The United States is on top of the supercomputing world in the Top500 ranking of the most powerful systems. The Frontier system from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) running on AMD EPYC CPUs took first place from last year’s champ, Japan’s ARM A64X Fugaku system. It’s still in the integration Read more…
The higher you climb, the harder you fall — and that spells trouble across the board for fintech startups right now. Already fintech multiples plummeted faster, and harder, than the rest of the tech sector. A chart published by a16z shows that the peak of forward revenue multiples for fintech Read more…
Greece has passed its first climate law, which sets out specific targets to fight climate change and wean itself off coal in power generation by 2028. The legislation sets interim targets for Greece to cut greenhouse emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and by 80% by 2040 before achieving Read more…
French officials are continuing their centuries-long battle to preserve the purity of the language, overhauling the rules on using English video game jargon. While some expressions find obvious translations — “pro-gamer” becomes “joueur professionnel” — others seem a more strained, as “streamer” is transformed into “joueur-animateur en direct.” The culture Read more…
Singapore has begun a project to investigate potential uses of asset tokenization as the city state looks to establish itself as a hub for decentralized finance after several key crypto players left. “Project Guardian,” a collaboration between the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the finance industry, will test the feasibility Read more…
As labor shortages continue, “robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter of 2022,” reports Business Insider (citing a report from the Wall Street Journal citing the Association for Advancing Automation). “People want to remove labor,” Ametek Inc. CEO David A. Zapico told Bloomberg in November, noting that the automatic Read more…
Back in March of 2017, this strange note first appeared at the end of a paper in the journal Nature: “Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.” I looked over the paper, and it didn’t have any maps in it. Read more…