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Microsoft’s biggest investment in the U.K. to date will see the company double its AI data centre footprint and deliver skills training to more than one million people. Continue reading Microsoft Bets Big on UK AI with $3.2bn Investment
Microsoft’s biggest investment in the U.K. to date will see the company double its AI data centre footprint and deliver skills training to more than one million people. Continue reading Microsoft Bets Big on UK AI with $3.2bn Investment
The fastest internet network in the US just got a bit faster. The Energy Sciences Network (Esnet) has been upgraded to ESnet6, boasting a blistering bandwidth of 46 Terabits per second (Tbps). But don’t warm up your downloading fingers just yet – it’s … Continue reading World’s fastest internet network upgraded to staggering 46 Terabit/s
Robots are learning to do the jobs of human factory workers, bus drivers, burger flippers, butlers, and healthcare workers, among many others – and now, they may be coming for scientists as well. Engineers at the University of Liverpool have developed … Continue reading Autonomous robot scientist can choose its own experiments
An intriguing paper published by researchers at the University of Michigan describes a new processor architecture capable of self-encryption that can fend off any hacks. A DARPA-supported project, the new chip design renders the current electronic secu… Continue reading Scientists claim to have invented the unhackable processor
You can tell a lot about a country, its history and its politics, by taking a look at its banknotes. Who features on them, or in the case of studiously engineered international compromises such as the Euro, who doesn’t feature on them. Residents of the UK have over the years been treated to a succession of historical worthies on their cash, and when a new revision of a banknote is announced you can be certain that the choice of famous person to adorn it will be front page news. Today we have a new banknote on the way, and this …read more
After the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Exxon launched a ruthless crusade to intimidate and discredit government scientists. Continue reading Let’s Remember Exxon’s Extremely Fucked Up Response to Its Catastrophic Oil Spill
A nonprofit organization dedicated to getting more scientists elected has been overwhelmed by the response from the scientific community. Continue reading 3,000 Scientists Have Asked for Help Running for Office to Oppose Trump
Typically apolitical, scientists felt compelled to defend their work outside the AAAS conference in Boston. Continue reading In the Age of ‘Alternative Facts,’ Scientists March in Defense of Evidence
“If one of us can’t go, we don’t go at all.” Continue reading Scientists in Canada Are Organizing a Boycott Against US Conferences