Researchers are starting to quantify and compare the #carbonfootprint of #machinelearning training models, the first step in controlling emissions from energy-intensive #AI computing.
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Quantum computing will never be big without a way to correct the errors that are prone to crop up in quantum hardware. People have been working on this problem for decades, and they are getting very close to having a solution that works.
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India’s installed solar and wind power is soaring but actual usage still lags. Here’s a plan to boost renewable energy usage to 50 percent in a matter of years, not decades.
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Here are the chips that power the Frontier supercomputer—the world's fastest and most energy efficient—past 1,100,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second.
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Racial bias means inequitable product design means technology that doesn’t work right with melanin-rich skin.
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Graphene's new cousin graphyne, just produced in bulk for the first time, is the #semiconductor #graphene isn't. The implications for #electronics could be huge.
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The RP2040 has become a go-to chip during the semiconductor shortage, but it’s not without its flaws.
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The Big Picture features technology through the lens of photographers. This month's edition includes a hydrogen-powered mining truck, robots for keeping tabs on penguin populations and a robotic arm that paints cars.
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A new chip-sized device boosts signals 1,000x and promises applications in telecom, lidar, and optics-on-a-chip.
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The library contains more than 1 million full-text research documents; 10,000 technical standards; 8,000 online courses; and 18 million parts.
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HyperTaste can already distinguish different types of mineral water, fruit juices, and wines, and even identify counterfeit alcohol.
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HyperTaste can already distinguish different types of mineral water, fruit juices, and wines, and even identify counterfeit alcohol.
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Deep neural nets can often be re-expressed as sets of mathematical equations—greatly improving their efficiency and therefore their environmental impacts.
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This novel metamaterial absorber could theoretically detect a range of cancer types.
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AI has found rapid adoption in e-commerce, manufacturing, and healthcare—but not so much in green tech. That can change.
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There's been a quiet revolution in undersea tech, and a worldwide network of robots have been using it to roam the oceans, chronicling climate change all the while.
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Switches, built from atomically thin films, would require minuscule dabs of energy, boosting network speed and efficiency.
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The late Clayton Christensen’s brilliant insight, the innovator’s dilemma, can explain the rise and fall of not only businesses, but of tech research projects as well.
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Elevators and electric trucks provide an opportunity for widespread, mechanical, grid-scale batteries.
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Oculus headsets are a loss leader for Meta—while headwinds curb the AR/VR industry’s meta-expectations.
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This wireless company turns intentional interference into pockets of cellular clarity.
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Researchers in India have devised an AI chip whose neural spikes sip just 0.02 percent of the power needed to fire comparable neural networks.
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Save the date for next year’s event: 2 to 8 April!
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The 5.6 square millimeter 4-bit FlexiCore has just 2,104 semiconductor devices (about the same as the number of transistors in a 1971 Intel 4004).
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"It would be a whole lot easier if they wrote a check for a billion dollars instead of just a few million. It's hard to do stuff like this."
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"It would be a whole lot easier if they wrote a check for a billion dollars instead of just a few million. It's hard to do stuff like this."
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A new study finds that quantum computers will need far less time to solve biology, chemistry, and physics questions than their classical brethren.
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These crab-inspired crawlers are just half a millimeter wide—and are among the very smallest walking, open-air, terrestrial robots in the world.
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Another entertaining collection of #robot videos compiled by �?��?� who’s in Switzerland this week for some autonomous #droneracing, which should also make for fun viewing some future Friday.
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Blockchain-conscious policies are proliferating worldwide—balancing innovation against protection.
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Cupertino says there's no immediate risk, but how many dominos stand to fall if this centerpiece CPU’s weakness pans out?
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"We know for a fact that store-now-decrypt-later attacks are happening right now, and their frequency will only increase the closer we get to delivering a fault-tolerant quantum computer."
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IEEE Life Fellow Gus Gaynor says that the best part about being a volunteer is the camaraderie with colleagues
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The battery coverts the decay of cobalt-60 into electricity through thermoelectric devices.
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A quantum-powered cloud computer is 7,800,000,000,000,000x faster, for some problems, than a supercomputer, according to new research.
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The notion was unheard of a decade or more ago, but times have changed. Governments simply no longer operate all the best spy sats in the sky.
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Quantum computers—everyone in tech is talking about them today. And they all run on something called "entanglement." So.... what the deuce is entanglement anyway?
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He was made an honorary Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences this year
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