USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is pier side following an engineering casualty the ship suffered transiting the Panama Canal. The guided missile destroyer will undergo repairs at a former U.S. naval station until its fit to complete its journey to Naval Station San Diego, Calif., U.S. 3rd Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Ryan Perry told USNI News. The ship …
Indian Railways carries 23 million people daily on congested and aging tracks with roots dating back to British colonial rule. Sometimes, trains slow to a walking pace. India’s Prime Minister Modi plans to spend 8.5 trillion rupees ($137 billion) through 2020 on new tracks, including bullet trains and modern stations, as he looks to spur …
Diane Bryant, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel, says the Intel Nervana platforms will “produce breakthrough performance and dramatic reductions in the time to train complex neural networks.” She predicted that Intel would deliver a 100x increase in performance of deep learning training. Last week at SC16, Intel …
High-pressure silicates can incorporate water as OH-defects into their crystal structures, with some major consequences for their physical properties. Minerals within the transition region of the mantle from 410-660 km depth could contain the majority of our planet’s water and acted to control surface waters over geologic time. Researchers have found the first direct evidence …
The following are the leaked AMD codenames that are part of the Avian APU roadmap: Gray Hawk: 7nm APU based on Zen+ architecture. Snowy Owl: 14nm APU based on Naples. Horned Owl: 14nm APU based on Zen cores, will succeed Raven Ridge. Banded Kestrel: 14nm APU, roughly half of Horned Owl. Horned Owl and Banded …
The AI boom will create a path to exascale computing, one of the supercomputing world’s loftiest goals, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told a packed house Monday at the SC16 annual supercomputing show in Salt Lake City, Utah. “Several years ago deep learning came along, like Thor’s hammer falling from the sky, and gave us an …
Carnival of Space 484 is up at Everyday Spacer Universe Today – New Theory of Gravity Does Away With Need for Dark Matter Unlike the traditional view of gravity as a fundamental force of nature, Verlinde sees it as an emergent property of space. Emergence is a process where nature builds something large using small, …
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will spend 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) to build a 130 petaflop supercomputer in 2017. It will be called the AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure (ABCI). The US is also planning to build a 200-250 petaflop supercomputer dedicated for Artificial intelligence in 2017 ABCI will be an open innovation …
Broad Group CEO Zhang still is still adamant that the 838 meter tall Skycity will be built. “Construction is one of the most polluting of all industries but I can make the most environmentally sound buildings for half the price and 10 times the speed of anyone else,” Mr Zhang says. He believes his company, …
Six countries have all recently announced the imminent phase-out of all coal-fired power plants. Germany 270 TWh from coal, plan to phase out by 2050, half by 2030 Canada 76 TWh from coal, plan to phase out by 2030 France 10 TWh from coal, plan to phase out by 2023 Netherlands 25 TWh from coal, …
In November 2016, a Chinese J-16 strike fighter test-fired a larger and longer range hypersonic missile and successfully destroying the target drone at a very long range. The missile is about 28 percent of the length of the J-16, which measures 22 meters (about 72 feet). The puts the missile at about 19 feet, and …