2019 November

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Dirty industrial processes use huge amounts of energy and heat to create cement, glass, and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Rendering high quality AR and VR experiences is compute intensive, but by using cloud based…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Rendering high quality virtual worlds is resource intensive,  DeepFovea eliminates up to 99 percent of…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to reconstruct the images people are thinking about in a lab environment is…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Metamaterials are odd, they’re freaks of nature, and now they’re going digital which opens up…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we investigate new ways to feed the planet some of the breakthroughs in food…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers are insanely powerful new types of computers that excel at optimisation problems –…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of entertainment is immersive and 3D, but getting there is proving hard, that…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Big improvements in the energy density of batteries mean that all electric aircraft are now…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future we won’t be able to believe everything we see or read, irrespective…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Getting equipment and robots into space is expensive, and that makes inflatable robots attractive if…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The race is on to capture the publics imagination and create concepts for the next…