BrainChip, a provider of advanced neuromorphic computing technology, has collaborated with Socionext, which specializes in software-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for video and imaging systems, to create a low-power platform for AI edge computing applications.
                    
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 - 03/25/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    China's planned national blockchain-based services network (BSN) is still set for its official April launch, despite concerns about potential delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 03/24/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    DHL's Supply Chain group is expanding its partnership with autonomous mobile robot (AMR) maker Locus Robotics to deploy more warehouse robots in its fulfillment and distribution centers.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 03/24/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Researchers from Intel and Cornell University have trained a neuromorphic computer chip to recognize the scent of 10 hazardous chemicals.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 03/20/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google has unveiled a new software framework for quantum machine learning called TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ) that's designed for rapid prototyping of hybrid quantum/classical machine learning models.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 03/20/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Honeywell is planning to launch a new quantum computer later this year that it claims will be two times more powerful than any other machine of this type. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 03/10/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    What Google and the other researchers did was to create a way for "legged" robots to learn and adapt to ambulating challenges in the real world.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 03/04/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Qualcomm laid out its 5G vision during a livestream media event last week and announced a host of products and partner deals.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Called Boulder Opal, the Python-based toolset is aimed at developers and R&D teams using quantum control in their hardware or theoretical research. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 03/03/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Several announcements of new and updated products that use these technologies stood out at this year's RSAC event.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 02/26/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's long-awaited Azure Sphere security solution for IoT devices became generally available (GA) on Monday, almost two years after it was originally unveiled at the 2018 RSA Security Conference. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Blazing mobile connectivity speeds provided by next-gen 5G technology -- up to 13x more than today's average -- are highlighted in Cisco's big new Annual Internet Report, which also warns of bigger and more frequent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The European Union this week unveiled its first proposed regulations for artificial intelligence  technology, along with a strategy for handling personal digital data.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 02/19/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google's AI group collaborated with researchers at Columbia University and computer vision company Synthesis AI to create ClearGrasp, a machine learning algorithm capable of estimating accurate 3-D data of transparent objects. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 02/18/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The Eclipse Foundation has partnered with the IOTA Foundation to form a new Eclipse working group to promote IOTA's open source distributed ledger technology, called the Tangle. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 02/12/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Chip designer Arm just announced two new processors with the potential to push  AI into billions of small, power-and-memory-constrained devices. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 02/11/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Researchers in the Google Brain group have been working overtime to develop chatbot software that produces truly human interactions with users. They may have turned a corner with their new Meena end-to-end-trained neural conversational model.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 02/05/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Scientists from IBM Research and the University of Notre Dame have shown that the environmental "noise" that destroys the fragile quantum state of qubits, and typically impedes quantum computer use, can actually be an advantage over classical computing in chemical simulations.
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
 - 02/04/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    French telecoms giant Orange will be working with mobile networking equipment supplies Nokia and Ericsson to deploy its 5G network.
                    
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 - 02/04/2020
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Satellite network provider Iridium and Amazon Web Services have announced the launch of their collaborative IoT network, Iridium CloudConnect, after a delay of several months.