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A modern AAA game like The Witcher 3 can now run on RISC-V architecture, albeit with minimal performance.
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China's curbs on exports of gallium and germanium have caused the prices of these metals to increase significantly over the past year. These are critical elements used in processors, solar cells, and more. Both now cost around twice as much as before - current prices are around 115% higher on germanium and 75% higher on gallium.
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The team at Soulcircuit has created a Raspberry Pi 5-based portable tablet with various cool modules that can be attached.
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PlayStation's increased push into PC gaming has led to the Accessories app, which lets you customize the. DualSense Edge PS5 controller.
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on (#6Q9CT)
A new Ryzen Threadripper "Shimada Peak" 96-core CPU was spotted in a shipping manifest.
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on (#6Q992)
A recent audit by the Office of the Inspector General identified serious security and asset management lapses at an FBI storage facility.
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Many titles receive a performance bump of around 5% to 8%, but some games also suffered from a loss of FPS compared to systems running Windows 11 23H2.
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Arbiter Studio's 'Kitsune' Polar 75 Pro feels and sounds fantastic out of the box - like the brand's previous Polar 65, but somehow even better.
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Western Digital could expand HDD production in Thailand for the first time in years.
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FinalSpark, the firm behind Neuroplatform, has begun to offer paid 24-7 remote access to its bioprocessors. Academic customers can now access this biocomputing platform, featuring four shared organoids, for $500 per user per month.
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on (#6Q96H)
The TinyBox AI accelerators feature either six 7900XTX or RTX 4090 GPUs and could deliver at least 738 FP16 TFLOPS of computing performance.
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Singapore-based firm Sustainable Metal Cloud uses containerized HyperCubes - data center GPUs that use immersion cooling - to deliver a more power efficient server solution.
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Adata's SC750 delivers true 10Gbps SSD speeds in a compact (but wide) form factor. It's one of the fastest flash drives we've tested, and it will soon be available in capacities up to 2TB.
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Japan to start development of Fugaku Next in 2025, aims to achieve Zeta-scale performance for AI.
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IBM's Telum II processor packs eight CPU cores and a 24 TOPS AI accelerator.
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on (#6Q94F)
U.S. government wants to know if its citizens are involved in building 100 PetaFLOPS supercomputer in China.
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on (#6Q94G)
Elon Musk shared new video footage of the inside of the Cortex supercluster today, the new name for the recent expansion of Tesla's Giga Texas" plant. The X video showcases over 2,000 AI-accelerator servers, a small portion of the expected 70,000.
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on (#6Q8NK)
Rajesh K T with Edison Science Corner has created a totally flexible Arduino replica PCB and shows it off in a video demonstrating that it actually works.
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on (#6Q8KC)
The best mechanical keyboards we've tested for typing, texting, talking, and not gaming (but some of them will work for gaming, too).
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on (#6Q8KD)
Gustavs Andersons has created a hands-free drone flying experience called AeroCommand that uses a Raspberry Pi and AI to make piloting more accessible.
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on (#6Q8GC)
An X1 Carbon with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD is $900 off.
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on (#6Q8GD)
This morning, employees at IBM's China-based research and development department were told in a virtual meeting that the operation was impending closure. The current China-based R&D and testing functions will be moved to other overseas facilities, they were told.
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The DC-ROMA RISC-V Pad II tablet uses the same SoC as the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II and could be upgraded with an Android 15 OS.
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Geekbench OpenCL scores have been uploaded for an upcoming "gfx1201" AMD GPU using the Navi 48 architecture, indicating that RDNA 4-based RX 8000 Series GPUs are already being tested.
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on (#6Q8D3)
More and more Nvidia employees are becoming millionaires or even multimillionaires, but they're still working long, stressful hours that leave no time to enjoy their riches.
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on (#6Q8A0)
An Apple insider has noted that a quartet of new base-level Mac computers are being tested, all with at least 16GB of RAM. Upcoming M4 machines are likely to adhere to this minimum.
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Linux's market share has jumped by over 40% in a year.
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A WSU research team built an AI model that allowed them to 3D print human organs that looked and felt like the real thing.
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Researchers in Scotland are hopeful they can use machine learning to detect signs of dementia much earlier than is currently possible.
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on (#6Q87P)
A sentence that seemed to confirm the Control Panel's retirement was replaced by a more ambiguous line.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#6Q87Q)
The Asus RT-BE88U skips the 6 GHz band but picks up other Wi-Fi 7 enhancements
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on (#6Q87R)
Amid the lack of activism, Intel wants to protect itself against activist investors.
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China takes a lead in underwater wireless communications.
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This new superconductor could potentially reduce errors in quantum computers.
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Unisoc launches RISC-V security chip, the E450R.
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Asus showed off its ROG THOR and ROG STRIX PSUs that use GaN technology to deliver better cooled and more power efficient PSUs.
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This HP 17-inch Essential Business Laptop is currently marked down to one of its lowest prices to date over at Amazon.
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on (#6Q7T2)
Just prior to the 3D console era getting its proper start with Nintendo 64 and PlayStation, Sony and Nintendo were in a partnership that produced a scarce few Nintendo PlayStations before the two companies went separate ways.
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While Intel is busy laying off thousands of employees some of its most experienced CPU architects, with a combined 80+ years at the firm, have left to form a RISC-V startup. AheadComputing was co-founded by Debbie Marr, Mark Dechene, Jonathan Pearce, and Srikanth Srinivasan, with the goal of 'creating compelling open specification core IP.'
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Chinese scientists build TPU based on carbon nanotube GAA transistors.
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Md. Khairul Alamhas created a wearable pair of glasses that has a camera module that enables visually impaired persons to better navigate using AI.
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Polymer hydrogels interfaced with an electrode array prove capable of 'learning' how to get higher scores.
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on (#6Q7R4)
A quartet of Intel Lunar Lake laptops has been listed by a major tech retailer in France. Pricing revealed.
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We tested Akasa's Alucia H4 Plus with Intel's i7-13700K to determine if it is worthy of your hard-earned cooler cash.
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A full-sized modern remake of the classic 8-bit Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer created by Retro Games, and marketed as The Spectrum, looks set to launch shortly. Modeled on the iconic Spectrum 48K design, with rubber block keys and rainbow stripe, the new device offers 48 built-in games and makes it easy for retro enthusiasts to load their own via USB.
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on (#6Q7NP)
Pimoroni's first two-player Picade has finally arrived
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The world's largest Core i9-14900K equipped internet cafe in China reportedly suffered from CPU instability issues nearly a year ago, requiring Intel engineers to come in person to fix the problem.
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DeepCool products are still available in the U.S. despite the sanctions. Apparently, they have been rebranded under the Shaking Tank moniker.
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Valve generally updates the Steam Client Beta to improve the experience on Steam Deck and Desktop PCs.
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Imagination shifts AI focus from NPUs to GPUs and gets funding.
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