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Netflix? More like Netfix – world’s most popular streaming service is tied at the neck with its biggest rival, and doesn’t even know how much it spends on cloud computing

AWS is Netflix’s only cloud computing platform But AWS is also part of Amazon, which owns Amazon Prime Video, a huge rival to Netflix Netflix engineers have been struggling to keep track of how much resources they use on AWS Netflix, the world’s most popular streaming platform, may dominate home…

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Apple Vision Pro gets extraordinary $30,000 dual-lens camera that can handle almost 118 million pixels

URSA is designed exclusively to shoot Apple Immersive Video Each sensor can capture 8K video at a staggering 90fps Its 8TB onboard memory module can capture over 120 minutes of 3D video Blackmagic Design, best known for its professional video editing and color grading suite DaVinci Resolve, has opened pre-orders…

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Microsoft backed a tiny hardware startup that just launched its first AI processor that does inference without GPU or expensive HBM memory and a key Nvidia partner is collaborating with it

Microsoft-backed startup introduces GPU-free alternatives for generative AI DIMC architecture delivers an ultra-high memory bandwidth of 150 TB/s Corsair supports transformers, agentic AI, and interactive video generation d-Matrix Inc., a hardware startup based in Santa Clara, California, has introduced its first AI processor, Corsair, which is aimed at enhancing AI…

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This is probably the best value 16-inch Linux laptop right now; just make sure you don’t try to upgrade it to 8TB SSD or you’ll double its price

Pangolin from System76 is powered by an AMD Ryzen 8945HS It supports up to 16TB storage but adding 2x8TB SSDs more than triples its price It only has a six hour battery life and no numeric keypad, a shame for a 16-inch notebook System76, a company best-known for its Linux-based…

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Yet another tech startup wants to topple Nvidia with ‘orders of magnitude’ better energy efficiency; Sagence AI bets on analog in-memory compute to deliver 666K tokens/s on Llama2-70B

Sagence brings analog in-memory compute to redefine AI inference Ten times lower power and 20 times lower costs Also offers integration with PyTorch and TensorFlow Sagence AI has introduced an advanced analog in-memory compute architecture designed to address issues of power, cost, and scalability in AI inference. Using an analog-based…

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You can now rent Google’s most powerful AI chip: Trillium TPU underpins Gemini 2.0 and will put AMD and Nvidia on high alert

Trillium has hit general availability just months after preview release Powerful AI chip offers more than four times the training performance Google uses it to train Gemini 2.0, the company’s advanced AI model Google has been developing Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), its custom AI accelerators, for over a decade, and…

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