Month: August 2020
Nvidia’s top GPU has a formidable new AI rival and it’s not who you think it is null
Tachyum, the company that plans to kill the CPU and GPU with its universal Prodigy processor, this week shared additional details regarding its upcoming chip. As it turns out, the new processor will support industry-standard open-source development frameworks for AI applications, as well as a rather whopping amount of RAM. The…
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Here’s what a 2020 vinyl upgrade might look like null
Since the turn of the century, the vinyl, which most thought was a dead audio format, has seen a surprising resurgence. Tens of millions of copies have sold across both sides of the Atlantic, bucking the trend that saw physical, tangible objects being replaced by digital formats. Like we did…
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SpaceX launches the first south-bound rocket from Florida in decades
This evening, SpaceX launched another rocket from Florida, but this vehicle took a very different kind of path than most flights from the East Coast. Rather than head eastward after launch as most Florida missions do, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket headed south after liftoff, skirting over Florida’s southeast coast and…
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Apple resurrects its iPod ‘Music Quiz’ game for iOS 14
Apple is still feeling nostalgic for iPod games, it seems. The 9to5Mac team has discovered that iOS 14 brings back the classic Music Quiz game, where your device plays songs at random and asks you to name them and rack up a score. The company didn’t… Source
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New trailers: The Comey Rule, Never Gonna Snow Again, The Doorman, and more
After the sad news of Chadwick Boseman’s death, I planned a marathon of his movies this weekend. We’re still definitely planning to re-watch 42 and Get on Up, but so far we can’t stop watching Black Panther. Boseman is just so magnetic as T’Challa and everything about the movie is…
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Watch ULA abort a rocket launch at the last moment
Most rocket launch aborts are largely uneventful, but United Launch Alliance’s latest was… dramatic. The spaceflight outfit had to abort its NROL-44 mission (via Parabolic Arc) just three seconds before it was due to start, with the Delta IV rocket… Source
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