Month: May 2024
Another storage vendor wants to launch a 30.72TB SSD in 2024 and it’s one worth looking at — Phison unveils Pescari X200 in plans to compete with its own data center clients
Phison has announced its new Pascari brand of SSDs, targeting enterprise and data center applications. The company says the move is, predictably enough, “a response to the exponential growth of AI technologies and the increasing demands for high-performance storage solutions capable of managing extensive data sets and intensive workloads.” The…
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YouTube Music will let you search by humming into your Android phone
The Android YouTube Music app is rolling out a feature that’s part Shazam and part your friend when you say, “hey what’s that song that goes…” right before you hum out a bar. The feature lets you hum, whistle, sing, or play a recording of a song to figure out…
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Memorial Day sales are slashing prices on OLED TVs and I’ve found the 7 best deals
This year’s Memorial Day sales are up and running, and if you’re looking to upgrade your current display, this weekend is a fantastic opportunity to do so, thanks to huge savings on best-rated OLED TVs. Memorial Day sales from Best Buy, Amazon, Samsung, and Walmart offer record-low prices on Samsung,…
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A jury hands Bungie a victory in a landmark anti-cheating decision
Yesterday’s jury decision awarded Bungie (PDF) a tidy sum of $63,210. Bungie counsel James Barker said in a statement emailed to The Verge that the company is “committed to our players and will continue to protect them against cheats, including taking this and future cases all the way to trial.” In…
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Tech giant you’ve probably never heard of wants to put a data center in a shoebox build using 1000 3D superconducting chips — at 20 exaflops, it would be 20x faster than the most powerful supercomputer on Earth
To counter the strain on global energy resources due to accelerating computational demands – yes, AI, we’re looking at you – research institute imec is suggesting a radical shift away from traditional computing methods. Its solution, detaile in IEEE Spectrum engineering magazine, involves exploiting the fundamental properties of superconductors to…
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The best Memorial Day sales happening now
The summer solstice may be when summer officially kicks off, but for many of us, it starts as soon as temperatures begin to rise and the smell of barbecue begins wafting through the air. Memorial Day also serves as the unofficial start to the season, and the deals that are…
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