Month: June 2024
The endurance champion of SSDs — the Gigabyte AI TOP 100E drive can sustain 219 petabytes written or a whole year of continuous writing at its maximum speed but how does it do it with TLC NAND?
Gigabyte has launched its AI TOP 100E series of SSDs specifically designed for high-endurance tasks such as AI training. The new SSDs are available in 1TB and 2TB capacities and come housed in a standard M.2 2280 form factor. What makes them stand out from the competition is their extraordinary…
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Twitch banned Dr Disrespect after viewing messages sent to a minor, say former employees
Twitch abruptly banned one of its biggest stars — Herschel “Guy” Beahm, better known by his persona Dr Disrespect — in 2020 without a word of explanation. Now, four years after Beahm’s permanent ban, two former Twitch employees have come forward to describe events they say contributed to his removal from the…
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Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live
A YouTube Live broadcast that ran for five hours today used a deepfake of Elon Musk to push a cryptocurrency scam. The video, which has has since been taken down, showed a clip of Musk that was meant to look like a livestream from a Tesla event, with an AI-generated…
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AMD pulverizes Nvidia’s RTX 4090 in popular Geekbench OpenCL benchmark — but you will need a small mortgage to buy AMD’s fastest GPU ever produced
First introduced in late 2023, AMD’s Radeon Instinct MI300X accelerator has made an impressive debut on Geekbench’s OpenCL benchmark. The GPU took the top spot, thrashing all rivals, including Nvidia’s RTX 4090, which it pushed down into second place. The Radeon Instinct MI300X is built on AMD’s third-generation CDNA architecture…
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The Best Pickleball Paddles, Tested and Reviewed (2024)
Paddles are getting more sophisticated and expensive. We spent months testing dozens to find our favorites. Source
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Today is your last chance to sign up for a seven-day Max trial
There’s no denying that streaming services just keep getting more expensive, with Peacock and Max being the latest streamers to raise prices across their ad-free plans. We’re also seeing a number of services — including Max — dropping support for free trials, ensuring no one other than paying subscribers can…
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