Technology alone won’t save us

Technology isn’t the silver bullet to combat global warming, argues Paul van Gerven. Our never-ending faith in it has actually made things worse.

CleanFit push-in fittings for life sciences and clean rooms

The CleanFit series pushes the boundaries of connection technology in terms of hygiene, reliability and safety. This ultra-clean and sterilizable range is perfectly suitable for most gases and medical fluids and meets the demanding requirements and standards in the life science and clean room industry.

Headlines

Kendrion locks up 3T acquisition

Quantum computing unicorn considers European HQ near Imec

Semiconductor boom might turn to glut in 2023, says IDC

The Netherlands joins European chip collaboration

$12M seed round brings Dutch stealth startup Axelera AI to light

Loop Robots cleans up with a $2M seed investment

TU Delft and NFI investigate next-gen forensic photography

Pharrowtech field-tests mm-wave-based fixed wireless access

Optimizing microwave ovens with solid-state RF cooking

The technology of conventional microwaves hasn’t had an upgrade for a very long time, even though it’s known that food doesn’t always heat evenly in this type of microwaves. Curious about the solution from the Illinois Tool Works (ITW) Food Equipment Group? Read more!

Throwing money

With the world in desperate need of green technology and Europe increasingly getting squeezed between the US and China, the Dutch government needs to step up and really invest in education and innovation.

In other news

Broadcom sues Netflix (Variety)

Printed electronics expects another year of growth (OE-A)

IBM and Fraunhofer bring quantum computing to Germany (Fraunhofer)

This is not the end

COVID-19 is terrible from a humanitarian, as well as from an economic perspective. However, we can use these circumstances to realize at least some benefits that may help our companies going forward.

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