Bruker Alicona has added the FocusX a bench-mounted measuring system for dimensions, position, shape and roughness assessment complete with automated five axis measurement. Using a purpose designed rotation and tilt device, the FocusX allows the detailed 3D measurement of an object, making all areas accessible but also allowing for the automation of measurement components. Designed ... Read more
After a tumultuous 2023, Marvel is ending 2024 reinvigorated and back on solid footing. Deadpool & Wolverine was a massive theatrical hit, and X-Men ’97, Echo, and Agatha All Along made for good television. After all that, the company had one more winner to put out this year: the NetEase-developed Marvel Rivals, a hero shooter both companies hope can ... Read more
I’ve posted other times about halflings on this blog. It should come as no surprise to longtime readers that — for Karameikos and Mystara at large — I’d rather ditch the somewhat roly-poly portrayal of this race and instead have a hardy, sometimes beefy, sometimes seriously cut, sometimes outrageously yoked individuals who are only about ... Read more
The surge in data-rich applications shows no signs of slowing down, fueling significant evolution within the global semiconductor industry. This insatiable demand for data necessitates a comprehensive ecosystem involving sensors and systems to capture data, networks to transmit it, and storage and processing power to analyze it. Successful deployment of these applications relies on the ... Read more
BETA TEST – If the Diablo series ever had a nightmare, it has undoubtedly materialized in Path of Exile 2. This game is so unapologetically brilliant that it feels like a generational leap for Diablo-style action RPGs. And yes, this includes dragging Diablo IV down into the abyss. With brutal challenges and an avalanche of ... Read more
PhysicsX is building its latest pre-trained deep physics model for aerodynamics on high-fidelity simulation data generated with the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that its ongoing collaboration with the startup aims to create the next generation of AI-based deep physics simulation to accelerate performance prediction and optimisation. PhysicsX says that its LGM-Aero ... Read more
Southeast Asia is embracing sovereign AI. The prime ministers of Thailand and Vietnam this week met with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang to discuss initiatives that will accelerate AI innovation in their countries. During his visit to the region, Huang also joined Bangkok-based cloud infrastructure company SIAM.AI Cloud onstage for a fireside chat on ... Read more
It’s funny when a major company starts leaking information about Nintendo’s next-generation platform. Lately, not a day goes by without a leak about the Nintendo Switch 2. This time around, the leak includes the logo, which is presumably what the big N has christened its next hardware. Pictures of the Switch 2 case and ... Read more
The big Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are officially over, but if you didn’t manage to pick up a great storage deal fear not. There are still some bargains to be had. The fantastic Silicon Power US75 wasn’t on sale during the extravaganza, but now has $10 knocked off the usual price. 4TB is ... Read more
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, one concept stands out as key to enabling personalized experiences: memory. During Madrona’s IA Summit fireside chat with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, he emphasized that memory is not just a feature but a transformative force reshaping how AI interacts with humans. Memory allows AI to incorporate not ... Read more
What’s needed, Birch argues, when faced with such staggering uncertainty about the sentience stature of other beings, is a precautionary framework that outlines best practices for decision-making regarding their care. And in The Edge of Sentience, he provides exactly that, in meticulous, orderly detail. Over more than 300 pages, he outlines three fundamental framework principles ... Read more
Casio has been making some of the best non-touchscreen smartwatches for several years now, and my favorite was available for a great price in this year’s Amazon Black Friday deal promotion. It’s still live today, too. It’s the G-Shock DW-H5600. Normally, you’ll pay $299 for one, but at the moment, it’s $170. For that price, ... Read more
“In addition to stars, gas clouds can also be disrupted by SMBHs and their binaries,” they said in the same study. “The key difference is that the clouds can be comparable to or even larger than the binary separation, unlike stars, which are always much smaller. “ Looking at the results of a previous study ... Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The recent release of OpenAI o1 has brought great attention to large reasoning models (LRMs), and is inspiring new models aimed at solving complex problems classic language models often struggle with. Building on the success of ... Read more
Microsoft’s plans to enable Xbox game purchases directly within its Android app have been delayed due to a legal impasse involving Google. A temporary court stay, issued on October 17, halted the rollout of features initially scheduled for November. The stay is part of Google’s appeal against an October 8 antitrust ruling that mandated significant ... Read more
Apple has included the Tips app with the iPhone and iPad since iOS 8 in 2014 and on the Mac since macOS 10.14 Mojave in 2018. Initially, it didn’t contain much useful content, and many longtime users ignored it. However, Apple has significantly increased the amount of information in Tips over time, adding device-specific tips, ... Read more
REVIEW – The Mario & Luigi titles aren’t as mainstream as, say, Super Mario RPG or Paper Mario. Nevertheless, they can’t be said to be bad, and the latest episode is up to the mark, even if this time it’s more, bigger and more substantial than the previous ones, but the story of the two ... Read more
Home security seems to be a hot category for Black Friday and Cyber Week deals this year. When you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Security cameras bring you peace of mind, whether you’re home or away, and allow you to check in on your home’s status for a myriad of reasons. ... Read more
Polaris Quest, the studio of Tencent Games, is making an open-world, power-based survival game that for some reason looks eerily similar to another franchise… In a world overrun by colossal machines, explore the vast open world, build your base, advance technology, train mechanimals, and take on formidable bosses. From the primitive age, forge a ... Read more
A strange set of marks in the Australian outback is actually the footprint of a huge twister that went unnoticed until now, according to a team that recently reviewed satellite imagery of the marks. Twisters, or tornadoes, or vehicles by which girls from Kansas get transported to the magical land of Oz—whatever you call them—are ... Read more
Luke Larsen / Digital Trends Whether you’ve owned one of the best Macs for years or are totally new to the Apple ecosystem, knowing your way around the latest updates to macOS is crucial. Thankfully, you don’t have to do so alone, since we’ve got everything you need to know about the latest macOS updates. ... Read more
The Hall of Champions (300 dpi promo) Two hours walk south of the city, long past where the farmers’ fields have already given way to olive orchards, and the olive orchards are giving way to the wilderness, the Hall of Champions has been excavated into the stony side of a large dusty hill. The Hall ... Read more
The collaboration of The Oatmeal cartoonist Matt Inman and video game designer Elan Lee has been a fruitful one. And I recently caught up with Lee at our GamesBeat Next 2024 event to talk about the journey they have taken with Exploding Kittens. This wacky entertainment franchise started as a card game, with a concept so wacky ... Read more
The first golfing irons to be built using 3D printing are no gimmick. These clubs offer a unique design and a level of performance that are making both amateurs and pros fall in love. Stephen Holmes speaks to the team at Cobra Golf about the work that went into its Limit3D range While drivers are ... Read more
Meltio has launched its Engine Blue technology, which it says opens up its wire-fed Directed Energy Deposition (DED) 3D printing capabilities to new materials with greater speed and simpler operation. Engine Blue features a 1.4 kW blue laser head in a more compact and lightweight unit, making it compatible with a wider range of robotic ... Read more
The game from Silent Games (a new studio based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) and Secret Mode (founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of the Sumo Group) looks promising based on what we’ve seen so far. Empyreal is a complex, challenging, feature-rich action-RPG. In a distant corner of the galaxy, an expedition arrives on ... Read more
Publisher: Landor's Cottage When Zeus takes roleplaying Gilligan’s Island too seriously, Cleo wants to kill him. Merlin convinces her that Zeus needs attention instead, so the Outcats decide to throw Zeus a party. Meanwhile, Gabby suddenly becomes friendly and helpful, making the others suspicious. Learn Zeus’s origin story. And what new creatures try to breach ... Read more
In all of Wicked, one moment rises above all the rest. It’s the finale of Act One when the would-be Wicked Witch Elphaba finally embraces her powers and decides to fly, changing not just her life, but the lives of everyone in Oz. And she does it by singing the song “Defying Gravity.” Much like ... Read more
GAMING IS EVERYWHERE Today, gaming isn’t just confined to desktops or consoles at home. Whether you’re grabbing a quick match with friends between classes or kicking back with a game on your commute, gaming on the go is becoming the norm. That’s where thin and light laptops come in, offering you legit performance ... Read more
Nvidia is showing keen interest in the Top500 list and says it will put more systems with its GPUs and technologies on the list. However, Nvidia’s interest is to give credibility to its networking technologies, not to prove the performance of its GPUs. Two supercomputing systems with Nvidia’s Spectrum-X networking are debuting in the Top ... Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integral to modern society, transforming how individuals and businesses operate. The rise of GenAI has captivated audiences with its potential to revolutionize industries, drive productivity, and fuel creative breakthroughs. Yet, despite the impressive capabilities, there are concerns about GenAI’s lack of a true understanding of the world and the ... Read more
Nvidia has announced two products: the GB200 NVL4, a monster quad-B200 GPU module featuring two Grace CPUs, and the H200 NVL PCIe GPU, aimed at air-cooled data centers. The GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Superchip is an even more potent variant of the standard (non-NVL4) dual-GPU variant, featuring a whopping four B200 Blackwell GPUs hooked up ... Read more
The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s novel, is one of the most beloved films in history. And, over the past nearly 100 years, audiences have been invited to return to its world in all sorts of ways. There’ve been sequels, books, adaptations, remakes, games, you name it. By far the ... Read more
In the months since my last post, a lot has been going on in Dreamland! There’s much I can’t announce yet, but stuff I *can* talk about includes…. On the Dreamland Discord server, we’ve been running games two or three times a month on Thursday evenings Pacific time (with ... Read more
CSIS issued a new report that says Intel is “not too big to fail, but too good to lose.” The report noted that Intel is needed for national security, and that it must be viewed in a geopolitical context rather than from a purely business standpoint when it comes to funding the company. Japan‘s government ... Read more
A project to update Britain’s temporary road signs presented a good opportunity to divert design work in a better direction for pedestrians and workers alike. Designer Ross Atkin spoke with Stephen Holmes about creating more inclusive designs from recycled materials They’re hidden in plain sight, part of the everyday street furniture that you might pass ... Read more
Aspyr joins the ranks: we’re seeing more and more games with a photo option (Stellar Blade will soon have a photo mode), but it’s a rarity in remasters of older titles. As you dive back into Lara Croft’s darkest adventures, you’ll be able to capture the beauty and excitement of your adventures and share ... Read more
Titanium Apple Watch Series 10, Milanese Loop band, Reflections watch face Andy Boxall / Digital Trends Tracking health and fitness can be a real chore, especially when you don’t have any tech to assist you. Fortunately, we’re always on the lookout for smartwatch deals, and we came across this fantastic offer on the Apple Watch ... Read more
It’s a bit funny to describe, but the new patch for Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Remaster has taken something from the mobile versions… Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has received a new update that brings the first three 3D ... Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump made plenty of ambitious promises during his presidential campaign, but it will be tough for him to fulfill all his pledges. His stance on artificial intelligence (AI) and climate largely aligns with his commitment to “America First” policies, focusing on economic growth, energy independence, and minimizing regulations on domestic industries. However, ... Read more
Dirty Secrets and Nightmares is a Dungeons and Dragons (DnD 5e) game set in a Ravenloft Domain of Dread, New Solamnia. Play takes place every Friday night at Dragons Keep Roleplay Club in Chislehurst, South East London. The Dungeon Master is Sam. Five people previously unknown to each other have found themselves strangely transported to ... Read more
Low Power-High Performance WHITEPAPERS Why AI inference is happening on the CPU, the different technological approaches for AI inference, and examples of AI inference use cases, from the cloud to the edge. November 13th, 2024 – By: Arm As AI continues to revolutionize industries, new workloads, like generative AI, inspire new use cases, the demand for ... Read more
An overwhelming 91% of financial services industry (FSI) companies are either assessing artificial intelligence or already have it in the bag as a tool that’s driving innovation, improving operational efficiency and enhancing customer experiences. Generative AI — powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices and accelerated computing — can help organizations improve portfolio optimization, fraud detection, customer ... Read more
The New York Times has introduced the next title coming to its Games catalog following Wordle’s continued success — and it’s all about math. Digits has players adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers. You can play its beta for free online right now. In Digits, players are presented with a target number that they need to ... Read more
One challenge organizations face when customizing large language models (LLMs) is the need to run multiple experiments, which produces only one useful model. While the cost of experimentation is typically low, and the results well worth the effort, this experimentation process does involve “wasted” resources, such as compute assets spent without their product being utilized, ... Read more
The sorry tale of Vincent McVondell begins with their admission to Denipsam School of Magic. There by the legacy of their mother and the endowments of their father, they simply did not fit in. Looked down upon by the magical nobility and excluded by the talented, their experience was one of loneliness and guilt. This ... Read more
As the world transitions from general-purpose to accelerated computing, finding a path to building data center infrastructure at scale is becoming more important than ever. Enterprises must navigate uncharted waters when designing and deploying infrastructure to support these new AI workloads. Constant developments in model capabilities and software frameworks, along with the novelty of these ... Read more
It could take a year or two for this all to come together Using iOS 18.1, it’s clear that Apple’s large language models are not as effective or reliable as Claude or ChatGPT. It takes time to train models like these, and it looks like Apple started late. Based on my hours spent with both ... Read more
The superhero genre has become remarkably overcrowded over the last 15 years. The Marvel Cinematic Universe and Christopher Nolan-led redefining of the genre in the late 2000s and early 2010s paved the way for an era of Hollywood dominated by movie characters in capes and villains with world-ending plans. Whether that era is still going ... Read more
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In 1995, Wired Magazine’s AOL forum asked Edwards to record 10 humorous sound files using his iconic voice. The results, which include classics such as “You want fries with that,” “You’ve got credit card debt,” and “Stop touching me!” still live on in the depths of The Internet Archive. He also ran a side business ... Read more
AI agents are emerging as the newest way for organizations to increase efficiency, improve productivity, and accelerate innovation. These agents are more advanced than prior AI applications, with the ability to autonomously reason through tasks, call out to other tools, and incorporate both enterprise data and employee knowledge to produce valuable business outcomes. They’re being ... Read more
Unity reported that its third-quarter revenues and adjusted profits beat expectations, with revenue falling 2% to $429 million.Read More
A tech enthusiast in China has demonstrated the skillful replacement of one of the ‘pins’ located in a CPU socket. Bilibili user and motherboard repair guru Mu Ziwen takes us step-by-step through the intricate process, demonstrating the success of their handiwork at the end of the brief video. Current-gen Intel and AMD systems locate contact ... Read more
Day Twenty-Eight of #RPGaDAY2024 is all about great gadgets. Again, not really too relevant for me as we don’t really use cool gadgets or accessories. No dice towers, or fancy apps. The closest thing we have to a cool gadget is one of those fold-up dice trays. Sorry! Hopefully tomorrow will be more successful.
January 1, 2023. That is when the final episode of Yellowstone season 5, part 1 aired. It’s been a long time since the Dutton Family has been on Paramount Network, but their hiatus will end in November with the premiere of Yellowstone season 5, part 2. With filming underway, the Yellowstone cast and crew released a special featurette, taking ... Read more
Short post. Surprisingly, I have begun running a Champions campaign in my Earth 641 setting. It’s a superheroic campaign where DC & Marvel Universes have merged, and I’m busy coming up with rationale, pruning, and GM’s fiat that justifies why the power levels are low, and why the multiple threats to Earth, The Universe, and ... Read more
Published by Electronic Arts, the well-loved Mass Effect series is reportedly set to be adapted into a TV show by Amazon MGM.Read More
Range Rover, the brand made famous for its British-styled, luxury, all-terrain SUVs, is keen to show it means business about going electric. And, according to the most recent investor presentation by parent company JLR, that’s all because Range Rover fans are showing the way. Not only was demand for Range Rover’s hybrid vehicles up 29% ... Read more
A new cell-phone-sized device—which can be deployed in vast, remote areas—is using AI to identify and geolocate wildlife to help conservationists track endangered species, including wolves around Yellowstone National Park. The battery-powered devices—dubbed GrizCams—are designed by a small Montana startup, Grizzly Systems. Together with biologists, they’re deploying a constellation of the devices across the Greater ... Read more
Apple’s foray into the XR wearable segment may not have stirred the same kind of success that it tasted with the likes of the iPhone or the Apple Watch, but the company is still moving ahead with future iterations. While plans of a cheaper headset may have been pushed, the Vision Pro could get a ... Read more
Among the artists using AI to enhance and accelerate their creative endeavors is Sabour Amirazodi, a creator and tech marketing and workflow specialist at NVIDIA. Using his over 20 years of multi-platform experience in location-based entertainment and media production, he decorates his home every year with an incredible Halloween installation — dubbed the Haunted Sanctuary. ... Read more
A 4-page rules light fantasy RPG inspired by the classics of the heroic fantasy genre but there’s a catch; can the players keep Heart and avoid succumbing to the Doom? Using the D12 rules as used in the best-selling Deep Space TTRPG with freeform magic rules!
Even post-spooky season, GFN Thursday has some treats for GeForce NOW members: a new batch of 17 games joining the cloud in November. Catch the five games available to stream this week, including Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the highly anticipated next installment in BioWare’s beloved fantasy role-playing game series. Players who purchased the GeForce NOW ... Read more
It’s no secret that we’re fans of the Raspberry Pi here at Tom’s Hardware but ever since the company decided to release the microprocessors along with the Pico and Pico 2, we’ve seen an amazing plethora of custom boards created by the community. Today we’ve got a really cool example to share of such a ... Read more
People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Archaeologists have presented certain popular narratives about who these people might have been and how they might have been related. But ancient DNA analysis has revealed that those preferred ... Read more
ByteDance’s new AI tool, X-Portrait 2, transforms still photos into realistic video animations of famous movie scenes with uncanny detail, raising questions about the future of AI-driven animation and digital content creation.Read More
The Paramount Network Since its premiere in 2018, Yellowstone has been a breakout hit for the Paramount Network and one of the most popular shows on TV. Taylor Sheridan’s modern Western also revitalized Kevin Costner’s career by placing him in the lead as John Dutton, the patriarch of the Dutton family, who own the Yellowstone ... Read more
Blizzard Entertainment has had an eventful year. Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the studio has seen the successful releases of World of Warcraft: The War Within and Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred but also had to deal with mass layoffs and the release of Jason Schreier’s revealing book Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and ... Read more
Dragon Publishing released Dragon #84 in April 1984. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features a tournament module, a preview of the D&D Companion Set, and the debut of the ARES science fiction gaming section! The cover was by Dean Morrissey and features a pair of Victorian ... Read more
“The Oura Ring 4, paired with its excellent companion app, is the best smart ring package available today.” Pros Beautiful finishes Comprehensive sensor array and data Reliable syncing and app Clear data presentation Helpful general advice Cons Finicky sizing Subscription required I’ve made no secret about wearing the Oura Ring smart ring for many years. ... Read more
A new deep learning model could reduce the need for surgery when diagnosing whether cancer cells are spreading, including to nearby lymph nodes—also known as metastasis. Developed by researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the AI tool analyzes time-series MRIs and clinical data to identify metastasis, providing crucial, noninvasive support for doctors ... Read more
Frothanger’s Garden (300 dpi promo) Frothanger’s Garden is a small dungeon set into a hill in the Thornwilde – hidden by it’s creator from the prying eyes of the world. This small sanctuary was the cherished domain of the archdruid Frothanger, who wielded their power across the planes. This small garden was a place where ... Read more
Helldivers 2 has sold 12 million copies on the PS5 and PC to date, while Astro Bot has sold more than 1.5 million copies to date.Read More
AMD’s new Ryzen 7 9800X3D is already one of the best processors you can buy. It delivers productivity and gaming gains across the board, though not in equal strides. Despite the improvements AMD made, the last-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D is still potent competition, particularly when it comes to gaming. These are two of the go-to ... Read more
Publisher: Frontier Gaming In the haunted realm of Yokamura, four powerful clans are locked in an endless cycle of blood and betrayal. Legends speak of an ancient curse, woven from the fury of spirits wronged in life and bound to exact vengeance upon the clans that call this land their own. The pursuit of honour, ... Read more
A new AI-powered, imaging-based technology that creates accurate three-dimensional models of tumors, veins and other soft tissue offers a promising new method to help surgeons operate on, and better treat, breast cancers. The technology, from Illinois-based startup SimBioSys, converts routine black-and-white MRI images into spatially accurate, volumetric images of a patient’s breasts. It then illuminates ... Read more
While TSMC can build advanced fabs in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, it cannot transfer its most advanced process technologies to production facilities abroad, as they are protected by Taiwanese law, said J.W. Kuo, Minister of Economic Affairs in Taiwan, reports the Taipei Times. That said, TSMC cannot make chips using its N2 (2nm-class) manufacturing ... Read more
One of Netflix’s best genres is, without a doubt, action. Action movies are frequently found on Netflix’s most popular movies list. Most of these action films are quickly paced and straight to the point. In other words, these movies perfectly provide an escape from our daily lives. Extraction, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, and The ... Read more
Enterprises and public sector organizations around the world are developing AI agents to boost the capabilities of workforces that rely on visual information from a growing number of devices — including cameras, IoT sensors and vehicles. To support their work, a new NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarization will enable developers in virtually ... Read more
Densmore likely motivated by fame Online, Densmore was known in so-called “Sewer” communities under the alias “Rabid.” During their investigation, the FBI found that Densmore kept a collection of “child pornography and bloody images of ‘Rabid,’ ‘Sewer,’ and ‘764’ carved into victims’ limbs, in some cases with razor blades and boxcutters nearby.” He also sexually ... Read more
Just a few years ago, Huawei was ascendant. The Chinese megafirm was on-track to become the world’s largest smartphone maker, and then it was slapped with trade restrictions by the US government. This cut it off from some of vital technology needed to produce today’s most advanced mobile chipsets. With its new Mate 60 Pro, ... Read more
One of the longest-running game shows on TV is finally coming to streaming. Jeopardy!, all 41 seasons of it, are headed to streaming in early 2025, host Ken Jennings announced. The US Sun has reported that the show will most likely come to either Hulu or Amazon Prime Video. The reporting comes from a recent taping, ... Read more
The New York Times crossword puzzle can be tough! If you’re stuck, we’re here to help with a list of today’s clues and answers.
There are many weapons of war and violence throughout the land. Some are easy to find and some have no stories told about them. These three swords are lethal legends and will take much effort to have in hand. Splicer’s Dream Frialdana was never the strongest of Thorn’s Adventuring Company, but she was fast, she ... Read more
Learn why the former chairman of PlayStation Worldwide says Web3 gaming will bring badly needed innovation back to the game industry.Read More
Guillermo del Toro is one of the best filmmakers of his generation, and he’ll probably go down as the only Best Director winner at the Oscars to take home that award and Best Picture for a love story between a woman and an amphibious male. That movie was The Shape of Water, in case you ... Read more
The Best 3D Printers 2024 We’ve reviewed over a hundred 3D printers from the most popular brands, like Bambu Lab, Prusa Research, Creality, Anycubic, Elegoo, and more. We thoroughly evaluate every machine that comes through our workshop to find the best 3D printer on the market today. So, whether you’re looking for an entry-level machine ... Read more
Microsoft has expanded Visual Studio 2022 with a new Unreal Engine toolbar, available in version 17.11, aiming to streamline game development workflows by giving developers direct access to essential Unreal Engine features. The toolbar, positioned at the top of the code window when working on Unreal Engine projects, brings several core functionalities directly into Visual ... Read more
It’s that time of year again—the leaves and temperatures are falling, and Qualcomm is announcing a new flagship mobile processor platform at its Snapdragon Summit event in Maui today. As expected, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is now official, packing a faster CPU core configuration, an updated Adreno GPU, and AI engines galore. ... Read more
Austin is drawing people to jobs, music venues, comedy clubs, barbecue and more. But with this boom has come a big city blues: traffic jams. Rekor, which offers traffic management and public safety analytics, has a front-row seat to the increasing traffic from an influx of new residents migrating to Austin. Rekor works with the ... Read more
Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by making the technology more accessible, and showcases new hardware, software, tools and accelerations for GeForce RTX PC and NVIDIA RTX workstation users. As generative AI evolves and accelerates industry, a community of AI enthusiasts is experimenting with ways to integrate ... Read more
Google Maps is evolving with the integration of Gemini AI, introducing features designed to make navigation smarter, safer, and more intuitive. Various updates provide conversational query capabilities and real-time data analysis, transforming how users experience location-based services. However, this evolution is not immediate—Google is rolling out the features incrementally, with some functions still being tested ... Read more
It’s looking to be a slow month for new content across most streamers, but the best romantic comedies on Netflix right now are a great thing to fall back on. We keep this list updated every month, and although this month there are only two new entries, there are many quality originals and hits from ... Read more
Now that I’ve gotten a weekly rhythm going with my Champions: One Earth campaign, I wanted to share my initial document(s) in creating the campaign — the ones that helped me define the starting point of the campaign and moved me past the hurdle of “enough world-building” to actually running games. BACKGROUND On this blog, ... Read more
Supreme Court ruling could hurt FCC case Both AT&T and Verizon cite the Supreme Court’s June 2024 ruling in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, which held that “when the SEC seeks civil penalties against a defendant for securities fraud, the Seventh Amendment entitles the defendant to a jury trial.” The Supreme Court ruling, which ... Read more
OpenAI’s newly released SimpleQA benchmark has exposed significant challenges in the factual reliability of large language models (LLMs), including GPT-4o. This revelation comes as OpenAI grapples with compute constraints that have delayed major updates, a situation CEO Sam Altman discussed during a Reddit AMA yesterday. Despite advancements, SimpleQA shows that even top-tier models fall short ... Read more
After a long and tumultuous road, the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch is finally in sight. Yellowstone season 5, part 2 returns with six new episodes starting very soon. Since the last episode aired in January 2023, Yellowstone has been in the news, mostly for reasons behind the camera, with the biggest storyline being the departure of Kevin Costner ... Read more
I’ve got the Old-School Essentials campaign for the Isle of Sedra Sourcebook and two supporting adventures submitted to Kickstarter and in review. I actually pushed the button on review yesterday, but finished up all the graphics and details 10 minutes ago. With luck, it’ll launch this Thursday (!!), and run until just before Christmas. So ... Read more
One of the more exciting aspects of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon family processors for Windows on Arm64 is that these laptop PCs are always connected (4G or 5G), and they can deliver stellar battery life. Just peruse any of our recent reviews and you can see that, for instance, the Lenovo Flex 5G has more than 24 hours ... Read more
Microsoft is notifying its Mail and Calendar app users to switch to free web-based Outlook. Many users have reported noticing pop-ups from the app. Microsoft insists users make the migration by December 31, 2024. After that date, the app will only display emails and calendar entries saved until the scheduled date. The company published a ... Read more
In a surprise incident this weekend, OpenAI exposed its upcoming o1 model, which promises advanced reasoning capabilities. Jimmy Apples, a notorious X user known for circulating insider leaks about OpenAI, drew widespread attention when he posted a link granting temporary access to this unreleased model. SEEMS LEGIT. I AM GETTING A O1 TYPE MODEL WITH ... Read more
DEEP MAGIC – A SIMPLE FANTASY TTRPG A 4-page rules light fantasy RPG inspired by classics of heroic fantasy but there’s a catch; can the players keep Heart and avoid succumbing to Doom? Using the D12 rules with freeform magic rules. You can use it as you see fit, with an established fantasy setting or one ... Read more
If you were lucky enough to watch Thursday night’s matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals (4-6) and Baltimore Ravens (7-3), you witnessed one of the best games of 2024. Joe Burrow threw for 428 yards and four touchdowns, but Lamar Jackson’s 290 yards and four touchdowns prevailed in a Ravens’ 35-34 victory. 12 NFL games will ... Read more
This adventuring supplement is designed for D&D5e. On our Patreon page you can get it in PDF format (see image). The downloads include hi-res images for the maps. And there is a variant PDF version designed for Shadowdark RPG. “Perfection isn’t found in nature, but in what we create from it. A steed with the ... Read more
Warner, Disney, and Netflix are seeing great success exploiting their IP, and that’s a big part of the Amazon Games’ strategy.Read More
One of the most anticipated new smartphones has been announced: the OnePlus 13. This device will eventually replace the highly regarded OnePlus 12, one of the year’s top phones. How do these two models compare? If you own a OnePlus 12, should you consider upgrading to the newer version? Let’s take a closer look. OnePlus ... Read more
AI coding assistants have become ubiquitous across the software development landscape. Developers are increasingly using tools like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Cursor to boost productivity in computing tasks. These tools enable you to quickly generate, debug, and understand code; streamline workflows; and enhance collaboration across projects. While AI coding assistants are well-established in classical ... Read more
Customers now have access to Google’s homegrown hardware — its Axion CPU and latest Trillium TPU — in its Cloud service. At the same time, Google gave customers a teaser on Nvidia’s Blackwell coming to Google Cloud, which should arrive early next year. “We’re… eagerly anticipating the advancements enabled by Nvidia’s Blackwell GB200 NVL72 GPUs, ... Read more
Some of you may have noticed that Darryl’s weekly news digests and freebies/sales columns have been absent for the last three weeks. We wanted to wait until we had his direct consent to share this news, but Darryl Mott, columnist and podcast editor, was suddenly checked into hospital a couple of weeks ago for serious ... Read more
At the Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL) in Munich, Germany, Hugging Face and NVIDIA announced a collaboration to accelerate robotics research and development by bringing together their open-source robotics communities. Hugging Face’s LeRobot open AI platform combined with NVIDIA AI, Omniverse and Isaac robotics technology will enable researchers and developers to drive advances across a ... Read more
Although there’s been a dearth of new romance shows on Netflix this fall, one of the streamer’s biggest hits of the year is a romantic comedy: Nobody Wants This. Maybe that should tell Netflix something about what its fans want to see. Beyond that show, there’s really nothing new to report. Instead, we’ll just have ... Read more
Scavengers’ Deep – Map 12 (300 dpi promo) The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and research facilities, whereas the forces of the kingdoms, assisted by the dwarves, were constantly building underground ... Read more
A boom in AI has created a problem for the organizers of the NeurIPS conference, which is considered an essential machine-learning research conference. The sheer number of registrations has overwhelmed organizers, who are moving to a lottery system to determine attendees. “Due to high demand for registrations, NeurIPS will be moving towards a randomized lottery system, ... Read more
Valve has expanded Steam’s feature set by launching its Game Recording tool for all users, following a beta phase that began earlier this year. This new addition to the platform is designed to make gameplay recording more straightforward, complete with integrated editing functions. The feature positions Steam as an all-in-one solution for both playing and ... Read more
Security researcher Netsecfish discovered a critical flaw in several popular D-Link NAS models that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute a command injection attack via an HTTP GET request. According to Netsecfish’s Notion site (h/t BleepingComputer), the vulnerability is in the account_mgr.cgi script, where they could add the malicious input in the name parameter ... Read more
The New York Times crossword puzzle can be tough! If you’re stuck, we’re here to help with a list of today’s clues and answers.
Publisher: A4 Play Discover the steadfast and powerful Stoneheart Golem, an elemental companion forged from rugged stone and infused with the essence of the earth. Originally created by master artisans and geomancers to protect sacred sites, this small construct embodies resilience and strength, equipped with crushing stone fists and a glowing Earthcore Crystal heart that ... Read more
www.1x.tech Robotics developers can greatly accelerate their work on AI-enabled robots, including humanoids, using new AI and simulation tools and workflows that NVIDIA revealed this week at the Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL) in Munich, Germany. The lineup includes the general availability of the NVIDIA Isaac Lab robot learning framework; six new humanoid robot learning ... Read more
Generative AI has rapidly evolved from text-based models to multimodal capabilities. These models perform tasks like image captioning and visual question answering, reflecting a shift toward more human-like AI. The community is now expanding from text and images to video, opening new possibilities across industries. Video AI models are poised to revolutionize industries such as ... Read more
Broadcom has a new subscription tier for VMware virtualization software that may appease some disgruntled VMware customers, especially small to medium-sized businesses. The new VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus subscription tier creates a more digestible bundle that’s more appropriate for smaller customers. But it may be too late to convince some SMBs not to abandon VMware. ... Read more
Microsoft’s PowerToys utility suite has received a major update with the release of version 0.86. This iteration introduces the Advanced Paste feature with optical character recognition (OCR) and a reorganized interface to streamline the user experience. These new tools build on Microsoft’s focus on enhancing productivity for Windows 10 and 11 users. Advanced Paste Expands ... Read more
Art by Gary Myers for the 1970s fanzine “HPL” Gary Myers is the very talented author/artist of some of my favorite Dreamlands and Cthulhu Mythos stories. I first encountered his work through references in the 1980s Call of Cthulhu Dreamlands supplement, which led me to a copy of Myers’ cult-famous 1975 anthology The House of ... Read more
Microsoft has introduced Magentic-One, a new AI system designed to coordinate multiple specialized AI agents for handling complex workflows. This release, part of the AutoGen open-source platform, reinforces Microsoft’s position in AI task automation by allowing seamless task orchestration across different environments. The Heart of Magentic-One: Orchestrator and Agent System At the core of Microsoft’s ... Read more
Here’s an announcement that can be filed under “unexpected.” After previously refusing, Apple has confirmed it will add RCS support to the iPhone, giving Android users the ability to send feature-rich messages to Apple’s smartphone. The days of green bubble discrimination are finally coming to an end. However, Apple stresses that iMessage is not going ... Read more
As Sony said it shipped a total of 65M PS5s to date, Sony president Hiroki Totoki said the focus will be on single-player games now.Read More
Humanoid robots present a multifaceted challenge at the intersection of mechatronics, control theory, and AI. The dynamics and control of humanoid robots are complex, requiring advanced tools, techniques, and algorithms to maintain balance during locomotion and manipulation tasks. Collecting robot data and integrating sensors also pose significant challenges, as humanoid robots require a fusion of ... Read more
The 2025 release of Solid Edge introduces the cloud-enabled Solid Edge X, which will see new AI-enabled tools alongside simplified IT admin, personalised UX and greater options for collaboration. Siemens Digital Industries Software says that the AI-powered functionality will be available in 2025 and will offer real-time assistance to users and help minimise disruptions to ... Read more
Marvel Multiverse character sheet! It’s no secret I collect role-playing game character sheets. The Marvel Multiverse is another one I’m adding to my vast collection. The RPG is relatively new, so only a few different character sheets are available. However, there is an official fillable character on DriveThruRRG, see below. Marvel Multiverse Character Sheet Free ... Read more
An ethical minefield Since its founders started Anthropic in 2021, the company has marketed itself as one that takes an ethics- and safety-focused approach to AI development. The company differentiates itself from competitors like OpenAI by adopting what it calls responsible development practices and self-imposed ethical constraints on its models, such as its “Constitutional AI” ... Read more
Welcome to Pandora Pandora is a gorgeous moon with vibrant colors, and it is home to very diverse flora and fauna, including the Na’vi with their exquisite culture. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ beautifully captures the essence of this world and transports you there as a Na’vi to explore and protect it. I was fascinated after ... Read more
Editor’s Note: In this insightful commentary, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), explores the unique trajectories of AI research within academic and commercial realms. Gropp delves into the differing motivations and methodologies of these sectors, highlighting how academia prioritizes innovation and understanding, while the commercial sector drives rapid, scalable applications. ... Read more
We have the solution to Wordle on July 16, as well as some helpful hints to help you figure out the answer yourself, right here. We’ve placed the answer at the bottom of the page, so we don’t ruin the surprise before you’ve had a chance to work through the clues. So let’s dive in, ... Read more
Robotic dexterous grasping is a critical area of research and development, aimed at enabling robots to interact with and manipulate objects as flexibly as humans can. By enabling robots to handle complex tasks that require fine motor skills, dexterous grasping can significantly enhance productivity and efficiency. The first step to enabling human-like dexterous object manipulation ... Read more
Sam Hill / Digital Trends Connections is one of the best puzzle games from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle ... Read more
VideoCardz has spotted a review of the FEVM FN60G, a mini-PC aesthetically inspired by Apple’s Mac Studio. The tiny monster packs a punch, leveraging a Core i9-14900KF processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU. The FEVM FN60G is a mini-PC with a smaller footprint than the Mac Studio, although it’s a bit taller. ... Read more
Thirty years ago the explosion blasted a plume of magical light far into the sky and sent debris raining onto the surrounding suburbs for miles. No-one was supposed to be inside Hogol’s Magic Academy as it was the middle of the night but no investigation was possible as a siege ward sealed the school. The ... Read more
The holiday season is upon us, and Google has some early presents for Android fans. A raft of new features are beginning to roll out today. They run the gamut from phones, to TV, to wearables, to the Google Messages app. Google has split its surprise feature drop into two parts, with a special focus on ... Read more
Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle. Like Wordle, Connections, and the Mini Crossword, Strands can be a bit difficult to solve some days. There’s no shame in needing a little help from ... Read more
The New York Times has introduced the next title coming to its Games catalog following Wordle’s continued success — and it’s all about math. Digits has players adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers. You can play its beta for free online right now. In Digits, players are presented with a target number that they need to ... Read more
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The Form 4 is billed as Formlabs’ fastest 3D printer yet, but that’s not just down to its new, lighter engine. Matt Batchelor puts the machine through its paces and finds that every aspect of its design shaves off time and makes set-up a breeze Since 2011, inverted stereolithography (SLA) pioneer Formlabs has grown from ... Read more
Thank you all for participating! The entries are now closed and we will be selecting winners. For those selected, we will be reaching out on socials, so look out for a message. After we confirm eligibility, the list of winners will be posted here. **Closed** To celebrate the release of Avatar: Frontiers of ... Read more
This GFN Thursday, the GeForce NOW Priority membership is getting enhancements and a fresh name to go along with it. The new Performance membership offers more GeForce-powered premium gaming — at no change in the monthly membership cost. Gamers having a hard time deciding between the Performance and Ultimate memberships can take them both for ... Read more
This A6-size E-ink display has many charms to offer those who rely on sketching and note taking, writes Hannah Devoy, who finds that its diminutive form still packs all the digital essentials for modern working Sketching and note-taking by hand remain essential elements of the modern designer’s process. While the device of choice for some ... Read more
This post was written in partnership with the Fourier research team. Training humanoid robots to operate in fields that demand high levels of interaction and adaptability—such as scientific research, healthcare and manufacturing—can be a challenging and resource-intensive feat. Fourier, a Shanghai-based robotics company, is doing the heavy lifting by developing advanced humanoid robots that can ... Read more
Intel is confronting a class action lawsuit centered on its 13th and 14th generation Core desktop processors. The plaintiff, Mark Vanvalkenburgh from New York, asserts that Intel misled customers by omitting known stability issues in these chips. The case, filed in California’s federal court, claims that Intel was aware of the defects yet failed to ... Read more
More reuse means less dumping. (Source: Huguette Roe) The rapid advancement of digital technologies has led to the proliferation of electronic devices and systems, resulting in an alarming increase in electronic waste (e-waste). GenAI, in particular, requires substantial computational resources for model training and inference, but the impact of this on e-waste is not fully ... Read more
Programming robots for real-world success requires a training process that accounts for unpredictable conditions, different surfaces, variations in object size, shape, texture, and more. Consequently, physically accurate simulations are vital for training AI-enabled robots before deployment. Crafting physically accurate simulation requires advanced programming skills to fine-tune algorithms, enabling robots to be trained in lifelike digital ... Read more
Microsoft has announced the integration of AI-powered themes into Outlook, a step forward in personalizing the email experience for users with a Copilot Pro subscription. The new feature is available across major platforms, including Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and web clients. AI Themes: Customization Reimagined Outlook’s newly launched Themes by Copilot allow users to enhance ... Read more
GPUs have an insatiable desire for data, and keeping those processors fed can be a challenge. That’s one of the big reasons that WEKA launched a new line of data storage appliances last week that can move data at up to 18 million IOPS and serve 720 GB of data per second. The latest GPUs ... Read more
OPINION – The PlayStation 5 Pro takes gaming to a new level, but many fans may be disappointed to find that the console still lacks support for classic PS1, PS2, and PS3 games in the way Microsoft has embraced backward compatibility for Xbox 360 and original Xbox titles. Microsoft has long realized that nostalgia is ... Read more
Having learned from prior aborted campaigns, I waited first for the initial batch of characters from interested players. My weakness has been pre-plotting the direction of the campaign without taking into consideration the characters and the directions the players want to take them. I got the following character pitches (which slowly evolved in play): Agent ... Read more
As radar technology continues to advance, it offers an increasingly broad range of capabilities, making it a viable alternative to traditional passive infrared (PIR) sensors. With radar’s enhanced features, it’s essential to reassess whether PIR remains the best choice for your specific application or if radar’s advantages can bring greater value. The purpose of this ... Read more
Agatha initially agrees to manipulate Billy into doing just that, then has a last-minute change of heart. She kisses Rio/Death and thereby embraces her fate, sacrificing herself so Billy can live. From the start she had a soft spot for the teen, accompanied by references to her long-dead son. The backstory is quite moving and ... Read more
Anyone who has purchased a car over the past decade knows that there has been a huge increase in the amount of compute processing involved in today’s modern automotive industry. Advanced chips for diagnostics and entertainment as well as logic associated with advanced sensor technology and automated assist features have quickly become key requirements that ... Read more
Three busy weeks since my last report. All packages for Sedra have gone out. Playtest of extant Mission X rules continues. I launched an OSE conversion of the Sedra sourcebook and companion adventures yesterday. Isle of Sedra has effectively reached 100% shipment, and mostly those packages have arrived. Time to get the TFT books up ... Read more
Yesterday at CES, AMD SVP and GM of Computing and Graphics, Jack Huynh, announced a number of new products across the company’s x86 processor, graphics, and AI businesses, including: •Three new Socket AM5 CPUs with powerful, AMD RDNA™ 3 architecture-based integrated graphics •Four new Socket AM4 CPUs variously optimized for gamers, ... Read more
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will join SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son in a fireside chat at NVIDIA AI Summit Japan to discuss the transformative role of AI and more.. Taking place on November 12-13, the invite-only event at The Prince Park Tower in Tokyo’s Minato district will gather industry leaders to ... Read more
Microsoft has introduced the Loop workspace to Teams, a tool designed to help meeting organizers centralize shared files and resources efficiently. This feature is rolling out across Teams on Windows, Mac, and web clients and seeks to make locating content from recurring meetings more straightforward. Managing Meeting Content with Ease With the Loop workspace, organizers ... Read more
Sometimes you acquire a kobold companion or wolf pet and you want it to stay with you forever and ever. Other times, you meet a worthy adversary and you know you’ll meet them again—and when you do, they’ll be more powerful than ever. Just as a monster can be an elite monster or a horde ... Read more
There comes a time in every long-running franchise’s life where a question begins to fester in fans and non-fans’ minds: should this still be going? Look at Sonic, the MCU, DCEU, and countless others for examples. At a certain point, usually followed by a number of high-profile duds, the discussion keeps growing and growing until… well, ... Read more
Nvidia has made a little adjustment to GeForce Now, and it’s worth taking a look at what’s changed (and not just in name!). The middle subscription tier used to be called Priority, but Nvidia has renamed it Performance and spruced it up a bit graphically. Priority used to run at 1080p resolution, but Performance has ... Read more
If you’re ready to take to the skies in Flight Simulator 2024, having a powerful PC is essential for enjoying the breathtaking realism it offers. The detailed textures, terrains, and hundreds of aircraft will simply bring an off the shelf PC right to its knees. Microsoft has really upped the ante this time with enhanced ... Read more
(cybermagician/Shutterstock) Amazon is rumored to be negotiating a second multibillion-dollar investment deal with AI startup Anthropic, the maker of the Claude family of LLMs and a rival to OpenAI. Amazon previously invested $2.75 billion in the startup in March, adding on to an initial $1.25 billion backing in September 2023. According to the latest report, ... Read more
In our previous blog post, we demonstrated how reusing the key-value (KV) cache by offloading it to CPU memory can accelerate time to first token (TTFT) by up to 14x on x86-based NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and 28x on the NVIDIA GH200 Superchip. In this post, we shed light on KV cache reuse techniques ... Read more
The New York Times has plenty of word games on its roster today — with Wordle, Connections, Strands, and the Mini Crossword, there’s something for everyone — but the newspaper’s standard crossword puzzle still reigns supreme. The daily crossword is full of interesting trivia, helps improve mental flexibility and, of course, gives you some bragging ... Read more
Large format additive manufacturing, or LFAM, has evolved rapidly in recent years, with technologies from companies including Caracol and MX3D enabling users to take giant steps forwards, thanks in part to custom software and robotic arms equipped with printheads. DEVELOP3D spoke with executives from both companies about current use cases and smart approaches to adoption ... Read more
MOVIE PREVIEW – One of the world’s most popular stage musicals moves to the big screen to become the biggest movie event of the year. The sequel to Wicked, which is now in cinemas, will be shown one year later, in November 2025. Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz, ... Read more
If you need any inspiration for cutting loose and relaxing this weekend, look no further than a free-wheeling troop of monkeys that broke out of their South Carolina research facility Wednesday and, as of noon Friday, were still “playfully exploring” with their newfound freedom. In an update Friday, the police department of Yemassee, SC said ... Read more
A reckoning has come for mobile app stores. Apple is, by all accounts, going to be forced to open up app distribution on the iPhone thanks to Europe’s Digital Markets Act, and Epic has bested Google in court to show that the Play Store is an illegal monopoly. In a separate case, Google was sued ... Read more
The Autumn Lands Map D (300 dpi promo, no commercial license) The Autumn Lands lie to the south of the Midsummer Lands. This map sits above Map B and to the right of Map C (the map that connects the Autumn Lands to the Midsummer Lands). The goal of the Autumn Lands is to produce ... Read more
The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness for training data leaves a gap that eventually will need to be filled. The OSAID was unveiled this week after two years of development ... Read more
Siemens announced plans to acquire Altair Engineering, a provider of industrial simulation and analysis, data science, and high-performance computing (HPC) software, for about $10 billion. Altair’s software will become part of Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio and provide a boost to physics-based digital twins. Onto Innovation bought Lumina Instruments, a San Jose, California-based maker of laser optical ... Read more
Publisher: Lazarus The Old-School Essentials Spell Book is a printable, small-sized make-your-own spell book for the gorgeous Old-School Essentials tabletop RPG written by Gavin Norman / Necrotic Gnome. Print it out, cut it, fold it, and you’ll have a little flip-through zine where you can record your magic user’s spells from levels 1 to 6. You can also mark which spells your ... Read more
HP OmniBook Ultra 14 MSRP $1,680.00 “The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is fast and efficient, but a couple of shortcomings hold it back.” Pros Excellent build quality Strong productivity performance Good battery life Very good keyboard High-resolution webcam Cons Touchpad should be haptic IPS display is just OK List prices are expensive HP continues to ... Read more
Apple’s Vision Pro is embracing new AI capabilities while seeing its budget-friendly model delayed. Ming-Chi Kuo, a highly regarded Apple analyst known for deep connections within Apple’s supply chain, says that although the budget Vision Pro was initially expected by 2025, it is now more likely to hit the market not before 2027. This delay ... Read more
Greg Hildebrandt and his brother achieved great success in the fantasy and sci-fi art genres, and now we’ve lost them both. In 1976, the Hildebrandt duo hit the ground running with the J.R.R. Tolkien calendar, which became a bestseller at the time, and their vibrant colors and vision of Middle-earth have inspired many subsequent ... Read more
Asus has released a new BIOS update for select AMD motherboards, introducing the “Turbo Game Mode” designed to optimize gaming performance on a range of Ryzen processors. This mode is aimed at users seeking the best possible experience from AMD’s high-core CPUs by adjusting core usage. Specifically, it disables one of the CPU’s two chiplets ... Read more
REVIEW – Tango Gameworks has left the survival-horror genre behind and landed on the shores of action-adventure gaming with Ghostwire: Tokyo. The studio, founded by Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil, Dino Crisis), invites us to explore the city of Tokyo and confront a mysterious anomaly in a supernatural epic. Could this open-world title from Bethesda Softworks ... Read more
NeMo Curator now supports images, enabling you to process data for training accurate generative AI models. NeMo Curator now supports images, enabling you to process data for training accurate generative AI models. Source
Sam Hill / Digital Trends Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a ... Read more
Well, that was a scary few days—Apple has convinced an appeals court to let it sell the latest Apple Watch hardware, pausing an import ban imposed by the International Trade Commission (ITC). So, you can once again head to Apple’s website or your nearest brick-and-mortar Apple store to get the Apple Watch Series 9 or ... Read more
Developers in the fields of image-guided surgery and surgical vision face unique challenges in creating systems and applications that can significantly improve surgical workflows. One such challenge is efficiently combining multi-modal imaging data, such as preoperative 3D patient images with intra-operative video. This is key to providing surgeons with real-time, accurate guidance during minimally invasive ... Read more
The New York Times has introduced the next title coming to its Games catalog following Wordle’s continued success — and it’s all about math. Digits has players adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers. You can play its beta for free online right now. In Digits, players are presented with a target number that they need to ... Read more
PerformancePSU Verdict: 4.5/5 View on Amazon From the Reviewer The Roccat Vulcan TKL Pro is a well-constructed keyboard that would complement almost any PC gaming setup. Its highly responsive Titan Optical Switches are amazing to use and perform great in all genres of video games. With that being said, we didn’t feel like the typing ... Read more
Producing commercials is resource-intensive, requiring physical locations and various props and setups to display products in different settings and environments for more accurate consumer targeting. This traditional process is not only expensive and time-consuming but also can be destructive to the physical environment. It leaves you with no ability to capture a new angle after ... Read more
At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Qualcomm is taking Intel to task. The company, which released its Snapdragon X processors over the summer, is using its home turf to claim that its chips are faster than Intel’s newly released Intel Core Ultra Series 2 “Lunar Lake” processors, and suggested that Intel didn’t tell the whole ... Read more
With the popularity of Apple’s iPhone lineup it can sometimes be difficult to find iPhone deals. Today, however, iPhone deals make for some of the best phone deals and best Apple deals to shop, as we’re seeing discounts on nearly every iPhone model. That includes iPhone 15 deals, iPhone 14 deals, and iPhone SE deals. ... Read more
We are Midnights Magic a MONTH OLD slice of life with a twist rp set in New Orleans. Our focus is to embrace silly and quirky characters and plots that are based around The Seven a group of Canon entities, the variety of Deities, and Mortals that live within the city. We are building this ... Read more
That approach starts in low-Earth orbit rather than 36,000 km away from the surface of the Earth. Aetherflux plans to begin with a single satellite, launching into an orbit about 500 km above the planet on a SpaceX transporter mission about 12 to 15 months from now. This initial satellite will be based on a ... Read more
Microsoft has spent most of the last couple of decades playing catchup in an number of key growth markets. Microsoft, however, is now in a leadership position in the AI space thanks in part to its partnership with OpenAI. The company’s GPT-infused Copilot has popped up in Windows, Office, Bing, Edge, and now it’s on ... Read more
Nirave Gondhia / Digital Trends If you’ve got your sights set on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra, the good news is that it’s already part of Samsung’s tablet deals through its trade-in program. The device’s 256GB model carries a sticker price of $1,200, but you can get an up to $800 discount if you ... Read more
Thank you all for participating! The entries are now closed and we will be selecting winners. For those selected, we will be reaching out on socials, so look out for a message. After we confirm eligibility, the list of winners will be posted here. Greatness starts here. Enter for a chance to win ... Read more
The NVIDIA AI Summit India, taking place October 23–25 at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, will bring together the brightest minds to explore how India is tackling the world’s grand challenges. A major highlight: a fireside chat with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang on October 24. He’ll share his insights on AI’s ... Read more
Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Don’t expect a Steam Deck 2 any time soon — or at least, not within the year. While Valve has confirmed that it’s working on an official follow-up to its popular handheld console, it’s against the idea of annual hardware releases. In an interview with Reviews.org (spotted by The Verge), ... Read more
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: In the evolving field of bioinformatics, staying current is a challenge. For MiLaboratories, the challenge was creating software called Platforma.bio, which not only simplifies the complex analysis of immunogenomic data for researchers, but furthers the technology critical for drug discovery, especially in the field of mRNA vac…Read More
NV-CLIP, a cutting-edge multimodal embeddings model for image and text, is now generally available. NV-CLIP, a cutting-edge multimodal embeddings model for image and text, is now generally available. Source
Today, Mercedes-Benz opened its first battery-recycling plant in Germany. The new plant will use an “integrated mechanical-hydrometallurgical” approach to recycling electric vehicle batteries and expects to recover more than 96 percent of the valuable minerals and metals used in EV batteries. “Mercedes-Benz has set itself the goal of building the most desirable cars in a ... Read more
Microsoft Bing Visual Search enables people around the world to find content using photographs as queries. The heart of this capability is Microsoft’s TuringMM visual embedding model that maps images and text into a shared high-dimensional space. Operating on billions of images across the web, performance is critical. This post details efforts to optimize the ... Read more
“KeepSolid’s VPN Unlimited offers reasonable subscription rates and a surprisingly affordable lifetime plan.” Pros Lifetime plan promises great long-term value Quick, reliable server connections Plenty of fast servers worldwide Easy-to-use design Cons Email support, no live chat No free version VPN Unlimited is a bold name for a virtual private network (VPN), suggesting uncapped data, ... Read more
ASUS has been making Android phones since the early days of the platform, long before we settled on the standard flat glass slab form factor. ASUS tried its hand at convertible Android laptops and phones that turned into tablets, but even after giving up on all of that, it kept experimenting with its gaming-focused ROG ... Read more
The software-optimized inference engine behind Simiplismart MLOps platform runs Llama3.1 8B at a peak throughput of 501 tokens per second.Read More
So, you are thinking of buying a new prebuilt gaming pc for yourself or a loved one, however, there is one small problem; You have no idea where to start – don’t worry friend, we’ve got you. A Full RGB Gaming PC So what will you learn about in our guide? It can be overwhelming ... Read more
The U.S. healthcare system is adopting digital health agents to harness AI across the board, from research laboratories to clinical settings. The latest AI-accelerated tools — on display at the NVIDIA AI Summit taking place this week in Washington, D.C. — include NVIDIA NIM, a collection of cloud-native microservices that support AI model deployment and ... Read more
At AMD, our teams continue to bring new and improved features to our drivers to get the most out of your AMD Ryzen and Radeon products. Last year we introduced some great visual improvements and changes for users that improve recording and streaming their gaming clips with AMD Software whether it was the built-in pre-analysis ... Read more
Christopher Nolan previously had the Caped Crusader, but now, he wants Spider-Man. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Holland is set to star in Nolan’s next movie alongside Matt Damon. Like all of Nolan’s projects, the movie is clouded in secrecy. However, THR’s report mentions the film’s setting is either in the past or future, not ... Read more
This adventuring supplement is designed for D&D5e. On our Patreon page you can get it in PDF format (see image). The downloads include hi-res images for the maps. And there is a variant PDF version designed for Shadowdark RPG. “I feel no pity for those who dare steal from the gods and burn in their ... Read more
The engines switched off, and there it was. Many of the spectators lucky enough to be there jumped up and down with joy, hugged their friends, or let out an ecstatic yell. I snapped a few final photos and returned to his laptop, grinning, speechless, and started wondering how I could put this all into ... Read more
Reality capture creates highly accurate, detailed, and immersive digital representations of environments. Innovations in site scanning and accelerated data processing, and emerging technologies like neural radiance fields (NeRFs) and Gaussian splatting are significantly enhancing the capabilities of reality capture. These technologies are revolutionizing interactions with and analyses of the physical world. Site scanning, the first ... Read more
When Do You Need SLI and Crossfire? When shopping for a video card, you should always get the single best card you can afford, unless you are planning on running at resolution that requires SLI to play games at the desired quality (which is generally 4K at high/max quality). I started with a single GTX ... Read more
Blink Every home would be a bit safer with security cameras installed. If you haven’t bought some yet, you should take advantage of Best Buy’s $81 discount for a two-pack of the Blink Outdoor 4 wireless security camera. From the bundle’s original price of $180, it’s down to only $99, but the savings aren’t going ... Read more
Dressing up for Halloween, for a cosplay or steampunk-themed game, or want to give a gift to your favorite steampunk fan for the holidays? Look no further! Please Note: I’m a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by ... Read more
Samsung has officially taken the wraps off the Galaxy S24 family. As usual, we’ve already learned plenty about Samsung’s new flagship phones thanks to the many, many leaks, but now we’re getting to see what Samsung has in store for its big AI play. These phones have a raft of new “Galaxy AI” features, along with ... Read more
Motherboard VRMs are the often overlooked spec that has direct and often drastic impacts on system stability, performance, and longevity. What are they exactly though, why are they important, and how do you pick a motherboard with suitable VRMs for your build? Read on to learn more. Motherboard VRMs – A Quick Explainer VRM stands ... Read more
Crypts and Worms (300 dpi promo, no commercial license) Beneath the ruins of the temple are the catacombs of the honoured dead. Or in this case, the somewhat desecrated dead. The crypts were partially looted by brave thieves before they were chased off by the suddenly restless dead. But something has really stirred the dead ... Read more
SambaNova and Gradio partner to simplify AI development, offering faster inference and improved energy efficiency, challenging Nvidia’s dominance in the evolving AI chip market.Read More
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More H2O.ai, a provider of open-source AI platforms, announced today two new vision-language models designed to improve document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) tasks. The models, named H2OVL Mississippi-2B and H2OVL-Mississippi-0.8B, show competitive performance against much ... Read more
Disney+ subscribers have surely noticed by now that the Disney streaming service has had some severe budget cuts. Even some Disney+ originals are no longer streaming here. Unfortunately, most of the great Disney-produced streaming originals are now coming from Hulu. But you can watch them on Disney+ if you’re willing to bundle or pay for ... Read more
This essay was written by Aaron Vanek, one of the contributing authors and major playtesters of Dreamland: Fairytale Portal Fantasy Beyond the Wall of Sleep. We’re honored & flattered to post it here in two parts. By Aaron Vanek Artist Jason Bradley Thompson, whose orbit transited mine when I hired him to create a wonderful ... Read more
You might not know, but a crack team created Windows in just 24 hours who were also drunk….jokes aside, Windows is not very efficient at properly removing files and replacing them. Sometimes, you can uninstall your graphics card driver, be forced to restart just for Windows Update service to automatically install Microsoft’s generic driver before ... Read more
Brad Miska was barely paying attention when he realized horror movie history was happening. The co-founder of the horror movie site Bloody Disgusting has lived and breathed horror films his entire life and, as such, knows they have the potential to suck. So you can’t blame him for throwing on a seemingly unassuming sequel called ... Read more
It’s the latter part of October, which means Halloween and all its beloved traditions are only days away. All you horror lovers must be getting ready to binge your favorite spooky content, and luckily for you, the best horror movies on Hulu should have you covered. After quietly becoming one of the best streaming services ... Read more
Artifox As important as it is to have a great desktop or laptop for work and play, you also need to consider the surface you work or play on. A great gaming desk can make a real difference if you’re a gamer, but if you’re an office worker or someone in between, just having an ... Read more
Geekom builds some of the best mini PCs currently available, managing to pack an awful lot of hardware into some very small packages. A prime example is the tiny but mighty Geekom A7 R9, which we’re currently swooning over thanks to a very nice early Black Friday discount – one that makes it even better ... Read more
This post was originally published August 21, 2024 but has been revised with current data. Recently, NVIDIA and Mistral AI unveiled Mistral NeMo 12B, a leading state-of-the-art large language model (LLM). Mistral NeMo 12B consistently outperforms similarly sized models on a wide range of benchmarks. We announced Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, one of the most advanced open-access ... Read more
NVIDIA is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft to support global AI startups across industries — with an initial focus on healthcare and life sciences companies. Announced today at the HLTH healthcare innovation conference, the initiative connects the startup ecosystem by bringing together the NVIDIA Inception global program for cutting-edge startups and Microsoft for Startups to ... Read more
Anime has experienced a boom in fantasy series with shows like Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End and newly christened Harvey Award for Best Manga winner, Delicious in Dungeon. While these shows have carved out a generational run in the realm of anime as refreshing series that aren’t just more isekai shows, there’s one more fantasy anime ... Read more
Derek Malcolm / Digital Trends We set up and tear down a lot of home theater and audio/video gear on a daily basis — everything from speakers and subwoofers to amplifiers, receivers, turntables, and everything in-between. And one thing that gets old really fast is cutting, stripping, and winding raw speaker wire. It’s messy, it ... Read more
You are the teenage summer staff of Dizzy Meg’s Magical Animal Petty Zoo. A little place of just ten acres, the zoo is here to educate and inform its visitors about the wonders of magical animals. You’re here as cheap labour and for the work experience you keep getting told that sixteen to eighteen year ... Read more
Lots of pointing at clouds AWS made data transfer out of AWS free for customers who were moving off their servers in March, spurred in part by European regulations. Trade publications are full of trend stories about rising cloud costs and explainers on why companies are repatriating. Stories of major players’ cloud reversals, like that ... Read more
Image courtesy of Nvidia A new AI model from Nvidia knows just how many R’s are in the word strawberry, a feat that OpenAI’s GPT-4o model has yet to achieve. In what is known as the “strawberry problem,” GPT-4o and a few other established models often give the false answer that ‘strawberry’ only has two ... Read more
Microsoft has now officially announced the end of Windows 10 support with an effective date of October 14, 2025. Windows 10 will no longer receive security updates, new features, or fixes beyond this date. Read on to learn more about what this means for you and your organization, and how you should prepare. What Does ... Read more
Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, seen from space. The lake formed after a cyclone walloped parts of northern Africa in September, causing huge amounts of rain in the Sahara Desert. And now, it’s helping researchers study what the Sahara may have looked like thousands of years ago—perhaps not a jungle, but ... Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Elon Musk has been making headlines recently for his political activities and rocket launches, but that hasn’t stopped the six-company owner/operator from moving forward with xAI, his artificial intelligence startup. Today, Musk announced via his social ... Read more
The continued growth of LLMs capability, fueled by increasing parameter counts and support for longer contexts, has led to their usage in a wide variety of applications, each with diverse deployment requirements. For example, a chatbot supports a small number of users at very low latencies for good interactivity. Meanwhile, synthetic data generation requires high ... Read more
You can find some great smartwatch deals among today’s Samsung Galaxy Watch deals, Fitbit deals, and Google Pixel Watch deals, but if Apple is your brand and we’ve got you covered on today’s best Apple Watch deals. The Apple Watch Series 10 was recently released and it’s leaving some good deals on previous models in ... Read more
Mathstral, an advanced AI model developed from the ground up, can deliver superior performance for enhanced learning of math, engineering, and science. Mathstral, an advanced AI model developed from the ground up, can deliver superior performance for enhanced learning of math, engineering, and science. Source
I’d indicated that I’d be tying the storyline to initial appearances of heroes in comics, but as all comics continuity buffs know, there’s just too many storylines and stories out there that contradict, retcon, and change the current continuity to make it easy to do a straight history in either timeline (Marvel, DC) without doing ... Read more
Ahead of a visit to the hospital for a surgical procedure, patients often have plenty of questions about what to expect — and can be plenty nervous. To help minimize pre-surgery jitters, NVIDIA and Deloitte are developing AI agents using NVIDIA AI to bring the next generation of digital, frontline teammates to patients before they ... Read more
Qualcomm’s next big mobile chip is going elite. According to the chipmaker, the Android-centric mobile offering isn’t just a step up from last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. At its big Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Qualcomm said the Snapdragon 8 Elite with its Oryon-based CPU combined with the next step in its Adreno GPU should ... Read more
PerformancePSU Verdict: 4.8/5 View on Amazon From the Reviewer This keyboard is a price-point winner. The Xtrfy K5 RGB Compact brings hot-swappable switches, pre-lubed stabilizers, amazing typing sound and vibrant RGB lighting making this a killer gaming keyboard for anyone who is response rate conscious but also wants sick aesthetics too. This keyboard is so ... Read more
Samsung The best soundbar deals don’t have to cost a fortune, as demonstrated by the offer that Samsung has right now. Currently, you can buy the Samsung B-Series 2.0 channel soundbar with a built-in woofer for $100. Normally it costs $120, so you’re saving 17% off a soundbar which was already great value for such ... Read more
He also tried levcromakalim, another blood vessel opener that lowers blood pressure. It’s a potassium-channel opener, and this, too, caused migraine attacks for all 16 people in the study. To Ashina, these experiments suggest that medicines that turn off migraine-inducing pathways at or before the point of potassium release could be of benefit. There might ... Read more
If you feel it, stream it. Twisters begins streaming exclusively on Peacock on November 15, 2024. Twisters, the standalone sequel to 1996’s Twister, stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos. After a tragic encounter with a tornado, Kate (Edgar-Jones) abandons storm-chasing to study weather patterns behind a desk in New York City. Kate’s friend Javi ... Read more
A video went viral recently when workers at an Indonesian factory recorded one of the first alleged boot-ups of a Zotac RTX 5090. Zotac has come out and officially refuted claims that the GPU in the recording was a Zotac-made RTX 5090, stating that the GPU in question is an existing RTX 4070 Ti Super ... Read more
I recently had the opportunity to experience JBL’s new MA AV Receiver and Stage 2 Loudspeakers. What’s exciting about these releases is their suitability for the average consumer in terms of price, ease of setup, and features. I put them to the test by playing a track many speaker systems would struggle to do justice ... Read more
Quests of Doom 4: The Covered Bridge (5e) clocks in at 30 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page advertisement, 1 page ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 24 pages of content, so let’s take a look! This review was moved up in my reviewing queue at ... Read more
Laptop shoppers in search of a deal should turn to Best Buy today, where many of the best laptop deals are taking place. Whether in search of something high end or entry-level, Best Buy currently has a huge selection of Dell laptop deals, HP laptop deals, Lenovo laptop deals, and even MacBook deals to shop. ... Read more
TECH ANALYSIS – When designing a modern home theater system, a common dilemma arises: Should you go for a traditional projection screen, or opt for advanced smart projector paint, especially when the system will be used in rooms with natural light? When setting up a home theater, there are several factors to consider when ... Read more
What Is The Risk When Using An AIO For CPU Cooling? Are AIO Coolers Good? First off, an AIO is short for “All In One”, which in this context refers to a liquid CPU cooler. An AIO combines the parts necessary to liquid-cool your CPU into a pre-packaged solution that you bolt on in about ... Read more
During the latest stop of the GamesBeat Global Tour, Aldora CEO Joost van Dreunenbut addressed new ways to monetize and reach customers.Read More
New research from the University of Washington is refining AI weather models using deep learning for more accurate predictions and longer-term forecasts. The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, shows how adjusting initial atmospheric data enables advanced AI models to extend current forecast limits. As extreme weather becomes increasingly more severe and frequent due to ... Read more
After rumors swirled that TikTok owner ByteDance had lost tens of millions after an intern sabotaged its AI models, ByteDance issued a statement this weekend hoping to silence all the social media chatter in China. In a social media post translated and reviewed by Ars, ByteDance clarified “facts” about “interns destroying large model training” and ... Read more
We already know that a new iPad mini is on the way; Apple confirmed that less than a week ago. It’s going to be packed with features and powered by the A17 Pro chip, the same one used in the iPhone 15 Pro lineup. Not only is it a highly anticipated device, but it might ... Read more
Today, we’ll focus on two crucial AI concepts: pre-training and inference. By understanding these building blocks, we’ll gain insights into how AI models learn and generate intelligent outputs on your AI Workstation. Pre-training: Building a Strong Foundation Imagine a student preparing for a big exam; pre-training is akin to equipping that student with a vast ... Read more
Sony Right now, one of the best headphone deals comes from Crutchfield. Today, you can buy the Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones for $50 off, meaning you pay $298 instead of $348. The headphones are my personal favorite, doing a fantastic job of making whatever I listen to sound great and blocking out surrounding noises wonderfully. If ... Read more
Much has been written about the performance of Arm-based processors exceeding that of x86-64 CPUs, but depending on your perspective, that fully hasn’t come to pass. There are Apple’s M-series processors that do perform competitively in many tasks, along with an array of data center-focused products that emphasize power efficiency, but ultimately the overall performance ... Read more
Vizta DGTL, a game studio based in Berlin, hopes to set the fashion world ablaze with Kutur Runway, a fashion game that embraces role-playing game mechanics, social platforms and realistic 3D graphics. The Berlin company believes the market opportunities created by early fashion games like Covet Fashion will become bigger with a fresh take —…Read ... Read more
Every day on the gambling site 1xbet, thousands of sports matches air that the degenerate gambler can lay odds on. There are games like hockey, soccer, and basketball but they don’t look quite right. Everything is broadcast from low-resolution cameras more at home in a horror movie than a sports organization and the games are ... Read more
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote was a lightning-fast (even in the full 1:44-long video—or try the 3-minute recap) look at what Apple is bringing to the software side of the Apple experience in the next year. Although some past keynotes have introduced hardware like new Macs and the Vision Pro, this year’s keynote stuck to ... Read more
Yes, that’s Laslzo‘s infamous witch-skin hat peeking from behind his back in Mondo’s stunning new What We Do in the Shadows poster by artist Robert Laskey, but hopefully (presumably!) its curse hasn’t transferred into the artwork. Also present and accounted for: Nadja’s doll, inhabited by Nadja’s ghost—or at least, the ghost of the human Nadja ... Read more
Critical Role is returning to Gen Con in 2025 as part of a five-city “world tour.” Variety had the exclusive details on Critical Role’s 2025 plans, which will consist of shows in Chicago, New York City, and Fishers, IN, as well as two shows in Australia. The US shows coincide with three conventions – C2E2, ... Read more
AI can help solve some of the world’s biggest challenges — whether climate change, cancer or national security — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm emphasized today during her remarks at the AI for Science, Energy and Security session at the NVIDIA AI Summit, in Washington, D.C. Granholm went on to highlight the pivotal role ... Read more
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. The newest installment of one of the best-selling first-person-shooter franchises features Black Ops veteran Frank Woods and his team as they are branded traitors and hunted by the CIA. Along with the high-octane campaign is the acclaimed Multiplayer mode featuring 16 new maps at launch, in addition to the ... Read more
Have you tuned into Hysteria! on Peacock yet? The series dropped all eight of its episodes last week, making for a perfect pre-Halloween binge for anyone interested in heavy metal, Satanic Panic, 1980s hairstyles, high-school drama, and certain members of horror royalty turning up in unexpected places. It’s not a spoiler to say Bruce Campbell‘s ... Read more
Building 10 – Wit & Wisdom Apothecary (300 dpi promo, no commercial license) Back to the shops along the intersection of Market & Random. Based on a Patreon request from Mark Clover, I’m drawing up individual floor plans for a number of shops, stores, vendors, and businesses along a single market block. As I draw ... Read more
Vladeck questioned the ethics of X’s terms in comments quoted by NPR. “For X to say we want all of our litigation to go into a forum that may have no connection to where we’re located, to where plaintiffs are located, runs headlong into the federal system’s preference for convenience,” Vladeck was quoted as saying. ... Read more
AMD announced this month that several new plug-ins are now available for its fast and easy rendering engine, AMD Radeon ProRender. Optimized for AMD Radeon PRO and Radeon RX graphics cards, AMD Radeon ProRender is built on open standards and works on any GPU that supports OpenCL 1.2 and on any CPU. It uses open ... Read more
Last month, Apple released iOS 18 right before the launch of iPhone 16. This update introduced several new features, but it did not include the most significant one, Apple Intelligence, which Apple had promised at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. That will change next week. According to The Wall Street Journal and The Verge, ... Read more
Epic Games Publishing It’s been almost one year since Alan Wake 2 released, and the developers at Remedy Entertainment are celebrating with a large update that makes the game more accessible thanks to options to greatly reduce the difficulty. In a post published Monday, the studio announced a series of quality-of-life updates, along with more features ... Read more
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Sony LinkBuds Fit MSRP $200.00 “The LinkBuds Fit are Sony’s most comfortable earbuds yet.” Pros Excellent long-term comfort Detailed sound Excellent transparency mode Great for calls Fun and convenient extras Cons Might not fit small ears No wireless charging No Auracast support “Unrivaled comfort.” That’s how Sony positioned its new LinkBuds Fit noise-canceling wireless earbuds ... Read more
Once you make it to the Virga Islands in Metaphor: ReFantazio, you’ll eventually stumble upon the location’s main dungeon, which is the Dragon Temple. Unlike the other dungeons, which are available to enter right away, the only way to get inside the Dragon Temple is by using a Potion of Blight to blast the tree ... Read more
Throughout What We Do in the Shadows‘ run, we’ve seen put-upon familiar Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén) awkwardly pursue his goal of becoming a vampire, even after realizing his Van Helsing heritage—before ultimately, at the end of season five, realizing he’s actually better suited to remain a human being. That sets up a new ... Read more
An Asus-branded Thunderbolt 5 expansion card has appeared on the firm’s product pages. The new Asus ThunderboltEX 5 expansion card fits into a spare PCIe 4.0 x4 slot on your motherboard to provide a pair of the headlining Thunderbolt 5 ports and a trio of mini DisplayPorts to the rear of your chassis. Internally, the ... Read more
This concludes Aaron Vanek’s essay about Dreamland from the previous post! Thanks Aaron! 6. Diagonal Narrative The more Words a PC uses in a challenge, the greater the chance that they will break one of the Five Pillars of Dreamland. I describe it as the PCs are lucid dreamers who can reshape portions of dream ... Read more
There can’t really be any doubt at this point: AI is going to change all of our lives, and there’s no going back from here. Still, there’s quite a bit of debate over exactly how it’s going to happen. If you listen to hardware vendors like AMD and Intel, they’ll tell you that you absolutely ... Read more
Prepare for a devilishly good time this GFN Thursday as the critically acclaimed Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred downloadable content (DLC) joins the cloud, one of six new games available this week. GeForce NOW also extends its game-library sync feature to Battle.net accounts, so members can seamlessly bring their favorite Blizzard games into their cloud-streaming ... Read more
This is Season 5, Episode 25, which originally aired on June 1st, 1992. It has an impressive IMDb rating of 9.4 and is titled “The Inner Light.” A probe from an ancient culture causes Captain Picard to live an entire lifetime in a matter of minutes while in a coma on the bridge. I’ve been ... Read more
As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as the company looks to cut costs into 2025 – not even Intel’s trade shows. In an unexpected announcement this afternoon, Intel has begun informing attendees of ... Read more
Perched in the driver’s seat, I’m not sure why you would need to be, anyway. Nothing about the Buzz’s driving style demands you rag it through the corners, although the car coped very well on the very twisty sections of our route up the shore of the Tomales Bay. Like last week’s Porsche Macan, the ... Read more
OnePlus has just confirmed that its next flagship arrives on October 31 in China. Over the past few days, the phone has appeared in unceremonious leaks, was spotted at an event in China, and appeared in teaser silhouettes. The wait for a better look, however, is finally over. The preorder page for OnePlus’ upcoming phone ... Read more
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, two distinct branches stand out: Analytic vs Generative AI. These two paradigms serve different purposes and have unique applications across various industries. In this blog post, we’ll explore the differences between Analytic AI and Generative AI, providing insights into their capabilities and potential uses. Understanding these differences ... Read more
After years of pressure from environmental advocates, the global retail giant Amazon announced last week that it has eliminated plastic air pillows from its global network of “fulfillment centers,” as Amazon calls its warehouse and distribution facilities. Around the world, products inside the company’s packages are now cushioned by paper-based padding that can be collected ... Read more
Introduced as Intel’s solution for both gamers and content creators, the new Arc-A graphics products are, the company says, “more than another piece of hardware in your PC” they are “your portal to play and create” on PC. Intel ended March 2022 with the announcement that the company is more ambitious when it comes to ... Read more
Unity is unveiling its playbook for mobile game advertisers to increase revenues in the holidays through ads.Read More
At FMS 2024, Phison gave us the usual updates on their client flash solutions. The E31T Gen 5 mainstream controller has already been seen at a few tradeshows starting with Computex 2023, while the USB4 native flash controller for high-end PSSDs was unveiled at CES 2024. The new solution being demonstrated was the E29T Gen ... Read more
For the last few weeks, I’ve worn the latest Apple Watch Series 10 in titanium to find out if it’s the first smartwatch to take me away from only wanting to wear my various quartz and mechanical watches. I wanted to find out if paying more for the titanium version would help it give me ... Read more
An adventure for Age of Legends in which four shades, each sent to Tartarus for the sins of avarice, hubris, heresy, and mundanity, have escaped back into the world. In the depths of the temple of Hades, the priest Podarge has troubling words for this party of heroes. They have received word from the most ... Read more
Simulations play a critical role in advancing science and engineering, especially in the vast field of fluid dynamics. However, high-fidelity fluid simulations require extensive computational resources, often constraining practical applications. Accurately simulating complex flows can take weeks of computational effort, slowing down advancements in critical fields such as aerospace and environmental engineering. Machine learning (ML) ... Read more
Kioxia’s booth at FMS 2024 was a busy one with multiple technology demonstrations keeping visitors occupied. A walk-through of the BiCS 8 manufacturing process was the first to grab my attention. Kioxia and Western Digital announced the sampling of BiCS 8 in March 2023. We had touched briefly upon its CMOS Bonded Array (CBA) scheme ... Read more
Electric vehicle (EV) charging is getting a jolt with an innovative new AI algorithm that boosts efficiency, reduces cost, and keeps the grid from short-circuiting under pressure. Developed by a team of researchers from the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), the real-time smart solution optimizes charging schedules for large parking lots, balancing quick charging ... Read more
When you buy a retail computer CPU, it usually comes with a standard cooler. However, most enthusiasts find that the stock cooler just does not cut it in terms of performance. So, they often end up getting a more advanced cooler that better suits their needs. Choosing the right cooler isn’t a one-size-fits-all deal – ... Read more
Half of the world’s population will experience a mental health disorder — but the median number of mental health workers per 100,000 people is just 13, according to the World Health Organization. To help tackle this disparity — which can vary by over 40x between high-income and low-income countries — a Madrid-based startup is offering ... Read more
Intel’s Meteor Lake processors represented a major step forward for the company. As Intel’s first step into chiplet (or “tile”) fabrication for client chips, Meteor Lake brought big improvements in efficiency, graphics, and AI performance for the company’s mobile processors. Arrow Lake is on track to do that for desktops at the end of this ... Read more
Windows 11 was released a while back now in back in October 2021, but, there is still a lot of people who are still running older versions such as Windows 8, Windows 10 and even Windows 7 and have been asking how to upgrade to Windows 11. With this in mind, we thought we would ... Read more
Last weekend we ventured north, stayed with friends, and experienced the wonders of Tabletop Scotland. It has been a while since I’ve crossed the border into Scotland. As a kid, my parents loved Scotland, and one of my happiest memories of my entire childhood was a quiet little self-catering cottage in the middle of a ... Read more
In April, TSMC was provided with $6.6 billion in direct CHIPS Act funding to “support TSMC’s investment of more than $65 billion in three greenfield leading-edge fabs in Phoenix, Arizona, which will manufacture the world’s most advanced semiconductors,” the Department of Commerce said. These investments are key to the Biden-Harris administration’s mission of strengthening “economic ... Read more
Next month, Madden NFL 25 is about to get some competition. Maximum Entertainment will release Maximum Football, a free-to-play simulation sports game. It might not have the official NFL branding, but Maximum Football emphasizes a physics-based approach to gameplay that should make everything from hits to throws feel more realistic than Madden, which often relies on ... Read more
In 2022, Intel launched its significantly revised ATX v3.0 power supply standard, and with it, the 600 Watt-capable 12VHPWR cable to power video cards and other high-drain add-in cards. The release of the standard came with a lot of fanfare and excitement – the industry was preparing for a future where even flagship video cards ... Read more
Continuing the storylines from the different timelines of the DC & Marvel Universes, here are a few more that I’m appropriating into my timeline for my combined One Earth universe. House of X / Powers of X (The Krakoan Nation) I found this storyline useful, because its core idea solved something for me with regards ... Read more
Soundcore has introduced its next clip-style open-ear wireless earbuds — the C40i. Much like C30i that launched in April, the C40i use the same clip- or cuff-style shape as the Bose Open Ultra Earbuds, but Soundcore says the C40i offer greater comfort thanks to their flexible connectors. Simon Cohen / Digital Trends Soundcore has kept ... Read more
Having completed extensive benchmark testing of the Threadripper PRO 5000, performed in real-world content creation applications, Puget Systems will begin shipping its custom workstations in July. One of the few vendors with early access to the new Threadrippers from AMD, Puget Systems has now released the results of extensive testing of the Threadripper PRO 5000 ... Read more
In 1999, fans lined up at Blockbuster to rent chunky VHS tapes of The Matrix. Y2K preppers hoarded cash and canned Spam, fearing a worldwide computer crash. Teens gleefully downloaded Britney Spears and Eminem on Napster. But amid the caffeinated fizz of turn-of-the-millennium tech culture, something more transformative was unfolding. The release of NVIDIA’s GeForce ... Read more
TomsHardware ServeTheHome Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids Notable Information There is a great deal of information on Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids, we highly recommend you read the article by STH linked above if you wish to learn more. 52 SKUs offered by Intel, with support for 1, 2, 4, and 8-socket machines. Up to 60 cores/socket. ... Read more
OnePlus is an excellent brand that offers powerful flagship phones at a great value compared to some of its competitors. As 2025 is quickly approaching, OnePlus should be releasing the OnePlus 13 soon enough. What will the design be like? What specs are we anticipating? Here’s everything we know so far about the OnePlus 13. ... Read more
Thanks to a healthy contribution from an early Give Me Everything pledge, Warlock Knight funded almost instantly. And despite some up and down in terms of large individual pledges, we are currently doing pretty well, with over 100 backers here in the first six hours, and folks only just now starting to get back to ... Read more
Andrew Stephan is the director of War Game: The Making of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, a documentary from Microsoft about the ordeal of the game developers at GSC Game World, the Ukraine game studio that had to make S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: The Heart of Chornobyl, a triple-A game, in the middle of a war zone. The film depicts ... Read more
Amazon workers are being reminded that they can find work elsewhere if they’re unhappy with Amazon’s return-to-office (RTO) mandate. In September, Amazon told staff that they’ll have to RTO five days a week starting in 2025. Amazon employees are currently allowed to work remotely twice a week. A memo from CEO Andy Jassy announcing the ... Read more
Western Digital’s BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD’s upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and 8 TB SDUC cards ... Read more
Adobe has revealed several new tools based on artificial intelligence (AI), aiming to make creative processes smoother and faster for users. These tools are being developed as part of Adobe’s “Sneaks” program and were highlighted at the MAX 2024 conference, which showcases experimental projects. Collectively known as Project Concept, the tools tie into Adobe’s broader ... Read more
My coverage of this series was requested by my supporters. Okay, so the graven earth elemental clocks in at challenge 9 and has a massive hit point pool, as well as the Earth Glide and Siege Monster features that you’d expect from such a colossus. In fact, this fellow gave me a distinct Resident Evil: ... Read more
At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by ... Read more
Trying to make out a tiny serial number or some fine print you can barely read can be frustrating. Years ago, Apple added a magnifier mode to its accessibility options and turned the feature into a standalone app in iOS 14. You can find the Magnifier app in the Utilities folder in your App Library ... Read more
At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline – ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized for different stages of the ... Read more
Okay, so this has been announced and I’m thrilled to say that I co-wrote the new cinematic adventure ‘Rapture Protocol’. It’s been my pleasure and privilege to work wthin my favourite franchise in my favourite hobby, and I’m excited to see it let loose! Free League’s Kickstarter this Fall will debut a new wave of ... Read more
The Xencelabs Pen Display family continues to grow. With its detailed display and desktop practicality, the svelte and portable Pen Display 16 is a welcome new addition to the line-up, as Stephen Holmes reports Handling hardware has become a more prevalent part of the designer’s daily workflow since the rise of the tablet. A high-end ... Read more
A few years back, the Japanese government’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs. And at this year’s ... Read more
The integration of robotic surgical assistants (RSAs) in operating rooms offers substantial advantages for both surgeons and patient outcomes. Currently operated through teleoperation by trained surgeons at a console, these surgical robot platforms provide augmented dexterity that has the potential to streamline surgical workflows and alleviate surgeon workloads. Exploring visual behavior cloning for next-generation surgical ... Read more
This adventuring supplement is designed for D&D5e. On our Patreon page you can get it in PDF format (see image). The downloads include hi-res images for the maps. And there is a variant PDF version designed for Shadowdark RPG. Only those who truly surrender their possessions, material belongings, and personal bonds, shall be granted the ... Read more
Two years on from the rapid rise of LLM chatbots like ChatGPT, the challenges are starting to show for some customers leveraging generative AI to create new services. Off-the-shelf self-hosted options no longer provide a distinct advantage. Creating custom generative AI models, or even tweaking an existing one, while ensuring low latency, high throughput, and ... Read more
A certification badge will be associated with some of the workstations already recommended by Puget Systems, to make it easy for professionals to get an optimal workflow experience. Following the recent news that Puget Systems will have, next July, workstations based on AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series, it’s now time to announce the ‘Puget ... Read more
PerformancePSU Verdict: 4/5 View on Amazon From the Reviewer I found the G915 tough to type on, the RGB led lighting is dull, I can’t see any shift modifiers at night with my light off and those darn G keys are terribly placed resulting in my fat fingers overshooting and hitting them at the wrong ... Read more
Welcome to the Bundles, Freebies, and Sales News, the weekly column at EN World that helps make sure you don’t miss out on big tabletop RPG bundles, charity fundraisers, and sales from around the internet. Freebies and Pay What You Want Note: While “Pay What You Want” downloads are available for free, please support the ... Read more
The autonomous driving industry is shaped by rapid technological advancements and the need for standardization of guidelines to ensure the safety of both autonomous vehicles (AVs) and their interaction with human-driven vehicles. At the NVIDIA AI Summit this week in Washington, D.C., industry experts shared viewpoints on this AV safety landscape from regulatory and technology ... Read more
The semiconductor industry increasingly needs more flexible and scalable processor architectures, driving the growing adoption of RISC-V. Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley, the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) has become very popular in recent years. RISC-V allows designers to customize their processor implementations to meet the specific needs of their target ... Read more
Amazon just gave its Kindle lineup a pretty big shake-up. From the inclusion of AI in its Scribe model to bringing color to e-readers for the first time, this might be the most notable update for Kindle users in years. But if you’re looking for flashy features like color displays or smarter software, you won’t ... Read more
Mistral, an AI startup based in Paris, has released two new AI models specifically optimized for running on local devices. These models, called Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, are designed to work efficiently on devices like laptops and smartphones without needing a constant connection to cloud servers. The idea behind this move is to meet ... Read more
Arm Holdings plc, or “arm”, was once considered a vendor of processors designed for embedded and low-power systems, but those days are well past at this point. Having conquered mobile some time ago, processors based on Arm’s Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) are now challenging the supremacy of the long-dominant x86-64 architecture on every ... Read more
SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket was the star of the show during last week’s test flight after being successfully caught by the launch tower’s giant mechanical arms at the first attempt. Minutes earlier, the Super Heavy booster had deployed the upper-stage Starship spacecraft to orbit as part of the fifth test flight of the world’s most ... Read more
Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a 4.1x improvement in I/O performance, ... Read more
Xeon Workstation Fishhawk Falls Notable Information Intel has announced the upcoming launch of two new families of Xeon Workstation Fishhawk Falls processors: the W-2400 and W-3400 series. Both bring new and potentially exciting features to Intel’s Xeon Workstation processor lineup. Xeon W-3400 is a replacement for the existing W-3300 line, with vastly higher core counts ... Read more
Publisher: Darkhand This special bundle product contains the following titles. Magical Items SetsRegular price: 0Bundle price: 0Format: PDF Pathfinder 1E, 2E and Rev compatible. There are numerous magical items in both the core and supplementary rules. The aim of this guide is not just to expand their ranks but to introduce a completely new element — the ability ... Read more
Fresh water we can use for drinking or agriculture is only about 3 percent of the global water supply, and nearly 70 percent of that is trapped in glaciers and ice caps. So far, that was enough to keep us going, but severe draughts have left places like Jordan, Egypt, sub-Saharan Africa, Spain, and California ... Read more
At the Adobe MAX creativity conference this week, Adobe announced updates to its Adobe Creative Cloud products, including Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as to Substance 3D products and the Adobe video ecosystem. These apps are accelerated by NVIDIA RTX and GeForce RTX GPUs — in the cloud or running locally on RTX ... Read more
Over the past few months, a number of instability issues have been reported in the industry press with Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. It seems that everyone is still getting to the bottom of what’s causing the issues, but the crux of it, at least as being reported, is that these processors ... Read more
Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latest Zen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month, ... Read more
Playtests & demos of Dreamland RPG continue almost every week on the Dreamland Discord! Meanwhile, if you use Facebook, please consider joining the Dreamland Facebook Group! The short format of Facebook posts has made it extra convenient to write lots of posts on Dreamland-esque subjects: not only the game, but Dreamland art, books, games and ... Read more
Sam Hill / Digital Trends Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a ... Read more
Is EDA meant to react to the needs of the industry, or anticipate its needs and develop ahead of the curve? The balance point may be shifting. The EDA industry is located at an interesting place, where anticipation and reaction come together. Too much of either one is wasteful, but too little leaves the industry ... Read more
OpenAI now lets some ChatGPT users check changes to text or code on the Canvas feature, something developers have been asking for.Read More
Introduction The H100, Nvidia’s latest GPU, is a powerhouse built for AI, boasting 80 billion transistors—six times more than the previous A100. This allows it to handle massive data loads much faster than any other GPU on the market. AI or any deep learning applications need significant processing power to train and run effectively. The ... Read more
At FMS 2024, Phison devoted significant booth space to their enterprise / datacenter SSD and PCIe retimer solutions, in addition to their consumer products. As a controller / silicon vendor, Phison had historically been working with drive partners to bring their solutions to the market. On the enterprise side, their tie-up with Seagate for the ... Read more
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have all announced plans to partner with or build new nuclear power plants and reactors for AI. Here’s why.Read More
The New York Times has introduced the next title coming to its Games catalog following Wordle’s continued success — and it’s all about math. Digits has players adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers. You can play its beta for free online right now. In Digits, players are presented with a target number that they need to ... Read more
Loxcombe forest has been consumed by wildfire. Most of it has burnt itself out but there are still many blazing pockets pouring smoke and heat into the landscape. Five miles from the edge of the forest on the Yarr river is Jwixleigh Fort. Thanks to the river and its distance from the forest, the fort ... Read more
Whether you knew you needed it or not, locally-hosted AI is the next big thing in PCs, and AMD is at the forefront of this movement. The company was first to market with consumer processors sporting AI-accelerating Neural Processing Units (NPUs), and it’s now on its third generation of processors for “AI PCs.” That’s the ... Read more
The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the ... Read more
The Raspberry Pi is a go-to board for retro gaming but that usually means emulating old consoles. Today, however, we’ve got a retro game project to share of a totally different caliber. FlorinCProjects has created a custom Simon color sequence remembering electronic game powered by one of our favorite microcontrollers — the Raspberry Pi Pico. ... Read more
Google has just rolled out a new feature aimed directly at those hunting for cheap airfare. If finding the absolute lowest fare is your main priority, Google Flights fresh “Cheapest” tab is designed for you. The new addition brings more budget options front and center, making it easier for travelers to spot the best prices, ... Read more
Meta’s Instagram has just unveiled updates focused on safeguarding teens from sextortion scams. Central to these updates is blocking users from screenshotting private media sent in direct messages (DMs). Previously, users could take screenshots of temporary photos or videos, but the sender would be notified. Now, Instagram is taking it further by ensuring you can’t ... Read more
With AMD’s Ryzen 9000 launch came the announcement of a new AM5 chipset – X870. Both chipsets fully support the new processors (as well as previous AM5 socket CPUs) and seem to have similar features. So when comparing X670 vs X870, which is the best choice? X670 Chipset The X670 chipset is the older of ... Read more
At least, we can hope! I thought I should do a new, almost introductory, post on the Blog as there are a load of people migrating from what we affectionately call ‘The Hellsite’ over to its logical replacement – Bluesky. I’m David F Chapman, but you can find me online on most platforms under the ... Read more
Boasting a powerful AMD Ryzen 8940H CPU, and an AMD RX 7600M XT discrete graphics card, the GEEKOM APro8 Max is poised to set new standards in performance and visual capabilities. Renowned as the Green Mini PC global leader, GEEKOM is debuting at CES 2024, ready to showcase its latest innovations. With two decades of industry expertise, ... Read more
Finding out what controls the formation of sensory legs meant growing sea robins from eggs. The research team observed that the legs of sea robins develop from the three pectoral fin rays that are around the stomach area of the fish, then separate from the fin as they continue to develop. Among the most active ... Read more
Introduction The GPU memory hierarchy is increasingly becoming an area of interest for deep learning researchers and practitioners alike. By building an intuition around memory hierarchy, developers can minimize memory access latency, maximize memory bandwidth, and reduce power consumption leading to shorter processing times, accelerated data transfer, and cost-effective compute usage. A thorough understanding of ... Read more
Introduction The era has arrived where your phone or computer can understand the objects of an image, thanks to technologies like YOLO and SAM. Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) can instantly identify objects in images and separate them without needing to be trained on specific images. It’s like a digital magician, able to understand each ... Read more
Introduction The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has marked a significant advancement in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI). During this period, Cloud Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) offered by Paperspace + DigitalOcean have emerged as pioneers in providing high-quality NVIDIA GPUs, pushing the boundaries of computational technology. NVIDIA, was founded in 1993 by three ... Read more
Open-source datasets have significantly democratized access to high-quality data, lowering the barriers of entry for developers and researchers to train cutting-edge generative AI models. By providing free access to diverse, high-quality, and well-curated datasets, open-source datasets enable the open-source community to train models at or close to the frontier, facilitating the rapid advancement of AI. ... Read more
Google’s NotebookLM, got a big upgrade, giving users more control over its AI-generated audio conversations in podcast style. NotebookLM, initially rolled out as a tool for summarizing information, now lets people guide these summaries in ways that better match their needs, particularly when creating audio overviews. The feature upgrade comes alongside a new business pilot ... Read more
We have talked a lot about the capabilities and potential of Deep Learning Image Generation here on the Paperspace by DigitalOcean Blog. Not only are image generation tools fun and intuitive to use, but they are one of the most widely democratized and distributed AI models available to the public. Really, the only Deep Learning ... Read more
In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and data science, the demand for scalable, efficient, and flexible infrastructure has never been higher. Traditional infrastructure can often struggle to meet the demands of modern AI workloads, leading to bottlenecks in development and deployment processes. As organizations strive to deploy AI models and data-intensive applications at scale, ... Read more
Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends With so many excellent streaming services out there, finding the perfect fit for you can be more difficult than anticipated. This only gets more complicated if you’re cutting the cord with cable, but still want to stream live TV. If your household lives for sports, then one of the best ... Read more
The developers behind Tales of Kenzera: ZAU risk furloughing their entire staff if they do not find a publishing partner soon.Read More
IFA in Berlin hasn’t officially started yet, but so much news has come out of the pre-show already that it’s like Geek Christmas. Let’s keep the good times rolling with Lenovo, which has taken all the new that Intel announced this week and turned it into some very sleek portable PCs. All of these new ... Read more
There are multiple layers to a Clans battle. There is your actual movement, which can take getting used to, with your legs moving on their own trajectory while you swivel your torso. There is your squad and how they’re deployed, which takes up many of your background thought cycles. And there is your mech, its heating levels, ... Read more
PerformancePSU Verdict: 4.8/5 View on Amazon From the Reviewer The Xtrfy K4 Retro TKL is priced at £89.99 in the UK and we feel is the perfect price point for the incredible quality on offer. The RGB lighting is crisp and saturated, and the typing experience is reasonable but could easily be improved with some ... Read more
Taiwan’s semiconductor manufacturer TSMC has caught the eye of U.S. authorities, who’ve started investigating whether the company has been providing chips to Huawei. The U.S. Department of Commerce wants to determine if TSMC has breached regulations by supplying the Chinese tech firm, which has long been subject to export restrictions. According to reports, this investigation ... Read more
Archetype AI has introduced an AI model called Newton that can grasp physical phenomena without needing humans to provide any training or rules. The model processes raw sensor data to make accurate predictions across various fields, from mechanics to energy systems, by analyzing patterns instead of being given specific equations. Learning Without Help from Humans ... Read more
Hong Kong-based electronics firm InnLead has launched a 15.6-inch 4K Edge OLED 5D portable monitor that offers some unique features. It has a magnetic back that allows you to attach accessories to the display à la MagSafe. Some of these accessories include a magnetic cover stand, a snap stand, a wireless RGB monitor light bar, ... Read more
DataPelago last week emerged from stealth with a new virtualization layer that it says will allow users to move AI, data analytics, and ETL workloads to whatever physical processor they want, without making code changes, thereby bringing potentially large new efficiency and performance gains to the fields of data science, data analytics, and data engineering, ... Read more
Standard CPU coolers, while adequate for managing basic thermal loads, often fall short in terms of noise reduction and superior cooling efficiency. This limitation drives advanced users and system builders to seek aftermarket solutions tailored to their specific needs. The high-end aftermarket cooler market is highly competitive, with manufacturers striving to offer products with exceptional ... Read more
Sabrent’s lineup of internal and external SSDs is popular among enthusiasts. The primary reason is the company’s tendency to be among the first to market with products based on the latest controllers, while also delivering an excellent value proposition. The company has a long-standing relationship with Phison and adopts its controllers for many of their ... Read more
Ultraman is having a great 2024, between the launch of the latest giant of light in Ultraman Arc, and his stylish animated debut in Netflix’s Ultraman Rising. But now Japan’s beloved size-changing hero is getting an international infusion of killer artwork from a host of famous artists in the latest drop for the Ultraman trading card game. ... Read more
We are living in a wonderful time when there are two great space horror RPGs on the market. I own both Alien and Mothership because they have their own strengths. Alien lives in the iconic space horror setting and lets players try to survive against the infamous Xenomorph, the hard laws of space and the ... Read more
Improving the sustainability of manufacturing involves optimizing entire product lifecycles — from material sourcing and transportation to design, production, distribution and end-of-life disposal. According to the International Energy Agency, reducing the carbon footprint of industrial production by just 1% could save 90 million tons of CO₂ emissions annually. That’s equivalent to taking more than 20 ... Read more
In its heyday, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 era produced many still-ongoing franchises, but few have endured quite as interestingly as Borderlands. Gearbox Software’s shooter-RPG series has been so definitive and so infamous for so long in ways that will never truly go away. At the same time, it’s always been itself: for better ... Read more
Big events like New York Comic-Con give publishers a good reason to tee up some upcoming comics and big events to come throughout the next year. Marvel already revealed their 2025 lineup will include Doctor Doom ruling the planet and an all-new Ultimate Wolverine, but what’s going on with DC? We broke down five of ... Read more
It’s September, which brings the annual Apple crops: new iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods. At its recent Glowtime event, Apple unveiled the new iPhone 16 lineup, Apple Watch Series 10, and AirPods 4, alongside smaller announcements about existing products. As always, the enhancements in the new products are evolutionary, making them attractive to anyone already ... Read more
Drawn for an upcoming novel by Jason Tondro, this started out as an isometric map of a Roman settlement for a setting with more magic (and a lot more necromancy) than the real world and slowly morphed into more of an illustration of the same. It still works as a map but is significantly more ... Read more
(Rawpixel/Shutterstock) As part of a blockbuster deal between two tech giants, Accenture and NVIDIA have expanded their partnership to form the NVIDIA Business Group to train 30,000 Accenture employees on NVIDIA’s full AI technology stack. The training’s goal is to equip Accenture employees with the knowledge and skills to help global clients reinvent processes and ... Read more
Nobel committees have recognized the transformative power of artificial intelligence by honoring the developers of computational tools to study and design proteins with the chemistry prize, and pioneers of neural networks with the physics prize. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper from Google’s AI division DeepMind and David Baker from the University of Washington were awarded ... Read more
Vision-language models are among the advanced artificial intelligence AI systems designed to understand and process visual and textual data together. These models are known to combine the capabilities of computer vision and natural language processing tasks. The models are trained to interpret images and generate descriptions about the image, enabling a range of applications such ... Read more
Satellites do not have the capability to directly measure wind speeds, so they make estimates based upon other observable variables, using instruments such as a scatterometer. Yes, that’s a real word. By these indirect estimates, Oscar had sustained winds between 48 mph and 63 mph (77 kph to 101 kph), which remains well below the ... Read more
Samsung has already released plenty of hardware in 2024, but it’s not done yet. The Korean technology heavyweight has revealed two new tablets, a phone and watch updates today. Samsung’s tablet lineup has expanded with the new Galaxy Tab S10+ or Tab S10 Ultra, and budget phone buyers will be able to pick up a ... Read more
Introduction Over the last few years, a growing interest has been in testing the adversarial robustness of natural language processing (NLP) models. The research in this area covers new techniques for generating adversarial examples and defending against them. Comparing these attacks directly is challenging because they are evaluated on different data and victim models. Replicating ... Read more
I’m excited to announce that Dreamland writer Aaron Vanek and I will be attending the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon on October 4-6 (next weekend)!! We will be running two Dreamland games at Battlegrounds Gaming Cafe (3738 NE Sandy Point Blvd), as well as doing a panel discussion on “Filming the Dreamlands”! *************** ... Read more
With the introduction of the new iPad Mini, Apple made it clear that a software experience brimming with AI is the way forward. And if that meant making the same kind of internal upgrades to a tablet that costs nearly half as much as its flagship phone, the company would still march forward. However, its ... Read more
Apple unveiled the new iPad mini (2024), bringing Apple Intelligence along with the A17 Pro chip, among other upgrades, to the tablet. For artists and content creators, those upgrades will enhance their creative process during projects, whether it’s making digital art or creating an icon, banner, or social media posts for their platforms. Of course, ... Read more
Stress testing your GPU can be helpful if you have brought a prebuilt gaming PC, have built a new gaming PC or if you are an overclocker who needs to test the stability of your overclock. Essentially, GPU stress testing is used to push your graphics card hardware to the limits of stability to ensure ... Read more
It might have taken a while, and slumping sales of its most popular SUV, but Nissan has finally taken the step to offer hybrid vehicles in the U.S. The Japanese automaker will add a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) powertrain to the 2026 Rogue compact SUV, which should be available stateside sometime next year, Nissan Americas ... Read more
Aether Nexus character sheets! You all know I love RPG character sheets. Here’s my collection of Aether Nexus sheets that I expect to keep growing as the game is new. Fantasy? Check! Anime vibes? Check! Mecha? Check! Aether Nexus is a fantasy mech RPG from Absolute Tabletop. From the DriveThruRPG description: “Aether Nexus is a ... Read more
High Point announced a new up to 192TB true Gen5 x16 NVMe storage performance solution tested with the popular ASUS PRO WS WRX90E Sage SE motherboard. Last April HighPoint announced the industry’s first Gen5 NVMe AIC to deliver 56GB/s transfer speed & 64TB of storage for Intel & AMD desktop platforms, with HighPoint’s Rocket 1608A. ... Read more
What started as two classmates seeking a free graduation trip to Bali subsidized by a university project ended up as an AI-driven sea-cleaning boat prototype built of empty water bottles, hobbyist helicopter blades and a GoPro camera. University of Hong Kong grads Sidhant Gupta and Utkarsh Goel have since then made a splash with their ... Read more
Anthropic has kicked off a fresh wave of AI safety evaluations, pushing its Claude models to the edge to find out just how capable they might be of sabotaging systems, code, or human decisions. The company has taken a step beyond traditional safety testing, moving into a space where AI’s ability to manipulate or disrupt ... Read more
Japan Display Inc. (JDI) has been demonstrating its ZINNSIA technology, which can convert a very wide range of materials into capacitive touch surfaces. Earlier in the week, at its exhibition at CEATEC 2024 at Makuhari Messe near Tokyo, it invited visitors to interact with a multitude of interactive touch experiences featuring materials such as wood, ... Read more
Enchanting Designs: Each Mystery Dice Goblin set is a masterpiece of design, featuring mesmerizing patterns and colors that are sure to catch the eye. From swirling galaxies to shimmering hues, each die is a unique work of art. This variety ensures that your dice are not just tools for gameplay, but also conversation starters at the ... Read more
Cougar, established in 2008, has become a notable name in the PC hardware market, particularly among gamers and enthusiasts. While Cougar might appear to be a relatively recent addition to the industry, it is backed by HEC/Compucase, a veteran in the PC market known primarily for its OEM products. Cougar was created as a subsidiary ... Read more
iBUYPOWER is a U.S.-based company known for its custom-built gaming PCs and peripherals. Established in 1999, the company offers a wide range of self-branded products, including pre-built desktop computers, laptops, and gaming accessories. These products are designed to cater to various performance needs, from casual gaming to high-end competitive gaming. iBUYPOWER is particularly recognized for ... Read more
We worked with a large energy provider over 2 years to provide them with a wide range of computers for heavy LIDAR processing, laser scanning, VR, and engineering. The Need for Energy Capability – Super Tower of Power (2021) We first interacted with the metrology team in early 2021, talking with the metrology director about ... Read more
Corsair, a longstanding and esteemed manufacturer in the PC components industry, initially built its reputation on memory-related products. However, nearly two decades ago, Corsair began diversifying its product line. This expansion started cautiously, with a limited number of products, but quickly proved to be highly successful, propelling Corsair into the industry powerhouse it is today. ... Read more
Dear InvestigatorThe following email sequence was found on the work laptop of Ms. Charpentier six days after their apartment burnt down and they were declared missing. Amidst our review of her work laptop’s contents, we feel these emails better fall under your purview. Please comment and take action as necessary.Yours, The Dept of The Interior, ... Read more
Godzilla Minus One was one of the biggest, surprises of 2023, and one of the year’s best in general. It’s alredy made its way to streaming and physical formats, but if you’ve been chomping to see it in theaters again, Toho’s more than happy to oblige. The Oscar-winning hit will play in theaters one more time ... Read more
These missions require medium-lift rockets, or smaller rockets capable of a high-rate launch cadence to match the capability of a larger launch vehicle. In June, the Space Force selected SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space company, to compete for Lane 1 launch task orders. Military officials will add more companies to the pool ... Read more
Back at San Diego Comic-Con, Paramount revealed our first look at the long-awaited Michelle Yeoh Star Trek: Discovery spinoff, Section 31. From the long road of a TV show in the earliest days of Trek‘s streaming expansion to now a streaming-exclusive movie headlined by an Oscar-winning actress, the footage was bound to make a splash either way. ... Read more
The fourth season of Lower Decks was an excellent course-correction from season three’s aimless conclusion, which felt like it set the show up for a bright new future that truly evolved where the series was going. So imagine our surprise—and that of the collective Trek‘s fandom—when we learned that season five would ultimately be the animated ... Read more
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Makers of the finest Swiss-made Espresso makers, Olympia Express has a heritage of building precise machinery for home baristas. With the introduction of Siemens Digital Industries software, opportunities not previously possible have been brewing, learns Emilie Eisenberg Prized by coffee experts, for over 95 years Olympia Express’ espresso machines have built a cult following in ... Read more
Surgent Studios is not the only studio to publicly admit to having trouble securing funding. Rachel Kaser recognizes the honesty.Read More
Philadelphia Racing Products, a high-performance aftermarket automotive parts manufacturer, is continuously evolving to meet the rigorous standards of racing enthusiasts. Established in 1991, feeding the demand for street and performance racing, company founder Julius John Schonberger III saw an opportunity to shift the company’s focus from selling ready-made parts to designing and manufacturing automotive components ... Read more
Are you planning to upgrade to a new iPhone 16? It’s exciting, we know, but it’s best to proceed deliberately when setting up your new iPhone to avoid causing yourself headaches. Follow these instructions when you’re ready to transfer your data—and, for many people, much of your digital life—to the new iPhone. Apple also has ... Read more
Nvidia announced it has contributed foundational elements of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Shared at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose today, Nvidia said that key portions of the design of its full rack Blackwell system, called the GB200 NVL72, will be contributed to the OCP community. ... Read more
I listened to a rather enlightening theory recently known as the “Dead Internet Theory”. In it, it discusses the fact that the ‘content’ we put online, is lost in a sea of replicated and AI generated crap, designed to tick boxes that are read by other bots and AI routines. It speculates that over half ... Read more
People often associate artificial intelligence with chatbots like ChatGPT, which generates human-like text by predicting the next word based on large datasets. However, a quiet revolution is underway, where scientists are leveraging AI for groundbreaking research and discoveries. In a recent study, researchers have used AI to uncover more than 160,000 potential RNA virus species, ... Read more
Introduction The transformer-based diffusion models are improving day by day and have proven to revolutionize the text-to-image generation model. The capabilities of transformers enhance the scalability and performance of any model, thereby increasing the model’s complexity. 💡 “With great power comes great responsibility“ In this case, with great model complexities comes great power and memory ... Read more
Low Power-High Performance OPINION Minimizing system power consumption and data access latency in AI inference-optimized edge devices. The children’s fairy tale of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ describes the adventures of Goldi as she tries to choose among three choices for bedding, chairs, and bowls of porridge. One meal is “too hot,” the other “too ... Read more
In the realm of high-performance IC (integrated circuit) design, symmetry is not just an aesthetic preference—it’s a critical factor for ensuring proper device functionality, especially in analog and RF designs. Achieving symmetry early in the design process helps to ensure consistent electrical behavior, which is essential for meeting performance goals and maintaining device reliability. However, ... Read more
Available starting July, the new top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 9950X delivers the fastest consumer desktop performance in the world, according to AMD. During Computex 2024, AMD announced what the company says is “a groundbreaking series of next-generation architecture and products aimed at ushering in a new era of AI experiences.” AMD is introducing new AMD Ryzen ... Read more
It was only a few months ago that we learned Prime Video, Blur Studios, and Deadpool director Tim Miller had a video game series called Secret Level in the works. Instead of focusing on one specific game like most shows in the genre do, Secret Level is an anthology focusing on a variety of big triple-A and ... Read more
The combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Neuroscience is still an exciting domain for scientific research. The study of human cognition intersects with intelligent machine development, catalyzing advances for both fields. This symbiotic relationship has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of cognition and develop more accurate diagnostics/ treatments for neurological diseases. Artificial Intelligence is ... Read more
Every year, independent British bookshops come together to celebrate Bookshop Day in October. This year, D3D has compiled our favourite design-led books, spanning a wide range of themes so there’s something for everyone. Recent releases: Everlasting Plastics edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt, Lauren Leving, Joanna Joseph and Tizziana Baldenebro Everlasting Plastics explores the “infinite ways plastics ... Read more
FLUX has been taking the internet by storm this past month, and for good reason. Their claims of superiority to models like DALLE 3, Ideogram, and Stable Diffusion 3 have proven well founded. With capability to use the models being added to more and more popular Image Generation tools like Stable Diffusion Web UI Forge ... Read more
REVIEW – The first expansion of Rogue Trader, astonishing in both size and complexity, introduces a previously unknown world: the brutal world within the hidden recesses of our own spaceship. The first DLC for the Warhammer 40,000 RPG that I’m already familiar with promises a world that is both familiar and yet unknown. The ... Read more
TECH REVIEW – Huawei’s GT Pro series operates on a two-year upgrade cycle, so while we saw the Watch GT4 last year, there was no GT4 Pro. Now, the GT5 line has arrived in both Pro and non-Pro versions, with each model coming in two sizes: larger and smaller. I had the chance to ... Read more
Indulge in the rich flavors of the sea with this Exquisite Lobster Bisque. Velvety smooth and infused with the delicate aroma of saffron, this decadent soup is a true culinary masterpiece, perfect for special occasions.
Culinary Elegance / Gourmet Seafood / Lobster Bisque / Saffron Infusion
Make mornings brighter with this Effortless Veggie Omelette Roll. Packed with colorful bell peppers, juicy tomatoes, and gooey cheddar cheese, this rolled omelette is not only easy to make but also a delight for the taste buds.
Elevate your brunch experience with this luxurious Smoked Salmon and Avocado Eggs Royale. Perfectly poached eggs rest on a bed of smoked salmon and creamy avocado, all crowned with a rich hollandaise sauce. It's a sophisticated twist on the classic Eggs Royale.
Avocado Delight / Eggs Royale / Gourmet Brunch / Smoked Salmon
These Roasted Stuffed Bell Peppers are a delicious and wholesome dish that combines the sweetness of bell peppers with a flavorful and protein-packed filling. Perfect for a family dinner or entertaining guests, this easy recipe is a crowd-pleaser.
Festive Stuffed Peppers / Flavorful Vegetarian / Nutrient-Rich Entree / Vibrant Capsicum Delight
Indulge in the vibrant flavors of the Mediterranean with this Quinoa Power Bowl. Packed with protein, fresh vegetables, and the distinctive taste of feta, this dish is not only delicious but also a nutritious powerhouse.
Mediterranean Fusion / Nutrient-Rich Superfood / Protein-Packed Delight / Wholesome Grain Bowl
Transport your taste buds to Thailand with this delightful Thai Coconut Curry Mussels recipe. Succulent mussels swim in a rich and aromatic coconut curry broth, creating a harmonious blend of flavors that will impress your dinner guests.
Exotic Flavors / Mussels Delight / Seafood Curry / Thai Coconut Curry
Elevate your dinner with this Creamy Mushroom and Spinach Stuffed Chicken. Juicy chicken breasts are filled with a rich and savory mixture of mushrooms, spinach, and cheese, then smothered in a velvety cream sauce. It's a dish that combines elegance with comforting flavors, perfect for entertaining or a family gathering.
Culinary Elegance / Epicurean Cuisine / Gourmet Delight / Savory Indulgence
Indulge in a delightful brunch experience with Sun-Dried Tomato and Feta Stuffed French Toast. Creamy, tangy filling encased in golden, crispy bread creates a perfect harmony of flavors, making this dish a savory twist on the classic sweet French toast.
Brunch Delight / Gourmet Breakfast / Mediterranean Fusion / Savory French Toast
Indulge in the simplicity of flavors with this Lemon Butter Garlic Shrimp Pasta. Succulent shrimp are bathed in a luscious lemon butter garlic sauce, creating a quick and easy yet wonderfully satisfying meal.
Easy Shrimp Pasta / Lemon Butter Garlic / Quick Seafood Dinner / Weeknight Delight