The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States Department of Commerce has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Google to develop and produce chips. Circuit designs will be open source, allowing academic researchers and small businesses to use the chips without restriction or licensing fees. The chips will be … Read more
Google Cloud Platform is looking to challenge hyperscalers and smaller providers with a new high-performance storage service and native backup-as-a-service offering. Google Cloud Hyperdisk, a new variant of GCP’s persistent disk block storage service, brings higher IOPS as well as greater memory bandwidth than previous GCP services. Google Cloud representatives said the service aims to … Read more
Webb Fontaine is the global leader in artificial intelligence-powered trade and customs facilitation solutions for governments and trade administrations. The company is celebrating its 20th birthday this month. In 2002, leading figures in their respective fields and pioneers of new technologies joined forces to found Webb Fontaine. Its vocation was clear: To optimize the customs … Read more
NRGYBOX, created in 2019 and supported by UNITEC and ADI Nouvelle-Aquitaine, announces an initial fundraising of €500,000 driven by the Bordeaux investment fund Galia Gestion supported by European greentech investors. The start-up offers a connected box allowing any public lighting manager to transform its fleet of existing street lamps into a smart, sober and easily … Read more
Installing a prosthesis is not done by shouting scissors. Take the example of a knee. The surgeon must make bone cuts in the tibia and femur to install the prosthesis. New technologies make it possible to improve the precision of this work. And that’s what Karine Duval, director of robotics R&D at Zimmer Biomet, does … Read more
NASA has selected the American company Microchip Technology to develop a high-performance spaceflight computing processor (HPSC) that will provide at least 100 times the computing capacity of current spaceflight computers. The next-generation processor would advance all types of future space missions, from planetary exploration to lunar and Martian surface missions. “This state-of-the-art spaceflight processor will … Read more
An artificial intelligence algorithm to identify a group of cancer-causing ‘point mutations’ in TP53 – a gene implicated in around half of all cancerous tumors – has been developed for the first time in the world by a group of researchers of the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem. A point mutation occurs in a … Read more
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) NASA has selected US-based Microchip Technology to develop a high-performance spaceflight computing processor (HPSC) that will provide at least 100 times the computing power of current spaceflight computers. The next-generation processor would advance all types of future space missions, from planetary exploration to lunar and Martian surface missions. “This state-of-the-art spaceflight … Read more
As robots increasingly join people in factories, warehouses and elsewhere in the workplace, the distribution of who will do what tasks becomes increasingly complex and important. People are better suited to some tasks, robots to others. And in some cases, it pays to spend time teaching a robot to perform a task now and reap … Read more
A few days ago the Pentagon published a document of 47 pages to describe its strategy which consists in implement a “responsible military artificial intelligence”. The Department of Defense is looking for a way to integrate AI into the military without turning the world into a Terminator-like hellscape. China in the sights of the United … Read more