Author: Zach_Wilson
The Morning After: Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI
Google’s greenhouse gas emissions spiked by nearly 50 percent in the last five years, due to data centers required to power artificial intelligence, according to the company’s 2024 Environmental Report. The report shows the company’s progress towards meeting its self-proclaimed objective of becoming carbon neutral by 2030 – despite this…
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AMD’s new FSR 3.1 loses first round fight to Nvidia DLSS in battle of the frame rate boosters
AMD‘s FSR 3.1 only launched last week, on June 27, with support for a handful of games to begin with, but already some fresh testing has revealed that DLSS 3.7, the latest take on Nvidia’s rival upscaling solution, is still miles ahead with its image quality. Digital Foundry’s testing also…
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I renewed my US passport in a single week with the government’s speedy online beta
Perhaps you’ve heard you can now renew your US passport online. As long as you meet certain requirements, there’s a beta website for that. The State Department tells me it’s not necessarily faster — but anecdotally, my family just had two of the speediest, most painless experiences we’ve ever had…
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Meta ordered to stop training its AI on Brazilian personal data
Brazil’s data protection authority (ANPD) has banned Meta from training its artificial intelligence models on Brazilian personal data, citing the “risks of serious damage and difficulty to users.” The decision follows an update to Meta’s privacy policy in May in which the social media giant granted itself permission to use…
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Proton just launched a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs
Proton Docs looks a lot like Google Docs: white pages, formatting toolbar at the top, live indicators showing who’s in the doc with their name attached to a cursor, the whole deal. That’s not especially surprising, for a couple of reasons. First, Google Docs is hugely popular, and there are…
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Impatient for Nvidia’s RTX 5090 to arrive? This ‘frankenGPU’ that’s basically an RTX 4090 Super will whet your appetite nicely
A team of intrepid modders at Teclab have created an RTX 4090 Super, or the equivalent, concocting a kind of ‘frankenGPU’ which is a considerable chunk faster than the stock Lovelace flagship graphics card. You might recall there were rumors flying around for a long while about an RTX 4090…
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