The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $3.5 million to X-energy today to further the development of its advanced nuclear reactor. The project will examine ways to reduce construction and maintenance costs of the developer’s Xe-100 reactor design. X-energy, located just outside the nation’s capital in Rockville, Maryland, is developing a pebble bed, high-temperature … [Read more...] about U.S. Department of Energy Awards $3.5 Million to New Gas Reactor Design
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AWS Announces First AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles
LA-based media, entertainment, and advertising companies have a significant number of applications that they want to run in the cloud. Most work excellently in other public AWS Regions; however, for some of their more latency-sensitive workloads – including remote real-time gaming, film production, and graphics-intensive virtual workstations – end-users in LA need single-digit … [Read more...] about AWS Announces First AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles
Amazon Announces Three New Renewable Energy Projects in the US and Spain
Amazon is committed to major investments in renewable energy as a critical step toward addressing the company’s carbon footprint globally, and Amazon’s newest renewable energy project in Europe will be the company’s first large-scale project in Spain, located southeast of Sevilla. Once complete, the new solar farm will provide 149 megawatts (MW) of new renewable capacity. … [Read more...] about Amazon Announces Three New Renewable Energy Projects in the US and Spain
AWS Announces New Quantum Computing Service (Amazon Braket) along with AWS Center for Quantum Computing and AWS Quantum Solutions Lab
Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced three key initiatives as a part of the company’s plans to help advance quantum computing technologies: Amazon Braket (in preview today) is a new, fully managed AWS service that enables scientists, researchers, and developers to begin experimenting with computers from … [Read more...] about AWS Announces New Quantum Computing Service (Amazon Braket) along with AWS Center for Quantum Computing and AWS Quantum Solutions Lab
Genomics to bring cost savings to the pulp and paper industry
The project team, led by the University of British Columbia’s Dr. Richard Hamelin, will design ready-to-use DNA detection and quantification assays that can generate an accurate ratio of tree species in the feedstock. Dr. Hamelin’s team is responding to a direct request from Canfor, one of the world’s largest producers of sustainable lumber, pulp and paper. This direct … [Read more...] about Genomics to bring cost savings to the pulp and paper industry
OpenNebula 5.10 “Boomerang” Released
Version 5.10 “Boomerang” continues OpenNebula’s long-standing focus on providing the lightest and swiftest data center virtualization and cloud management platform on the market. There are several improvements to network performance, particularly through the enforcement of NFVs, as well as in offering support for Open vSwitch with DPDK. And the newly-introduced NSX integration … [Read more...] about OpenNebula 5.10 “Boomerang” Released
2019 Technology Predictions
Today, the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) reveals the end-of-the-year scorecard for its 2019 technology predictions which forecasted deep learning accelerators, assisted transportation, and the Internet of Bodies (IoB), to lead the 2019 technology outlook. Following are the IEEE Computer Society predictions: Deep learning accelerators Deep learning (DL) accelerators have made … [Read more...] about 2019 Technology Predictions
Mobile technologies, 5G and IoT Adoption to Drive Economic Impact to More Than $220 Billion by 2023 in MENA region
The two reports from GSMA Intelligence – ‘The Mobile Economy: Middle East and North Africa 2019’ and ‘Realising the potential of IoT in MENA’ reveal that mobile technologies and services added $191 billion to the region’s economy in 2018 – equivalent to about 4.5 per cent of regional GDP. By 2023, mobile’s economic contribution is forecast to reach more than $220 billion as … [Read more...] about Mobile technologies, 5G and IoT Adoption to Drive Economic Impact to More Than $220 Billion by 2023 in MENA region
Ben-Gurion University: Automated, Language-Independent Method for Summarizing Texts
The novel technology, invented by Prof. Mark Last, Dr. Marina Litvak, and Dr. Menahem Friedman at the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering of Ben-Gurion University, provides language-independent summaries of texts, based on a genetic algorithm that ranks document sentences, using statistical sentence features, which can be calculated for sentences in any … [Read more...] about Ben-Gurion University: Automated, Language-Independent Method for Summarizing Texts
Panasonic Launches API for Facial Recognition Powered by Deep Learning Technology
Panasonic first began R&D into facial recognition in the early 1990s, and has continued to perfect these capabilities in various ways by incorporating the technology into consumer products and by applying it to camera-based security solutions. The company has gone on to provide reliable, safe and efficient facial recognition solutions such as for passport control at airports … [Read more...] about Panasonic Launches API for Facial Recognition Powered by Deep Learning Technology