New Xbox developer kit spotted on Korean regulator’s website — some new console to be released this year
Microsoft is working on an updated version of the Xbox game console. The South Korean Radio Research Agency (RRA) recently certified the new Xbox Development Kit (XDK) for testing. As a rule, such certifications precede the launch of a new product several months in advance. In the case of the Xbox 360, the certification came only a month before its…
Google Deepmind and FC «Liverpool» have created a football coach based on artificial intelligence
Google DeepMind and Premier League club «Liverpool» have created a prototype of the TacticAI artificial intelligence model for football training. The DeepMind lab, which has previously used AI for complex board games such as Go, notes that AI can be trained on patterns that can be seen on sports fields.
The second trailer of the movie «Furiosa: Mad Max. Saga» — a lot of plot
The second trailer of the film «Furiosa, full of plot details, has been released: Mad Max. The» Saga, which depicts the conflict between Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, and Dementus (Chris Hemsworth).
NVIDIA unveiled the Blackwell architecture, B200 GPUs, NVLINK 7.2T interface, B200 NVL72 servers, and supercomputers based on it
At the GTC March 2024 Keynote event, NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell chip architecture and B200 GPUs based on it. The new GPUs with AI capabilities will replace the retiring H100 and H200 in data centers. Grace Blackwell GB200 chips will combine the Grace architecture with Blackwell.
Russia is striking Ukraine with satellite photos it buys from US companies — The Atlantic with reference to the Ukrainian military
An unnamed Ukrainian military source told the journalist The Atlantic Graham Wood that in his opinion, Russian cruise missile strikes against Ukraine are directed using satellite imagery provided by American companies. According to the source, the sequence is clear: a satellite takes images of a location, and a missile arrives a few days or weeks…
Netflix showed the trailer of the movie «Rebel Moon. Part 2: The One That Leaves Scars» Zack Snyder — premiere on April 19
Netflix has released the first official trailer for the movie «Rebel Moon. Part 2: The One That Scars» directed by Zack Snyder. The movie will be released on April 19.
New hand: Ukrainian bionic prostheses Esper Hand allow to use a soldering iron and assemble drones — video by the Ministry of Digital Transformation
Wounded Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Mykola received a Ukrainian-made Esper Hand bionic prosthesis after treatment in the United States, which allowed him to join the drone assembly program at home. Video of the man at work, published Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov.
NASA supercomputers are outdated and hardly use video cards — official report
NASA works with the world’s leading technologies and makes important discoveries for humanity However, according to a special report NASA Office of Inspector General, NASA’s supercomputers are outdated and insufficient for the tasks at hand, resulting in mission delays. NASA supercomputers still rely primarily on CPUs.
Shared DisplayPort and HDMI connectors: the Steam Machine prototype did this 11 years ago
One of the first prototypes of Steam Machine, the Xi3 Piston mini-PC, was reviewed in detail on the Bringus Studios YouTube channel. This PC of 2013 runs Windows instead of the Linux-based SteamOS operating system. According to Bringus Studios’ tests, the PC that Xi3 later released under the name Piston has mediocre gaming performance, and…
SpaceX is building a spy satellite network for the Pentagon — Reuters
SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a secret contract with the US intelligence agency, the agency reported Reuters five sources familiar with the program. The spy network is being built by SpaceX’s Starshield business unit under a $1.8 billion contract signed in 2021 with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
PlayStation 5 Pro specs leak — tangible performance boost, Christmas release
Website Insider Gaming confirms from its own sources that the PlayStation 5 Pro specifications, which were previously leaked to the Internet via the YouTube channel Moore’s Law is Dead, are a real leak, despite the channel’s criticism, and the release of the PlayStation 5 Pro is focused on the Christmas holidays of 2024.
SBU prevents supply of thousands of components «Shahedin» and cruise missiles to Russia — Head of Department
SBU digital technology specialists are constantly working to block the supply of weapons components to Russia and have already blocked the supply of components for the production of cruise missiles and drones «Shahed». This was announced during a telethon by Ilya Vitiuk, Head of the SBU Cyber Security Department.
The fourth season of the series «Snowpiercer» will be released in early 2025 — it was completely filmed before the suspension
The previously canceled fourth season of «Snowpiercer» has been given a new «home» and will be released in early 2025. Tomorrow Studios’ TV adaptation of the graphic novel series by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette first aired on TNT in 2020. In the summer of 2021, the series starring David Diggs and Jennifer Connelly was renewed for…
«Black Mirror» will get season 7 in 2025, with the continuation of one of the most interesting episodes
Netflix’s long-running anthology series «Black Mirror» will return with season 7 next year, and it will continue with the fan-favorite episode USS Callister.
Arm unveils new processors and technologies for self-driving cars — deliveries to manufacturers from 2025
On March 13, 2024, Arm announced Arm Automotive Enhanced (AE), processors for self-driving cars, and Arm Compute Subsystem for Automotive, a new development system for automakers and their suppliers. Arm claims that this initiative can «reduce the development cycle of AI-enabled vehicles by up to two years».
US House of Representatives bans TikTok, bill sent to Senate
On Wednesday, March 13, the U.S. House of Representatives supported a bill to ban TikTok in the United States. The bill requires the video service to be separated from the Chinese parent company ByteDance within 6 months, and if this does not happen, TikTok will be banned in the country.
Google DeepMind has created SIMA, an AI model that plays games. They don’t know why — yet.
Google’s DeepMind lab has unveiled SIMA — a learning artificial intelligence model that will play games for you. It’s customized to play more like a human than a superhuman artificial intelligence. SIMA, which stands for Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, is currently just a research experiment.
Ukraine will mass-produce combat and cargo ground drones — Mykhailo Fedorov
Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov wrote in FacebookThe company has announced that Ukraine will start mass production of ground drones (robotic platforms) for various purposes. According to Fedorov, the Brave1 platform has already tested more than 50 models at the test site.
Jonathan Nolan: «We know everything about Fallout 5» — Todd Howard asked the series team to avoid contradictions with the upcoming game
Bethesda Game Studios CEO Todd Howard asked the producers of the Fallout series not to include certain secret things in it, as the developer plans to use them in Fallout 5. In a conversation with Den of Geek The creators of the series did not disclose the details of their show or games, but spoke about the close relationship between their lore.
The «Golden Raspberry*] Award for Worst Film: «Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey*] and «The Expendables 4*] are in the lead.
The annual «Golden Raspberry» competition, which celebrates the worst films, this year focused on the fourth film «The Expendables» and the horror «Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey», which received five undesirable awards.
One step closer to banning TikTok in the US: committee supports bill, Biden to sign
The US Congress Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously (50 votes to 0) supported a bill that would require the Chinese company ByteDance to either get rid of the TikTok app or face a ban in the US. The House of Representatives is to consider the draft “Protecting Americans from Apps Controlled by Foreign Adversaries Act” next week.
On Friday, Bitcoin briefly hit a price record of $70,000
On Friday, the price of Bitcoin broke a new record and exceeded $70,000 for the first time in history. According to Coin Metrics, at one point it rose to $70,170, surpassing the previous record set on Tuesday. The cryptocurrency ends the week with a 10% increase and a price of $68,504.
Steam Deck OLED screen burns out 2.3 times faster than Switch OLED — YouTuber’s experiment
The Steam Deck OLED console has shown little burn-in after a 1500-hour stress test conducted by YouTuber Wulff Den. Although 1500 hours or 63 days is a long time, the OLED version of the Steam Deck experienced burn-in much faster than the Switch OLEDwhich, as Wulff Den demonstrated earlier, burned out in about 3500 hours.
Ukrainian studio Frogwares announces The Sinking City 2 — to be released in 2025
During the Xbox Partner Preview, Ukrainian studio Frogwares announced a partnership with Microsoft and presented The Sinking City 2. The development team at Frogware hopes that The Sinking City 2 will be able to turn the studio’s work in a new direction when the game is released on PC and consoles in 2025.
The trilogy of original games S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone trilogy released today on Xbox and PS for $39.99 — trailer
The trilogy of classic games S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone trilogy has been released on Xbox and PlayStation consoles. The Legends of the Zone edition is available in the Microsoft Store for $39.99 and includes all three S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat, with each game costing $19.99 individually.
Google will increase its opposition to SEO and commercial content on search sites — more content will be considered spam
Google announced an update to its search algorithms which should provide more useful content to the user, while more results will be labeled as spam. The company «is refining» its ranking system to better determine whether web pages are truly useful, have a poor user experience, and are not designed for search engines rather than people.
We’ve had our fun, and that’s it: Microsoft stops supporting Android apps in Windows 11
The Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) allowed Android applications to run on Windows. Now we can talk about it in the past tense because Microsoft has decided to close the project and cancel access to new programs right now.
Anthropic Introduces New Claude 3 AI Model: Beats ChatGPT and Gemini
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company founded by several former OpenAI employees, says its new Claude 3 family of artificial intelligence models performs as well or better than competitors from Google and OpenAI. Unlike previous versions, Claude 3 is a multimodal model capable of understanding text and image input.
Baldur’s Gate 3 — the first game for Xbox on 4 disks: release may be pushed back to April
The Xbox version of Baldur’s Gate 3 will come on a four disks, developer Larian Studios has explained. This is the first Xbox Series X game to be released on such a large number of disks.
SpaceX and T-Mobile get 17 Mbps download speeds from Starlink satellite to a regular Samsung Android phone
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he has achieved a maximum download speed of 17 Mbps from the Starlink satellite to an unmodified Samsung Android phone.
Experimental AI «worm» Morris II infects users through email clients and self-repairing prompts
A team of researchers has created an AI-based artificial «worm», a malware that can steal data, spread other malware, and spam others via email. A «worm» called Morris II has been developed and successfully operates in a test environment using popular LLMs.
The film «Dune» was shot with Ukrainian IronGlass lenses — the film’s cameraman and an employee of the company
Some of the lenses used in the movie «Dune» were made by the Ukrainian company IronGlass. This was told by the company’s employee Kostyantyn Harkavyi and the film’s cinematographer Greig Fraser.
Not just cars: 5 more projects that Apple killed
Recently it became known that Apple has stopped its decade-long efforts to create its own car codenamed Project Titan —, the tech giant was working on an electric car with autonomous driving functions. But this is not the first time Apple has abandoned projects.
*We are still working for the benefit of all humanity: OpenAI denies allegations in Elon Musk’s lawsuit
OpenAI leaders disagreed with claims of Elon MuskThey believe that Musk is simply upset that he is no longer part of the AI company. They believe that Musk is simply upset that he is no longer part of a company that develops artificial intelligence.
Xpanceo smart contact lenses at MWC 2024: XR, vision empowerment, health monitoring
The four Xpanceo smart contact lenses with different functions shown at Mobile World Congress 2024 will be combined into one universal device in the future. This will happen when the company is able to develop materials that are thin and transparent enough for this purpose. So far, each of the prototypes demonstrates separate developments:
Trailer for Terminator: Survivors — open-world survival game to be released on October 24
The open-world survival game based on «Terminator» has a name and a release date: the trailer for Terminator: Survivors promises a release on Steam on October 24.
Streaming TV: Max and Paramount Plus merger will not take place, shares of the companies fall
In December, we reported that streaming TV services Max and Paramount Plus were seriously discussing joining forces. The companies were considering a merger that would allow them to better compete with Disney Plus/Hulu and Netflix. This could have meant combining Max and Paramount Plus services into one super streamer.
Faster than some SSDs: Samsung introduces 256GB microSD SD Express cards with 800MB/s and 1TB UHS-1 with V-NAND
Samsung introduced a new generation of microSD memory cards. The company has started testing the memory card microSD SD Express 256 GB card with a sequential read speed of up to 800 MB/s, and announced the start of mass production of 1 TB UHS-1 cards.
The Watchers: trailer for the first film by M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter — in theaters from June 6
Warner Bros. has released a trailer for the upcoming horror film «The Watchers*], written and directed by Ishana Knight Shyamalan, daughter of the famous director M. Night Shyamalan, — her directorial debut. The film, based on the gothic horror novel by A.H. Shine, stars Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan and others. The…
Apple refuses to create an electric car — Mark Gurman
Apple is ending a decade-long effort to build an electric car, according to insiders. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg says that on Tuesday, the company surprised the 2,000 employees who worked on the project with this decision.
S-200 SAM: could a 60-year-old weapon shoot down an A-50?
Destruction of an A-50 reconnaissance aircraft by an anti-aircraft missile S-200 complex has drawn the attention of many to this Soviet air defense system, which was considered obsolete and allegedly decommissioned in Ukraine in 2013. The conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war at the stage of full-scale invasion encourage the Ukrainian Defense…
Android will have a convenient selection of Spotify Connect devices — without having to open the app to change the audio source
Google is launching Spotify Connect support in Android’s Media Switcher to improve the cross-device experience. Spotify Connect devices will appear next to your phone’s paired Bluetooth headphones and speakers, as well as Cast devices.
Astronomers have discovered two unknown moons of Neptune and one of Uranus — in total, the planets have 16 and 28
Thanks to ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered three previously unknown satellites in the space around Uranus and Neptune: one orbiting Uranus and two around Neptune. Thus, the official number of Uranus’ satellites is 28, and Neptune’s is 16.
HMD’s upcoming innovations: Barbie folding phone and smartphone under its own brand
Human Mobile Devices, known as HMD, is working with Mattel to launch a Barbie flip phone and a smartphone under the HMD brand. Earlier, the company announced the HMD Fusion strategy — the development of new smartphones with various partners.
M&M’s candy vending machines recognized the faces of university students — they will be dismantled
Canada’s University of Waterloo is dismantling smart M&M’s vending machines from its campus. Students discovered that the machines were secretly performing facial recognition without students’ consent.
Ukrainian drones to receive artificial intelligence from German company Helsing
Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshyn and CEO of Helsing GmbH Gundbert Scherf signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of security and defense. Helsing is a German company that develops software and integrates artificial intelligence into defense technologies.
The Odysseus mission on the Moon almost crashed, due to a switched off switch — saved by luck and skill
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus spacecraft experienced difficulties and was nearly lost due to a human error — a switch not turned off before launch. The mistake disabled lasers designed to guide the spacecraft to a level, safe landing point, according to Intuitive Machines co-founder and CEO Steve Altemus.
Intel announces a new roadmap: 14A process, Clearwater Forest processors, and more
At the IFS Direct Connect 2024 event, Intel unveiled a new roadmap that includes a new 14A process, the industry’s first to use High-NA EUV technology, and the production of its Clearwater Forest processor wafer on the 18A process. Intel is pursuing its own goal of launching five process technologies in four years (5N4Y). Microsoft also…
It’s official: Microsoft releases Pentiment, Hi-Fi RUSH, Grounded, and Sea of Thieves on PlayStation and Switch
After many days of waiting for Microsoft confirmed rumors about the release of four of its exclusive games on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. As expected, these are Pentiment, Hi-Fi RUSH, Grounded, and Sea of Thieves.
First trailer for Borderlands — premiere on August 9, 2024
After yesterday’s teaser, the full debut trailer for Borderlands has now been released, giving a good idea of what to expect.
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