Month: October 2023
Intel wants its GPUs to take a bigger slice of the VDI market by eliminating licensing fees
The GPU Flex series is Intel’s answer to one of the biggest pain points in the entire virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market – allowing customers able to tap into this GPU available without incurring any license fees. Businesses are increasingly turning to VDI systems to give workers a cost-effective way…
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Hisense’s affordable, HDR-ready U6K TV has hit an all-time low
Although TCL TVs have been the go-to budget recommendation for the last decade or so, Hisense has really upped the ante in recent years. The U6K Series is a great example of a 4K ULED TV that punches above its weight with great color and contrast, low input lag, and…
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X users report unlabeled clickbait ads that you can’t block or report
Mashable reports that users on X, formerly known as Twitter, have seen unlabeled ads in their feeds while scrolling through the company’s mobile apps. When users tap them, they’re taken to other websites, with no way to block or report them. Unlike normal ads that are just posts from company…
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Are hyper-specialized processing units the future of computing? Meet the company who wants to be the Nvidia of data queries
Businesses that run SQL queries may be about to get a massive boost thanks to a specialized semiconductor chip developed by Neuroblade – built specifically to handle this particular use case. Neuroblade’s SQL instruction processing chip – known as SQL processing units (SPUs) – can simply be plugged into a…
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Hackers are selling the data of millions lifted from 23andMe’s genetic database
23andMe acknowledged this week that data from users of its genetic testing and analysis platform has been circulating on dark web forums after what it says was a credential-stuffing attack, according to BleepingComputer. The outlet wrote that a hacker reportedly leaked what they said was “1 million lines of data”…
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Assassin’s Creed Mirage goes back to basics — and ends up basic
Assassin’s Creed Mirage lives up to every aspect of its name. The last handful of Assassin’s Creed games had gotten away from the assassination part. Yeah, you killed people — a lot of people — but with the recklessness of Kratos instead of the finesse of Ezio or Altair. AC…
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