In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of the Virginia Range, laying the foundations of a data center city.
Google, Tract, Switch, EdgeCore, Novva, Vantage, and PowerHouse are all…
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A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth
To prevent such costly construction errors, in 2015 scientists in the International Association of Geodesy voted to adopt the International Height Reference Frame, or IHRF, a worldwide standard for elevation. It’s the third-dimensional…
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Three takeaways about AI’s energy use and climate impacts
We found that the same exact query, with the same exact energy demand, will have a very different climate impact depending on what the data center is powered by, and that depends on the location and the time of day. For example, querying a data…
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Intel’s Memory Leak Nightmare: 5,000 Bytes per Second in the Hands of Hackers
Computer scientists at ETH Zurich have uncovered a serious flaw in Intel processors that could let attackers steal sensitive information by exploiting how modern chips predict upcoming actions. Using specially designed sequences of instructions,…
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This Tiny Robot Can Jump 10 Feet High – Without Legs
By studying a slender, leaping parasite thinner than a human hair, engineers at Georgia Tech developed a soft robot capable of hopping both forward and backward. Inspired by the jumping movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers at Georgia…
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Watch This Robot Solve a Rubik’s Cube in 0.1 Seconds — It’s a Guinness World Record
A team of Purdue engineering students built a lightning-fast robot—Purdubik’s Cube—that now holds the Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. Fueled by co-op experiences, personal inspiration, and…
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How Archaeologists Borrow Interdisciplinary Tools with ‘Wild Abandon’: Using Planetary Geology to inform Archaeology in the US
While the scientific fields of planetary geology and archaeology don’t initially seem like a natural pairing, their unique methodological and technological overlap provides scientists with a better…
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143,000 people teamed up to tie the world’s top chess player
Magnus Carlsen is an undisputed titan in the world of chess. In 2011 at the age…
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Don’t tape your mouth before bed
One of social media’s most recent alleged health hacks is “mouth taping.”…
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The Download: Google’s AI mission, and America’s reliance on natural gas
If you want to know where AI is headed, this year’s Google I/O has you covered. The company’s annual showcase of next-gen products, which kicked off yesterday, has all of the pomp and pizzazz, the sizzle reels and celebrity walk-ons, that…
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