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The massive hardware demands of artificial intelligence (AI) applications are stretching the physical and structural limitations of semiconductors. But researchers have engineered a three-dimensional silicon chip that they propose as the solution. In a new study published May 27 in the journal Nature, scientists found a way to cram more computing power into a chip…

Wally Funk, a trailblazing aviation pioneer who was denied the opportunity to become a Nasa astronaut and half a century later became the oldest woman to travel into space, has died aged 87. Funk died peacefully on Wednesday evening at her apartment in an assisted living facility in Grapevine, Texas, city councilwoman and close friend…

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Tags are an ingenious way of organizing files. With tags, you can create relational searches for files. Tags are built into some of the more popular file managers. When you open a file manager, you are most likely searching for…

The warming climate fosters hotter temperatures, more intense storms, larger wildfires, and longer droughts, among other extremes. But how much does human-caused climate change influence a specific event such as a heat wave or storm? Scientists in the field of extreme event attribution are increasingly able to answer that question, according to a new report…

This week’s science news reminds us how the past still speaks if we listen closely, with news of the discovery of 18 ancient Egyptian tombs filled with dozens of gold tongues topping the bill. The ancient Egyptians believed that gold was the flesh of the gods, meaning that bestowing gold tongues upon the deceased could…

A thorough comparison of quantum and classical machine learning models has been undertaken by Chuanming Yu from Hebei Normal University, and colleagues at Kyushu University and the University of Luxembourg. The study compares seven model pairs across both supervised and reinforcement learning tasks. Findings reveal the evaluated quantum machine learning models do not currently exceed…