This week, Intel and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) said they would invest €400 million (around $426 million) in a laboratory that will develop RISC-V-based processors that could be used to build zettascale supercomputers. However, the lab will not focus solely on CPUs for next-generation supercomputers but also on processor uses for artificial intelligence applications…
The intelligence community’s research arm might soon develop next-generation electronic clothing that senses and physically adapts to each wearer’s fitness and surroundings, and can process and transmit decision-driving data about their whereabouts. In a request for information published this week, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity expressed aims to accelerate the making of SMART e-PANTS—or…
Back in 2012, Google teased a video of a working Google Maps NES cartridge. It showed a demonstration of a family plugging in the cartridge and even blowing on it to get access to an 8-bit version of our planet. Unfortunately, this was just part of an April Fool’s Day gag, but that didn’t stop…