Author: Zach_Wilson
Nvidia just made $6 billion in pure profit over the AI boom
The company raked in $13.5 billion in revenue since May, it revealed in its Q2 2024 earnings, with the unprecedented demand for its generative AI chips blowing past any difficulty it might have had selling desktop and laptop GPUs into a shrinking PC industry. Data center accounted for a record…
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Reddit comments might not load for you right now
Reddit is acting up again. On Wednesday, some of us at The Verge ran into some issues browsing the site, including threads with blank comments and some pages with a “504 Gateway Timeout” message. The issues appear to differ across new and old Reddit. I typically browse on old Reddit,…
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WhatsApp just made your group chats a lot easier to name and use
WhatsApp is launching a new feature to its messaging platform – the ability to create groups without having to give them a name yourself. It’s a very simple addition, but a helpful one at that. According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who revealed the update on his Facebook page, WhatsApp…
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‘Ahsoka’ is both solid Star Wars and proof that there’s too much Star Wars
208 episodes of The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels. Three Tales of the Jedi shorts. Two episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. One movie. That's everything you'll need to see to truly understand everything going on in the new Ahsoka series on Disney+. For Star…
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How to convert a PDF for your Kindle
Not that long ago, a friend sent me a preview of a book that she was about to have published and asked me to read it. I was delighted — but unfortunately, the copy she sent was formatted as a PDF. And since I usually read books and other documents…
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Brain implants could one day restore communication for people with paralysis
Two separate studies published today in Nature indicate that, in the future, brain-to-computer interfaces (BCI) could help restore communication for people who can’t speak due to severe paralysis. In both studies, researchers used brain implants that could pick up brain signals, which were then translated into sentences on a screen…
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