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Fingernail Sensors and AI Can Help Clinicians to Monitor Health and Disease Progression

“Grip strength is a useful metric in a surprisingly broad set of health issues. It has been associated with the effectiveness of medication in individuals with Parkinson’s disease, the degree of cognitive function in schizophrenics, the state of an …

IBM Reveals 8-Bit Analog Chip With Phase-Change Memory

“Researchers used the chip to test a simple neural net and identify numerals with 100 percent accuracy Today at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, IBM reported a new 8-bit analog chip. But the true development was …

IBM To Acquire Red Hat, Completely Changing The Cloud Landscape And Becoming World’s #1 Hybrid Cloud Provider

“IBM and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source cloud software, announced today that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat …

A New Brain-Inspired Architecture Could Improve How Computers Handle Data and Advance AI

“IBM researchers designed a new computer architecture with co-located memory and processing. In studies, their prototype ran 200 times faster than conventional computers. IBM researchers are developing a new computer architecture, better equipped to handle increased data loads from artificial …

The Future of AI Needs Better Compute: Hardware Accelerators Based on Analog Memory Devices

“Software-equivalent accuracy achieved with analog memory for faster, lower power neural network training Imagine personalized Artificial Intelligence (AI), where your smartphone becomes more like an intelligent assistant – recognizing your voice even in a noisy room, understanding the context of different …

Reaching the Summit: Accelerated Computing Powering World’s Fastest Supercomputer

“Call it the most powerful scientific tool ever built. Call it a new paradigm of computing. Just don’t call it slow, because whatever number you look at, Summit — which made its debut Friday at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory …

Device allows a personal computer to process huge graphs

“With novel system, data scientists can analyze massive networks without the need for power-hungry servers. In data-science parlance, graphs are structures of nodes and connecting lines that are used to map scores of complex data relationships. Analyzing graphs is useful …

IBM has made the world’s smallest computer, and it’s just absurd

“If there’s one downside to powerful computers, it’s that they’re too damn big. Luckily, that’s about to change. At least, if IBM has anything to say about it. March 19 is the first day of IBM …

IBM Reveals a Novel Energy-saving Optical Receiver with a new Record of Rapid Power-on/off Time

“New NRZ optical receiver opens doors for the next-generation green, larger-capacity optical interconnect systems SAN DIEGO — With the increasing popularization of datacenters and other bandwidth hungry interconnect applications, today’s bandwidth growth of short-distance optical networks demands data transmission speeds …

IBM Raises the Bar with a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer

“IBM established a landmark in computing Friday, announcing a quantum computer that handles 50 quantum bits, or qubits. The company is also making a 20-qubit system available through its cloud computing platform. IBM, Google, Intel, and a San Francisco startup …