Month: October 2020
NVIDIA wants to make video calls better with AI
Video calling has become more common than ever following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. To help your calls look and sound better, NVIDIA has unveiled an AI-powered suite of tools that video call app developers can tap into.NVIDIA Maxine powers a… Source
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Here’s the reason why your web browser creates so many Task Manager processes Microsoft Edge icon
If you’ve opened up Task Manager recently, you may have been surprised to see a long list of processes all connected to your web browser. Well, Microsoft has explained why your seemingly lightweight browser has so much going on behind the scenes. In a recent blog post, the Microsoft Edge…
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Excel spreadsheet blunder sees thousands of positive Covid-19 tests go missing Excel spreadsheet
A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet error has caused circa 16,000 coronavirus tests to be misplaced in the UK, playing havoc with official figures and contact tracing efforts. As a result of the blunder, tens of thousands of people that came into contact with coronavirus sufferers were not warned immediately, heightening the…
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You can get Western Digital’s 5TB portable drive for $100 at Best Buy
Best Buy’s deal of the day is on Western Digital’s Easystore USB 3.0 portable hard drive with a whopping 5TB of storage. Usually priced at $180, it’s down to $100 today only. This hard drive is perfect for people who have just an absolutely massive amount of data that they…
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The Studio home workout display works with your existing gym equipment
“Smart” workout equipment has gotten a lot of attention this year, what with the coronavirus shutting down gyms. Some of the more elaborate smart workout setups involve giant displays that stand in for a personal trainer, and a new one launches today… Source
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Major Arm licensee adopts royalty-free RISC-V core for next-gen processors null
The RISC-V open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA) has become quite a phenomenon in the recent years as multiple companies that traditionally use Arm’s ISA or processor cores decided to join the emerging ecosystem. Renesas Electronics has now announced that it will use a 32-bit RISC-V core designed by Andes Technology…
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