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Intel Unison support ends on Windows 11 in June, killing off PC, Android, iOS...
Intel Unison is a great app that lets you connect your Android and iPhone to Windows 11, make calls, send or read messages, open photos, and more. Unfortunately, Intel Unison is being discontinued....
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Nintendo Switch 2 is official with 7.9″ 120fps VRR display, 4K at 60fps when...
The Nintendo Switch 2 is significantly bigger than its older sibling, featuring a 7.9-inch capacitive touch display, adding to its heft compared to its 6.2-inch predecessor. The 1080p IPS LCD has 120Hz...
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A look at the Switch 2’s initial games, both familiar and what-the-heck
I don’t think anybody outside Nintendo or FromSoftware was expecting a spiritual successor to Bloodborne to be one of the titles announced at the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch today. Not just “playable”...
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$70 and $80 game price tags send an early signal about Switch 2 game pricing
Nintendo’s Switch 2 presentation gave us pricing for the console ($449 to start) and Nintendo’s product pages have given us pricing information for accessories ($80 for a Pro Controller, $90 for...
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Male fruit flies drink more alcohol to get females to like them
Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are tremendously fond of fermented foodstuffs. Technically, it’s the yeast they crave, produced by yummy rotting fruit, but they can consume quite a lot of...
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Training AI Using ‘Pirated’ Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue
In the race to build the most capable LLMs, several tech companies have sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. Many of those companies...
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Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins
On the heels of releasing its most capable AI model yet, Google is making some changes to the Gemini team. A new report from Semafor reveals that longtime Googler Sissie Hsiao will step down from her...
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MLPerf Inference v5.0 Results Released
The new MLPerf Inference v5.0 results are out with new submissions for configurations from NVIDIA, Intel Xeon, and AMD Instinct MI325X The post MLPerf Inference v5.0 Results Released appeared first on...
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Last-minute TikTok bidders include Amazon and OnlyFans founder
Sources recently told The New York Times that Amazon made an 11th-hour offer to purchase all of TikTok, which faces a ban this Saturday April 5 if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, fails to divest the app...
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Google’s new battery tech will lower capacity over time, whether you like it...
The feature, called “Battery Health Assistance,” is essentially a software mechanism that automatically lowers the maximum charge level on your Pixel 9a after every 200 charge cycles. These reductions...
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Wikipedia servers are struggling under pressure from AI scraping bots
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization hosting Wikipedia and other widely popular websites, is raising concerns about AI scraper bots and their impact on the foundation’s internet...
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Nvidia confirms the Switch 2 supports DLSS, G-Sync, and ray-tracing
In the wake of the Switch 2 reveal, neither Nintendo nor Nvidia has gone into any detail at all about the exact chip inside the upcoming handheld—technically, we are still not sure what Arm CPU...
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Microsoft CTO predicts AI will generate 95 percent of code by 2030
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott predicted that 95 percent of programming code will be AI-generated by 2030. However, he quickly clarified that this does not signal the end of human involvement in software...
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Monkeys are better yodelers than humans, study finds
Humans have practiced some form of yodeling since at least the 13th century, when Marco Polo encountered Tibetan monks on his travels who used the vocal technique for long-distance communication. It’s...
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Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles. Now, a team of Swiss scientists...
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Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy
The recently announced ProtectEU plan aims to safeguard Europe from internal threats, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated, emphasizing that security is a fundamental pillar of...
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Google unveils end-to-end messages for Gmail. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.
When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it wasn’t true E2EE as the term is known in privacy and security...
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Nvidia claims 10x graphics performance boost on Switch 2, with DLSS and...
In a Thursday blog post, Nvidia highlighted many features previously covered in Wednesday’s Switch 2 Nintendo Direct. However, it also provided more details on the system’s capabilities, one of which...
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Running the Deepseek-R1 671B Model at FP16 Fidelity Alongside Virtualized...
We show you how you can run the 1.27TB Deepseek-R1 671B model at FP16, and even look at running it alongside VMs in your clusters The post Running the Deepseek-R1 671B Model at FP16 Fidelity Alongside...
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Employee calls Microsoft AI boss a “war profiteer” during 50th-anniversary...
A Microsoft employee interrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary celebration to protest its artificial intelligence initiatives, accusing the company of complicity in war crimes. The disruption occurred...
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