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Amazon’s Project Kuiper prototype satellites are ‘stable in orbit’ and collecting key data

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“The two satellites are stable in orbit, harvesting energy from the sun, and communicating across all links from Earth to space and space to Earth.” based headquarters — and the monthslong testing mission to test the hardware on the spacecraft, as well as ground operations and customer terminals.

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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

It was quite cost-effective at first to buy our own hardware, which was a four-GPU cluster,” says Doniyor Ulmasov, head of engineering at Papercup. He estimates initial savings between 60% and 70% compared with cloud-based services. At that point, Papercup decided the cloud was needed.

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Bechtle: Pursuing a Multi-Faceted Sustainability Strategy

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.” — Arthur Schneider, Head of Sustainability Management One of Europe’s largest IT services providers, Bechtle offers a full IT portfolio to more than 70,000 enterprises and public sector customers in 14 countries throughout Europe. This multi-faceted approach can be seen in the scale and scope of Bechtle’s sustainability efforts.

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How quantum computing could transform everything everywhere, but not all at once

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“Quantum computing could very well revolutionize what an Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure will want to do for the world in terms of computing,” says Louis Terminello, associate laboratory director for physical and computational sciences at the U.S. Why is that? “The atom can spin in any direction.

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Amazon begins the ‘huge’ lift to shrink the carbon footprint of its devices to reach climate goals

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It added a low-power mode feature to its newest plug-in Echo and Fire TV devices to curb power energy use when the electronics aren’t active; it plans to offer power-saving updates “over-the-air” for older products. ” Rachel Praetorius, head of sustainability and hardware operations for Amazon Devices & Services.

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IonQ shows off its new quantum computer factory — and already has plans to expand

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To unlock new ways to produce and store energy. “Things like being able to do quantum machine learning on sparse data — we just can’t do that using classical hardware. ” Some companies, including as Google , IBM and Microsoft , are developing quantum hardware that’s based on superconducting circuits. .”

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Soon, hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services added GPUs to some of their compute instances, making scalable GPGPU capacity available on demand, thereby lowering the barrier of entry to compute-intensive workloads for enterprises everywhere. Efforts to stay in the $1T club Nvidia is driving forward on many fronts.

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