IT News 1 year ago

Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers - On Monday, Nvidia announced Project DIGITS, a small desktop computer aimed... -

Ars Technica

Nvidia unveils $3,000 desktop AI computer for home researchers

Project DIGITS can run a local chatbot or other AI models up to 200B parameters in size.

#largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #projectdigits #parameters #desktopai #localai #biz⁢ #nvidia #ai

IT News 1 year ago

Apple's AI Is Proving It's Anything But Intelligent - Complaints and ridicule have been mounting about mistakes by the iPhone maker's hy... -

Apple

Complaints and ridicule have been mounting about mistakes by the iPhone maker

#ai

IT News 1 year ago

Nvidia Unveils $3,000 Personal AI Supercomputer - Nvidia will begin selling a personal AI supercomputer in May that can run sophisti... -

Nvidia Unveils $3,000 Personal AI Supercomputer - Slashdot

Nvidia will begin selling a personal AI supercomputer in May that can run sophisticated AI models with up to 200 billion parameters, the chipmaker ...

#ai

IT News 1 year ago

Nvidia To Deploy AI Teammates in Video Games this Year - Nvidia has unveiled plans to introduce AI-powered autonomous characters in video g... -

Nvidia To Deploy AI Teammates in Video Games this Year - Slashdot

Nvidia has unveiled plans to introduce AI-powered autonomous characters in video games this year, starting with a virtual teammate in the battle ro...

#ai

IT News 1 year ago

Climate Crisis 'Wreaking Havoc' on Earth's Water Cycle, Report Finds - The climate crisis is "wreaking havoc" on the planet's water cycle, with ferocious... -

Climate Crisis

The climate crisis is "wreaking havoc" on the planet

#earth

IT News 1 year ago

Could Monkeys Really Type All of Shakespeare? - Not in this universe, a new study concludes. -

Could Monkeys Really Type All of Shakespeare? (Published 2025)

Not in this universe, a new study concludes.

#typewritersandtypewriting #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #booksandliterature #universityofsydney #shakespearewilliam #writingandwriters #your-feed-science #monkeysandapes #mathematics #australia

IT News 1 year ago

NATO Plans To Build Satellite Links As Backups To Undersea Cables - Tom's Hardware reports that NATO is developing an advanced system to address the g... -

NATO Plans To Build Satellite Links As Backups To Undersea Cables - Slashdot

Tom

#military

IT News 1 year ago

Hertz is asking EV renters if they want to keep it, permanently - Some EVs in stock on the Hertz Car Sales site. | Screensho... -

The Verge

Hertz is asking EV renters if they want to keep it, permanently

Hertz is trying to sell off a sizeable portion of its Tesla fleet.

IT News 1 year ago

Headlights Are Growing Brighter - Modern LED headlights are significantly brighter and more glaring than traditional... -

Headlights Are Growing Brighter - Slashdot

Modern LED headlights are significantly brighter and more glaring than traditional halogen bulbs, creating dangerous driving conditions, lighting e...

#transportation

IT News 1 year ago

World's first Bitcoin nation scales back crypto dream - El Salvador has eased its pro-cryptocurrency policies to help secure a $1.4bn loan from t... -

El Salvador strikes $1.4bn IMF deal after scaling back Bitcoin policies

El Salvador has eased its pro-cryptocurrency policies to help secure a $1.4bn loan from the IMF.

IT News 1 year ago

Google Cuts Managers and VPs in Efficiency Drive - Google has reduced its senior management positions by 10% as part of an ongoing ef... -

Google Cuts Managers and VPs in Efficiency Drive - Slashdot

Google has reduced its senior management positions by 10% as part of an ongoing efficiency initiative, CEO Sundar Pichai announced during a company...

#google

IT News 1 year ago

This waterproof coffin will keep an AirTag alive for a decade - You’ll need to remove an AirTag’s battery door to install ... -

The Verge

This waterproof case will keep an AirTag alive for a decade

When one year of battery life just isn’t enough.

IT News 1 year ago

Enabling NVMe on the Raspberry Pi 500 With a Handful of Parts - With the recent teardown of the Raspberry Pi 500, there were immediately questions... -

Hackaday

Enabling NVMe On The Raspberry Pi 500 With A Handful Of Parts

With the recent teardown of the Raspberry Pi 500, there were immediately questions raised about the unpopulated M.2 pad and related traces hiding i...

#raspberrypi500 #raspberrypi #nvme #m.2

IT News 1 year ago

Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises cheap, small AI power - Nvidia announced the latest in its Jetson Orin Nano AI com... -

The Verge

Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises cheap, small AI power

It’s half as expensive as its predecessor.

IT News 1 year ago

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Ramps Up Competition with Elon Musk and SpaceX - A new rocket from Mr. Bezos’ company Blue Origin and a satellite system from Amazon could... -

Jeff Bezos Prepares to Close the Gap in His Space Race With Elon Musk (Published 2024)

A new rocket from Mr. Bezos’ company Blue Origin and a satellite system from Amazon could heat up competition with SpaceX, owned by Mr. Musk.

#spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #kuipersystems(amazon.cominc) #unitedlaunchalliance #privatespaceflight #teslamotorsinc #amazon.cominc #bezosjeffreyp #satellites #blueorigin #muskelon

IT News 1 year ago

More Than a Million Vapes a Day in UK Thrown Away, Says Research - Thirteen vapes are thrown away every second in the UK -- more than a million a day... -

More Than a Million Vapes a Day in UK Thrown Away, Says Research - Slashdot

Thirteen vapes are thrown away every second in the UK -- more than a million a day -- leading to an "environmental nightmare," according to...

#earth

IT News 1 year ago

The Math Behind the Music of the 80s - Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we m... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/11/the-math-behind-the-music-of-the-80s/ #musicalhacks #synthesizer #instrument #synthpop #yamaha #1980s #music #synth #dx-7 #dx7

IT News 1 year ago

Scientific Breakthrough Gives New Hope To Building Quantum Computers - Google has achieved a major breakthrough in quantum error correction that could en... -

Scientific Breakthrough Gives New Hope To Building Quantum Computers - Slashdot

Google has achieved a major breakthrough in quantum error correction that could enable practical quantum computers by 2030, the company announced i...

#google

IT News 1 year ago

Fish tank PC case sales explode in 2024 — Korean retail data claims tenfold growth for this style of chassis - Fish tank style PC cases gained momentum through 2024, with... -

Tom

Fish tank PC case sales explode in 2024 — Korean retail data claims tenfold growth for this style of chassis

Fish tank fans outnumbered those who appreciate wood.

#pccomponents #pccases

IT News 1 year ago

OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare - A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time OpenWrt users should upgrade their images... -

OpenWrt supply chain attack scare prompts urgent upgrades

: A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time