The Oscar-winning animated film «Flow» made in a free 3D modeling program
The other day took place 97th ceremony of the world’s main film award — «Oscar-2025». Quite unexpectedly, «Flow» became the best animated film, beating the hits «Inside Out 2» and «Wild Robot». Thus, the Latvian authors proved that it is possible to create decent animated films even without the big budgets of world-famous studios.…
No country for old men: AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards support only UEFI systems
AMD announced on its website that RX 9070 series graphics cards (RDNA 4) will require computers with UEFI. This means that the BIOS will no longer be supported.
Eutelsat instead of Starlink: Ukraine may get a new satellite internet service
Emotional statements, media leaks and the instability in relations between the US and Ukraine that has emerged in recent weeks have raised concerns about the future of Starlink satellite communications in our country. Satellite Internet from Elon Musk’s company plays an important role in meeting the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And…
NVIDIA partners are testing RTX 4090 with 96 GB of memory and will launch production soon, — insiders
The information about the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 96 GB graphics card seems fantastic against the background of release of the RTX 50 generation Blackwell, but it is confirmed by several sources.
Native Copilot for Windows released: new design, voice control, and more
Microsoft has finally released a full-fledged native version of Copilot for Windows. This happened almost a year after the company turned it into a regular web application. This week, members of the Windows Insider program got access to the updated Copilot, built using native XAML. It has a new sidebar and an improved interface.
First NVIDIA RTX 5070 benchmarks — 4070 Ti / Super performance
Reviewers have published the first tests of the RTX 5070 FE graphics card, which will be conditionally available tomorrow. This is the second time NVIDIA has positioned the card as accurately as possible relative to the previous generation.
AMD demonstrates ray tracing on Radeon RX 9070 XT — the demo did not impress commentators
AMD’s technical demonstration showcases achievements new Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards in ray tracing. But halos, artifacts, and «soap» are not very exciting.
NASA shows the moment of breaking the sound barrier — in a special image of the XB-1 jet flight
Boom Supersonic and NASA published a special photo taken during the flight of the XB-1 jet aircraft, which demonstrates the moment of breaking the sound barrier.
Microsoft fixes «annoying» bug in Copilot that gave tips on how to activate pirated Windows 11
It turns out that to find tips on how to activate pirated Windows — you just need to ask Copilot, Microsoft’s main AI chatbot, about it.
HMD introduces Amped Buds — headphones that charge your smartphone
HMD has presented a fresh look at wireless headphones. During MWC 2025, the company showed the Amped Earbuds model. Their feature is a case with Qi2 reverse charging function.
«Intel’s board to be fired, Pat Helsinger to be rehired», — former CEO Craig Barrett
Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett believes that the company should not divide its business into two parts.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite will get 18 cores, 48 GB of memory, 1 TB SSD and support for video cards — leak
German resource WinFuture shared new important features of the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processor. This is a next-generation chip for Windows PCs.
DeepSeek opens 3FS — file system code for AI training servers
During Open Source Week, DeepSeek made its Fire-Flyer Fire System (3FS) parallel file system publicly available. According to the company, 3FS reaches 7.3 TB/s aggregate read speed on its own server data clusters, where it has been used since 2019.
Lenovo unveiled Yoga Pro 9i with NVIDIA RTX 5070 from $1799 and ThinkPad with new Intel and AMD chips
At Mobile World Congress 2025, Lenovo expanded its Aura Edition laptop series with the introduction of the Yoga Pro 9i, and updated several ThinkPad devices.
Lenovo laptop with a solar panel, AI Ring, and other technical wonders of the company for MWC 2025
On the eve of Mobile World Congress (MWC), Lenovo is presenting a number of concepts, including a solar-powered Yoga, ThinkBook Flip with an 18.1″ sliding screen, and more.
Apple postpones «smart» Siri, AI assistant «moves» to iOS 20, — Mark Gurman
Apple had grand plans for «conversational» Siri and its AI features, but not everything is going according to schedule, an insider says.
AMD unveils Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards priced at $599 and $549
AMD has officially introduced new gaming graphics cards Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 on the RDNA 4 architecture.
Apple-1 desktop PC starting at $300,000 and other technical treasures of the company are up for auction
Unique Apple products, vintage devices, prototypes, and documents signed by Steve Jobs often sell for thousands of dollars. And now RR Auction has put up for sale a new batch of rare Apple products.
You just don’t need it: Apple explains the lack of MagSafe in the iPhone 16e by the unpopularity of wireless charging
An Apple representative said that the target audience iPhone 16e charges phones exclusively with a cable. I wonder why MagSafe is in other iPhones, though — is the audience so different?
It is 10 times faster than GPT-4o: Inception Labs unveils Mercury — the first diffusion speech model
For a long time, there have been active discussions about finding a better architecture for large language models (LLMs) that could become an alternative to transformers. It seems that California-based startup Inception Labs already has a promising solution. The company has introduced Mercury, the world’s first diffusion-based large language…
OpenAI has launched GPT-4.5, but with limited access — because «GPUs are out»
OpenAI presented GPT-4.5 is the largest AI text chat model to date, which is currently available with limitations in a trial version, but will be made available to the public soon.
Cable with alarm for NVIDIA RTX 5090 — enthusiast creates safer 12V-2×6 power connector
One of the owners of the video card developed a PCB for the NVIDIA RTX 5090 power cable that signals when one of the wires is too high.
Xiaomi 15 Ultra flagship priced from $895 — global release expected on March 2
Xiaomi 15 Ultra was released in two-color and monochrome versions, with a 5410 mAh battery, which were the main intrigues on the eve of the launch.
Google Translate «upgraded» with artificial intelligence — with explanation of grammar, regional features and change of translation styles
Soon, Google Translate may receive new artificial intelligence features that will allow users to interact with translations and get additional context (cultural and regional, in particular).
Apex Legends voice actors are forced to train the AI that will replace them
AI integration in the gaming industry has reached a new level — Electronic Arts makes Apex Legends voice actors work on their future firings.
Neural shaders under the microscope: where NVIDIA’s generative future will take us
With the release of the new generation of RTX Blackwell, NVIDIA quietly and without much fanfare showed where graphics will go next. Not only for games but also for other areas. Today we continue the topic that was set in Previous articleand try to understand why we will need neural shaders and the latest technologies […]
Amazon unveiled Alexa+ – personal voice AI assistant for $19.99 per month will keep an eye on your dog
Amazon has updated its website alexa.com and the Alexa mobile app so that Alexa+ subscribers can use the new, advanced AI-powered voice assistant.
NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti will come in 16GB and 8GB variants and consume 180W, — new leak
New data confirm two memory configurations NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti and reveal some details, including connectors and power supply.
AM4 forever: AMD releases six new Ryzen 5000G processors
AMD has quietly added 6 new processors to its Ryzen 5000G series aimed at budget consumers. These chips are designed for older motherboards with the AM4 socket.
Bypassing sanctions: DeepSeek FlashMLA improves the performance of NVIDIA H800 AI chips by 8 times
China may have found a way to circumvent the restrictions on the supply of powerful AI chips. DeepSeek FlashMLA technology multiplies the TFLOPS of the NVIDIA Hopper H800.
OpenAI has started deploying GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT Pro subscribers, public release is expected in the coming days
ChatGPT Pro subscribers have started receiving offers to try out GPT-4.5 — a new and not yet officially presented OpenAI artificial intelligence model.
Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google make premium AI features free — programming, deep analysis, and voice communication
Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google have announced major updates to their AI tools — they are now more widely available.
ASRock updates BIOS to fix issues with AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D — company says «spreading misinformation»
Beta version BIOS 3.20 for ASRock motherboards should fix the problems with a «small proportion of AMD Ryzen 9000 series». The manufacturer believes that rumors of problems are exaggerated.
French scientists hold fusion reaction for 22 minutes and break Chinese record
In France, scientists have set a new record for maintaining plasma combustion inside a fusion reactor, surpassing China’s previous achievement by 25%. At the same time, the French WEST fusion reactor broke China’s record set just a few weeks ago. Thus, another small but important step has been taken towards an almost unlimited clean…
Samsung patented lightweight AR/XR glasses with vision correction
Samsung is serious about making a breakthrough in the field of virtual and augmented reality — the company has invested in AR/XR glasses with vision correction and autofocus.
Anthropic introduced Claude 3.7 Sonnet — the first hybrid reasoning model and «the best AI for IT professionals»
Anthropic’s hybrid AI is distinguished by the fact that it combines the capabilities of standard and reasoning models — that is, it can provide both quick answers and detailed answers with step-by-step reasoning visible to the user (interestingly, the API even allows you to specify how many tokens the model can spend on reasoning).
Intel Panther Lake processors became a problem even before the release — the yield of usable 18A chips does not exceed 20-30%
Intel’s affairs have been symbolic of adversity lately, and well-known industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo «has thrown up» two more — Panther Lake 18A production and order difficulties.
The entire line of Apple iPhone 17 on a CAD rendering, — insider
The design of the Apple iPhone 17 has already caused a lot of emotions with its unusual shapes in previous renders. A well-known informant, Majin Bu offered a look at the entire line at once.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI does not generate any value: «When it does, it will be a good industry»
Satya Nadella shared unexpectedly tough and practical thoughts on the development of artificial intelligence. The Microsoft CEO believes it is necessary to check with reality.
Fake Seagate: used HDDs are sold as new, SMART parameters are erased
Recently, several independent investigations have revealed the sale of used Seagate hard drives that are being sold as new. In doing so, fraudsters erase usage records, change serial numbers, and modify labels to mislead customers. However, it is still possible to determine that the drive has been used, and there are several ways to detect such…
An enthusiast installed NVIDIA RTX 3050 as a PhysX accelerator for RTX 5090 — 157 FPS instead of 28 FPS in Mafia 2
The unexpected abandonment of PhysX 32-bit in RTX 50 leads to a significant slowdown in some games. The player used an NVIDIA RTX 3050 as a PhysX accelerator along with an RTX 5090.
NVIDIA RTX 5090 burned out again — this time not because of the cable
Meltdowns of the power connectors of the last two generations of NVIDIA graphics cards have unfortunately become commonplace. This time, however, neither the connectors nor the cables were involved.
Phishing on behalf of PayPal — hackers use real company emails
It seems that using real company servers is becoming a trend among hackers. Recently ITC.ua wrote about Google, now «in the sights of» PayPal users.
Some RTX 5070 Ti are up to 12% less efficient due to missing ROPs — NVIDIA has acknowledged the issue and advises to request a replacement
Following the RTX 5090, fewer ROP modules in chips noticed in the RTX 5070 Ti video cards. NVIDIA says 0.5% of defective chips.
AI chatbot test: Gemini hates insects, Grok is a good joker, and ChatGPT can’t do math
We decided to test popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots for performing fairly simple and common tasks. For this purpose, we chose Claude 3.5 Sonnet by Anthropic, DeepSeek R1 by DeepSeek, ChatGPT 4o by OpenAI, Grok 3 beta by xAI, Gemini 2.0 Flash by Google, and Le Chat by Mistral AI. Although the tasks were not […]
iPhone 16e lacks MagSafe — Apple explains that it’s not because of the new modem
After the launch of Apple’s iPhone 16e, it was widely believed that it did not support MagSafe due to the following features Apple’s first proprietary modem C1. The company dispelled these rumors.
The shortage continues: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti sold out on launch day
Predictably, the shortage of NVIDIA RTX 50 graphics cards has also affected the RTX 5070 Ti. A major British retailer reported running out of stock on the first day of sales.
Apple’s C1 5G modem in iPhone 16e improves battery life — iPhone 17 Air will probably get it
The iPhone 16e, announced yesterday, is the first to feature Apple’s own 5G modem. It doesn’t support mmWave high-speed communication technology, but it turned out to be very energy efficient
Microsoft releases Muse AI to generate game elements — «Fuck this shit», developers say
«The Invisible Hand» Microsoft has introduced the Muse generative AI model for game development. Developers are not too happy about it, but many are afraid to oppose it.
NVIDIA removes PhysX 32-bit in RTX 50 — early Borderlands, Metro, Mafia, and dozens more games will be left without effects
At one time, NVIDIA was heavily implementing PhysX technology, and it has taken root in many games, where it creates quite good effects. But on RTX 50 video cards You won’t see them.
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