Month: September 2022
Microsoft Teams apps may be getting a lot more vocal at last
Audio player loading… Microsoft Teams has announced that it will be bringing a bunch of Teams Meetings features to its VoIP calls in an effort that sees the company expand its services to more business users. An entry on the official Microsoft 365 roadmap (opens in new tab) notes that,…
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‘Portal’ will get ray tracing to show off NVIDIA’s 4000-series GPUs
Portal 3 may never happen, but at least we’ve got a new way to experience the original teleporting puzzle shooter. Today during his GTC keynote, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced Portal with RTX, a mod that adds support for real-time ray tracing and DLSS 3. Judging from the the short…
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NVIDIA’s $1,599 GeForce RTX 4090 arrives on October 12th
Following months of anticipation and controversy among its add-in board partners, NVIDIA's 40 Series GPUs are finally here. The company unveiled the GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 today at its GTC 2022 keynote. Taking full advantage of its new "Ada Lovelace" architecture, NVIDIA says the two GPUs offer…
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Uber reveals more on recent hack, says Lapsus$ is to blame
Audio player loading… Uber has shared more details on its recent data breach, sharing details on how it happened, what the impact was, and who it thinks was (most likely) to blame. In a security update (opens in new tab), Uber said a threat actor purchased an Uber EXT contractor’s…
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Baby Yoda is a Tamagotchi now
Apple’s CarPlay is still frustratingly basic. Stephen Hackett at 512 Pixels has blogged about the frustrations he’s had migrating to a new iPhone and not having his CarPlay preferences carry over, despite every other app on his phone copying over correctly. I’m with him on that, but I’m more annoyed…
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Amazon will start testing ultra-low carbon electrofuels for deliveries in 2023
Amazon is partnering with Infinium to test the use of so-called electrofuels (e-fuels) in its middle-mile diesel fleet, it announced. The company invested in Infinium last year as part of its goal to reach net-zero carbon by 2040. “We’ve been developing this technology for the better part of a decade,…
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