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Want to break the geekiest world record of them all? Here’s how engineers spent 75 days to calculate Pi to 105 trillion digits — just in time for Pi day

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Want to break the geekiest world record of them all? Here’s how engineers spent 75 days to calculate Pi to 105 trillion digits — just in time for Pi day

Engineers at StorageReview decided to do something incredibly geeky for this year’s Pi day (March 14 – 3/14) – beat their own record for calculating Pi. Considering that the previous record, achieved last year, was 100 trillion digits, the challenge was no mean feat. While – spoiler alert – they smashed the record, it did … Read more

This security flaw could let hackers unlock hotel doors across the world by hijacking keycards

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This security flaw could let hackers unlock hotel doors across the world by hijacking keycards

Security researchers have found a relatively easy and cheap way to clone the keycards used on three million Saflok electronic RFID locks in 13,000 hotels and homes all over the world. The keycard and lock manufacturer, Dormakaba, has been notified, and it is currently working to replace the vulnerable hardware – but it’s a long, … Read more

Snake steak could help feed the world

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Snake steak could help feed the world

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Farmed reticulated pythons grow quickly when being fed trapped rodents or waste protein from other meat-producing industries (Paul Starosta/Getty). Large pythons are better at converting their food into edible protein than many other farmed animals, including … Read more

‘The fastest AI chip in the world’: Gigantic AI CPU has almost one million cores — Cerebras has Nvidia firmily in its sights as it unveils the WSE-3, a chip that can train AI models with 24 trillion parameters

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‘The fastest AI chip in the world’: Gigantic AI CPU has almost one million cores — Cerebras has Nvidia firmily in its sights as it unveils the WSE-3, a chip that can train AI models with 24 trillion parameters

Cerebras Systems has unveiled its Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3), dubbed the “fastest AI chip in the world.”  The WSE-3, which powers the Cerebras CS-3 AI supercomputer, reportedly offers twice the performance of its predecessor, the WSE-2, at the same power consumption and price. The chip is capable of training AI models with up to … Read more

World Sleep Day mattress deals: get the best cheap mattress at its lowest ever price

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World Sleep Day mattress deals: get the best cheap mattress at its lowest ever price

It’s World Sleep Day, and so you’d expect all of the top sleep brands to roll out the biggest discounts on the best mattresses, right? That’s definitely what I’d have expected, and I’m in a position to know about such things; I’ve been writing about mattresses for the past few years and I’m thoroughly well … Read more

First US drug approved for a liver disease surging around the world

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First US drug approved for a liver disease surging around the world

Liver tissue from a person with extra fat in the organ.Credit: IKELOS GmbH/Dr. Christopher B. Jackson/Science Photo Library For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug to treat an obesity-linked liver disease that is on the rise around the globe and is becoming a leading driver of liver failure … Read more

‘A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center’: Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia’s GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips

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‘A single chip to outperform a small GPU data center’: Yet another AI chip firm wants to challenge Nvidia’s GPU-centric world — Taalas wants to have super specialized AI chips

Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding and the lofty aim of revolutionizing the GPU-centric world dominated by Nvidia. Founded by Ljubisa Bajic, Lejla Bajic, and Drago Ignjatovic, all previously from Tenstorrent (the creator of Grayskull), Taalas is developing an automated flow for quickly turning any AI model – … Read more

The World Wide Web just turned 35 years — and please, stop calling it the Internet

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The World Wide Web just turned 35 years — and please, stop calling it the Internet

It’s unclear whether Tim Berners-Lee knew the magnitude of his authoring of the 1989 paper titled “Information Management: A Proposal“. But it was undoubtedly a transformative moment for humanity and has impacted society and business in profound ways.  35 years on from a mere proposal, we have interconnected systems all around the world that are … Read more

I was sick of forgetting files, but this app lets me access my devices from anywhere in the world

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I was sick of forgetting files, but this app lets me access my devices from anywhere in the world

What do you do when you forget to load a file onto your laptop and it’s now languishing at the other end of your house on a different device? In my case, I usually end up pausing whatever I’m doing, getting up and marching over to the file location, uploading it to a cloud server, … Read more