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Blue Brain Project Installs HPE Supercomputer
Published: 17/07/2018TOP500.org Researchers working on the Blue Brain Project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) have implemented a fifth-generation supercomputer to help reach th ... Read moreSource: www.top500.org -
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Tens of Thousands Go Without Home Internet; Here's How San Francisco Wants to Fix It
Published: 17/07/2018The Washington Post San Francisco has proposed a $1.9-billion project to build its own high-speed network to provide Internet access to its more than 100,000 residents who lack home connectivity. The ... Read moreSource: www.washingtonpost.com -
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Hacker-Powered Security Is Reaching Critical Mass
Published: 17/07/2018Help Net Security Hackers are finding more severe vulnerabilities than ever before, as the total number of high or critical severity vulnerabilities identified increased 22% last year, according to th ... Read moreSource: www.helpnetsecurity.com
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Russian Researchers Make Quantum Supercomputers More Stable, Compact
Published: 17/07/2018SuperComputing A Russian-British research team has demonstrated an artificial quantum system in which a quantum bit (qubit) engages with an acoustic resonator so the effects of quantum optics can be e ... Read moreSource: www.supercomputingonline.com -
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3D Printing Trial Launched to Help Amputees in Madagascar, Togo
Published: 17/07/2018ZDNet The Humanity & Inclusion (HI) organization has initiated a trial in Madagascar and Togo to provide affordable prosthetics to amputees via three-dimensional (3D) printing. Patients' limbs are fir ... Read moreSource: www.zdnet.com -
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West Point Promotes STEM Learning in South Africa
Published: 17/07/2018U.S. Army Research Laboratory Representatives of the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), in partnership with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), last month promoted science, techno ... Read moreSource: www.army.mil
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New Model for Large-Scale 3D Facial Recognition
Published: 17/07/2018University of Western Australia University of Western Australia researchers have developed a three-dimensional (3D) facial recognition system based on the analysis of 3.1-million 3D scans of more than ... Read moreSource: uwa.edu.au -
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Delivery Drones Can Learn to See, Dodge Obstacles In-Flight
Published: 17/07/2018New Scientist The University of Zurich in Switzerland and Intel have jointly developed a method to enable aerial drones to learn to avoid in-flight collisions. Zurich's Elia Kaufmann and colleagues so ... Read moreSource: www.newscientist.com -
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Improving Disaster Response Through Twitter Data
Published: 17/07/2018Penn State News Researchers at Pennsylvania State University, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and the Qatar Computing Research Institute have developed an algorithm that analyzes Twitter ... Read moreSource: news.psu.edu
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Facebook's DensePose Tech Raises Concerns About Potential Misuse
Published: 17/07/2018IEEE Spectrum Facebook AI Research (FAIR) has developed a deep learning system that can transform two-dimensional (2D) photo and video images of people into three-dimensional (3D) mesh models of those ... Read moreSource: spectrum.ieee.org -
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TalkTalk shrugs off moaning customers to claim 80,000 more
Published: 17/07/2018Back in black UK comms provider TalkTalk grew its customer base by a net 80,000 in the first quarter of FY19, the company said in a trading update today. 2.1 million subscribers are now on fixed-price ... Read moreSource: go.theregister.com -
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Poor infrastructure monitoring leads to outages, slowdowns and missed targets
Published: 17/07/2018Almost 90 percent of enterprises fail to meet SLA targets due to inadequate monitoring of IT infrastructure, according to a new report. The study by Dimensional Research for infrastructure performance ... Read moreSource: betanews.com
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Patriot Viper RGB 2x8GB DDR4-3600 Review: Value at Speed
Published: 17/07/2018This DDR4-3600 kit is only $10 more than the white-LED version and several dollars cheaper than competing products with similar latency. That makes it a great value at this speed, though slower kits h ... Read moreSource: www.tomshardware.com -
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EVGA 650 B3 PSU Review: No (Fixed) Cables Attached
Published: 17/07/2018EVGA's 650 B3 addresses the mainstream PSU market. It features fully modular cabling, along with 80 PLUS Bronze and ETA-A- efficiency certifications. We only wish that the 650 B3's price was a little ... Read moreSource: www.tomshardware.com -
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Carlsberg: AI beer taster can now tell the difference between lager and pilsner
Published: 17/07/2018First they came for your cars. Now they're coming for your beers Denmark-based brewing giant Carlsberg has reported good progress in its attempts to turn Microsoft's Azure AI into a robot beer sniffer ... Read moreSource: go.theregister.com
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Samsung announces 10nm 8GB LPDDR5 DRAM chip, targets 6.4Gbps data transfer rates and 30% reduced power (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)
Published: 17/07/2018Ryan Smith / AnandTech : Samsung announces 10nm 8GB LPDDR5 DRAM chip, targets 6.4Gbps data transfer rates and 30% reduced power — Samsung has been on a roll lately with memory & ... Read moreSource: www.techmeme.com -
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Andreessen Horowitz names Connie Chan a General Partner, ending the VC firm's no-promotion policy (Alex Konrad/Forbes)
Published: 17/07/2018Alex Konrad / Forbes : Andreessen Horowitz names Connie Chan a General Partner, ending the VC firm's no-promotion policy — Connie Chan is Andreessen Horowitz's first general partner ... Read moreSource: www.techmeme.com -
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Data lakes improve business decision making
Published: 17/07/2018The data lake has long been a powerful tool for data scientists and engineers. But today’s business environment often requires users without coding or scripting skills to access the data stored in lak ... Read moreSource: betanews.com
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Dialpad, which provides conferencing software and voice transcription apps, raises $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
Published: 17/07/2018Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Dialpad, which provides conferencing software and voice transcription apps, raises $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital — Dialpad announced a $50 million Se ... Read moreSource: www.techmeme.com -
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Amazon Prime Day sales soar despite glitches
Published: 17/07/2018Amazon sales rose sharply during the first three hours of its Prime Day sales event, dispelling fears that the technical glitches that incensed shoppers would significantly hurt business. Read moreSource: mybroadband.co.za