Bitcoin mining hash rate reaches a record as shift to renewables accelerates

With Bitcoin’s (BTC) price struggling below $20,000, the asset’s mining activity appears to be thriving, with competition among miners continuing to grow. Consequently, this scenario has resulted in the Bitcoin mining hash rate hitting a new record high.

Indeed, as of September 25, Bitcoin’s mining hash rate spiked to a new all-time of 226.633 quintillion hashes per second s based on the 30-day moving average. The hash rate has been surging steadily from the lows recorded in early...

New Technology Could Generate Electricity From Ocean Waves or Even Clothing, Cars, and Buildings

Imagine this: Clothing that charges your smart watch as you walk, buildings that vibrate in the wind and power your lights, a road that extracts energy from the friction created by moving cars, and flexible structures that change shape in ocean waves to generate clean electricity for communities around the world.

It is not science fiction. Someday, we could harness these naturally...

After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defence technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

The mission’s one-way trip confirmed NASA can successfully navigate a spacecraft to intentionally collide with an asteroid to deflect it, a technique known as kinetic impact.

The investigation team will now observe Dimorphos...

Manufacturers need to break out of the old paradigm as new approaches to training are the linchpin to human capital success.

Read More: https://industrytoday.com/labor-shor..._id=e549e33d1a...

Webb often gets called the replacement for Hubble, but we prefer to call it a successor. Hubble's science pushed us to look to longer wavelengths to "go beyond" what Hubble has already done.

Read More: https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/ab...bVsHubble.html...

With our recent release of VTScada 12.1 prompting lots of upgrades and our love of starting the automation village with a Space story, I read with interest Jon Fingas’ article about the The European Space Agency upgrading its Mars Express orbiter's MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ioniospheric Sounding) software 19 years after its June 2003 launch.

For context, the original code was created using a toolset built for Windows 98!

The update promises to dramatically...

This edition of the Automation village is looking at emerging technologies Few, if any, receive as much hype as the metaverse.

Such is the excitement that 40% more companies mentioned 'metaverse' in their company filing documents during the first quarter of 2022, according to researcher GlobalData.

In its simplest terms, the metaverse is a network of 3D virtual worlds that uses technologies – such as virtual and augmented reality – to help people connect in richer ways...

In a world first, Australian quantum computing manufacturer, Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), has today announced they have developed a quantum computing chip that integrates all the necessary components found on a classical computer chip but at the atomic scale, making up a functional quantum processor.

This quantum processor was then put to the test by using it to model a small molecule in which each atom has multiple quantum states - something that traditional computers would struggle...

OPC UA is committed to compliance in order to realize “The Industrial Interoperability Standard”. Compliance activities are to check “whether the system is actually connected” and “whether it can be used in a reliable manner” so that a system can be built using a truly reliable product. As a supplier of OPC UA-equipped products, Omron also focuses on compliance.

In this article, we will introduce you to the services for checking compliance, the certification test items,...

How do the flight crew, ground crew and operations personnel of a commercial airliner miss crucial steps to verify that the aircraft has working airspeed indicators before takeoff? There are so many lessons to be learned here that will help any industry. Have you heard of Dr. Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model?

This was part of the discussion we had on our Industry Panel today for May. Enjoy!...