Month: September 2023
Steam will soon show which games support PlayStation controllers
The Steam store will soon tell you if a game supports Sony’s DualSense or DualShock controllers. Valve posted an update for developers this week, announcing that the feature would go live in Steam’s store and desktop app starting in October. Valve hints that more controller-friendly features could be on their…
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New Castlevania: Nocturne trailer is all about Bloodlines
The new trailer features more of Richter Belmont (Edward Bluemel), the new scion of the Belmont house, as he does what his family does best: kill vampires. Nocturne is set during the French Revolution as a new vampire cult rises around a so-called vampire Messiah, Erzsebet Báthory (Franka Potente), who…
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Microsoft is the first customer for the Biden administration’s carbon removal hubs
Microsoft is helping to fund one of the US’s first hubs for pulling planet-heating carbon dioxide out of the air. It struck a deal with California-based startup Heirloom, which says it will capture up to 315,000 metric tons of CO2 for Microsoft over the next decade or so. The partnership…
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An experimental rice-sized implant monitors how drugs affect tumors
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston have developed an implant, notably as small as a grain of rice, that can test the effects of drugs on a patient’s brain tumor in real-time during surgery. Currently, monitoring the effects of drugs on a brain cancer patient during surgery is…
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Microsoft-backed AI startup beats Nvidia H100 on key tests with GPU-like card equipped with 256GB RAM
D-Matrix’s unique compute platform, known as the Corsair C8, can stake a huge claim to have displaced Nvidia’s industry-leading H100 GPU – at least according to some staggering test results the startup has published. Designed specifically for generative AI workloads, the Corsair C8 differs from GPUs in that it uses…
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FTX exec Ryan Salame pleads guilty to criminal charges
Ryan Salame, who ran FTX’s Bahamas subsidiary, pleaded guilty to two criminal charges on Thursday. They are conspiracy to make unlawful political contributions and defraud the Federal Election Commission and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transferring business. “I made political contributions in my name that were funded by transfers…
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