Data centres are the backbone of our digital infrastructure, supporting everything from social media platforms to online shopping and streaming…
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American microchip giant Intel is looking for a new CEO following Pat Gelsinger’s shock resignation. This represents more than just a corporate…
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On 25 December 2024, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) three years ago, the…
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20,…
A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant…
Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably…
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