{"id":90309,"date":"2019-05-06T07:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/weve-found-an-icy-new-super-earth-thats-orbiting-our-closest-single-star"},"modified":"2019-05-06T07:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T14:22:43","slug":"weve-found-an-icy-new-super-earth-thats-orbiting-our-closest-single-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/weve-found-an-icy-new-super-earth-thats-orbiting-our-closest-single-star","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve found an icy new super-Earth that\u2019s orbiting our closest single star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weve-found-an-icy-new-super-earth-thats-orbiting-our-closest-single-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpiNNaker was built under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/gb\/basics\/leadership\" class=\"\" title=\"Psychology Today looks at leadership\">leadership<\/a> of Professor Steve Furber at The University of Manchester, a principal designer of two products that earned the Queen\u2019s Award for Technology \u2014the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor, and the BBC Microcomputer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe ultimate objective for the project has always been a million cores in a single computer for real time brain modelling applications, and we have now achieved it, which is fantastic.\u201d \u2014 Professor Steve Furber, The University of Manchester<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inspired by the human brain, the SpiNNaker is capable of sending billions of small amounts of information simultaneously. The SpiNNaker has a staggering 1 million processors that are able to perform over 200 million actions per second.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/new-exoplanet-barnard-star\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpiNNaker was built under the leadership of Professor Steve Furber at The University of Manchester, a principal designer of two products that earned the Queen\u2019s Award for Technology \u2014the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor, and the BBC Microcomputer. \u201cThe ultimate objective for the project has always been a million cores in a single computer for real [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}