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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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Drones Tackle Shark Safety on New York's Beaches
Safety officials at New York's Jones Beach are using drones to monitor for potential human-shark interactions.
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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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Putting 3D Printers to Work in Ukraine's War Zone
Entrepreneurs in Poland are rushing three-dimensional printers to Ukraine for the manufacture of defensive equipment.
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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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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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Artificial Intelligence Is Driving A Silicon Renaissance
Artificial intelligence has ushered in a new golden age of semiconductor innovation.
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ber Eats To Test Flying Food To Customers By Drone In San Diego
Uber will start delivering food with drones in San Diego this summer, aiming to test out ways to connect a payload to customers in a dense urban environment where...
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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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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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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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The Hard Disk of the Future Will Be Ten Thousand Times Faster, Researchers Say
Think your computer is pretty slow?
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No Internet? No Problem. Inside Cuba's Tech Revolution
Robin Pedraja, a lanky 28-year-old former design student from Havana, walked into the Cuban government’s office of periodicals and publications early last year...
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Air Force's Secret 'gorgon Stare' Program Leaves Terrorists Nowhere To Hide
In Greek mythology, Gorgons were creatures whose terrible visages could turn men to stone with a single glance.12