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Amazon EC2 C7g metal instances are now available

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Starting today, Graviton3-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in bare metal size. C7g instances deliver up to 25% better compute performance, up to 2x higher floating-point performance, up to 2x faster cryptographic performance, and up to 3x faster CPU-based machine learning (ML) performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, including support for bfloat16. C7g instances feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4. They are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. C7g instances are built for workloads including batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, data analytics, and CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference.

Ed The Slapper

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I’m on a sticky wicket with these SLAPPs, Ed confides to his diary, I only heard of the term when I had that recent trouble with the taxman and now I hear my  legal responses to my accusers have a name: ‘Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation’, or SLAPP for short, which the PM is very …

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Harwin designs GB Row Challenge microplastics sampling system

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Harwin, the interconnects specialist, is helping study the build-up of microplastics in UK waters via this year’s GB Row Challenge, which has an ecological angle. The Hampshire-based company is one of the sponsors of the event and it has also been working with the University of Portsmouth to develop the pumps for the microplastic sampling …

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Compact technology for gliomas detection

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Imec has come up with  a promising path to the in-vivo detection of low-grade gliomas (a group of slow-growing brain tumours). The breakthrough was realized by mounting imec’s snapscan VNIR 150 hyperspectral camera on a standard OR-approved surgical microscope. Intraoperative pilot tests were performed at the neurosurgical department of the University Hospital Leuven (KU Leuven). …

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Solar Powered EV

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Aptera Motors of Carlsbad, California says owners of the Aptera Launch Edition can expect to ‘drive for weeks, even months, without ever having to plug in to charge’. It claims that, in a particularly sunny location like Southern California, drivers may find they never have to charge their car. The Aptera is made of six …

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USA prepares to spend Chips Act money

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This is the year the US government is expected to start dispensing the $250 billion of Chips Act money. More than a dozen states are working on incentive packages with tax credits, zoning changes and cuts to red tape, says the SIA, with $187 billion announced projects for new or expanded semiconductor facilities in 16 …

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Buyer selected for Britishvolt

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Britishvolt could be bought out of administration by Recharge Industries which is the Australian  subsidiary of the Californian fund Scale Facilitation Partners. The administrators of Britishvolt – EY-Parthenon – said, earlier today, that Recharge Industries is its preferred bidder and that a deal could be compketed in the next seven days. Scale Facilitation Partners describes …

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