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Procyon Photonics — The High School-Run Startup That Could Revolutionize Computing
Procyon believes it might be possible to run ChatGPT's large language model neural networks on their hardware.
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Why Don't You Have A Self-Driving Car Yet?
The biggest reason that "it's taking so long" is that it's hard.
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Toyota Halts Japan Production As Supplier Probes Possible Cyberattack
Toyota-owned truck manufacturer Hino Motors said two of its plants were affected, while Daihatsu, a Toyota affiliate that makes small cars, reportedly also stopped...
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Researchers Use AR to See Radiation Defects in Nuclear Reactors
A machine learning platform uses augmented reality to detect and quantify radiation-induced defects in parts and testing materials in nuclear reactors.
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NVIDIA Completely Re-Imagines The Data Center For AI
It is all about tighter integration with memory, CPUs, and accelerators for trillion-parameter AI models.
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How DOE Researchers Are Using AI, Robots to Design the Successor to Lithium-Ion Batteries
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Center for Energy Storage Research are using artificial intelligence and robots to design an organic redox-flow...
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Battery-Free IoT: These Tiny Printable Computers Harvest Energy From Radio Waves
The Wiliot Internet of Things tag is a printable chip that harvests energy from ambient radio waves, so it requires no battery.
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White Castle Plans to Use Robot in More Locations
The White Castle restaurant chain said it is expanding the use of the Flippy Robot-on-a-Rail system to more U.S. locations.
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Newcastle United Turns to Wearable Technology for Safe Premier League Return
Soccer clubs are turning to technology as the English Premier League looks to restart while complying with numerous health and safety protocols.
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Intel Confirms Critical New Security Problem for Windows Users
Intel has verified a newly disclosed security flaw in Windows that exposes an apparently critical vulnerability on millions of computers.
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Expanding 3D Printing Network Aims to Improve .S. Veterans' Healthcare
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded its integrated virtual three-dimensional printing network from three hospitals in early 2017 to 20 at the end...
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Proof-of-Concept Malware Reveals Smart Building Vulnerabilities
Researchers warn smart building-targeting malware is the next step in the rapidly expanding attack surface made vulnerable by automated systems.
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Feds Force Suspect To nlock An Apple iPhone X With Their Face
It finally happened. The feds forced an Apple iPhone X owner to unlock their device with their face.
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How Traveling Back In Time Could Really, Physically Be Possible
It's one of the greatest tropes in movies, literature, and television shows: the idea that we could travel back in time to alter the past.
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Craig Venter Mapped the Genome. Now He's Trying to Decode Death
The world's most extreme physical exam starts in the world's plushest exam room, complete with a couch, a private bathroom and a teeming fruit plate.
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The New Intel: How Nvidia Went From Powering Video Games To Revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia cofounder Chris Malachowsky is eating a sausage omelet and sipping burnt coffee in a Denny's off the Berryessa overpass in San Jose.
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Q+a With the First Female Director of Mit's Largest Research Lab
Daniela Rus discusses her objectives as the first female director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
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Feds Want to se Your Fingerprints to Open Iphones. Why Isn't It Working?
A single sentence was all that was needed to detail the results of a search warrant executed last month on a cell phone in Texas: "Unable to obtain forensic aquisition...
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Meet the Incredible Woman Who Massively Improved the Internet
Princeton University professor Jennifer Rexford recently was awarded the Athena Lecturer award by ACM's Council on Women in Computing.
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The Hard Disk of the Future Will Be Ten Thousand Times Faster, Researchers Say
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