Diminishing returns are hard for most players. Unless you’re a professional gamer or an extremely high-level gamer, going to 8000Hz doesn’t give you a competitive advantage. Instead, it presents a tax on CPU processing for the majority as an expensive…
Summary SSHDs paired an HDD with a small NAND cache for faster speeds, but that idea didn’t catch on. SSD prices fell rapidly, causing SSHDs to disappear from the market. I’m nostalgic for SSHDs, but a proper throwback isn’t possible.…
Not all streaming services treat VPNs the same. Here’s how the major platforms differ, why some VPNs are blocked, and your best bets for connecting to the services you want to watch. It’s no secret that the best VPNs can…
In recent months Microsoft has taken significant steps to improve the Windows 11 user experience through it Windows K2 initiativeincluding Reduce the scale where Copilot and its integrations appear in the interface. Now, it seems, these efforts have extended even…
In the last two years, enterprises have been trying to adapt large language models (LLM) to support, analytics, development and internal automation like never before. Along with the increased acceptance AI technologyanother trend is gaining momentum—cybercriminals are exploiting the disconnect…
The real issue is whether publishers of scholarly journals should retroactively apply modern standards of reprinting or self-plagiarism to historical documents. At the beginning of the 20th century, the norms of journal publication were significantly different. The focus was on…
A new analysis piece by Bain & Company, CNBC reported on thispaints a picture of a contracting US auto market now and through 2024 as market forces make the auto business uncomfortably competitive. Along with declining immigration, Bain points to…
Ford executives said they were hiring 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees and others working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed to deliver the desired level of quality. Bloomberg reports The company’s chief…
TL;DR Baidu’s Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and has asked investors to commit to buying its chips, blurring the line between shareholder and customer. Baidu’s artificial intelligence chip Kunlunxin is planning a $50 billion IPO in…
Google’s environmental reports Speaker of the House Here’s a look at how the new Gemini device is made and pictures of the internals. According to the company, the Google Home Speaker “features a tensioned 3D knit body wrapped around a…
