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Quantum: The Tech Race Europe Can’t Afford to Lose

BCG Estimates That Quantum Computing Could Create From $450 to $850 Billion of Value in Next 15 to 30 Years Europe Is Currently Among Leaders Globally in Terms of Public Support and Fundamental Research, but Lacks Member State Coordination, Sufficient Private Capital, and a Talent Pipeline to Capitalize On Lessons From the Semiconductor Industry Need to Be Learned to … [Read more...] about Quantum: The Tech Race Europe Can’t Afford to Lose

RealPage® Releases 2022 Market-Rate Apartment Affordability Report

Data From Millions of Apartment Leases Shows Renters Spend 23% of Income on Rent RICHARDSON, Texas, July 18, 2022 - RealPage, a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, released today its 2022 Market-Rate Apartment Affordability Report during its annual RealWorld conference in Las Vegas. The report shows that market-rate apartment … [Read more...] about RealPage® Releases 2022 Market-Rate Apartment Affordability Report

Global Total Semiconductor Equipment Sales On Track to Record $118 Billion in 2022

Global Total Semiconductor Equipment Sales On Track to Record $118 Billion in 2022, SEMI Reports SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global sales of total semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are forecast to reach a record $117.5 billion in 2022, rising 14.7% from the previous industry high of $102.5 billion in 2021, and increase … [Read more...] about Global Total Semiconductor Equipment Sales On Track to Record $118 Billion in 2022

Spending on Compute and Storage Infrastructure Grew Strongly Across Cloud and Non-Cloud IT Environments in the First Quarter of 2022, According to IDC

NEEDHAM, Mass., June 30, 2022 - According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment, spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared environments, increased 17.2% year over year in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22) to $18.3 billion. … [Read more...] about Spending on Compute and Storage Infrastructure Grew Strongly Across Cloud and Non-Cloud IT Environments in the First Quarter of 2022, According to IDC

Critical Mineral Shortages Could Disrupt Global Supply Chains

What do smartphones, automobiles, solar panels, and national defense programs all have in common? They all depend on secure and reliable global supply chains for certain key minerals. In February, the U.S. government updated its list of minerals that are designated as critical to the economy and national defense. The U.S. generally relies on imports for many of these 50 … [Read more...] about Critical Mineral Shortages Could Disrupt Global Supply Chains

Comparing WordPress Performance on MySQL vs SQLite

Wordpress, an ubiquitous publishing platform run on php and MySQL, powers about 42% of all websites. Now we see two opposite trends in WordPress evolution. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is pushing WordPress development in the direction of Gutenberg, a block based editor. Automattic's vision of WordPress's future is a universal fully-configurable powerful publishing … [Read more...] about Comparing WordPress Performance on MySQL vs SQLite

Revenue from NFTs could exceed $130 billion by 2030

Revenue from NFTs could exceed $130 billion by 2030, and NFTs could help advance the digital economy. However, despite media attention and celebrity endorsements, they are poorly understood, and the current market is subject to speculation and fraud. Also, lack of NFT expertise in the federal workforce makes it difficult to address statutory and regulatory challenges. Source: … [Read more...] about Revenue from NFTs could exceed $130 billion by 2030