NASA Leverages HPC to Model an All-Electric Airplane
NASA is expanding its HPC-driven aeronautical research with an all-electric experimental aircraft dubbed the X-57 “Maxwell,” using its Pleiades HPC cluster to model and simulate critical aerodynamic flight characteristics. ...Full Article
Arm’s Segars Unwraps ‘5th Gen’ Computing Vision
The simultaneous maturation of three technologies—AI, the Internet of Things and 5G wireless—are ushering in a data-driven 5th wave of computing underpinned by current cloud infrastructure, according to the ...Full Article
DARPA Chip Effort Pivots to Securing US Supply Chain
A three-year-old Defense Department electronics initiative is bearing fruit in the form of public-private partnerships in areas ranging from post-Moore’s Law chip architectures to the growing national security requirement ...Full Article
NIST Tackles Explainable AI Gap
Among the best ways to create stable technologies are standards and specifications that provide a template for building trust while often seeding new technological ecosystems. That’s especially true for ...Full Article
Russian Malware Targets Linux, US Warns
The Russians are coming, again, this time with new malware targeting Linux systems, according to a U.S. advisory issued this week. The FBI and the U.S. National Security Agency ...Full Article
US Chip Industry Launches Apprenticeships
As efforts ramp up to revive U.S. chip manufacturing, the nation’s largest pure-play foundry services provider is teaming with an industry group to advance a workforce training program designed ...Full Article
‘Unified Platform’ Accelerates Air Force DevSecOps
The U.S. military’s embrace of Silicon Valley-style agile software development now extends to quick turn-around programming required to respond to evolving cyber threats. Among the earliest attempts to break ...Full Article
Huawei Disputes U.S.-Backed Open 5G Push
Huawei Technologies, the 5G leader, is pushing back on concerted efforts to forge an alternative radio access network for the next generation of wireless technologies. Western technology companies with ...Full Article
U.S. AI Corps Seeks to Keep Pace with China
A proposed U.S. Digital Service Academy would create an AI software repository to support R&D while training the next generation of AI developers. According to recommendations released this week ...Full Article
Palantir, Rackspace Lead a Wave of Tech IPOs
Cloud and software vendors of various stripes and high-flying big data analytics provider Palantir Technologies have gauged financial market sentiments and decided now is the time to launch initial ...Full Article