Search Engine Land » PPC » Microsoft wants to drive more traffic, revenue to publishers “The value proposition that we see for publishers specifically as we go forward is driving more traffic and clicks—not less—and ensuring that publishers and partners earn more money.” That’s according to new Corporate Vice President …
Read More »NASA Wants Your Help
Analysis of a set of July photos from NASA’s JunoCam has revealed a cluster of swirling storms near Jupiter’s north pole. The agency released the entire dataset, which is cool enough all on its own. But now, a NASA citizen science project called “Jovian Vortex Hunter” is seeking volunteers to …
Read More »Throw Satellites into Orbit
Getting into space is hard, and one of the reasons is that it takes a lot of energy to break free of Earth’s gravity. So far, the only way we’ve found to do that reliably is with rockets, but a startup called SpinLaunch has something else in mind. Using a …
Read More »Perseverance Rover’s AI
NASA’s Perseverance rover is the most advanced machine ever sent to the red planet with a boatload of cameras and a refined design that should stand the test of time. Still, it’s just a robot, and sometimes human intuition can help a robot smarten up. If you’re interested in …
Read More »AMD Wants to Improve AI
AMD has announced a major new efficiency initiative that’s intended to build off its previous 25×20 project. The company will now work to deliver a 30x improvement in energy efficiency in AI and high performance computing overall, relative to today’s CPU and GPU accelerators. AMD’s blog post doesn’t go into …
Read More »Chinese Designer Loongson
The Chinese CPU design firm Loongson wants to raise $544 million in an IPO as part of a bid to raise funds and further the development of its next-generation products. Loongson is a company we’ve discussed several times over the last few years. Its CPUs use an instruction set based …
Read More »OpenCore Computers
Wants to Sell You a Hackintosh Before It’s Sued Out of Existence Apple has grown to be one of the most valuable companies in the world thanks in part to the tight integration of hardware and software. Unlike Google or Microsoft, you can only get Apple’s software if you buy …
Read More »Intel claims three-year advantage on 10nm, wants to redefine process nodes
Intel had a tech day this week to discuss the future of its own 14nm and 10nm chips, and it laid out some impressive claims in the process. It also laid out what it believes is a better metric for calculating process nodes in the future, though we suspect TSMC, …
Read More »Lockheed wants to launch manned Mars Base Camp mission by 2028
As NASA puts the finishing touches on the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule, partner Lockheed Martin is proposing an ambitious project that would make use of them. Tony Antonelli, a former NASA shuttle pilot and current head of advanced civil space programs for Lockheed Martin, says a manned …
Read More »Scoot wants to expand its electric scooter operations globally with a white-label service
San Francisco-based electric scooter sharing network Scoot tells TechCrunch it plans to share its back-end software with third-party scooter operators in congested cities around the world. The idea, as Scoot’s founder Michael Keating explained it, is to allow those in other cities who have vehicles to hook into Scoot’s back-end operation …
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