Month: April 2021

Grace: Nvidia baut eigene Supercomputer-CPU

Beschleuniger für Supercomputer hat Nvidia schon lange, mit der Grace-CPU auf Basis von ARMs Neoverse-Cores folgt der nächste Schritt. (Supercomputer, Prozessor)

Beschleuniger für Supercomputer hat Nvidia schon lange, mit der Grace-CPU auf Basis von ARMs Neoverse-Cores folgt der nächste Schritt. (Supercomputer, Prozessor)

Microsoft is spending $19.7 billion to acquire Nuance, an AI & speech recognition company

Nuance, the company that makes the speech recognition software that powers Apple’s Siri voice assistant and the Dragon line of text-to-speech tools, is about to become a Microsoft subsidiary. Microsoft has agreed to pay $19.7 billion to acquire …

Nuance, the company that makes the speech recognition software that powers Apple’s Siri voice assistant and the Dragon line of text-to-speech tools, is about to become a Microsoft subsidiary. Microsoft has agreed to pay $19.7 billion to acquire Nuance in a deal expected to be finalized later in 2021. Does this mean Microsoft is investing […]

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MINISFORUM GK50 is a fanless mini PC with Intel Gemini Lake Refresh for $299 and up

MINISFORUM has been cranking out a number of small form-factor desktop computers over the past few years including models with AMD Ryzen 4000U and Intel Comet Lake or Coffee Lake chips. The new MINISFORUM GK50 is a little different. It’s a small…

MINISFORUM has been cranking out a number of small form-factor desktop computers over the past few years including models with AMD Ryzen 4000U and Intel Comet Lake or Coffee Lake chips. The new MINISFORUM GK50 is a little different. It’s a small, passively cooled computer powered by a 6-watt Intel Pentium Silver N5030 Gemini Lake […]

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Six decades after Gagarin, nostalgia—and not much else—fuels Russia in space

“Looking at the Earth from afar, you realize it is too small for conflict.”

  • The first photo of Yuri Gagarin after his historic spaceflight. [credit: Russian Government ]

Sixty years ago today, a single Soviet man climbed into a small spherical capsule at a secretive spaceport in modern-day Kazakhstan. A Vostok-K rocket sent the capsule, carrying Yuri Gagarin, into low orbit with an apogee of 327 km.

Gagarin would make one pass around the Earth before his spacecraft reentered the planet's atmosphere, enduring forces above 8 g. Because the Vostok capsule had no means of making a soft landing, Gagarin was ejected at 7 km above the ground and landed about 10 minutes later under his parachute. The flight lasted just 108 minutes, but Gagarin's legacy would be eternal.

Amid the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union, the Soviets had struck a tremendous blow with this flight. Although the mission was used for propaganda purposes, in later remarks, Gagarin expressed a peaceful sentiment since repeated by subsequent generations of astronauts. "Looking at the Earth from afar, you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for cooperation," he said.

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