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UPDATE 2-Argentina makes $1.9 bln payment to IMF amid race for new deal

(Adds IMF comment) BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 22 (Reuters) – Argentina paid nearly $ 1.9 billion to the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday, two government sources said as the South American grain producer races to negotiate a new deal with the lender to renew more than $ 40 billion. dollars still owed. The payment, part of […]

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The Case for an Edge-Driven Future for Supercomputing

“Exascale only becomes valuable when it’s creating and using data that we care about,” said Pete Beckman, co-director of the Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE), at the most recent HPC User Forum. Beckman, head of an Argonne National Laboratory edge computing project called Waggle, was insistent on one thing: edge computing is a

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Pentagon’s Counter-UAS Program Holds Second Industry Demonstration

EXACTLY Q: The Pentagon’s Counter-Drone Office Holds Second Industry Demonstration The Department of Defense’s Office of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is hosting its second industrial demonstration to assess available technology for its efforts to mitigate the threat of small but deadly unmanned aerial vehicles. The Joint Small Drone Control Service (JCO) recently conducted demonstrations at the

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Astranis Moves Launch of First Commercial Satellite to Falcon Heavy

The satellite will be launched directly into geostationary orbit, which means that broadband Internet service will come online months faster for underserved areas of Alaska. San Francisco, September 23, 2021– (BUSINESS CONTACT) -Astranis announced today that its first commercial communications satellite set up to provide Alaska’s geostationary orbit service will now be launched as a

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