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29  mars     01h08
Astronomers capture the most captivating and detailed image yet of the Milky Way’s black hole
Cal Jeffrey    On Wednesday, a team of astronomers snapped the most detailed and beautiful image of Sagittarius A SgrA, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They captured the picture with the Event Horizon Telescope, a network of radio telescopes dotting the globe.Read Entire...
28  mars     23h19
New iPad Pro and iPad Air models now expected to launch on May
Daniel Sims    Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has revised his projections for Apple’s reportedly upcoming iPad Pro and iPad Air updates, indicating that the Cupertino giant has delayed the new devices to May. The iPad Pro is expected to receive its first ever OLED screen.Read Entire Article
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Vizio’s first super-sized TV is this 86-incher for under a grand
Shawn Knight    Other amenities include active pixel tuning, a full array LED backlight, DTS:X, three HDMI . ports, built in support for Chromecast and AirPlay, and Bluetooth headphone compatibility. A smart voice remote comes included as part of the bundle, but users can optionally reach for their smartphone...
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Apple pushes foldable iPhone to 2027, moves Vision Pro engineers into the project
Cal Jeffrey    Apple has reportedly delayed the heavily rumored foldable iPhone again. An unnamed Apple senior official told Korean news outlet AlphaBiz that the company has pushed back the release of a foldable device from the fourth quarter of to the first quarter of .Read Entire Article
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FuryGPU is an open source hardware GPU built from scratch
Alfonso Maruccia    Dylan Barrie is a game developer and hardware hobbyist. Over the last fourteen years of his career in the game industry, Barrie primarily focused on the software side of graphics rendering. However, he started developing a custom, full stack GPU four years ago in his spare time.Read Entire Article
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Reconfigurable transistors can be programmed to execute different functions
Alfonso Maruccia    Researchers at the Austrian university TU Wien have developed a novel transistor technology known as Reconfigurable Field Effect Transistors RFET . Traditional transistors are designed to perform predetermined logical functions, while RFETs are used to build circuits with functions that can be...
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Nikon introduces full-frame Z 28-400mm superzoom lens
Shawn Knight    On the big end, it works out to . x of optical zoom which, according to Nikon, is the highest ratio in its class.Read Entire Article
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Take-Two buys Gearbox from Embracer Group for 460 million
Shawn Knight    Take Two said Gearbox currently has half a dozen projects in various stages of development including five sequels two of which are from Borderlands and Homeworld and one title based on entirely new IP.Read Entire Article
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Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison
Rob Thubron    On November, following a month long trial, it took a jury around three to four hours to find Bankman Fried guilty on the seven fraud and conspiracy counts related to the collapse of FTX and related hedge fund Alameda Research.Read Entire Article
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Microsoft Edge could soon let you control how much RAM it uses
Kishalaya Kundu    Microsoft is reportedly testing a user defined memory limiting feature for Edge that could prevent it from using too much RAM and slowing down the entire system. The new feature was spotted in the latest Edge Canary build by reliable tipster Leopeva, who posted a screenshot on X formerly...
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Customers complain that Copilot isn’t as good as ChatGPT, Microsoft blames misunderstanding and misuse
Rob Thubron    Microsoft’s tactics when it comes to pushing Copilot onto users are comparable to its Windows and upgrade campaigns. The Redmond giant has launched a Pro subscription, is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs, and recently released the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with...
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Intel Xeon Granite Rapids-SP CPUs could have up to 160 cores, 320 threads
Kishalaya Kundu    According to CPU Z screenshots posted on X by leaker Yuuki Ans, the flagship Granite Rapids SP processor could come with cores and threads. While the listing reveals only cores, the thread and cache amount suggest that the actual core count could be rather than .Read Entire Article
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US federal agencies must appoint chief AI officers, according to new guidelines
Rob Thubron    The requirements, which will come into effect on December, state that in addition to appointing an AI overseer, agencies will have to establish AI governance boards. Each agency is also required to publish a report online and to the Office of Management and Budget OMB showing a complete list.....
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TCL is soon launching a 115-inch version of its flagship 4K QD-Mini-LED TV
Daniel Sims    A inch variant of TCL’s premium X TV is now available to order on German and Czech websites. Although it hasn’t come to the US in this size, European shipments are expected to begin this spring.Read Entire Article
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China is determined to advance its technology despite US-led restrictions, Xi Jinping tells Dutch Prime Minister
Rob Thubron    Xi met Rutte on Wednesday for discussions relating to areas that included the semiconductor industry. The Chinese people also have legitimate development rights, and no force can stop the pace of China’s scientific and technological progress, said Xi, according to Xinhua News Agency. The...
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50 Years Later: The Revolutionary 8008 Microprocessor
Ken Shirriff    TBT Intel’s groundbreaking microprocessor was produced over years ago, the ancestor of the x processor family that you may be using right now. While the wasn’t the first microprocessor, it was truly revolutionary, triggering a revolution and leading to the x architecture that...
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Adobe’s new AI aims to become the invisible helping hand for marketing teams and creatives
Bob O'Donnell    At this year’s Adobe Summit, the graphics and imaging giant announced the evolution of its Firefly image creation tool into a suite of business focused applications. From content production to custom models and integrated AI assistants, the new offerings are intended to give businesses different...
27  mars     22h59
HWiNFO 8.00 adds a new FPS and system statistics overlay
Ivan Franco    HWiNFO . introduces a new OSD feature, enabling users to monitor FPS along with system statistics including CPU and GPU temperatures, RAM usage, and more.Read Entire Article
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Microsoft and Intel nail down what an AI PC is
Daniel Sims    At Intel’s recent AI summit in Taipei, the company informed the public that Windows PCs will soon leverage NPUs Neural Processing Units to run Microsoft Copilot assistant locally. This is the first confirmation of rumors that emerged regarding Copilot and increasingly prevalent hardware based...
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GPT-4 loses its position as best LLM to Claude-3 in LMSYS benchmark
Cal Jeffrey    Grading large language models and the chatbots that use them is difficult. Other than counting instances of factual mistakes, grammatical errors, or processing speed, there are no globally accepted objective metrics. For now, we are stuck with subjective measurements.Read Entire Article
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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite Arm SoC is capable of running Baldur’s Gate 3 at 30 frames per second
Alfonso Maruccia    Baldur’s Gate, the D D role playing game that came to dominate this year’s BAFTA Games Awards and other gaming related events, can run at playable frame rates on laptops equipped with the Snapdragon X Elite chip. Qualcomm is bringing its latest Arm SoC to Windows laptops this summer and is...
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RISC-V SSD controller provides 14GB s transfers without a cooling solution
Alfonso Maruccia    Major tech companies have invested in promoting RISC V, a royalty free ISA that could theoretically power everything from automotive solutions to smartwatches, or even next generation phones. Some storage hardware manufacturers already employ RISC V in fast SSDs. However, China based Yingren...
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World’s fastest camera can capture 156.3 trillion frames per second
Shawn Knight    For comparison, some flagship smartphones can record video at up to frames per second. The Slow Mo Guys on YouTube have shot high speed footage at up to , frames per second.Read Entire Article
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Canva acquires Affinity for 380 million to take on Adobe
Kishalaya Kundu    Canva confirmed the acquisition this week, saying that adding the Affinity suite to its portfolio will help empower companies, organizations, and smaller teams to achieve their creative goals. In a separate announcement, Affinity CEO Ashley Hewson said he is excited and looking forward to...
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New variant of TheMoon malware enslaves thousands of insecure Asus routers into a malicious proxy
Alfonso Maruccia    Researchers at the Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malicious campaign involving an updated version of TheMoon, a malware family first identified ten years ago. TheMoon’s latest variant has seemingly been designed to compromise insecure home routers and other IoT devices, which are then...
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The number of X users in the US has fallen by a fifth since Musk took over, claims report
Rob Thubron    According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower via NBC News , X’s US user base has been declining every month since Musk’s first full month in charge. The million daily active users it had in February marked a decline compared to November . It’s also down ...Read Entire...
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OLED burn-in could soon be a thing of the past thanks to innovative blue LED technique
Kishalaya Kundu    According to researchers from the University of Cambridge, the burn in effect in OLED panels can be eliminated by controlling the blue light emitting diodes. In a study published in the journal Nature, the researchers claimed that covalently encapsulating the ultranarrowband blue light emitters in...
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GameStop continues to struggle in face of digital downloads: cuts jobs, misses earnings estimates
Rob Thubron    GameStop posted . billion in revenue for the fourth quarter, short of the expected . billion and lower than the . billion the company earned in the same quarter a year earlier. Its adjusted EPS of . per share also missed the expected gains of . per share.Read Entire Article
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Game developers think most Xbox exclusive games are going multi-platform soon
Daniel Sims    Multiple developers at GDC told Chris Dring from Gamesindustry.biz that they are beginning to reconsider supporting Xbox. The comments, together with prior reports, paint a worsening picture of Microsoft’s console strategy.Read Entire Article
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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second consecutive year
Rob Thubron    Those vinyl sales mean the format outsold CDs by million units, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The more expensive vinyl also made a lot more money than CDs: . billion compared to million. And while CD revenue was up . YoY, the million units...Read...