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DeepSeek opens 3FS — file system code for AI training servers

News Technologies 03-03-2025 at 17:31 comment
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

News Devices 03-03-2025 at 16:50 comment
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

News Technologies 03-03-2025 at 15:01 comment
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

News Technologies 03-03-2025 at 12:47 comment
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

News Technologies 02-28-2025 at 19:00 comment
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

News Devices 02-28-2025 at 17:06 comment
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

News Technologies 02-28-2025 at 13:17 comment
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

News Software 02-28-2025 at 11:20 comment
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»

News Technologies 02-28-2025 at 09:27 comment
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

News Technologies 02-27-2025 at 20:12 comment
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

News Technologies 02-27-2025 at 16:42 comment
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

News Software 02-27-2025 at 15:05 comment
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

News Games 02-27-2025 at 14:01 comment
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

Technologies Software. 02-27-2025 at 14:00 comment
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

News Software 02-27-2025 at 10:31 comment
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

News Technologies 02-26-2025 at 22:06 comment
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

News Devices 02-26-2025 at 18:08 comment
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

News Technologies 02-26-2025 at 16:29 comment
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

News Technologies 02-26-2025 at 15:15 comment
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

News Technologies 02-26-2025 at 14:35 comment
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»

News Technologies 02-26-2025 at 13:47 comment
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

News Science and space 02-25-2025 at 19:26 comment
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

News Technologies 02-25-2025 at 16:36 comment
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»

News Technologies 02-25-2025 at 09:07 comment
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%

News Technologies 02-24-2025 at 20:53 comment
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

News Technologies 02-24-2025 at 18:41 comment
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»

News Technologies 02-24-2025 at 16:17 comment
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

News Devices 02-24-2025 at 13:48 comment
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

News Technologies 02-24-2025 at 10:52 comment
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

News Technologies 02-23-2025 at 22:14 comment
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

News Technologies 02-23-2025 at 21:01 comment
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

News Technologies 02-23-2025 at 19:12 comment
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

Articles Technologies 02-23-2025 at 12:00 comment
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

News Technologies 02-21-2025 at 21:32 comment
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

News Technologies 02-21-2025 at 13:17 comment
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

News Technologies 02-20-2025 at 20:00 comment
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

News Technologies 02-20-2025 at 16:16 comment
«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

News Technologies 02-20-2025 at 14:26 comment
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.

Asus has released an external RTX 5090 graphics card for $2200. Are gaming laptops no longer needed?

News Devices 02-20-2025 at 13:52 comment
Asus has officially unveiled the new ROG XG Mobile 2025 external graphics card (eGPU) dock with a powerful mobile version of the RTX 5090. This device announced at CES 2025, and now it is available in some markets.

Google Meet adds subtitle scrolling option for those who «sleep» in work circles

News Software 02-20-2025 at 11:41 comment
Google Meet has received several interesting updates — and among them option to scroll through subtitleswhich allows you to rewind the text recording of the conversation to the moment you accidentally listened to.

NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti — 4080 gaming benchmarks with DLSS 4 and additional frame generation

News Technologies 02-20-2025 at 11:25 comment
NVIDIA’s embargo on GeForce RTX 5070 Ti reviews ended on February 19, and reviewers have already evaluated the card’s performance. In short, it is an analog of the RTX 4080 with DLSS 4 MFG support.

Circle and find: Google launches Circle to Search on iPhone

News Software 02-20-2025 at 10:34 comment
Google has announced an update that allows iPhone owners to quickly search for information right from the screen with a simple gesture. The new feature can be used in the Google Chrome and Google Search apps on iOS. This feature is similar to the Circle to Search feature that is already available on Android. It allows you to select objects on the…

Сustomer was asked to pay extra for an NVIDIA RTX 5080 that had already been paid for and delivered

News Technologies 02-19-2025 at 19:43 comment
A Taiwanese man pre-paid for and received an NVIDIA RTX 5080, but the seller «needed more gold», and He asked for more.

Bill Gates: «Young people should be worried about “4 very scary things” — and artificial intelligence is one of them»

News Technologies 02-19-2025 at 13:53 comment
Microsoft founder Bill Gates in interview Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, at the presentation of his new memoirs, said that today’s youth should be worried about only four, but «very scary» things. In his understanding, — is the climate crisis, «uncontrolled» artificial intelligence, bioterrorism/pandemic, and nuclear war.

How NVIDIA RTX 5000 is built and what makes it cool: Blackwell architecture under the microscope

Technologies Technologies 02-19-2025 at 10:00 comment
Last time we mentioned RTX 3000 Ampere and RTX 4000 Ada. Today it’s time to take a look at Blackwell’s new RTX 5000. Let’s take a look at the features of the new generation of graphics cards (GDDR7, DLSS), their SM blocks, and new technologies in Tensor Cores. We’ll also say a few words about […]

Apple iPhone SE 4 will have a worse 5G modem than iPhone 16 — but its own

News Technologies 02-18-2025 at 23:43 comment
Apple is seeking independence from Qualcomm in the manufacture of devices. According to the insider, the iPhone SE 4 will have a 5G modem of its own design, but with worse performance than the third-party one in the iPhone 16.

We’ve made it: NVIDIA RTX 5090 video card cables are offered to be equipped with 10 A automatic machines

News Technologies 02-18-2025 at 20:10 comment
It’s already a recognized fact that at least some NVIDIA RTX 5090 and 5080 have problems with melting of connectors and power cables. Enthusiasts offer technical solutions.

125 TB per second: new fiber with neural networks increases bandwidth by 10,000 times

News Technologies 02-18-2025 at 13:52 comment
Chinese researchers from Shanghai University announcedthat they have managed to increase the speed of data transmission over fiber by 10,000 times compared to current standards. Given that modern fiber optic lines operate at around 100 Gbps, the new technology can reach an impressive 1 million Gbps (or 125 TB per second). This is made possible by…

It is as high as a three-story building: Photonics unveils giant 767-inch 4K mobile LED screen

News Devices 02-18-2025 at 11:59 comment
Photonics, a Belgian specialist in LED displays, has unveiled its newest creation, Jumbo162, at ISE 2025 in Barcelona. The name of the device speaks for itself: Jumbo means giant, and 162 means 161.5 square meters of screen area. This is a huge mobile display designed for use in large venues during public events, festivals and sporting events.

Elon Musk introduced the «thinking» Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini models — competitors DeepSeek and OpenAI with «scary smart» AI

News Technologies 02-18-2025 at 08:39 comment
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3 — xAI’s answer to OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek reasoning models, which is being promoted as «scary smart AI».

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