Month: March 2024
Want to store 1PB of data in the cloud? This startup can do it for you for as little as $10,000 a month — Qumulo says it can scale to Exabytes off premise and wants to eradicate tapes once and for all
Qumulo has launched Azure Native Qumulo Cold (ANQ Cold), which it claims is the first truly cloud-native, fully managed SaaS solution for storing and retrieving infrequently accessed “cold” file data. Fully POSIX-compliant and positioned as an on-premises alternative to tape storage, ANQ Cold can be used as a standalone file…
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How the House quietly revived the TikTok ban before most of us noticed
The US push to force TikTok to divorce from its Chinese parent company or else be banned entirely had faded from public discussion for almost a full year. In the course of just over a week, it jumped suddenly from the pile of forgotten ideas to getting halfway through the…
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Smash hit Balatro is coming to iPhone and Android
The game originally shipped for consoles and Windows PCs — and was briefly banned from some storefronts over a ratings mistake. It’s back, and there’s also now a MacOS port that you can access by buying the game on Steam. The full Reddit AMA has loads of insight into Balatro’s…
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AI chip built using ancient Samsung tech is claimed to be as fast as Nvidia A100 GPU — prototype is smaller and much more power efficient but is it just too good to be true?
Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have unveiled an AI chip that they claim can match the speed of Nvidia‘s A100 GPU but with a smaller size and significantly lower power consumption. The chip was developed using Samsung‘s 28-nanometer manufacturing process, a technology considered relatively…
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Don’t Let the Boeing Headlines Fool You. Air Travel Is Really Very Safe
Despite a flood of bad news about mechanical mishaps on commercial airliners, data from regulators shows that jumbo jets aren’t all suddenly falling apart. Source
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Don’t Let the Headlines Fool You. Air Travel Is Really Very Safe
Despite a flood of bad news about mechanical mishaps on commercial airliners, data from regulators shows that jumbo jets aren’t all suddenly falling apart. Source
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