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The power of green computing

There’s other use cases where when running inference on a CPU, there are accelerators inside that help to accelerate AI workloads directly. We estimate that 65% to 70% of inference is run... Read more »

The Download: teaching girls to build, and fixing government tech

Emily Pilloton-Lam didn’t grow up in a particularly handy household, but she did spend hours outside building treehouses out of logs and sticks. After years studying architecture at prestigious institutions, she realized... Read more »

How to make government technology better

It’s been able to do this, at least in part, because the city follows an organizational approach similar to one that Jen Pahlka, the founder of Code for America and author of the fabulous... Read more »

The nonprofit that lets girls build the world they want to see

Building at Girls Garage, she continues, “is less about choosing a future path [than it is about becoming] a creator, a builder, an activist, and a young person with both technical and... Read more »

Ketamine is easier to prescribe than ever, and the FDA is not happy about it

So is at-home ketamine safe? William Dudney, a psychiatrist in Tampa, Florida, has been offering patients ketamine for five years in the form of “troches,” waxy lozenges about the size of a... Read more »

The Download: babies in space, and the FDA’s ketamine crackdown

Despite the burgeoning interest in deep space exploration and settlement, prompted in part by billionaires such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, we still know very little about what happens to our... Read more »

This startup wants to find out if humans can have babies in space

Now Edelbroek is CEO of SpaceBorn United, a biotech startup seeking to pioneer the study of human reproduction away from Earth. Next year, he plans to send a mini lab on a... Read more »

Government technology is famously bad. It doesn’t have to be.

So the unit applies what it calls “campaign tactics” to policy implementation, proactively engaging with New Yorkers through door knocking, phone banking, text messages, emails, and public events to share information about... Read more »

Enabling enterprise growth with data intelligence

And here again, I have got to say that we want to address in a slightly different manner. I think we want to address it so that customers are able to take... Read more »

The Download: striking actors training AI, and breaking ‘unbreakable’ encryption

Between July and September this year, actors in the US were invited to participate in an unusual research project, designed to capture their voices, faces, movements, and expressions. The project, which coincided... Read more »