Business
SpaceX Will Launch Dozens Of Starlink Satellites Starting In One Week
Posted in Business, Online on 9th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
The SpaceX Starlinks could save 30-50% of the latency time. This is because the speed of light is almost twice as fast in space as it is in a glass fiber.
Google Awards $25 Million In Global AI Impact Grants
Posted in Business, Software on 8th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
Google today awarded $25 million in grants to a range of organizations to help them apply machine learning to fight some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Google Cloud Makes Pods With 1,000 TPU Chips Available In Public Beta
Posted in Business, Online on 7th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
Liquid-cooled Cloud TPU v3 pods can deliver more than 100 petaflops of computing power. Conversely, Cloud TPU v2 pods released in alpha last year can achieve 11.5 petaflops.
Rocket Lab Fires A Set Of Satellites Into Orbit For US Military
Posted in Business, Hardware, Science on 6th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
According to the company, it has monthly launches booked for the rest of 2019, and it hopes to ramp things up and launch every two weeks by the time the year is out.
Speeding Up Tree Planting By One Hundred Times Using Drones
Posted in Business, Science on 1st May, 2019
by Alex Muller
BioCarbon Engineering wants to counter act climate change and carbon emissions by speeding the planting of trees by one hundred times by using drones.