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The cheapest 4TB PCIe 4.0 SSD on Amazon has been tested ahead of Prime Day — but that’s not the one I’d recommend
Getting your hands on a 4TB SSD for just $158 ahead of Amazon Prime Day seems just too good to be true – but that’s exactly what you’ll get with the FanXiang S660, a high-capacity and low-cost NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD. Amazon Prime Day is live now with some…
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A tiny startup has helped Intel trounce AMD and Nvidia in critical AI tests — is it game over already?
Numenta has demonstrated that Intel Xeon CPUs can vastly outperform the best CPUs and best GPUs on AI workloads by applying a novel approach to them. Using a set of techniques based on this idea, branded under the Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC) label, the startup has unlocked new…
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And that’s how it all started: AI managed to design a robot that walks — from scratch, and in less than 60 seconds
Scientists have condensed billions of years of evolution into a flash with an AI that has created a miniature walking robot from scratch. We’ve come a long way from the dawn of robotics way back in the early 1950s, with scientists endeavoring to build on this discipline in the decades…
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Beware – GoldDigger malware will drain your bank accounts without you even realizing
A dangerous new Android malware strain has been observed making the rounds, capable of stealing money from dozens of banking apps. This alarm was sounded by cybersecurity researchers Group-IB, which spotted the new campaign in June this year. In this campaign, unnamed threat actors were delivering a piece of malware…
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Intel wants its GPUs to take a bigger slice of the VDI market by eliminating licensing fees
The GPU Flex series is Intel’s answer to one of the biggest pain points in the entire virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market – allowing customers able to tap into this GPU available without incurring any license fees. Businesses are increasingly turning to VDI systems to give workers a cost-effective way…
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Are hyper-specialized processing units the future of computing? Meet the company who wants to be the Nvidia of data queries
Businesses that run SQL queries may be about to get a massive boost thanks to a specialized semiconductor chip developed by Neuroblade – built specifically to handle this particular use case. Neuroblade’s SQL instruction processing chip – known as SQL processing units (SPUs) – can simply be plugged into a…
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