Month: March 2024
British monarchy rocked by bad Photoshop job
It is incredible in its ineptitude. If the goal was to reassure the public about Middleton’s whereabouts, the image has backfired spectacularly. The image is unsettling at first glance. Everyone is smiling so brightly they look like a Snapchat filter. Middleton is seated in the image — understandable given she…
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Oscars 2024: all the latest from the biggest night in film
The Holdovers has five Oscar nominations… and one accusation of plagiarism. On the eve of the 2024 Academy Awards, Variety reports that a screenwriter, Simon Stephenson (Luca, Wonka, Paddington 2), has leveled accusations that the screenplay for Alexander Payne’s movie The Holdovers is “plagiarised line-by-line” from Stephenson’s unproduced screenplay Frisco.…
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AMD has plans to support a little known chip for at least another 16 years — and no, it is neither a Ryzen, nor a Threadripper or an Epyc CPU
Spartan UltraScale+ is the latest addition to AMD‘s extensive portfolio of cost-optimized Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and adaptive SoCs. It has been introduced to replace the Xilinx Spartan 6 and Spartan 7 lines. The new Spartan UltraScale+ devices are designed for a wide range of I/O-intensive applications at the…
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Why you should make a cloud backup this March
March 30 is World Backup Day. No, you don’t get the day off. It’s an initiative backed by some of the providers we recommend in our cloud backup guide like Mega and Backblaze, and even Amazon, asking everyone – individuals? Organizations? – to make at least one backup of their…
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Las Vegas Sphere has 4,000TB SSD storage delivering 400GB/s throughput — World’s only 16K display requires some exquisite technology to keep it going
We’ve written previously about some of the technology that powers the Las Vegas Sphere, including the 16K interior LED screen, and the ultra-high resolution 18K camera system. Now, details have emerged of the storage employed by the massive music and entertainment arena located east of the Las Vegas Strip. Everything…
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12 Best Mario Day Deals on Nintendo Switch Games and Accessories
March 10 is Mario Day, and Nintendo is celebrating with all sorts of deals. Source
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