Month: July 2024
AMD is becoming an AI chip company, just like Nvidia
AMD just announced its second quarter 2024 earnings today, and the highlight was this: nearly half the company’s sales are now data center products — not chips for personal computers, not game consoles, not embedded chips for industry or vehicles. The company’s data center business has doubled in a single…
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Fresh leak shows the Google Pixel Watch 3 comes in two sizes instead of one
The next Made by Google is just around the corner (Aug. 13, to be exact) but you may not have to wait to find out about the Google Pixel Watch 3. A leak from a Google source to the website Android Headlines reveals some new details about the new smartwatch.…
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Samsung hypes the Galaxy Z Flip as a great police bodycam
Samsung’s advertising for its Galaxy Z Flip series typically revolves around Gen Z photo shoots and showing off specific features like interpreter mode. But today, the company has taken quite a turn by highlighting the foldable phone’s use as… a policing tool. In a post on Samsung’s newsroom titled “Samsung…
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Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data
Activision is sharing an open-source dataset for Call of Duty: Warzone’s Caldera map for researchers to study and to help support AI model training. “This first-of-its-kind data set release for Call of Duty, now available in OpenUSD, contains the near-complete geometry of Caldera as well as a collection of randomly…
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Minecraft and Tetris combine for some very blocky dungeon crawling
It’s your job to find the Tetriminos and bring them back. So how do you do that? The grid of blocks remaining after your round of 2D Tetris transforms into a 3D dungeon layout hiding not only the missing Tetriminos, but plenty of surprises – some more welcome than others! Each…
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Microsoft’s cloud revenues rule again in Q4, as Surface continues to dip
Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $64.7 billion in revenue and a net income of $22 billion during Q4. Revenue is up 15 percent, and net income has increased by 10 percent. Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud revenues, which include the company’s…
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