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Aug 24, 2021

A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what’s achievable today.

Aug 24, 2021

Meet the wealthy Indonesian scions giving the country a tech boost

Posted by in categories: economics, finance

Michael is also part of a group of wealthy Indonesian scions that have in the past decade dabbled in the country’s vibrant tech sector by investing in home-grown giants and start-ups, be it in the form of money, resources, know-how, or access.


Industry stakeholders say family-owned corporate venture capital firms have played an important role in growing the country’s US$44 billion digital economy.

Aug 24, 2021

Mojo Vision crams its contact lens with AR display, processor and wireless tech

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, biotech/medical

Do you want to wear screens on your eyes?

Aug 24, 2021

Robot perception algorithms convert data from cameras and sensors into something useful for decision making and planning physical actions

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

See how perception and adaptability enable varied, high-energy behaviors like parkour. https://bit.ly/3AZWMCu

Aug 24, 2021

The magnetosphere waxes and wanes every 200 million years

Posted by in category: futurism

Yes, the magnetosphere is weakening. It does that from time to time.

Aug 24, 2021

Mental Phenomena Don’t Map Into the Brain as Expected

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Neuroscientists are the cartographers of the brain’s diverse domains and territories — the features and activities that define them, the roads and highways that connect them, and the boundaries that delineate them. Toward the front of the brain, just behind the forehead, is the prefrontal cortex, celebrated as the seat of judgment. Behind it lies the motor cortex, responsible for planning and coordinating movement. To the sides: the temporal lobes, crucial for memory and the processing of emotion. Above them, the somatosensory cortex; behind them, the visual cortex.

Not only do researchers often depict the brain and its functions much as mapmakers might draw nations on continents, but they do so “the way old-fashioned mapmakers” did, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University. “They parse the brain in terms of what they’re interested in psychologically or mentally or behaviorally,” and then they assign the functions to different networks of neurons “as if they’re Lego blocks, as if there are firm boundaries there.”

But a brain map with neat borders is not just oversimplified — it’s misleading. “Scientists for over 100 years have searched fruitlessly for brain boundaries between thinking, feeling, deciding, remembering, moving and other everyday experiences,” Barrett said. A host of recent neurological studies further confirm that these mental categories “are poor guides for understanding how brains are structured or how they work.”

Aug 24, 2021

IBM Embeds Artificial Intelligence Processor Into Mainframe Chips

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

IBM Z mainframe gets AI acceleration.


IBM decided to join the AI accelerator party and the company has embedded its custom solution into the next generation of IBM Z mainframe chips.

Aug 24, 2021

Cerebras Systems Announces World’s First Brain-Scale Artificial Intelligence Solution

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Technology Breakthroughs Enable Training of 120 Trillion Parameters on Single CS-2, Clusters of up to 163 Million Cores with Near Linear Scaling, Push Button Cluster Configuration, Unprecedented Sparsity Acceleration.


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About Cerebras Systems.

Cerebras Systems is a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers of all types. We have come together to build a new class of computer to accelerate artificial intelligence work by three orders of magnitude beyond the current state of the art. The CS-2 is the fastest AI computer in existence. It contains a collection of industry firsts, including the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2). The WSE-2 is the largest chip ever built. It contains 2.6 trillion transistors and covers more than 46,225 square millimeters of silicon. The largest graphics processor on the market has 54 billion transistors and covers 815 square millimeters. In artificial intelligence work, large chips process information more quickly producing answers in less time. As a result, neural networks that in the past took months to train, can now train in minutes on the Cerebras CS-2 powered by the WSE-2.

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Aug 24, 2021

SpaceX may dig a tunnel to enable frequent South Texas launches

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

This situation has become a logistical headache for SpaceX, which seeks road closures to move rocket hardware along the road and for tests and launches. It has also been unpleasant for nearby residents and those who enjoy the undeveloped beach.

Now, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has a potential solution. The Brownsville Herald reports that officials from Musk’s The Boring Company met with Cameron County officials in July to discuss digging a tunnel from the south end of South Padre Island to the north end of Boca Chica Beach, facilitating alternate access to the barrier island.

Aug 24, 2021

Rocket Lab’s Mars mission gets green light from NASA

Posted by in category: satellites

Rocket Lab is one step closer to going to Mars with NASA’s approval of the company’s Photon spacecraft for an upcoming science mission. If all continues according to plan the two craft will launch in2024and arrive on the red planet 11 months later to study its magnetosphere.

The mission is known as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE (hats off to whoever worked that one out), and was proposed for a small satellite science program back in 2,019 eventually being chosen as a finalist. UC Berkeley researchers are the main force behind the science part. (You can read much more about the project here.)

These satellites have to be less than 180 kilograms (about 400 pounds) and must perform standalone science missions, part of a new program aiming at more lightweight, shorter lead missions that can be performed with strong commercial industry collaboration. A few concepts have been baking since the original announcement of the program, and ESCAPADE just passed Key Decision Point C, meaning it’s ready to go from concept to reality.