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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 the lives of the game team — perha…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 a dedicated RAID card, a simple write request in, say, a RAID 5 array would involve two reads and two writes to different drives. In cases where there is no hardware acceleration, the data from the reads needs to travel all the way back to … 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 digital device like a notepad is one way of achieving more natural lines or including better detail in your sketches. While many of you will by now be adept at sketching on an iPad, the maximum 13-inch screen size can be restrictive. As a result, … 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 security is often difficult to achieve on existing self-hosted solutions. But it doesn’t have to be. Can generative AI deliver for your business? Senior executives and application developers understand the value that generative AI adds to business but to what extent? Accenture reports that organizations … 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 perspectives. Danny Shapiro, vice president of automotive at NVIDIA, led the wide-ranging conversation with Mark Rosekind, former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Marco Pavone, director of AV research at NVIDIA. To frame the discussion, Shapiro kicked off with a sobering comment … 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 the rising demand for privacy-focused and low-latency AI solutions. Targeting Local AI Processing The demand for AI models capable of running on personal devices has grown, as companies look for ways to ensure more secure, on-site data processing. Mistral says the new models can be … 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 with limited access to potable water. One possible solution is to tap into the remaining 97 percent of the water we have on Earth. The problem is that this water is saline, and we need to get the salt out of it to make it … 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 varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends. Some days are trickier than others. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And … 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

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 X1 series (and the subsequent Nytro-branded enterprise SSDs) is quite well-known. Seagate supplied the requirements list and had a say in the final firmware before qualifying the drives themselves for their datacenter customers. Such qualification involves a significant resource investment that is possible only by … Read more