Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Linking Academia and Industry in Green IT
Green IT is a part of IT research, which is facing the same difficulties as any other research field. Each player (industry, researchers, universities) has different objectives, different tools and different aims. Full article
Makers Put Affordable, Open-Source Plane in the Works
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/mp1-0-side-render.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" border="0" />It may now be possible to build a plane yourself at a very reasonable price tag. It's called Maker Plane, and it's an open source, two-seater airplane that will be affordable, high quality, and most importantly, safe. Full article
Riding the Customization Wave
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Michel-Vert.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />If you pick almost any piece of sporting equipment, be it a golf club or a pair of skis, chances are high that CAD tools were behind its design, helping to maximize every possible aerodynamic benefit. But for surfboards, for whom hand-finishing is required for virtually every ... Full article
Computer Giants Top EPA Green Power List
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Power Partnership released its quarterly Green Power list with the updated rankings of organizations choosing to go green.  Full article
Smog-Eating Streets Could Clean the Cities of Tomorrow
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/smog.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />When people imagine cities, their first thought may be of the urban skyline and a mosaic of lights, but for many, the picture is a bit less romantic: a cloud of smog. But a team of scientists from the Netherlands hope their research on pollution-eating pavement may ... Full article
Changes on the Additive Manufacturing Horizon
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/OpenFabRhinos.png" alt="" width="95" height="35" border="0" />From key patent expirations to a new 3D printing app from eBay, new things are on the horizon for additive manufacturing. We've taken a look into some of the latest research, and are diving into questions such as how to get the greatest resolution and flexibility from ... Full article
Meet Audit-Buddy
By taking temperature and humidity readings at multiple heights, Audit-Buddy can help facility managers optimize their operating performance.  Full article
Green Prefab to Help Builders Go Green
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Architecture_framework.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="85" border="0" />As far as simulations that hit close to home, nothing is likely to come closer than those of the building industry, where every detail can have profound effects on whether or not a building is good enough to be called “green.” Now, Green Prefab, a startup based ... Full article
Microsoft Develops RFID Alternative for 3D Printing
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/infrastructs.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="59" border="0" />For manufacturers, barcodes, electronic chips and RFID tags are key for tracking inventory and gathering meaningful data throughout the assembly line. And if the Internet of Things has as much momentum as experts believe, the role of ID tags is only going to expand... Full article
OVH Builds Servers on Demand
French Web hosting company OVH extends do-it-yourself ingenuity to the server level. Servers go from parts to production in under an hour.  Full article
The Carbon Footprint of Hyperscale
<p>Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently stated that the company operates over one million servers. What would it take to power an infrastructure of that magnitude? </p> Full article
An Efficiency Standard on Every Computer (and Server)
The Department of Energy may soon mandate new labeling and efficiency standards for all computers and servers sold in the United States.  Full article
UK Government Assists Datacenter CO2 Reduction
A consortium led by Cambridge-based startup Alquist has been awarded almost £1 million in UK government funding to help datacenters reduce their carbon footprint.  Full article
BMW Sheds Weight for the New i3
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/BMW_i3.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />As BMW starts to make plans for their i3 electric city car, the word on every designer's mind is “efficiency.” While an electric car is already much more efficient than most vehicles on the road, BMW hopes take it one step further, and have turned to lightweight ... Full article
Reweaving the Global Supply Chain
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chain.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />The supply webs manufacturers are weaving are expansive and complex, with designs originating in the United States and traversing the globe, often to be manufactured in China. But according to a recent report conducted by IBM, we may be in for a change. Instead of a global ... Full article
U.S. Puts Top Supercomputer up for Rent
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Vulcan_LLNL.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />In an effort to make the country more competitive, the federal government has made one of the country’s most powerful supercomputers available to any U.S. business—so long as it meets certain requirements. The super in question is Vulcan, an IBM Blue Gene/Q system at the Lawrence Livermore ... Full article
ATLAS: The Robot with the World on its Shoulders
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/ATLAS.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Despite the diversity of entries in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, there is one image that event followers are now well-familiar with: DARPA's ATLAS robot. While participants already feel like they know ATLAS personally thanks to the attention he’s received through the DRC, the final robot was only ... Full article
Opinion: Think Caring, not Persuasive, Technology
Green is a metaphor for a healthy environment, and greening entails activities to restore and maintain its health. Given its current poor health, virtually all greening is aimed at making the environment less unhealthy.  Full article
EPEAT Green Registry to Add Mobile Devices
The Green Electronics Council is collaborating with UL Environment to extend the EPEAT environmental rating system to include mobile devices.  Full article
Britain’s Roads to See Driverless Cars This Year
<img style="float: left;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Sheriff_Highway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1305325.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />For the very first time, Britain is allowing self-driving cars to be tested on their public roads. The testing that will begin this year marks a significant breakthrough, as this will be the first driverless foray off of private land. Full article