Monthly Archives: August 2020

Like in Phoenix From the Ashes, Darker Sky Rises

Recently, Dark Sky for Android was taken from us, all because Apple has purchased the service for exclusive use on their own devices. The Dark Sky APIs that empower the whole thing and make it the hyperlocal awesomeness that it is, are alive for now. They are scheduled to close …

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IBM throws hat in the ring of AMD with 7-nanometer CPU

International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -0.63% appears to be moving to a slice of the 7-nanometer central processing unit market currently dominated by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD, + 1.34% with its own chip. Last Sunday, IBM announced that it was launching its Power10 chip, a 7 nm CPU to …

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Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality | Science

Not just “philosophical mumbo-jumbo”: An experiment shows how facts can depend on the observer. Davide Bonazzi / Salzman Art By George Musser17 August 2020, 11:20 p.m. About 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner conquered one of the many oddities of quantum mechanics in a thought experiment. He imagined …

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