The sovereign Gaia-X data infrastructure promises secure digitization for European companies - and yet vacillates between hope and trepidation. The hurdles still seem huge as to how exactly the mega-project will be put into practice. We shed light on expectations and fears in a survey.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest producer of cobalt, accounting for 60 percent of the total, but 70 percent of refined cobalt production takes place in China.

Charging the e-car while waiting for the next guest? What was previously impractical for cabs due to wired charging stations and the advance principle in public places could change with the possibility of inductive charging.

Forschungszentrum Jülich has expanded its modular supercomputer »Jureca«. It now performs 23.5 quadrillion computing operations per second – 23.5 petaflops for short. One focus of the system is on processing large amounts of data.

AI methods such as deep learning are opening more and more new fields of application, for example in research. The University of Zurich, for example, has set itself the goal of detecting viral infections more quickly. Even serious infections should be able to be predicted in the future.