Zoom in / This image has a warm and nostalgic feel to many of us. Distributed computing exploded onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, an ingenious program and screensaver (when people were still using them) that scoured radio telescope signals for signs of alien life. The concept of distributed computing is … Read more
Researchers have successfully made logic gates using DNA crystal engineering, a huge step forward in DNA computation. Their results have been published in Advanced Materials. Using double-crossed patterns of DNA as building blocks, they built complex 3D crystal architectures. Logic gates were implemented in large assemblages of these 3D DNA crystals and the outputs were … Read more
IBM watsonx is now available to help meet the business needs of enterprise AI By Kareem Yusuf, Ph.D | Senior Vice President of Product Management and Growth, IBM Software July 11, 2023 Today we’re announcing that we’ve begun implementing IBM watsonx, our enterprise-ready AI and data platform. Previewed at IBM THINK in May, watsonx includes … Read more
Barbie vs. Oppenheimer aka Barbenheimer aka The film event of the summer. That’s all anyone can really talk about when it comes to the July release schedule, and for good reason. Between Barbie, OppenheimerAND Mission: Impossible Showdown, Part One, this month features three of this year’s biggest and most promising hits. They’re the kind of … Read more
It’s hard to believe that a quarter of a century has gone by without a new Superman cartoon on television. The last series to focus primarily on the Last Son of Krypton was Superman: The Animated Serieswhich aired from 1996 to 2000 and was part of the popular DC Animated Universe along with Batman: The … Read more
I’ve been homesick lately. All the anti-consumer changes to the internet as we know it and the heartbreaking death of Web 2.0 have me longing for that 00s online world. While writing about my experiences playing Line Rider and Runescape, frequenting forums, and generally enjoying the freedom the world wide web afforded me, I also … Read more
Despite what many headlines have said, there is no internet apocalypse on the horizon. Concerns about such a long-running catastrophe began spreading across social media platforms not long after a 2021 study titled “Solar Superstorms: Planning for an Internet Apocalypse” suggested a major solar storm could severely damage internet wires. , especially those submarines that … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Russia may be rocked by an armed mutiny at home and a botched invasion of Ukraine, but that hasn’t stopped it from pushing a plan for centralized oversight of the Internet by the United Nations. Unfortunate news is that Moscow’s approach appears to be getting some support from UN Secretary-General Antnio … Read more
Image credits: New York Stock Exchange / Stock Photo / Getty Images DigitalOcean, the cloud hosting company, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Paperspace, a New York-based cloud computing and AI development startup, for $111 million in cash. Yancey Spruill, CEO of DigitalOcean, says Paperspaces infrastructure and tools, when integrated with DigitalOceans products, … Read more
Did you miss the excitement of the GamesBeat Summit? Don’t worry! Tune in now to follow all live and virtual sessions here. Xreal, a maker of augmented reality glasses, has announced the release of a new version of Nebula for Mac, bringing spatial computing and spatial cinema to MacBook users. The release of Nebula for … Read more
