Month: January 2024
I rode in a Hyundai Ioniq 5 with wheels that go sideways
When I was a boy, I wanted a Ferrari Testarossa. As a teen, I’d have told you James Bond’s tricked out Aston Martin DB5 would be my ride of choice. Today, I have a new answer: a Hyundai Ioniq 5 with magic wheels that turn sideways. Because when you have…
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The first two Golden Sun games arrive on Nintendo Switch Online next week
“From the humble village of Vale to the mystical peaks of Mt. Aleph, the Golden Sun game sets magic-wielding young heroes Isaac, Garet, Ivan and Mia on a quest to prevent the ancient power of Alchemy from being unleashed on their home world of Weyard. Their adventure takes them through…
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Ayaneo’s $299 Next Lite is a Steam Deck rival that runs an unofficial copy of SteamOS
Following a cryptic tease during CES 2024, Ayaneo has revealed its Next Lite gaming handheld and it’s a confusing product, to say the least. It’s designed to compete with Steam Deck, but it doesn’t run Valve’s official SteamOS — rather, it uses a forked version called HoloISO. It will be…
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Most formidable supercomputer ever is warming up for ChatGPT 5 — thousands of ‘old’ AMD GPU accelerators crunched 1-trillion parameter models
The most powerful supercomputer in the world has used just over 8% of the GPUs it’s fitted with to train a large language model (LLM) containing one trillion parameters – comparable to OpenAI‘s GPT-4. Frontier, based in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, used 3,072 of its AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs…
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Exclusive: First 2TB MicroSD card is now on sale and no, it is not expensive at all — Taiwanese company makes my dream of building a petabyte-in-a-shoebox project become true
Almost one year after the first 1.5TB microSD card went on sale, a little known company called AGI has piped Kioxia to the post by putting the first ever 2TB microSD card on sale, a candidate for our best microSD card buying guide. At only $229 plus delivery (that’s about…
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Ayaneo’s Next Lite is a $299 Steam Deck competitor with unofficial SteamOS
Ayaneo’s attempt to launch a bargain-price competitor to the Steam Deck has been confusing, to say the least, but the company has now published a product page that clears most things up. The Ayaneo Next Lite will cost $299, will not ship with an official build of SteamOS but rather…
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