Mar 30, 2016
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has bought a first-of-a-kind brain-inspired supercomputing platform for deep learning inference developed by IBM Research. Based on a breakthrough neurosynaptic computer chip called IBM TrueNorth, the scalable platform...
Mar 29, 2016
Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA. Every year, the cap of frozen seawater floating on top of the...
Mar 24, 2016
There’s lots of talk about the potential of virtual reality (VR) – but should we buy into all the hype? According to JP Gownder, vice-president and principal analyst at Forrester, the answer is no. “We’re hearing a lot about the promise of virtual...
Mar 23, 2016
A massive 83% of leaders in from traditional financial services (FS) firms believe part of their business is at risk of being lost to standalone FinTech companies – and this rises to a staggering 95% in the case of banks. And yet FinTech innovations are not...
Mar 22, 2016
The brilliant flash of an exploding star’s shockwave – what astronomers call the “shock breakout” – has been captured for the first time in the optical wavelength or visible light by NASA’s planet-hunter, the Kepler space telescope. An international...
Mar 18, 2016
University students no longer think technology companies are great places to work, leaning to government, parastatals and consulting firms as the more attractive employers. Professionals, however, still rank Google and Microsoft as attractive, according to...
