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Palit showed NVIDIA RTX 4090 with 7" screen — it is unknown whether the concept will go into production

News Devices 06-02-2024 comment
Palit has introduced an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card with a 7″ screen and Lynk+ AIO modular cooling system. This seems to be the first graphics card with its own screen, at least this big. The 7-inch diagonal is like a small tablet or a large smartphone.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, along with executives from TSMC, MediaTek and Quanta, walked the night market in Taiwan

News IT business 06-01-2024 comment
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and the heads of some of the largest companies in the semiconductor business were spotted together at the Ningxia Night Market in Taiwan. TSMC founder Morris Chang, MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai, Quanta CEO Barry Lem, and famous architect Chris Yao were partying with NVIDIA CEO. The party took place on the eve of Computex 2024, and…

Geneva Motor Show closes after 119 years of history — due to lack of interest from manufacturers

News Auto 06-01-2024 comment
The organizers have announced that the international Geneva Motor Show with more than a century of history is closing forever. The reason given was a decline in interest from automakers in the event, which was once unmissable. However, the exhibition in Qatar will take place in 2025.

AMD Ryzen 9000 processors data became known ahead of release — models, specifications, prices

News Devices 06-01-2024 comment
Introduction of AMD Ryzen 9000 processors with Zen 5 architecture are expected at Computex 2024, and they may appear as early as July. A slide from AMD’s press conference at the exhibition has been leaked, which names four Ryzen 9000 processors with their main characteristics.

Acer SpatialLabs Eyes Stereo Camera — new for creating 3D content and 3D video calls

News Devices 05-31-2024 comment
Acer has introduced the new SpatialLabs Eyes Stereo Camera for those who want to take 3D photos and videos. The camera can be used not only to record 3D content, but also for live 3D broadcasts on YouTube and other platforms, as well as for 3D video calls in Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet. The company calls the camera a pocket-sized camera with…

Sales of Realme 12 5G (starting at UAH 11 thousand) and 12+ 5G (starting at UAH 14 thousand) smartphones have started in Ukraine

News Devices 05-31-2024 comment
realme has introduced the realme 12 5G series of mid-range smartphones, consisting of the realme 12+ 5G and realme 12 5G models. The new products combine flagship photo capabilities with recognizable design and performance.

Engineer creates a case that turns iPhone into a portable Nintendo console

News Devices 05-31-2024 comment
A worthy addition to the wave emulators of retro games in the App Store.

New Acer Predator X27U F3, X34 X5 and X32 X3 monitors — OLED, G-SYNC and FreeSync, up to 480 Hz

News Devices 05-31-2024 comment
Acer has added three new gaming monitors to its Predator lineup, all featuring OLED displays and fast refresh rates. The Predator X27U F3, Predator X34 X5, and Predator X32 X3 — models are powered by NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro technologies. They also feature true 10-bit color in 99% DCI-P3 space, which means greater color depth,…

Google suddenly increased the cost of Gemini 1.5 Flash by 98% and claimed that the previous one was «a typo»

News Software 05-31-2024 comment
Google has quietly doubled the price of using the API of its new Gemini 1.5 Flash model.

NVIDIA GeForce G-Assist: the company's April Fool's joke of 2017 may become a real technology

News Devices 05-30-2024 comment
Today, on May 30, NVIDIA published a cryptic tweet in which it recalled an old joke. The phrase «The future is never far away…» seems to announce some kind of technology «from the future». More specifically, the seven-year-old video in the post hints at this.

Panasonic advertised Lumix S9 camera with Nikon photo — now apologizes

News Devices 05-30-2024 comment
Last week, Panasonic announced a lightweight and compact camera, the Lumix S9. However, it turned out that it used photos taken by Nikon in its advertising. This caused a negative reaction to the company’s actions, and now it apologizes for its mistake.

Competitor Neuralink implanted a record 4096 electrodes in the human brain

News Technologies 05-30-2024 comment
The neurostartup Precision Neuroscience has implanted 4096 electrodes in the human brain, which is twice as many as the previous record of 2048 electrodes, set for 2023. Interestingly, the company is headed by ex-Neuralink engineer Elon Musk, who has only recently started human trials.

ARM introduces Cortex-X925, A725, A520 (new) cores and Immortalis-G925, Mali-G725 and G625 graphics — +36% average performance, +30% efficiency

News Devices 05-30-2024 comment
ARM has announced new and updated ARMv9 processor cores, as well as new embedded GPUs. The company told about the Cortex-X925, Cortex-A725, and updated Cortex-A520 cores. As for the video chips, Immortalis-G925, Mali-G725, and Mali-G625 were introduced.

Ukrainian developers have created a «Tank» — complex for evacuating wounded from the battlefield

Military Tech News 05-30-2024 comment
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Ukrainian developers have created «Tankchik» —, a new ground-based robotic system for evacuating and logistics of the wounded from the battlefield.As the editorial board was informed, this advanced complex was created to ensure maximum safety and efficiency during rescue operations in combat zones.Above «Tank»

«Petrofan», chatbot scientist and astrologer — customized GPTs are now available to everyone, but with a query limit

News Software 05-30-2024 comment
OpenAI has provided free access to customized GPT — chatbots created by third-party developers based on ChatGPT with thematic functions (for example, those specializing exclusively in math or cooking borscht).

«Hype does not match interest»: only 1%-7% of people use ChatGPT daily, up to 30% do not know about it — research

News Software 05-30-2024 comment
Large corporations are now investing heavily in generative artificial intelligence and models such as ChatGPT. A new study Reuters Institute and Oxford University shows that very few people actually use artificial intelligence, despite the tremendous hype around this technology.

Chinese military shows robot dogs with rifles and rocket launchers

Military Tech News 05-29-2024 comment
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The Chinese military demonstrated robotic war dogs equipped with rifles and rocket launchers during joint exercises with Cambodia.

GitHub and JFrog announce integration: single sign-on, shared dashboards, and code management

Technologies News 05-29-2024 comment
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The well-known developer platforms GitHub and JFrog have announced a partnership that provides for deeper integration between the services.

The D-17b computer from the Minuteman 1 ballistic missile in 1962 was the first desktop PC

News Devices 05-29-2024 comment
What kind of computer can be considered a desktop? Apparently, one that is compact enough to be placed on a table. YouTuber Alexander the ok considers this to be the D-17b, which was responsible for guiding the Minuteman 1 ballistic missiles and was later transferred to US universities.

Sam Altman hid the launch of ChatGPT from the OpenAI board — the release was announced on Twitter

News Software 05-29-2024 comment
Last year, OpenAI organized a failed coup attemptin an effort to oust CEO Sam Altman — now former board members are revealing additional information about what prompted them to take these actions.

Nobody needs beautiful graphics: why does nobody play AAA projects?

Articles Games 05-29-2024 comment
According to statistics, the most popular video games have a simple look, and nobody needs beautiful graphics, nor powerful gaming computers. In this article, we will analyze the market, understand the psychology of the player, and try to understand what guides developers and typical gamers. Successes of the gaming industry Let’s start with…

2500 pages of Google search documents leaked — data contradicts public statements

News Software 05-29-2024 comment
The leak of 2500 pages of internal Google documents reveals the search algorithms. The authors of the leak believe that Google has not been completely honest about this for many years

Technology of the future. Rust tops the list of programming languages in terms of popularity

Technologies News 05-29-2024 comment
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The Rust programming language is becoming increasingly popular among developers: although it is only 14th in terms of prevalence, it ranks 1st in terms of popularity growth.

OpenAI has started training the next GPT and intends to create general artificial intelligence (AGI)

News Software 05-28-2024 comment
OpenAI said about the start of training for a new flagship model of artificial intelligence. It will replace GPT-4, which manages the ChatGPT chatbot. The company declares the next level of capabilities, and in particular, the desire to create no less than general artificial intelligence (AGI) — AI that can do everything the human brain can. The…

Bluedot, a Ukrainian startup promoting AI extensions for Chrome, has raised $600 thousand in investments at a valuation of $5 million

News Software 05-28-2024 comment
Bluedot is a startup that creates an extension for the Google Chrome browser that annotates Google Meet meetings using artificial intelligence. At the end of April, the company raised $600,000 «angelic» investment during a pre-seed round valued at $5 million.

As in the movies «Star Wars»: Indian startup extracts water from the air

News Technologies 05-28-2024 comment
The Indian startup Uravu Labs uses a technology for extracting water from the air, similar to the one featured in the «Star Wars» franchise. Moisture vaporizers (moisture vaporizers) were mentioned in many placesand helped the inhabitants of arid planets like Tatooine, — so why not do it in India?

Lenovo is preparing a simplified Legion Go Lite console — lighter, powered by the same AMD Ryzen Z1 processor

News Devices 05-28-2024 comment
The Lenovo Legion Go portable gaming console has a large 8.8″ screen and detachable joysticks that add convenience that competitors lack. However, some of them are lighter, like ASUS ROG Ally — according to the data Windows Central, Lenovo will also soon be ready to offer a lighter and thinner version.

Precision hackathon to be launched in Ukraine to improve accuracy of Armed Forces operations

Military Tech News 05-28-2024 comment
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Members of the Brave1 cluster launch the Precision hackathon to find «accurate» solutions to defeat the enemy.

Manufacturers shipped 152.9 exabytes of magnetic storage tape In 2023 — shipments increased by 3.14%

News Devices 05-27-2024 comment
It is believed that magnetic tape is outdated as a digital data storage medium. However, the people and organizations that use it obviously haven’t read that. Linear Tape-Open tape manufacturers shipped 152.9 exabytes of magnetic tape for storage in 2023. This is 3.14% more than in 2022.

American wants to go down to «Titanic» after OceanGate disaster — says it's safe

News Technologies 05-27-2024 comment
To prove the safety of traveling before «Titanic» after of the bathyscaphe disaster «Titan» OceanGate Last year, a real estate investor from Ohio planned to launch a two-person submersible to the sunken liner.

Ready for NVIDIA RTX 5090: graphics cards weighing up to 58 kg can be handled by Gigabyte's new motherboard

News Devices 05-27-2024 comment
The size of modern graphics card cooling systems is sometimes as impressive as their weight. Gigabyte has prepared for the heaviest NVIDIA RTX 5090s and offers a PCIe 5.0 connector and mount that can support up to 58 kg. I would not like to think that this is a hint of the size of future graphics cards.

In «Reserve+», 1.1 million people liable for military service have updated their data. Including — 14 thousand abroad

Ukraine News 05-27-2024 comment
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Since May 18, more than 14,000 people liable for military service in 124 countries abroad have updated their data via the «Reserve+» app.

Devices with Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6E cannot be legally used in Ukraine - APITU asks the government to resolve these issues

News Devices 05-27-2024 comment
At the beginning of this year the final version of the high-speed wireless communication standard Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) was presented. Later manufacturers began to announce their own solutions that support this standard. However, it seems that Ukrainian consumers will have to wait some time for such devices to appear on store shelves.

AMD announces Radeon RX 7650M XT — external graphics card from AOOSTAR

News Devices 05-27-2024 comment
AMD is planning to release a new Radeon RX 7650M XT graphics card in an external form factor. The company announced its plans for the new product, which is scheduled to launch in July this year, the announcement was made on Discord, so the site VideoCardz I asked the company representative.

Vodafone has tested 5G in Ukraine - connecting Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Helsinki

News Software 05-27-2024 comment
During the Action Forum 2024, Vodafone and Nokia demonstrated 5G communication capabilities in Ukraine. It is noted that during the event, a 5G teleconference between Ukraine and Finland was held for the first time in Ukraine. The new high-speed connection united three European cities at once: Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, and Helsinki.

Windows 11 Recall works even without NPU — the program was launched on an old Snapdragon 7c+, x86-x64 processors are not yet available

News Software 05-27-2024 comment
An enthusiast found out that the new Recall program in Windows 11 does not require a neural processing unit (NPU) in the processor. Recall functions are recording everything that happens on your PC to recover or search for data. However, the program did not work on a conventional x86-x64 processor, but on a PC with an older Snapdragon 7c+…

Get ready, ChatGPT — xAI Elon Musk has raised $6 billion to challenge OpenAI

News Software 05-27-2024 comment
Currently, xAI is estimated at $24 billion (the previous estimate was $18 billion).

Microsoft has launched a beta version of Copilot on Telegram — up to 30 requests per day for free

News Software 05-27-2024 comment
Requests for Copilot can be sent directly to the messenger for free, but with restrictions.

«The world's first» bioprocessor made of 16 human brain organoids consumes «a million times» less power than conventional computers.

News Devices 05-26-2024 comment
A Swiss biocomputing startup has launched an online platform that provides remote access to a computing device of 16 human brain organoids. The FinalSpark neuroplatform is considered to be the world’s first online platform providing access to biological neurons «in vitro». The company claims that such bioprocessors consume a million times…

YouTube Music will be able to find a song by humming or playing it — the feature is already being rolled out on Android

News Software 05-26-2024 comment
The YouTube Music app for Android is rolling out a feature that’s been begging to be used for a long time — find a song by humming. You can sing, whistle, or play a recording of a song to find it.

Google AI Search Overview considers Pokémon to be LGBT+ characters

News Software 05-26-2024 comment
Recently released additions to the search Google AI Overview leads to incredible discoveries of new data about many things, including the characters of the Pokemon universe. Some of them are now considered by artificial intelligence to be LGBT+, despite the fact that the image of the creatures does not have any hint of any sexual activity.

Mandrake with GPT-4o: blogger talks to the plant with a Raspberry Pi

News Technologies 05-25-2024 comment
Keeping plants is a business that requires care, knowledge, and patience. Plants can’t tell you if something is wrong with them, and when it becomes noticeable, it’s often too late to do anything about it. Blogger Matt Reed has made it possible to literally talk to a plant with a GPT-4o and a Raspberry Pi and ask if it’s okay.

Apple iPod Classic with SSD, USB-C and Bluetooth in 2024 — the hardest part was opening the case

News Devices 05-25-2024 comment
Brady Snyder of XDA likes to use his Apple iPod Classic music player in 2024, but is hampered by problems with the device, which is more than 20 years old. So he added an SSD, a USB-C port, and Bluetooth to the 2008 iPod Classic.

The General Staff plans to widely introduce AI on the battlefield: this will offset the numerical advantage of the Russians

Ukraine News 05-24-2024 comment
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine aim to widely introduce artificial intelligence on the battlefield to compensate for the enemy’s numerical superiority.

Researchers have identified all Starlink on the Russian-Ukrainian front due to Apple's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) vulnerability

News Technologies 05-24-2024 comment
A key element of Apple’s location services contains a serious privacy vulnerability that allows Starlink to track the movements of a war zone. The vulnerability also allows an attacker to determine the location of anyone with a mobile Wi-Fi router.

New Asus ROG Ally X — 24 GB LPDDR5X-7500 console, twice the battery, USB4 for external graphics cards

News Devices 05-24-2024 comment
VideoCardz website shared leaked the updated Asus ROG Ally X portable console and claims that these are the official specifications New console will have the same AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor with 8 Zen4 cores and 12 RDNA3 compute units. The console will retain the same 7″ Full-HD screen with a refresh rate of 120 Hz and 500 nits of…

AI slaves: African workers accuse OpenAI, Meta, and others of inhumane working conditions — open letter to Biden

News IT business 05-24-2024 comment
AI language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are partially powered by low-wage workers. Contractors in poor countries pay small amounts of money to correct chatbot data, label images, etc. On May 22, 97 African workers who train artificial intelligence or moderate content for companies such as Meta and OpenAI published an open letter to President…

MSI announces the world's first CAMM2 memory motherboard for desktop PCs

News Devices 05-24-2024 comment
In cooperation with Kingston MSI announced the world’s first desktop motherboard to support CAMM2 memory. The new memory form factor was previously reported only as format for laptops. Although the new memory is best suited for them, JEDEC’s CAMM2 standard also supports desktop PCs. The new board will be unveiled at Computex 2024 in…

SpaceX's Starship Raptor rocket engine explodes during testing

News Science and space 05-24-2024 comment
As SpaceX was preparing for the fourth Starship flight at its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, a Starship Raptor engine appears to have burned up at SpaceX’s rocket engine test site in McGregor, also in Texas.

Google is building an Internet cable that will cross Africa and connect it to Australia

News Technologies 05-24-2024 comment
Google is building the first undersea fiber optic cable that will directly connect Africa to Australia, helping to strengthen Internet access in one of the world’s least connected parts. The cable, called Umoja, follows the Google Equiano cable that connects Africa to Europe.

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