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America must protect 5 crucial technologies to remain superpower, officials warn
WASHINGTON – U.S. intelligence officials have issued a stark warning: America’s status as a global superpower depends on maintaining a lead in five key technologies – and America’s rivals are trying to steal every one of them. Officials said they are concerned that foreign theft of American technologies could not only rob the United States of economic leadership in the key sectors, but could threaten the country’s ability to even remain active in the industries at all. The five technologies identified by intelligence officials are: Officials cited legal and illegal activities, particularly those conducted by China, that have crippled competitiveness
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Is Agilent Technologies (A) Stock Outpacing Its Computer and Technology Peers This Year?
For those looking to find strong Computer and Technology stocks, it is prudent to search for companies in the group that are outperforming their peers. Is Agilent Technologies (A) one of those stocks right now? By taking a look at the stock’s year-to-date performance in comparison to its Computer and Technology peers, we might be able to answer that question. Agilent Technologies is one of 619 individual stocks in the Computer and Technology sector. Collectively, these companies sit at #11 in the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks Sector Rank considers 16 different groups, measuring the average Zacks Rank of
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PureCycle Technologies responds to report from short-selling firm
ORLANDO, Fla., May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (“PureCycle” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: PCT), a company focused on polypropylene recycling, commented on a short seller report published today, May 6, 2021, by Hindenburg Research, that, by its own admission, stands to profit from any decline in the Company’s stock price, whether driven by its report or otherwise: We remain confident in our people, our technology, and our long term growth strategy. We believe today’s report from a short selling firm is primarily designed to drive down the stock price in order to serve the short seller’s
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Has Himax Technologies (HIMX) Outpaced Other Computer and Technology Stocks This Year?
Bloomberg China Tech Giants Bet $19 Billion on Global Electric Car Frenzy (Bloomberg) — China is shaping up to be the first real test of Big Tech’s ambitions in the world of carmaking, with giants from Huawei Technologies Co. to Baidu Inc. plowing almost $19 billion into electric and self-driving vehicle ventures widely seen as the future of transport.While Apple Inc. has long had plans for its own car and Alphabet Inc. has Waymo, its autonomous driving unit, the size — and speed — of the move by China’s tech titans puts them at the vanguard of that broader push.
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Carbon Capture Technologies Are Improving Nicely
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is known for its far-reaching array of experiments. It’s now wrestling with what may be its toughest one: how to stimulate the technologies for three new industries to capture, transport and store the climate-changing emissions of fossil fuels. The laboratory, like other Department of Energy labs, does its work through partnerships with industries and universities. From its recent experiences, it estimates that trapping, shipping and storing carbon dioxide will eventually create “tens of thousands of jobs.” The work will often use similar skills to those required by fossil fuel industries, including coal-fired power plants
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Big data dreams for tiny technologies | MIT News
Small-molecule therapeutics treat a wide variety of diseases, but their effectiveness is often diminished because of their pharmacokinetics — what the body does to a drug. After administration, the body dictates how much of the drug is absorbed, which organs the drug enters, and how quickly the body metabolizes and excretes the drug again. Nanoparticles, usually made out of lipids, polymers, or both, can improve the pharmacokinetics, but they can be complex to produce and often carry very little of the drug. Some combinations of small-molecule cancer drugs and two small-molecule dyes have been shown to self-assemble into nanoparticles with
