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Los Alamos National Lab to Gain Next-Gen Supercomputing System in 2023 sdecoret/istockphoto email An official detailed what’ll be the in-the-making machine’s various purposes. A cutting-edge, high performance supercomputer is set to be delivered to the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in early 2023. “With an innovative balance of memory bandwidth and capacity, this next-generation system will shape our institution’s computing strategy,” the lab’s Director Thom Mason said Monday. Hewlett Packard Enterprise will provide the supercomputing arch...

Microsoft went shopping this weekend. The tech giant has acquired speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion. Nuance’s software, called Dragon, is an industry leader for transcription accuracy and uses deep learning to transcribe speech. It also improves accuracy by adapting to a user’s voice. Dragon has been used to license tech like Apple’s famous Siri but it’s unclear how much Siri actually relies on Dragon. This acquisition will be Microsoft’s second-largest after it bought LinkedIn in 2016 for $26 billion. Microsoft says Nuance’s technology can be further integrated in Micr...

Nvidia is already capitalizing on its ARM acquisition with a massively powerful new CPU-plus-GPU combination that it claims will speed ...