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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 drivers rely on every day to ensure a safe and comfortable commute. It is noted that the average modern car today has somewhere around 1500 computer chips and the most advanced cars can have as many as 3000! Figure 1 shows a wiring harness diagram … 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 pushed the limit up to 1440p, and ultra-high resolutions that were previously only supported at the Ultimate level are now supported. You can save your in-game graphics settings in the cloud so you don’t have to change them every time you start the game. Priority … 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 rights if you manage to finish it every day. While the NYT puzzle might feel like an impossible task some days, solving a crossword is a skill and it takes practice — don’t get discouraged if you can’t get every single word in a puzzle. … 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 contrasts with the second-generation Vision Pro, which isn’t expected until 2025/2026. The current Vision Pro, however, is receiving major AI-driven upgrades, designed to enhance user interactions and productivity. This aligns with Apple’s strategic approach to refining its mixed reality offerings, even as the market landscape … 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 match. Players are given six numbers and have the ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide them to get as close to the target as they can. Not every number needs to be used, though, so this game should put your math skills to the … 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), Steam Deck designers Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat weighed in on the product’s future. While they said they approve of competition in the space and how they can (and in some cases have) improve on the Steam Deck foundation, they’re not going to follow the … 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 the present. Nolan plans to shoot the film in early 2025, and Universal will release the movie in IMAX on July 17, 2026. That third weekend in July has become a staple for Nolan films, with Oppenheimer, Dunkirk, Inception, and The Dark Knight all receiving … 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 excellent desk is a significant upgrade for your day-to-day life. Whether you’re looking for a sit/stand desk to improve your posture, something affordable to tuck into a corner, or a big gaming desk with all the bells and whistles, here are some of the best … 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 folks are chomping at the bit to round out the trio of must-watch fantasy anime: Witch Hat Atelier. Witch Hat Atelier, created by Kamome Shirahama, follows Coco, a young girl who dreams of becoming a witch. However, the world of witches is shrouded in secrecy … 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 R’s.  Launched on Hugging Face on Oct. 15, the new Nvidia model is called Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct and is based on Meta’s open source Llama foundation models, specifically Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct Base. The Llama series of AI models were designed as open source foundations for developers to build upon.  … Read more