We’re pleased to announce a new set of AWS Deep Learning AMIs , which come pre-installed with deep learning frameworks optimized for the NVIDIA Volta V100 GPUs in the new Amazon EC2 P3 instance family.  

Preliminary data shows nearly 60 percent of water samples from 50 private wells in Harris County, Texas, tested positive for total coliform.

 

A report that identifies key steps that Michigan should take to ensure that the state can continue to provide safe and clean drinking water to all of its residents.

The $10 million worldwide competition hopes to find a solution to the algae crisis.

Company plans to certify 20 factories globally by 2020.

Intel had Q3 revenues up 2% y-o-y at $16.1 billion. Data centre revenue was up 7% y-o-year to $4.9 billion. IoT revenue  was up 23% y-oy to $849 million. Memory was up 37% y-o-y to $891 million. Programmable solutions (Altera) was up 10% y-o-y to $469 million. PCs were flat in dollars and 7% down in …

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Saudi Arabi is to put $1 billion into Richard Branson’s space companies Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit. “This investment is a sign of confidence from the international investment community that our vision, our approach and our technology are the right path to commercialising space access,” says Branson, “we are now just months …

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NetSpeed Systems, the on-chip network IP specialist and embedded analytics vendor UltraSoC, have teamed up to accelerate the time from concept to system validation for complex SoCs by integrating their product offerings allowing UltraSoC monitors, debug ports, and analytics, to work with NetSpeed infrastructure. UltraSoC’s IP enables designers to create an on-chip infrastructure that non-intrusively monitors a …

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Amazon and Alphabet showed off their differing business philosophies in their Q3 results. Amazon reported sales up 34% to $43.7 billion but said its profit was $256 million. Alphabet reported profit of $6.73 billion on sales of $27.7 billion. As well as looking for profit Alphabet is piling up cash – now over $100 billion. …

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One of the greatest and most enduring names in the semiconductor industry is about to be lost. 50 years ago, this year, Jean Hoerni, one of the ‘traitorous eight’ who founded Fairchild and the inventor of the planar process, founded Intersil. Intersil was bought by Renesas in 2015. Now Renesas is to drop the name …

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