Every AI query warms a chip somewhere, and the chips that run them are getting hotter. A University of Waterloo team now says a single drop of boiling coolant, placed exactly where a processor spikes, could keep data centre hardware cooler without paying for expensive fluid across the whole tank.
On November 10, 2026, the university released results of a hybrid immersion cooling concept from its engineering faculty, published in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. In lab tests, on...
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AI infrastructure
Google TPU 8tx and 8i Max Target Secure, Long-Context AI
Google has added two more systems to its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit family: TPU 8tx, aimed at secure, confidential inference, and TPU 8i Max, built for very large context windows. In a November 9, 2026 post, Amin Vahdat, Google's SVP and Chief Technologist for AI and Infrastructure, said it is the first time the company has introduced four TPU systems in a single year.
The announcement matters less for raw speed than for what it says about where AI hardware is heading: special...
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Turn your body into a touchscreen interface
Skinput, a new technology, listens to the vibrations of your body and turns it into a touching interface.
One of the newest invention ideas in interface devices is Skinput which is the product of a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon's Harrison, Desny Tan and Dan Morris of Microsoft Research. Previous attempts at using projected interfaces used motion-tracking to determine where a person taps. Skinput uses a series of sensors to track where a user taps on his arm. It uses a different and no...
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