Several years ago, Google began working on its own custom software for machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads, dubbed TensorFlow. Last year, the company announced that it had designed its own tensor processing unit (TPU), an ASIC designed for high throughput of low-precision arithmetic. Now, Google has released some performance …
Read More »Wild crushes Panthers for fifth consecutive victory
Maybe, just maybe, the personality of this team is different from yesteryear. Previously, if the Wild was riding high but facing a nondivisional opponent that didn’t get the blood boiling like adversaries from, say, Winnipeg or St. Louis, the Wild almost surely would suffer a letdown. But Tuesday night, the …
Read More »Google WiFi mesh networking crushes the competition in new test
While Apple is getting out of the router business, Google is doubling down. Or maybe tripling down, if you really buy into mesh networking. Google WiFi is set to ship in the next few weeks, and a third-party test of Google’s new wireless solution shows it clobbering other mesh networking systems. …
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