NVIDIA Olympus SMT Optimizations For Vera CPU Showing 3~6% Performance Gains
Back in August I wrote about NVIDIA working on Linux scheduler improvements for helping the SMT performance on their new Vera CPU with Olympus cores. That...
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AMD's new 'Gainsborough' APU rumoured to be the chip that powers the long-awaited Steam Deck 2
As Final Fantasy 7 fans will know, it's 'Gainsborough' because 'Aerith Gainsborough'.
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Sony released the first CD audio player on this day in 1982
Sony launched the world’s first CD player on this day in 1982, kickstarting the compact disc digital audio era.
Read moreQualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers
Rob Clark, who originally started working on the reverse-engineering Freedreno and MSM DRM graphics driver projects prior to even being employed by Qualcomm, presented this week...
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I spent far too long assigning gaming mouse values based on their price-to-weight ratio, and the runner-up is the rodent on my desk right now
You know, I'm something of a rodent scientist myself.
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Exercise Keeps Astronaut Hearts in Fighting Shape for the Journey to Mars
Getting a human body to Mars will take a toll on it. NASA and other space agencies have been concerned for years that the 6-9 month...
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The Division developers Massive are now "the global brand" in charge of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, alongside a new Ubisoft dieselpunk MOBA
Tom Clancy's The Division and Star Wars Outlaws studio Massive Entertainment just got, er, massiver. Parent company Ubisoft have announced that they're now "the global label"...
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How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid
If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it...
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Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites
Over the last week, there have been reports that the Russian military has started targeting Ukraine's datacenters. As one commenter put it, "DDoS now means Direct...
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Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) Review: Unlimited Power
The Mac Studio can run frontier-level AI language models locally. It’s only a preview of what’s to come.
Read moreAn Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart
An interview with Jason Del Rey about Amazon versus Meta, which is a continuation of the oldest battle in retail between Amazon and Walmart.
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