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Tesla has unveiled its latest version of its Dojo supercomputer, and it’s apparently so powerful that it tripped the power grid in Palo Alto. Dojo is Tesla’s own custom supercomputer platform built from the ground up for AI machine learning and, more specifically, for video training using the video data […]

HONOLULU – Casey K. Umetsu, Sr., age 40, of Honolulu, Hawaii, pled guilty today before United States District Judge Jill A. Otake to sabotaging his former employer’s computer network. Sentencing is set for January 19, 2023. According to court documents and information presented in court, Umetsu worked as an information […]

Professor Hal Abelson has dedicated his career to making information technology more accessible to all and empowering people — kids, in particular — through computer science. But his storied career in computer science began with Abelson coming to MIT in 1969 to pursue his interest in mathematics. “The thing I […]

The health of the planet is one of the most important challenges facing humankind today. From climate change to unsafe levels of air and water pollution to coastal and agricultural land erosion, a number of serious challenges threaten human and ecosystem health. Ensuring the health and safety of our planet […]

Although Fernanda De La Torre still has several years left in her graduate studies, she’s already dreaming big when it comes to what the future has in store for her. “I dream of opening up a school one day where I could bring this world of understanding of cognition and […]

PARIS – The quest for enhanced space-based computing and data storage is extending to lunar missions. Skycorp announced plans Sept. 12 to send a commercial solid-state drive from Taiwan-based Phison Electronics Corp. to the moon next year. Ramon.Space unveiled plans Sept. 7 to provide computing technology for a lander being […]

MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node held its annual financial technology (fintech) entrepreneurship boot camp this summer, connecting university students with corporate partners to tackle real-world business challenges.   Building on the belief that innovative, creative solutions deliver more value and a better experience, the MIT Entrepreneurship and Fintech Integrator (MEFTI) program […]

HEIDELBERG, Germany—Every September, a critical mass of the world’s most decorated computer scientists and mathematicians gathers in the warm microclimate here. They discuss the states of their fields and mentor 200 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students from around the world selected in a highly competitive process. “It feels like coming […]

Advances in computer vision and machine learning have made it possible for a wide range of technologies to perform sophisticated tasks with little or no human supervision. From autonomous drones and self-driving cars to medical imaging and product manufacturing, many computer applications and robots use visual information to make critical […]

Cloudflare says a massive outage that affected more than a dozen of its data centers and hundreds of major online platforms and services today was caused by a change that should have increased network resilience. “Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data […]