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Data Centers Can Slash Power Needs With One Coding Tweak
Much of the world’s web traffic is routed through data centers, which also fuel power-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI) applications. In the U.S. alone, data centers consumed around 4 percent of...
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Not Everyone Is Convinced by Microsoft's Topological Qubits
Yesterday, three members of Microsoft’s quantum team presented their work towards a topological quantum computer at the APS Global Summit in Anaheim. Last month, the team made waves announcing their...
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Epoxy EP112 Used in Microelectronics Fabrication
This sponsored article is brought to you by Master Bond.Master Bond EP112 is an ultra-low-viscosity, electrically insulating, two-component heat curable epoxy system designed for demanding...
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AlphaXiv Wants to Be the Public Square for Scientific Discourse
There is an inherent tension in the dissemination of research. On one hand, science thrives on openness and communication. On the other, ensuring high-quality scientific work requires peer reviews...
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A Crucial Optical Technology Has Finally Arrived
A long-awaited, emerging computer network component may finally be having its moment. At Nvidia’s GTC event last week in San Jose, the company announced that it will produce an optical network switch...
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D-Wave “Supremacy” Controversy Overshadows Real Progress
Quantum computing company D-Wave sparked controversy earlier this month by saying it could solve problems beyond classical computers’ capabilities. The claim was quickly challenged, but despite the...
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“The Doctor Will See Your Electronic Health Record Now”
Cheryl Conrad no longer seethes with the frustration that threatened to overwhelm her in 2006. As described in IEEE Spectrum, Cheryl’s husband, Tom, has a rare genetic disease that causes ammonia to...
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How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
In the three decades since Brewster Kahle spun up the nonprofit Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, it has scaled up to include government websites and datasets—many of which are essential to the...
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Nvidia Blackwell Ahead in AI Inference, AMD Second
In the latest round of machine learning benchmark results from MLCommons, computers built around Nvidia’s new Blackwell GPU architecture outperformed all others. But AMD’s latest spin on its Instinct...
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Engineers Are Using AI to Code Based on Vibes
“Wait! Am I a vibe coder?”That was my reaction to Andrej Karpathy’s viral post describing his new “vibe coding” workflow. On 2 February, Karpathy—a computer scientist and founding member of...
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Navigating the Angstrom Era
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Applied Materials.The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a transformative era as it bumps up against the physical limits of making faster and more...
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For Sale: The World’s Most Precise Clock
Scientists have tried to create more-precise timekeeping devices even after the International System of Units adopted specific cesium-133 radiation in its 1967 definition of the second. Atomic clocks...
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AMD Takes Holistic Approach to AI Coding Copilots
Coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Codeium are already changing software engineering. Based on existing code and an engineer’s prompts, these assistants can suggest new lines or whole chunks of...
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Intel AI Trick Spots Hidden Flaws in Data-Center Chips
For high-performance chips in massive data centers, math can be the enemy. Thanks to the sheer scale of calculations going on in hyperscale data centers, operating round the clock with millions of...
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Rugged Microdata Centers Bring Rural Reliability
Rural connectivity is still a huge issue. As of 2022, approximately 28 percent of Americans living in rural areas did not have access to broadband Internet, which at that time was defined by 25...
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Tiny “Fans-on-Chips” Could Cool Big Data Centers
In data centers, pluggable optical transceivers convert electronic bits to photons, fling them across the room, and then turn them back to electronic signals, making them a technological linchpin to...
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Bitcoin Mining's Outsized Impact on the U.S. Grid
Bitcoin mining takes a lot of computation, and therefore, a lot of electricity. After the initial Bitcoin boom in China, the lure of cheaper electricity and a more stable power grid has lured many of...
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Will Supercapacitors Come to AI's Rescue?
In the U.K., electricity provider National Grid faces a problem every time there is a soccer match on (or any other widely viewed televised event for that matter): During half-time, or a commercial...
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To Speed up AI, Just Outsource Memory
Modern society is becoming increasing data hungry, especially as the use of AI continues to grow exponentially. As a result, ensuring enough computer memory—and power to sustainable support that...
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Prototype Computer Uses Noise to Its Advantage
A new computing paradigm—thermodynamic computing—has entered the scene. Okay, okay, maybe it’s just probabilistic computing by a new name. They both use noise (such as that caused by thermal...
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Your Next Password Could Be Stored in Plastic
Forget cloud storage. Scientists can now save data in plastic—storing digital information in short-chain polymers, and reading it back with electricity.Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin...
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Entering a New Era of Modeling and Simulation
This is a sponsored article brought to you by COMSOL. Computer modeling and simulation has been used in engineering for many decades. At this point, anyone working in R&D is likely to have either...
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32 Bits That Changed Microprocessor Design
In the late 1970s, a time when 8-bit processors were state of the art and CMOS was the underdog of semiconductor technology, engineers at AT&T’s Bell Labs took a bold leap into the future. They...
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A Price Index Could Clarify Opaque GPU Rental Costs for AI
Ask what—if anything—is holding back the AI industry, and the answer you get depends a lot on who you’re talking to. I asked one of Bloomberg’s former chief data wranglers Carmen Li, and her answer...
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How a Harvard Engineer Lost Three Grants in One Day
Last week, the federal government terminated hundreds of research grants to Harvard University professors from a broad range of fields of study. This comes on the heels of a conflict between Harvard,...
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Startup’s Analog AI Promises Power for PCs
Naveen Verma’s lab at Princeton University is like a museum of all the ways engineers have tried to make AI ultra-efficient by using analog phenomena instead of digital computing. At one bench lies...
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Human Brain Cells on a Chip for Sale
In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world’s first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March,...
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Nvidia’s Blackwell Conquers Largest LLM Training Benchmark
For those who enjoy rooting for the underdog, the latest MLPerf benchmark results will disappoint: Nvidia’s GPUs have dominated the competition yet again. This includes chart-topping performance on...
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IBM Says It’s Cracked Quantum Error Correction
IBM has unveiled a new quantum computing architecture it says will slash the number of qubits required for error correction. The advance will underpin its goal of building a large-scale,...
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Art Restoration Gets a High-Tech Makeover
Masterpieces like The Mona Lisa or The Coronation of Napoleon are admired by tens of thousands of visitors to the Louvre each day. Yet, deep within the Paris museum’s vaults lie thousands more works...
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