As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the environmental impact of cloud computing, Google announced it has developed a platform that maximizes the use of alternative energy sources at its sprawling network of datacenters. In a blog post, Google officials described the system as a “carbon-intelligent computing platform.” It …
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Folding@home software for donating compute for medical research passed 1 million downloads, director Greg Bowman said in a tweet today. The Folding@home Consortium is made up of 11 laboratories around the world studying the molecular structure of diseases like cancer, ALS, and influenza. Research into COVID-19 started earlier this month. …
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Edge computing has claimed a spot in the technology zeitgeist as one of the topics that signals novelty and cutting-edge thinking. For a few years now, it has been assumed that this way of doing computing is, one way or another, the future. But until recently the discussion has been …
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Following the launch of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge, IBM today announced that it will coordinate an effort to provide over 200 petaflops of computing power to scientists researching COVID-19, the coronavirus that’s sickened over 300,000 people. The company anticipates that the capacity will be used to develop …
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Today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, which runs through this week in San Francisco, Intel and QuTech — a partnership between Delft University of Technology and TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research) — are unveiling the technical designs for a first-of-its-kind cryogenic control chip for quantum computing, …
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The White House’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 includes sizable increases in federal funding for AI and quantum computing projects. All told, the overall increase in federal R&D funding is 6% compared to fiscal year 2020, reaching $ 142.2 billion. Although much of the funding is aimed at R&D …
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