If you’ve ever wished your brain was more user-friendly, neurotechnology might seem like a dream come true. It’s all about offering you ways to hack your brain, getting it to do more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. There are “nootropics” — also known as “smart
The government’s ostensible reasoning for all of this complicated, confusing, and extremely showboat-y hubbub, which included last week’s hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Chew, is national security. A large and bipartisan swath of Congress is concerned that because ByteDance is based in China, the Chinese government could access American users’ data and push
AI-powered chatbot, Bard, is here. The company rolled it out to the public on Tuesday, and anyone with a Google account can join the waitlist to get access. Though it’s a standalone tool for now, Google is expected to put some of this technology into Google Search in the future. But in
More than 1 million Americans died of Covid-19, and while in the early months of the pandemic the country made massive, life-altering, changes to reduce its spread, it has done very close to absolutely nothing to make sure it never happens again. (Maybe this is because of the massive, life-altering changes in the early months
First, energy markets in particular are becoming more globally interconnected. For example, LNG prices are increasingly connecting major global gas markets to each other1. Similarly, European power and gas trading hubs are increasingly correlated from north to south and west to east, progressively transforming what used to be to a
Digital has helped many organizations generate greater efficiencies across their operational business units, significantly improve customer experience, and accelerate innovation to allow them to stay ahead of the competition in rapidly changing markets. Peter Peters, Partner addresses how power and utility clients can bring digital transformation to the heart of
Costs have been falling and, not coincidentally, capacity has been rising. Indeed, around the world, renewables accounted for almost half of additional generation in 2017. In the United States, renewables (including hydropower, which is a little less than half of the total, but not growing) accounted for about 17 percent of all electricity generation, and most
Specifically, capital costs and construction delays used to be the biggest risks in undertaking renewable projects. When there are no subsidies involved, however—whether direct or in the form of guaranteed prices—developers are fully exposed to wholesale prices. According to a recent McKinsey report, this “merchant risk” can be up to four times bigger
Lured by this promise, many utilities have launched digital initiatives, such as adopting predictive maintenance or optimizing omnichannel customer experience. Yet, few of these efforts have resulted in fully fledged digital transformations. Why not? In our experience, three issues are holding utilities back: working methods and mindsets that revolve around safeguarding