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Western Digital begins production of the first 64-layers 3D NAND memory chip in the world. (Photo : SanDisk / YouTube)
Western Digital has announced on Monday, Feb. 6, that it has started its production of the densest 3D NAND flash memory chips in the industry. The new Western Digital 3D NAND chips enable three bits of data to be stored in each cell and stack 64 layers atop another.
According to Computerworld, the 3D NAND flash chips are based on 3D technology or vertical stacking. This technology is called Bit Cost Scaling (BiCS) by Western Digital (WD) and its partner Toshiba. The pilot production of the first 64-layer 3D NAND flash 512 GB memory chip has been already launched by WD.
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In the self-driving future envisioned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, car owners might be saying âgoodbyeâ to a whole lot more than steering wheels.
Musk is so sure of the safety features bundled into Tesla vehicles that his company has begun offering some customers a lifetime insurance and maintenance package at the time of purchase.
No more monthly insurance bills. No more unexpected repair costs.
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LEGO and BMW teamed up to create a model set for one of the automakerâs most popular motorcycles â BMW R 1200 GS Adventure.
Lego Technic engineers used the same 603 pieces from the model to construct a concept hoverbike. Then, their colleagues at BMW, impressed by the design, built a life-sized replica of the futuristic bike.
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Like all great programmers I get most of my code from StackOverflow questions. Canât figure out how to add authentication to Flask? Easy. Want to shut down sendmail? Boom. Now, thanks to all the code on the Internet, a robot can be as smart as a $180,000 coder.
The system, called DeepCoder, basically searches a corpus of code to build a project that works to spec. Itâs been used to complete programming competitions and could be pointed at a larger set of data to build more complex products.
From the paper:
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In Brief In a new report, scientists detail that have have observed how cancer cells spread from the initial tumor to the bloodstream. This development could allow us to better understand cancer and, thus, how to fight it.
In what could be a major step forward in our understanding of how cancer moves around the body, researchers have observed the spread of cancer cells from the initial tumour to the bloodstream.
The findings suggest that secondary growths called metastases âpunchâ their way through the walls of small blood vessels by targeting a molecule known as Death Receptor 6 (no, really, thatâs what itâs called). This then sets off a self-destruct process in the blood vessels, allowing the cancer to spread.
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Uber Technologiesâ Gary Marcus said he is stepping down from his post as head of AI Labs, four months after the unit was created.
Gary Marcus, head of the recently launched AI Labs, said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that he is stepping down and will serve as a special advisor to AI Labs.
The ride-hailing app created AI Labs last year and also acquired Geometric Intelligence to form the initial AI Labs team.
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