Google healthcare data move makes some queasy
Google on Tuesday defended a project aimed at modernizing healthcare while giving it access to medical data of millions of people.
Nov 12, 2019
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OpenTitan for data centers: Google, partners push secure silicon design
The Google Security Blog on Tuesday announced OpenTitan as an open source chip design, where other organizations have joined Google in an effort to further rise the bar on security surrounding the original Titan chip.
Nov 07, 2019 weblog
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Computer Sciences
Germany shuts down illegal data center in former NATO bunker
German investigators said Friday they have shut down a data processing center installed in a former NATO bunker that hosted sites dealing in drugs and other illegal activities. Seven people were arrested.
Sep 27, 2019
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Big Blue's Big Leap: Quantum center takes on 53 qubit system
IBM has a fleet of quantum computers. That much is fairly well known since IBM has been actively promoting quantum computing for several years. But IBM's quantum story will get all the more interesting next month, when a ...
Sep 23, 2019 weblog
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Samsung SSDs open a new chapter with fail-in-place
Samsung Electronics has a new series of PCIe 4.0 SSDs that demonstrate technologies to benefit data centers and businesses. The solid state drives (SSDs) use the PCIe 4.0 standard, whereby sequential read and write speeds ...
Sep 21, 2019 weblog
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Computer Sciences
Introducing 'mesh,' a memory-saving plug-in that could boost phone and computer performance
Applications like web browsers or smartphone apps often use a lot of memory. To address this, a research group co-led by Emery Berger, a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has developed ...
Sep 20, 2019
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Engineering
The future of 'extremely' energy-efficient circuits
Data centers are processing data and dispensing the results at astonishing rates, and such robust systems require a significant amount of energy—so much energy, in fact, that information communication technology is projected ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Researcher studies power consumption of cloud infrastructures
In his doctoral dissertation at Umeå University, Jakub Krzywda has developed models and algorithms to control tradeoffs between the power consumption of cloud infrastructures and performance of hosted applications to enable ...
Sep 04, 2019
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Internet
Researchers propose method to balance user experience and cloud cost
For an online gamer, lag is the worst. The gamer watches, telling the avatar to move to avoid another player's attack, but the avatar does nothing. Then, suddenly, the avatar does all of the commands, rapid fire. It was listening, ...
Aug 26, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Using Wall Street secrets to reduce the cost of cloud infrastructure
Stock market investors often rely on financial risk theories that help them maximize returns while minimizing financial loss due to market fluctuations. These theories help investors maintain a balanced portfolio to ensure ...
Aug 16, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Facebook invests in renewables with Texas solar project
Facebook is building a massive solar farm in West Texas that's believed to be one of the largest solar projects in the nation and the social media giant's first direct investment in renewable energy.
Jun 11, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Microsoft gives glimpse of new Xbox console
Microsoft on Sunday gave the world a first glimpse of a powerful next-generation Xbox gaming console that it aims to release late next year.
Jun 10, 2019
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Hardware
Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers
MIT researchers have designed a novel flash-storage system that could cut in half the energy and physical space required for one of the most expensive components of data centers: data storage.
Apr 03, 2019
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Security
Security team discussed weakness in bare-metal services
Back door open. Never a good sign in a computer security environment. Researchers poking around are sure to call out their discoveries in an instance such as the recent one, where cloud servers looked as if they could be ...
Feb 27, 2019 weblog
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System better allocates time-sensitive data processing across cores to maintain quick user-response times
Today's data centers eat up and waste a good amount of energy responding to user requests as fast as possible, with only a few microseconds delay. A new system by MIT researchers improves the efficiency of high-speed operations ...
Feb 22, 2019
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