NASA Built A Computer For Artemis II That Can't Fail, Here's The Engineering Behind It

When the Artemis II four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture.
Communications of the ACM

How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

PrismML Launches World's First 1-Bit AI Model to Redefine Intelligence at the Edge

PrismML, a pioneer in high-performance AI models, today emerged from stealth to introduce the world's first commercially viable 1- ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Chip Industry Week In Review

Intel teams up everywhere; GPU rowhammer attack; fast verification; Taiwan IC industry wants stockpiles; China poaches Taiwan ...
TechSpot

This $35,000 computer made of living human neurons can run Doom

First look: Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has crossed another boundary in biological computing. Its latest hardware platform, the CL1, uses living human neurons as the core of a fully ...
Ars Technica

Perplexity announces “Computer,” an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models. The company claims that ...
VentureBeat

Perplexity launches 'Computer' AI agent that coordinates 19 models, priced at $200 a month

Perplexity, the AI-powered search company valued at $20 billion, on Wednesday launched what it calls the most ambitious product in its three-year history: a multi-model agent orchestration platform ...
GitHub

Inaccurate architecture description in README: encoder-decoder vs. decoder-only

I noticed an inaccuracy in the model description between the README and the Technical Report. README: mentions "...unified encoder-decoder architecture..." Technical Report: states "...adopts a ...
The New York Times

Architecture Prize Responds After Tom Pritzker’s Epstein Ties Surface

A Pritzker Prize statement cited the award’s independence after Mr. Pritzker, who directs the foundation behind the award, resigned as chairman of the Hyatt Corporation. By Robin Pogrebin In 1979, Jay ...
NPR

There's a shortage of RAM (computer memory). How is this affecting the industry?

There's a RAM shortage at the moment. RAM, as in random access memory. The memory computer keeps immediately at hand, so it can perform tasks quickly. How can that be? Well, as with so much these days ...
Bleeping Computer

Data breach at fintech firm Figure affects nearly 1 million accounts

Hackers have stolen the personal and contact information of nearly 1 million accounts after breaching the systems of Figure Technology Solutions, a self-described blockchain-native financial ...
IEEE

A Sub-0.8-pJ/bit Universal Soft-Detection Decoder Using ORBGRAND

Abstract: Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND) has enabled the practical implementation of maximum likelihood (ML) or near-ML decoding, shifting the paradigm of code-specific decoder design ...