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At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Qualcomm is taking Intel to task. The company, which released its Snapdragon X processors over the summer, is using its home turf to claim that its chips are faster than Intel’s newly released Intel Core Ultra Series 2 “Lunar Lake” processors, and suggested that Intel didn’t tell the whole … Read More
Mistral, an AI startup based in Paris, has released two new AI models specifically optimized for running on local devices. These models, called Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, are designed to work efficiently on devices like laptops and smartphones without needing a constant connection to cloud servers. The idea behind this move is to meet … Read More
Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a 4.1x improvement in I/O performance, … Read More
Developers in the fields of image-guided surgery and surgical vision face unique challenges in creating systems and applications that can significantly improve surgical workflows. One such challenge is efficiently combining multi-modal imaging data, such as preoperative 3D patient images with intra-operative video. This is key to providing surgeons with real-time, accurate guidance during minimally invasive … Read More
PerformancePSU Verdict: 4.8/5 View on Amazon From the Reviewer This keyboard is a price-point winner. The Xtrfy K5 RGB Compact brings hot-swappable switches, pre-lubed stabilizers, amazing typing sound and vibrant RGB lighting making this a killer gaming keyboard for anyone who is response rate conscious but also wants sick aesthetics too. This keyboard is so … Read More
When Do You Need SLI and Crossfire? When shopping for a video card, you should always get the single best card you can afford, unless you are planning on running at resolution that requires SLI to play games at the desired quality (which is generally 4K at high/max quality). I started with a single GTX … Read More
Lots of pointing at clouds AWS made data transfer out of AWS free for customers who were moving off their servers in March, spurred in part by European regulations. Trade publications are full of trend stories about rising cloud costs and explainers on why companies are repatriating. Stories of major players’ cloud reversals, like that … Read More
A mysterious new Intel Arc graphics engine has made an appearance on GFXBench, featuring significantly faster performance than Lunar Lake’s latest Xe2-based Arc 140V iGPU. Shared on X by Michael (@miktdt), the GPU is listed as Arc 140T, and delivers a frame rate that was over 60% faster than the Arc 140V in GFXBench’s OpenGL … Read More
Producing commercials is resource-intensive, requiring physical locations and various props and setups to display products in different settings and environments for more accurate consumer targeting. This traditional process is not only expensive and time-consuming but also can be destructive to the physical environment. It leaves you with no ability to capture a new angle after … Read More
Research suggests that exposure to blue light fools your body into thinking it’s daytime, making it harder to fall asleep if you work late on a Mac with a bright white (which has a lot of blue light) screen. To help, a macOS feature called Night Shift subtly changes the colors of the screen as … Read More