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For much of his rule, hundreds of millions of Chinese were expected to shout Wan sui! Wan sui! Wan wan sui!—“Ten thousand years! Ten thousand years! Ten thousand times ten thousand years!” The expression had once been reserved for emperors. Mao, who overthrew the old order, apparently saw no reason to discard its better perks.

We live in an age of big data—and that’s a boon for biologists. Neuroscientists listen in on the chatter of thousands of neurons, recording the individual activity of each one. Geneticists sequence entire genomes in a matter of hours. Rich information about animal behavior is captured in a simple video, tracked across thousands of frames.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced a multi-generation collaboration with Amazon to enable customized silicon at scale for large-scale AI data centers, working together on AI inference. In addition, the companies are working on optical connectivity solutions extending up to 1.6T and future-generation solutions.