A team of scientists from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines has succeeded in converting an extract of crab shells into a bioplastic that they say could be used to make optical components known as diffraction gratings. These are popular parts used in a wide variety of products; they …
Read More »How to build your own ChatGPT alternative on the cheap? There’s one way
For a few thousand dollars a month, you can now reserve the capacity of a single Nvidia HGX H100 GPU through a company called CoreWeave. The H100 is the successor to the A100, the GPU that was instrumental in training ChatGPT on LLM (Large Language models). Prices start at $2.33 …
Read More »The smartphone market is expected to disappoint again
Economic uncertainty, improved build quality and an increasing appeal for sustainable living will hurt the global smartphone market, while simultaneously driving the global used phone market to new heights, according to a new market forecast from analyst CSS Insight. The company expects mobile phone shipments to reach 1.35 billion units …
Read More »Aside from CPU, today is the day the GPU takes over your kingdom
It’s often easy to forget that GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit, but during yesterday’s busy GTC 2023 (GPU Technology Conference) sessions, Nvidia announced no fewer than four new processors (the company’s own word), bringing it its position as the AI hardware champion with hardly any competition in sight. ChatGPT’s …
Read More »The Pro version of the Nvidia RTX 4090 Mobile can be a bit disappointing
As expected, Nvidia unveiled a pro version of the RTX 4090 mobile, the fastest laptop GPU on the market, earlier today at its GTC 2023 event. The RTX 5000 Ada Generation will equip mobile workstations from, for example, Lenovo (ThinkPad), Dell (Precision) and HP (Zbook). Like its consumer alter ego, …
Read More »AMD’s new monster CPU with 96 cores is likely to break world records
A series of leaked documents seems to confirm that AMD plans to return a key consumer feature to its most advanced server processor to date the EPYC Genoa-X. 3D V-cache debuted on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and has now rolled out to three more consumer-oriented processors – with four 3rd …
Read More »A tiny solar panel in a cable: how fiber is changing the way power is transferred
Earlier this month, communications specialists HUBER +SUHNER launched a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that powers an active antenna over fiber instead of more traditional copper wires, replacing power-over-ethernet (PoE) with power-over-fiber in some cases ( PoF), for almost ten years. This allows data and power to be sent over …
Read More »This Google Pixel flaw allows hackers to undo all your cropped photos
A vulnerability has been discovered that affects Google Pixel users with a vulnerability that could have exposed users’ most sensitive information and may continue to do so in certain cases. While Google has released a fix for CVE-2023-21036 in its March update (opens in new tab)the high-risk vulnerability has allowed …
Read More »If this trend continues, hard drives could finally be out before Christmas
Analyst firm Trendforce predicted that the average selling price of NAND Flash would be the basic building block of everything SSD (Solid State Drives) and microSD cards will fall by up to 15% in the current quarter. It’s already down nearly 25% in the last quarter, prompting the biggest manufacturers; …
Read More »Apple quietly launched the “Mac does that” campaign for businesses
We’re not sure exactly when Apple launched its new business-focused campaign called “Mac Does That,” but they did it in super stealth, quasi-secretive mode with a handful of B2B partners and with some very unusual design choices. Google Cache shows that the main landing page (opens in new tab) went …
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