This New Chip Design Could Make Neural Nets More Efficient and a Lot Faster
Neural networks running on GPUs have achieved some amazing advances in artificial intelligence, but the two are accidental bedfellows. IBM researchers hope a new...
Microsoft’s Wild New Project Puts Servers at the Bottom of the Ocean
Last week, a few miles off the northern coast of Scotland, a cylinder the size of a shipping container was carefully lowered to the...
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The World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Is Tailor Made for the AI Era
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"The team at Oak Ridge says Summit...
We Discovered That Life May Be Billions of Times More Common in the Multiverse
Why is there life in our universe? The existence of galaxies, stars, planets, and ultimately life seem to depend on a small number of...
Living Neanderthal ‘Mini-Brains’ May Reveal What Makes Our Brains Special
He isolated DNA from Egyptian mummies. He discovered the Denisovans, an extinct ancient human species, by sequencing DNA from a tiny bone fragment. He...
How the Most Successful Leaders Will Thrive in an Exponential World
We live in challenging times. Geopolitical turmoil, local and national social unrest, cycles of deadly natural disasters, cyber hacks, rising distrust of media and...
5 Reasons Car Companies Are Betting Big on Energy Storage
An increasing number of major car manufacturers are developing solutions in a space that at first glance may seem like a strange choice: energy...
The Biggest New Laws to Regulate Tech Giants—and Why They Matter
The world’s first stop sign appeared in Michigan around 1915, decades after the first privately owned passenger car came into being. Ever since, laws...
An Innovator’s City Guide to Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Amsterdam is a perfect innovation hub, as well as a great launchpad into the Dutch and European markets. Although small in size, Amsterdam has...
Robots Will Be Able to Feel Touch With This Artificial Nerve
When the disembodied cockroach leg twitched, Yeongin Kim knew he had finally made it.
A graduate student at Stanford, Kim had been working with an...
How Cyanobacteria Could Help Save the Planet
It’s very easy to forget that complex life on Earth almost missed the boat entirely. As the Sun’s luminosity gradually increases, the oceans will...
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