Is there anyone out there? This is an age-old question that researchers have now shed new light on with a study that calculates there could be more than 30 intelligent …read more Source:: Science
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What is LLVM? The power behind Swift, Rust, Clang, and more
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•By Serdar Yegulalp New languages, and improvements on existing ones, are mushrooming throughout the develoment landscape. Mozilla’s Rust, Apple’s Swift, Jetbrains’s Kotlin, and many other languages provide developers with a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Warming, acidic oceans may nearly eliminate coral reef habitats by 2100
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•Rising sea surface temperatures and acidic waters could eliminate nearly all existing coral reef habitats by 2100, suggesting restoration projects in these areas will likely meet serious challenges, according to …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft speeds up PyTorch with DeepSpeed
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimization library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft unveils speedy type checker for Python
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft has unveiled Pyright, an open source static-type-checking system for Python that aims to be faster than existing type-checking solutions for Python such as Mypy. Written in TypeScript and …read more Source:: OpenSource
8,000 new antibiotic combinations are surprisingly effective
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•Biologists have identified more than 8,00 new combinations of antibiotics that are surprisingly effective. ‘We expect several of these combinations, or more, will work much better than existing antibiotics,’ said …read more Source:: Science
Flexible wearable electronics use body heat for energy
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•In a proof-of-concept study, engineers have designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as …read more Source:: Science
New perovskite solar cell design could outperform existing commercial technologies
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•A new design for solar cells that uses inexpensive, commonly available materials could rival and even outperform conventional cells made of silicon. In a new article, researchers describe using tin …read more Source:: Science