Sean Randallflipped into Never Always Works19 hours agoHuawei's new magneto-electrical disks promise 90% lower power consumption than HDDs, ability to store tons of archival datatomshardware.comHuawei has invented a new archival storage system utilizing magneto-electrical disks that has 2.5x the performance of tape drives while having 20% …
Sean Randallflipped into Never Always Works13 hours agoBeyond AI: How Nvidia is helping scale quantum computingverified_publisherVentureBeat - Taryn PlumbQuantum is set to be the next frontier of computing. But it is an immense undertaking that has yet to be fully realized; researchers continue to face challenges in a multitude of areas — including error correction, scalability, cost and hardware and software complex and capable enough to handle …
Sean Randallflipped into Never Always Works13 hours agoNvidia launches NIM to make it smoother to deploy AI models into productionverified_publisherTechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisAt its GTC conference, Nvidia today announced Nvidia NIM, a new software platform designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments. NIM takes the software work Nvidia has done around inferencing and optimizing models and makes it easily …
Sean Randallflipped into Never Always Works20 hours agoDemand is skyrocketing for prompt engineers, one of the hottest roles in AI. But some say it won't last.verified_publisherBusiness Insider - Beatrice NolanKelly Daniel loves her job. A former media executive, Daniel now works as a prompt director at software company Lazarus AI. Day to day, she coaxes AI models like OpenAI's GPT, utilizing natural language to manipulate the model into spitting out exactly the content she wants. It's like there's a …
Sean Randallflipped into Never Always Works23 hours agoComputing 'paradigm shift' could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single componentLive Science - By Keumars Afifi-SabetBy letting different processing units — like GPUs, NPUs and hardware accelerators — work in parallel, rather than in sequence, systems can be up to …
Sean Randallflipped into Never Always Works12 hours agoScientists Say There Could Be a ‘Mirror Universe’ Reflecting a Parallel Realmverified_publisherPopular Mechanics - Darren OrfIs this where dark matter is hiding in plain sight? A “dark mirror” universe sounds like a Star Trek plot point filled with fascistic first officers and facial hair, but the idea is actually a newly-proposed theory that could help explain the ever-elusive dark matter that supposedly fills about 85 …