Computer World China is launching a space-bound AI supercomputer — and the first of its satellites were just sent up. As the South China Morning Post reports, the so-called "Three-Body Computing Constellation" project, which may or may not have been named in reference to Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" sci-fi book series, launched the first 12 of its planned 2,800 satellites last week from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The orbital supercomputer network will, when complete, allow for rapid in-orbit data processing rather than relying on terrestrial computing facilities to relay information to Earth and then back up […]