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• EU’s JEDI supercomputer most energy efficient HPC system in the world

  13-05-2024 17:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  The EU talks a big game when it comes to the green transition. While there has been significant political backlash in several sectors for decarbonisation, one area seems to be proving undoubtedly successful — the energy efficiency of its EuroHPC supercomputers. The European joint venture’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, is currently being built at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Its first precursor module is named JEDI (this news should
  
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• Semiconductor giant Arm to launch AI chips next year, report says

  13-05-2024 17:38 via thenextweb.com
  
  UK-based Arm, one of the world’s key players in the chip market, is reportedly planning to expand into the development of AI chips. Arm designs the building architecture for chips (mainly) in consumer electronics, which it licenses to semiconductor giants such as Qualcomm and Nvidia. The company claims that its technology is powering 99% of premium smartphones on the market. Japanese SoftBank Group holds a 90% stake in the chip designer.The move towards AI chips is part of SoftBank’
  
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• UK completes world’s first flights for quantum navigation that could replace GPS

  13-05-2024 15:21 via thenextweb.com
  
  A British consortium with funding from the UK government has successfully tested what it calls “un-jammable” quantum navigation tech in flight.  Geopolitical tensions and warfare have introduced GPS jamming as a means of messing with enemy communication and navigation. This can cause disturbances for both military and civilian transportation and location services.  The quantum-based navigation system is called Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). Its developers are&n
  
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• 20 Best New Websites, May 2024

  13-05-2024 14:30 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  Welcome to May’s compilation of the best sites on the web. This month we’re focused on color for younger humans, monochrome for sophisticated humans, and (surprisingly) SWF-style loading screens.
  
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• France rides AI wave to secure €15B in foreign investment

  13-05-2024 14:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  France has secured €15bn in foreign investment from the likes of Microsoft and Amazon as part of this year’s Choose France summit, an annual event that aims to promote the country’s economic and business attractiveness. The €15bn mark represents a record amount since the summit’s first edition in 2018, with commitments coming from 56 different initiatives. “This is the fruit of the reforms carried out since 2017,” such as changes in taxation and investmen
  
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• Inside the fight to ban — and destroy — PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

  13-05-2024 08:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  For over 40 years, Ted Van der Vlies and his wife Marga grew fruits and vegetables in their backyard on the outskirts of Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Onions, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, rhubarb, cherries, you name it.  Little did they know that their homegrown produce was likely poisoning them.  Just a kilometre away from their garden sits the tangled mesh of steel pipes, giant vats, and smokestacks of the Chemours chemical plant. A recent court case found that the American conglomerat
  
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