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A scientific mission to save the sharks
Enlarge (credit: RamonCarretero/Getty) A hammerhead shark less than one meter long swims frantically in a plastic container aboard a boat in the Sanquianga National Natural Park, off Colombia’s...
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Revolutionary 2Tb 3D QLC NAND flash memory die teased by Western Digital
This minuscule chip packs 256GB of storage into a single die using WD’s cutting-edge 8th-generation BiCS 3D NAND tech developed jointly with partner Kioxia. The manufacturing technology enables WD to...
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Broadcom is coming for Nvidia fast, but can it break its ecosystem lock-in?
In a note to investors this week, Bank of America said, “Consider it a top AI pick.” It wasn’t talking about Nvidia, even though BofA considers Green Team the undisputed winner of the GPU wars. It was...
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Windows 11 24H2 KB5038575 removes Microsoft Recall AI
Recall was the biggest highlight of Copilot+ PCs at Microsoft’s 2024 Dev event. It would record your every action to make it searchable and revisable using snapshots. However, after heavy controversy,...
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New Samsung 2nm roadmap shows backside power delivery coming in 2027
First up, Samsung took the wraps off two new process nodes aimed at pushing the limits of chip performance and efficiency. The headliner is the 2nm SF2Z process, slated for mass production in 2027....
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Intel still doesn’t know what is causing its i9 desktop chips to crash
Recently, users have struggled with stability issues related to Intel’s Core i9-14900K & 13900K CPUs. Those with the processors have noticed increased game crashing, leading numerous developers to...
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AMD patent unveils multi-chiplet GPU designs for unrivaled flexibility
The December 2022 patent describes a GPU design split across multiple GPU chiplet sets. Each chiplet has a frontend die paired with several other shader-engine dies. The clever part is that these GPU...
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TorrentGalaxy Goes Offline With Mysterious Message to Users (Update, It’s...
Note: the site appears to be back online at a new domain name, see updates below. — In little over five years, TorrentGalaxy has grown out to become a leading player in the torrent ecosystem. The site...
View ArticleUnigen Biscotti Dual Hailo-8 AI Module Spotted in AIC Booth at Computex 2024
At Computex 2024, we saw the Unigen Biscotti, a low-power dual Hailo-8 AI inference accelerator E1.S card in the AIC booth The post Unigen Biscotti Dual Hailo-8 AI Module Spotted in AIC Booth at...
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Russia ‘Humanizes’ Criminal Copyright Law, ‘Large Scale’ Piracy Cut By 25%
Some believe that all laws amount to restrictions on freedom, while laws that claim to grant freedom merely give back what shouldn’t have been taken in the first place. Yet, even those...
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Searching for a female partner for the world’s “loneliest” plant
Enlarge / Map from drone mission search for the Encephalartos Woodii in the Ngoye Forest in South Africa. (credit: CC BY-NC) “Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote...
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Windows 11 KB5039319 beta adds Start Menu jump lists, new Spotlight UI
Windows 11 KB5039319 is now available for those in the Beta Channel, and it bumps the OS to Build 22635.3785. Windows 11 Build 22635.3785 comes with a lot of new improvements, such as support for jump...
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Windows 11 Start menu and taskbar to soon gain several new customization...
The Windows 11 build 22635.3785 landed on the beta channel recently. One nice feature is the ability to drag pinned apps from the Start menu to the taskbar to pin them there instead. Previous builds...
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Windows 11 24H2 adds a toggle to turn off Notifications bell on the taskbar
Windows 11 24H2 is already shipping on Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon chips, but the update is not done feature-wise as more changes continue to pop up. After jumplist support for the Start menu,...
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These apps track your driving habits and sell that information to insurance...
Earlier this year, the New York Times dropped a bomb on drivers of connected vehicles: manufacturers collect and sell their driving data to insurance companies, which use the information to set rates...
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Solar panels installed in France in 1992 found to retain a remarkable 79% of...
In 1992, a small 1-kilowatt solar array called Phébus 1 was connected to the French grid by Hespul, a nonprofit renewable energy association based in Lyon, France. Over 30 years later, that same...
View ArticleMicrosoft moves ahead with Windows 11 24H2, but Intel and AMD PCs must wait
Windows 11 24H2 is now generally and officially available for Snapdragon X Plus and X Elite-powered PCs, also known as Copilot+ PCs. In a new support document published on June 15, Microsoft quietly...
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ACE Subpoenas Target IPTV Services, Piracy Apps, and Streaming Portals
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), arguably the world’s most active anti-piracy coalition, is backed by dozens of major rightsholders. The group is largely managed by the Motion...
View ArticleTRENDnet TEG-3102WS 8-port 2.5GbE and 2-port 10G Managed Switch Review
The TRENDnet TEG-3102WS sports MaxLinear switch chips to offer an 8-port 2.5GbE and 2-port SFP+ web managed switch The post TRENDnet TEG-3102WS 8-port 2.5GbE and 2-port 10G Managed Switch Review...
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Hello sunshine: We test McLaren’s drop-top hybrid Artura Spider
Enlarge / The introduction of model year 2025 brings a retractable hard-top option for the McLaren Artura, plus a host of other upgrades. (credit: McLaren) McLaren provided flights from Washington to...
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