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Google's Project Sunchaser.

Google unveils ‘moonshot’ to power AI with space-based solar data centres

Google researchers have unveiled a “moonshot” research initiative to build AI data…
Microchips.

Microchip era ending as wafer technology promises box-sized data centres

The microchip era faces obsolescence as wafer-scale integration technology promises to shrink…
OpenAI and Amazon.

OpenAI commits $38bn to Amazon as losses hit $12bn amid bubble fears

OpenAI has agreed to pay Amazon $38 billion for computing power in…
AI data centres taking electricity.

Data centres spark electricity cost fears among 80% of American homeowners

Eighty per cent of US homeowners worry that data centres will drive…
SETI and Nvidia

SETI Institute boosts alien hunt with real-time AI using Nvidia IGX Thor

The SETI Institute is integrating Nvidia’s new IGX Thor platform into the…
Mushroom computers

Shiitake mushrooms trained to act as living computer components

Researchers at The Ohio State University have successfully grown and trained common…
Jacob Benestad

Quantum computers get real-time tuning to keep unstable qubits in check

Researchers develop a method that continuously adjusts quantum bits like tuning a…
Smartphone

Smartwatches achieve centimetre-level GPS precision in world-first breakthrough

University of Otago researchers have developed algorithms enabling smartwatches to determine location…
Amazon AWS

AWS outage disrupts Facebook, Snapchat and Amazon before recovery begins

Amazon Web Services confirmed its systems were recovering following a major outage…
Titan submersible video

Titan submersible’s memory card survives but held no fatal dive footage

Recovery teams have found an undamaged SD card inside a specialist underwater…