• Japanese supercomputer ranked as world’s most powerful system

    Japanese supercomputer ranked as world’s most powerful system

    A Japanese supercomputer built with technology from Arm Ltd, whose chip designs power most of the world’s smartphones, has taken the top spot among the world’s most powerful systems, displacing one powered by IBM chips. The Fugaku supercomputer, a system jointly developed by Japanese research institute RIKEN and Fujitsu in Kobe, Japan, took the highest …
  • IBM to exit facial recognition biz, cites racial profiling

    IBM to exit facial recognition biz, cites racial profiling

    IBM says it is getting out of the facial recognition business over concern about how it can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. A letter to US lawmakers Monday from new IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the tech giant “has sunset its general purpose facial recognition and analysis software products.” Krishna was addressing …