Month: December 2020
Leak reveals next Nvidia GPUs that could arrive – including RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3050 Nvidia RTX 3080
More evidence has turned up of Nvidia’s purported RTX 3080 Ti, which has been much rumored of late, and an RTX 3050 – along with more supposed graphics cards which could be close to release. This comes courtesy of the AIDA64 benchmarking tool, which has been the source of a…
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Google reveals the most searched terms of 2020 – you’ll probably guess a few… Google search
Google has unveiled its annual “Year in Search” review, which offers insight into the most frequently searched terms worldwide. Each year, the report captures our most pressing questions, greatest fears and the events that arrested our attention, but the 2020 edition is perhaps a little more predictable than most. It…
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Gillmor Gang: Strange Days Indeed
[embedded content] The place we’re in, the valley of the dolls between the vote and the Inauguration, is overshadowed by the battle to save our lives. The vaccines look promising, and so does the persistence of the Trumpster to play his games. Somehow we have to live with that, on…
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Human Capital: Dr. Timnit Gebru says Google’s memo was ‘dehumanizing’
Welcome back to Human Capital, where I break down the latest in diversity, equity and inclusion, and labor in tech. This week, Twitter dropped its latest diversity report and Tesla released its first one ever. Meanwhile, Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized for the way things went down with Dr. Timnit…
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Tesla will halt Model S and X production for 18 days
Tesla has plenty of demand for its electric cars despite the pandemic, but that doesn’t appear to extend to its highest-end EVs. CNBC has obtained an internal Tesla email revealing that the automaker will shut down production for the Model S and Mode… Source
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Google adds more AR animals to mobile Search and most of them are pretty cute
Google has added 50 new augmented reality animals to Search which can be either cute, or in the case of the giant cat in the photo above, a bit disconcerting. Of course it’s possible that I find the giant kitty menacing because I hate fun (or so I have been…
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