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(Image credit: Shutterstock) Meta is reportedly readying its first in-house AI training chip for deployment The dedicated AI accelerator, made with TSMC, completed tape-out Meta’s shift to custom silicon aims to reduce its dependence on Nvidia hardware Like many of Nvidia ’s highest spending customers, Meta is looking to slash its reliance on the GPU maker’s expensive AI hardware by making its own silicon. In 2024, the social media giant began advertising for engineers to help build its own state-of-the-art machine learning accelerators, and now, according to an exclusive report from Reuters , Meta is at the testing stage […]

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Amazon As of March 28, Amazon Echo models that were previously able to process Alexa requests locally will no longer do so, instead sending those voice recordings to the cloud. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the change to The Verge after a Reddit user posted a PSA about it on Friday, with a screenshot of an email they’d received from the company. The change applies to the Echo Dot (4th Gen), Echo Show 10 and Echo Show 15, according to The Verge . Per the email shared on Reddit, the settings for Echo users who enabled the ‘Do Not Send […]

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(Image credit: Shutterstock / luchschenF) Synthetic diamond boosts heat dissipation, outperforming copper by fivefold Akash Systems’ Diamond Cooled servers halve GPU fan speeds and energy use Thermal throttling is also reduced, enabling GPUs to sustain maximum performance workloads Diamond is emerging as potentially the next big innovation in GPU cooling , promising transformative improvements in the performance and efficiency of hyp[erscaler data center servers running AI tools . Akash Systems’ ‘Diamond Cooled’ servers reduce GPU hotspot temperatures in NVIDIA and AMD systems that already use advanced liquid cooling technologies by an impressive 10°-20°C. The company’s Diamond Cooling technology is […]

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Next up, Blue Ghost will observe the lunar sunset before the long night falls. cheyenne macdonald Weekend Editor Firefly Aerospace The lunar eclipse this week had many of us gazing up at the night sky to marvel at the red-tinged moon, and now we can see what that eerie effect looked like from the other side thanks to images captured by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander. From the lander’s perspective on the moon, the phenomenon on March 14 was a solar eclipse, and the latest video shows red light cast over Blue Ghost as Earth temporarily blocked the sun. The […]

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(Image credit: Future/Jacob Krol) Apple has delayed the smarter, AI-infused Siri and says it will arrive “in the coming year.” Since Apple Intelligence’s debut, we’ve been waiting to try the smarter Siri with access to Apps ” It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features” We’ve all been waiting for Apple to drop the significant Siri upgrade that was supposed to arrive at some point within the iOS 18 lifecycle. It goes beyond Siri’s colorful glow all around the screen that’s been here since the iPhone 16 lineup launched in September of 2024 […]

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(Image credit: OpenAI & Google) The release of GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT naturally leads to questions about how the model compares to its many rivals. After comparing it to GPT-4o and getting somewhat ambiguous results as to which model is preferable, I decided to go for a more direct competitor, Google Gemini, specifically the most recent Google Gemini Flash 2.p GPT-4.5 claims to be better at emotional understanding and to offer fewer hallucinations than has been the case previously. Gemini Flash 2.0, meanwhile, is Google ‘s latest iteration of its quite successful set of AI models capable of juggling text, […]

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There are all kinds of reasons to prefer Macs over Windows-based PCs. Gaming isn’t one of them. That isn’t to say that you can’t game on a Mac— modern Apple Silicon computers are fairly powerful. The problem is that many popular games don’t offer downloads that will run natively on a Mac. Search the Mac App Store or Steam and you’ll find a bunch of games for Mac—just not necessarily the specific ones you want.

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(Image credit: AMD) Both the AMD Ryzen 9900X3D and 9950X3D are releasing on March 12, 2025 The respective MSRPs for both CPUs are $599 and $699, similar to previous gen The former features a 120W TDP whereas the latter uses a 170W TDP instead Several months after first being announced at CES 2025, AMD has now officially confirmed the price and release date for its Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D processors. They’re billed as the “world’s best processor for gaming and content creation”. Both the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D processors will be available starting March 12, 2025. The […]

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Nintendo The Nintendo Switch 2 is officially on the way , and more details are starting to trickle out. FCC filings have revealed that the console will support WiFi 6 and NFC, according to reporting by The Verge . This means that the WiFi in the Switch 2 should be much speedier when compared to the OG model, as that console only supported WiFi 5. The filings do indicate that the Switch 2 won’t offer support for WiFi 6E. Additionally, the FCC only mentioned tests for 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks, and not the faster 6GHz band. WiFi 6 isn’t […]

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AMD AMD has announced that it’s releasing its newest Ryzen X3D processors on March 12. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D were both introduced back at CES 2025 , and are currently the most powerful gaming-focused processors the company sells. The 9950X3D has 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, a max boost speed of 5.7GHz and second-generation 3D V-Cache tech for more efficient performance. In contrast, the 9900X3D comes with a more modest 12 CPU cores and a max boost speed of 5.5GHz. AMD’s 3D V-Cache tech is still the standout feature on these chips. The company introduced […]

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