E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it facilitates scientific advances—in DNA, biofuels, and Pfizer’s covid vaccine, to name but a few. Now this multitalented bacterium has a new trick: it can solve a classic computational maze problem using distributed computing—dividing up the necessary calculations among different types of genetically engineered cells.
This neat feat is a credit to synthetic biology, which aims to rig up biological circuitry much like electronic circuitry and to program cells as easily as computers.
Quantum computing is poised to upend entire industries from telecommunications and cybersecurity to advanced manufacturing, finance, medicine, and beyond — but few understand how quantum computers actually work.
Take climate change for example: Because of the complexity of the climate system, seemingly endless data, and growing limitations on today’s computing power, no classical computer (like your desktop) can simulate the earth’s climate changes with 100% accuracy.
Probably the most masterful and mysterious act of chemical computation is when a single cell uses its DNA to divide, multiply, and specialize to produce a fully developed organism. In research reported this week in Nature, computer scientists took a small but important step toward harnessing the potential of chemical computation by constructing the first broadly programmable DNA computer.
Microsoft has announced the next phase of Project Natick — an ongoing research project to determine the feasibility of underwater datacenters — by launching a full-fledged prototype datacenter off the coast of Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
In less than a decade, Nokia emerged from Finland to lead the mobile phone revolution. It rapidly grew to have one of the most recognisable and valuable brands in the world. At its height Nokia commanded a global market share in mobile phones of over 40 percent. While its journey to the top was swift, its decline was equally so, culminating in the sale of its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2013.
Quantum computing is an increasingly hot area for research and investment, with corporations like IBM, Google, Alibaba, Intel, and Lockheed Martin launching quantum computing projects aimed at bringing the technology — meant to speed up the process of solving complex equations — to commercial viability.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) is in talks with buyout firm Thoma Bravo LLC to sell its software division, hoping it can fetch between $8 billion and $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
The negotiations come as HPE Chief Executive Meg Whitman seeks to focus the U.S. company’s strategy on networking, storage, data centers and related technology services, after its separation last year from computer and printer maker HP Inc.
Algo pasa con Xiaomi. La fabricante de teléfonos china está experimentando una desaceleración severa de su actividad, lo que podría poner en riesgo su estabilidad financiera a futuro.
Calificada a veces como la respuesta de China a la hegemonía de Apple, Xiaomi está sufriendo una caída en las ventas cercana al 40% en el primer semestre del año, de acuerdo a los datos publicados hoy por la firma de análisis IDC.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which split from HP last year, today announced that it has acquired SGI, a company that makes servers, storage, and software for high-performance computing, for $275 million in cash and debt.
