Month: February 2024
Microsoft teases ultrapowerful next-gen Xbox — and maybe a handheld
Microsoft is teasing the potential for unique Xbox hardware in the future and a powerful next-gen console. Four previously exclusive Xbox games are officially coming to the PS5 and Nintendo Switch soon, and Microsoft wants to reassure Xbox fans that it’s still very much invested in the future of its…
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Apple Vision Pro now has a native TikTok app
The Apple Vision Pro is officially two weeks old, and the apps are starting to roll in. TikTok was conspicuously absent on launch day, but now our long national nightmare has come to an end. The Vision Pro has a native TikTok app. This isn’t just the iPad app with…
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Someone took Nvidia’s fastest CPU ever and built an absurdly fast desktop PC with no name — It cannot play games but comes with 576GB+ of RAM and starts from $43,500
GPTshop.ai has unveiled the world’s first Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip-powered supercomputer, and it’s an absolute beast. Housed in a sleek, compact desktop form it currently holds the title as the fastest ARM desktop PC in existence. The PC is optimized for memory-intensive AI tasks, particularly inference and fine-tuning of…
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A Big Tech-backed campaign to plant trees might have taken a wrong turn
Roughly half of the land targeted by a major tech-backed forest restoration campaign in Africa was never meant to be forest, according to a new analysis. Planting trees in the identified area could actually harm grasslands and savannas that may have been inadvertently mislabeled as “forests” in need of help,…
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Amazon unveils the largest text-to-speech model ever made
Researchers at Amazon have introduced the largest text-to-speech model to date, which is set to have enhanced qualities that allow it to better articulate complex sentences. The model, BASE TTS (text-to-speech), which stands for Big Adaptive Streamable TTS with Emergent abilities, could set the foundation for more human-like interactions. According…
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Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro is a new, more efficient AI model
On Thursday, Google unveiled Gemini 1.5 Pro, which the company describes as delivering “dramatically enhanced performance” over the previous model. The company’s AI trajectory — viewed internally as increasingly critical for its future — follows the unveiling of Gemini 1.0 Ultra last week, alongside the rebranding of the Bard chatbot…
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