With its ratification, France strengthens the application and implementation of widely recognized legal and scientific standards in the protection of the underwater cultural heritage.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Bob Brodersen of the University of California, in Berkeley, has calculated that moving an application from a general-purpose software implementation to a specialised chip can improve efficiency by a factor of 10, 000 (the efficiency metric being millions of calculations per milliwatt of power consumed).

ECONOMIST: MONITOR