Graphcore, the Bristol AI processor company which has raised over $450 million in funding, has announced the second generation of its flagship IPU chip, the GC200. With 59.4 billion transistors on a single 823sqmm die, Graphcore claims it is the most complex processor ever made. It is made on TSMC’s 7nm process
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German researchers have found a way to identify deep fake images by converting them to the frequency domain using the discrete cosine transform. The team, from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Casa (Cyber security in the age of large-scale adversaries), point those sceptical about deep fakes to the website www.whichfaceisreal.com – a
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Air conditioners in the US alone releases some 100 tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year and experts warn ‘we are essentially cooking ourselves.' The United Nation (UN) proposes switching to energy-efficient and climate-friendly devices in a bid to curb the effects of global warming. The move would cut 460
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Another day, another nasty new piece of Android malware to be aware of — this time, according to cybersecurity researchers at Cybereason, it’s malware that uses a “missed delivery” text to phish its unsuspecting recipients. There has been a spate of these incidents lately, involving everything from sketchy apps found in
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Solomon Okopi is the General Manager Commercial, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Plc. He speaks to Engineers’ Forum correspondent on current issues in the Electricity sector explaining why Discos could not extend Covid-19 palliative to customers as earlier rumoured and the tariffs regime. He also talks on FG/Siemens deal You have been
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This month Main One Cable marked 10 years of being in operation. As Technical Project Lead and one of the pioneer staff to Main One working with the visionary CEO Funke Opeke it feels amazing to mark such an amazing milestone with the teams responsible for delivering such a groundbreaking
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On July 15, 2020, MTN launched its eSIM (embedded-SIM) service in Nigeria. During a virtual launch, Mazen Mroue, Chief Operating Officer, MTN Nigeria, explained the idea behind this, the technicality of activation on devices, and possible connectivity with other smart devices. “Unlike physical SIMs, eSIMs are built into smartphones, devices, and
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Cloudflare, a web infrastructure provider and content delivery network, is reportedly suffering outages resulting in major websites crashing across the internet. Multiple websites crashed worldwide today as one of the web’s most important infrastructure providers and content delivery networks, Cloudflare, suffered an outage. Cloudflare provides DNS and CDN services and powers
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On 1 May, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at securing the U.S. bulk-power system, the backbone of our national electricity infrastructure. Bulk power comprises high-voltage transmission lines and generators delivering energy to large consumption centers. The order spotlights an important issue, but neither the order nor the issue has received
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Without the expertise of a consultant, the idea of making decisions and the declaration of law and order in a nation is doomed to fail. This is why countries, elect advisers to every level of leadership in a nation. The nation is heterogeneous in scope, it requires the knowledge of not
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