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CAMERA Mathematicians Build an Algorithm to ‘Do the Twist’

“New Approach Extracts Rotational Diffusion from X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Experiments Mathematicians at the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a mathematical algorithm to decipher the rotational dynamics …

Comet ATLAS May Have Been a Blast from the Past

“UMD-led research suggests that a comet seen in 2020 is a remnant of one that crossed the sky during the Stone Age University of Maryland astronomer Quanzhi Ye and colleagues discovered that a comet observed in early 2020 was …

Drop the zeros for a performance boost

“An eight-fold speed up of deep machine learning can be achieved by skipping the transmission of zero values. KAUST researchers have found a way to significantly increase the speed of training. Large machine learning models can be trained significantly faster …

Esperanto Technologies Unveils Energy-Efficient RISC-V-Based Machine Learning Accelerator Chip At Hot Chips 33 Conference

“Esperanto Technologies™, a developer of high-performance, energy-efficient machine learning (ML) inference accelerators based on the RISC-V instruction set, today announced that company founder and executive chairman Dave Ditzel will reveal new details of the company’s new ET-SoC-1 …

Green Hydrogen: Focus on the Catalyst Surface

“Hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources with the help of electric power is deemed a key to the energy transition: It can be used to chemically store wind and solar energy in a CO2-neutral way. At Karlsruhe Institute of …

Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years

“Greg Kroah-Hartman talks to El Reg about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, sent a message to the comp …

Harnessing the particle-tracking power of the algorithm

“A simple camera system paired with a sophisticated image-processing algorithm can achieve faster and more accurate reconstructions of particle flow. By replacing a complex hardware setup with simple hardware paired with optimized image processing, researchers from KAUST have developed a …

High-rate Magnesium Rechargeable Batteries Move One Step Closer to Realization

“Magnesium rechargeable batteries (MRBs), where high-capacity Mg metal is used as the anode material, are promising candidates for next-generation batteries due to their energy density, safety, and cost. However, the lack of high-performance cathode materials impedes their development. Like their …

How to unloop a sticky loop

“It’s the end of the road for annoying loops and blisters in adhesives as our researchers help develop a model that shows how best to remove them. Besides being sticky, what do band aids and adhesive tapes have in …

IBM Unveils On-Chip Accelerated Artificial Intelligence Processor

“At the annual Hot Chips conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled details of the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor, designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in real-time. Telum is IBM’s first processor …