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Applied Digital Announces Groundbreaking for $3 Billion AI Factory in North Dakota
Times News Global
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August 18, 2025
DALLAS, Aug. 18, 2025 — Applied Digital (Nasdaq: APLD) has unveiled plans to break ground on its Polaris Forge 2, a $3 billion, 280-megawatt (MW) artificial intelligence factory near Harwood, North Dakota, this September. The facility, designed to...
Applied Digital Unusual Options Activity
Benzinga
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Deep-pocketed investors have adopted a bearish approach towards Applied Digital APLD, and it's something market players shouldn't ignore. Our tracking of public options records at Benzinga unveiled this significant move today. The identity of...
Scientists Say: Steppe
Science News Explores
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August 18, 2025
birds: Warm-blooded dinosaurs with wings that first showed up at least 150 million years ago. Birds are jacketed in feathers and produce young from the eggs they deposit in some sort of nest. Most birds fly, but throughout history there have been...
Game changer: how data science is revolutionising athlete performance
The Conversation
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August 18, 2025
Sports coaches have always made decisions based on experience, observation and intuition. But they are increasingly relying on hard evidence. Behind the scenes, a quiet revolution is transforming sport – driven not by human skills but by data....
Tata Steel Advanced Materials sells unit to Lionstead Applied Materials for ₹0.99 cr
The Hindu Business Line
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August 18, 2025
Closeup shot of two businessmen shaking hands in an office istock photo for BL | Photo Credit: Cecilie_Arcurs Tata Steel Advanced Materials, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Steel, has sold its entire equity in Ceramat to Lionstead Applied...
Alaska Science Forum: If a mountain fell in a wilderness
Chilkat Valley News - Alaska
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August 18, 2025
By Ned Rozell Camped on an island in Southeast Alaska a few mornings ago, Sasha Calvey heard a commotion outside her tent. “(On Aug. 10) at 5:45 a.m., I woke to a loud roar of rushing water,” the 25-year-old kayaker and outdoor educator said....
How Much Docker Should a Data Scientist Know?
Datanami
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August 18, 2025
The best answers are obviously “some”, “depends”, or begin with “Well…”. Let’s do a deeper dive and attempt to understand where and how Docker is being shoehorned (read shoved) into a data scientist’s daily work and look at how open source...
What Does a Much Smaller Office of Research and Development Mean?
Chemical Processing
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August 18, 2025
On July 18, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out the “reorganization plan” for its Office of Research and Development (ORD). The plan’s stated goal is to reduce budget expenditures, improve science, and have EPA’s...
Building Scalable Intelligence in Software Systems: How Sai Charan Ponnoju Turns Engineering Insight into Research Contributions
DNA India
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Sai Charan Ponnoju is a systems architect and software engineer who publishes research on enterprise software, focusing on scalable solutions. With efforts getting mixed result in cloud-native development, enterprise integrations, and backend...
Professor Bill London on the Science of Sex, Gender, and Evolutionary Biology
The Good Men Project - California
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August 18, 2025
Bill London is a Professor Emeritus of Public Health at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA). He has a background in biology and public health and is known for his work in consumer health, critical thinking in health science,...
Old forests, new fires, and a scientific standoff over active management
Mongabay
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August 18, 2025
Humans have altered the forests of western North America markedly over the past several centuries. We’ve suppressed fire, harvested much of the old-growth trees, and built homes and communities within these landscapes, all while anthropogenic...
Swetha Ravipudi: Engineering secure and resilient AI infrastructure through trans-disciplinary knowledge
DNA India
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Swetha Ravipudi, a DevOps specialist, engineers secure, scalable AI infrastructure by integrating DevSecOps, generative AI, and self-supervised learning into enterprise systems. As the cloud-native architecture, continuous integration pipelines,...
Strange New Shapes May Rewrite the Laws of Physics
ScienceDaily
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How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the mathematicians Claudia Fevola from Inria Saclay and...
Scientists Take First Step to Creating Human Eggs and Sperm in Lab
Technology Networks
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More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only for increased access to affordable, high-quality fertility care for those in need but, importantly, also for new...
5G-A technology provides strong support for China's football sensation Suchao
Global Times
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Caption: China Mobile 5G-A A highly anticipated Jiangsu City Football League (also known as Suchao) match between Nanjing and Yancheng on Sunday in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province, set a new record in attendance at 60,633, according to...
100-year plan to reach a black hole? Italian scientist discusses tiny spacecraft that could achieve this feat | INTERVIEW
The Week
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China-based Italian cosmologist Cosimo Bambi recently made headlines with his bold proposal to send a tiny spacecraft to a black hole—a mission he believes may take a century to become reality. He is currently a Professor of Physics at the Fudan...
Coffee and fermentation: Scientists harness unripe cherries to reduce...
Food Ingredients First
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Researchers at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) in Brazil have unveiled an innovative fermentation method that transforms unripe Arara coffee cherries into high-quality specialty coffee. This process could significantly impact coffee...
Albright College Expands STEM Offerings With Three Undergraduate Technology-Focused Majors
Berks Community TV - Pennsylvania
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August 18, 2025
From Albright College Albright College is proud to announce the addition of three undergraduate majors to its academic offerings: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Science (previously a co-major), and Cybersecurity. These innovative programs...
US The Daily News Journal MTSU's Applied Engineering Building is a 'commitment to our region’s economic prosperity'
Yahoo News
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Middle Tennessee State University students like Abbie Lee and those in the future will benefit from the new $74.8 million, 90,000-square-foot Applied Engineering Building, offering state-of-the-art training in a high-demand field. “The new...
General : MCMC, MMU Collaborate To Strengthen AI Education And Research
Bernama
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August 18, 2025
CYBERJAYA, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and Multimedia University (MMU) today formalised a collaboration through the AI Transformation Centre to enhance teaching and research at the university’s...