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HPE’s El Capitan Named World’s Fastest Supercomputer
El Capitan, the record-breaking supercomputer built by HPE and housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, has officially claimed the title of the world’s fastest supercomputer, according to the latest TOP500 rankings. The prestigious list, tracking supercomputing milestones since 1993, underscores El Capitan’s groundbreaking achievement. “El Capitan marks another significant milestone in exascale supercomputing, bringing monumental performance, energy…
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The world’s biggest battery maker says Elon Musk’s 4680 cell ‘is going to fail’
Robin Zeng, the founder of the world’s largest EV battery company, says Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s big bet on 4680 cylindrical cell technology “is going to fail and never be successful.” Zeng, the chairman of China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), tells Reuters that when Musk visited China in April, “We had a very big debate, and I showed him. He…
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The next Nintendo Direct is all about Super Nintendo World’s Donkey Kong Country
Nintendo says it’s finally going to show off the long-awaited Donkey Kong Country area of Super Nintendo World in a Nintendo Direct stream on Monday at 5PM ET. It’s an encouraging sign for the theme park expansion devoted to Mario’s first nemesis, the opening of which was delayed earlier this year. Nintendo first confirmed that it was building the area,…
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The world’s smallest, powerful AI PC? It’s a Mac mini – Computerworld
The company understands that within carbon neutrality, it must also consider the consequences of its products during normal use. To address this, Apple has invested in clean energy projects around the world to help mitigate the electricity consumption customers will cause when using these Macs. It is also investing in carbon credits, which it characterizes as being “high-quality.” Apple has…
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Inside Lumi, one of the world’s greenest supercomputers
What do you think of when you imagine a supercomputer? Rows and rows of servers, certainly, but what about the facility it’s housed in? Whatever springs to mind, it’s probably not a papermill, yet that’s exactly where I went when I traveled to see Lumi, the fastest supercomputer in Europe. Affectionately referred to as ‘the Queen of the North’, Lumi…
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One of the world’s largest book publishers adds AI warnings to its books – Computerworld
To make generative AI tools (genAI) work as well as possible, tech companies have chosen to train their large language models (LLMs) on large amounts of text, even though doing so could run afoul of copyright laws. Most recently, book publisher Penguin Random House has chosen to include a warning in its books stating the content may not be used…
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Saatva launches new flash sale — save $400 on the world’s best hybrid mattress
Saatva has just launched a new flash sale on all of its luxury mattresses, so you can now save $400 on orders worth $1,000+ at Saatva. This is a repeat of the brand’s big Labor Day sale, with a queen size Saatva Classic mattress discounted to $1,695 (was $2,095) – a price we’re unlikely to see again until Black Friday…
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How Star Wars walked away from the world’s first self-retracting lightsaber toy
Hasbro turned down the holy grail of lightsaber toys, and it won’t say why. The Star Wars toymaker spent two years secretly working on a kids lightsaber that can automatically extend and retract its blade — the very first of its kind. Hasbro acquired all rights to the idea from a previously unknown Israeli inventor and patented it around the…
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Rimac’s Nevera R makes the world’s fastest production EV a little faster
Rimac, the company behind the absurdly quick Nevera EV, says it’s now made it even faster with the Nevera R. This new version of Rimac’s new electric supercar can apparently hit 60mph from a stop in just 1.74 seconds, or about a tenth of a second faster than the original. The EV apparently generates 2,107 horsepower, or about 200 more…
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