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Fusion is hot right now - so hot that the US Department of Energy is dumping another $112 million into a dozen supercomputing projects to advance progress on further clean energy breakthroughs.  The Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program combines the DoE's existing Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) and Advanced…

Quantum computing offers a massive $6B opportunity for Australia in the coming decades, but policies need to be made now to ensure its ethical use in the future. Image: Damian Sobczyk/Adobe Stock While so much of the civilian world is focused on determining the impact of AI on our lives,…

IEEE groups are working hard to support the organization’s mission in creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. One such group is the IEEE Computer Society, which last year created a diversity and inclusion fund in collaboration with the IEEE Foundation. The fund supports programs and events that seek to…

Directing light from place to the place is the backbone of our modern world. Beneath the oceans and across continents, fiber optic cables carry light that encodes everything from YouTube videos to banking transmissions -- all inside strands about the size of a hair. University of Chicago Prof. Jiwoong Park,…

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? Last month's report that the US government was planning to restrict critical investments in China has proved accurate after President Biden signed an executive order introducing the ban. As with the chip-related sanctions, the…

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. and its European allies are importing vast amounts of nuclear fuel and compounds from Russia, providing Moscow with hundreds of millions of dollars in badly needed revenue as it wages war on Ukraine. The sales, which are legal and unsanctioned, have raised alarms from nonproliferation experts…

The order aims to protect against a heightened risk in China that semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing tech get transferred from China’s commercial firms to its military, now the largest in the world. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in July that the coming restrictions were not meant to have…

The current AI boom demands a lot of computing power. Right now, most of that comes from Nvidia’s GPUs, or graphics processing units—the company supplies somewhere around 90 percent of the AI chip market. In an announcement this week, it aims to extend its dominance with its newly announced next-generation…

Russian President Vladimir Putin greets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during their bilateral meeting on July 29, 2023, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. File photo/Getty President Cyril Ramaphosa has been navigating turbulent waters for the past year but always seems to come through in the clear. Lately, he has dodged past…

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