have dried up to the point that many have declared that innovation is dead. But is it really?...

There’s really no argument that all of the eXtended reality experiences available to us now are nothing but illusions. As believable as the visuals might be, it all breaks down when you try to take into account the other sense of the body. It isn’t just the sense of touch either, which is often what designers and inventors try to immediately address. Other senses, however, are even harder to recreate or fool. Our sense of taste, for example, is very complex and sophisticated, even if we try to distill them down to basic groups like sweet, sour, salty, etc. Virtual reality makes that even harder because you don’t have the real thing in front of you to put in your mouth. In the future, however, that might not be much of a problem, at least if this rather odd-looking device becomes the standard for VR tasting.