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AMD says Instinct MI400X GPU is 10X faster than MI...
AMD unveiled Helios, its first in-house rack-scale AI system built around upcoming EPYC 'Venice' CPUs and Instinct MI400-series GPUs, aiming to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI. But while it is said to offer higher memory capacity and bandwidth than...
Energy Star, on the Trump's target list, has a lon...
Since the early 1990s, the small blue Energy Star label has appeared on millions of household appliances, electronics and even buildings across the United States. But as the Trump administration considers terminating some or all of the program, it...
Less is more: Efficient pruning for reducing AI me...
Deep learning and AI systems have made great headway in recent years, especially in their capabilities of automating complex computational tasks such as image recognition, computer vision and natural language processing. Yet, these systems consist of billions of parameters...
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The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars...
Why LLMs Overthink Easy Puzzles but Give Up on Har...
Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress, with Large Language Models (LLMs) and their advanced counterparts, Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), redefining how machines process and generate human-like text. These models can write essays, answer questions, and even solve mathematical problems....
Holidaymakers under threat from devious new cyber ...
Fake Booking.com site found dropping a dangerous RAT to people's computers, experts warn.
Nintendo Switch 2 tested: new internals are a majo...
The Nintendo Switch 2's powerful internals deliver a major upgrade to the Switch formula, but there's still some room for improvement.
The Highly Affordable ADATA XPG Mars 980 Blade PCI...
If you want affordable PCIe 5.0 storage, for your desktop or PS5 then ADATA's XPG Mars 980 Blade is worth considering. TweakTown rated it at just over 14,000 MB/s sequential read and…
A foundation for physical AI: Battery-free RFID se...
What if the same RFID "smart barcode" tags used to track packages and retail inventory could also detect changes in the real world—like temperature, pressure or weight—without batteries or added hardware?
AI literacy: What it is, what it isn't, who needs ...
It is "the policy of the United States to promote AI literacy and proficiency among Americans," reads an executive order President Donald Trump issued on April 23, 2025. The executive order, titled Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth,...
AMD’s powerful AI chips can finally be unleashed o...
AMD’s hardware teams have tried to redefine AI inferencing with powerful chips like the Ryzen AI Max and Threadripper. But in software, the company has been largely absent where PCs are concerned. That’s changing, AMD executives say. AMD’s Advancing...
Turning carbon dioxide into fuel just got easier, ...
A team of researchers at Rice University have discovered a surprisingly simple method for vastly improving the stability of electrochemical devices that convert carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals, and it involves nothing more than sending the CO2...
How to use ChatGPT to write code - and my top tric...
AI can write useful code, but it can also produce unusable garbage. Here's my advice on making the most of AI from my many adventures in coding.
AI tools collect and store data about you from all...
Like it or not, artificial intelligence has become part of daily life. Many devices—including electric razors and toothbrushes—have become "AI-powered," using machine learning algorithms to track how a person uses the device, how the device is working in real...
Should global media giants shape our cultural and ...
Debates about regulating Canadian content for streaming media platforms are ongoing, and key issues include revising the definition of Canadian content for audio and visual cultural productions and whether big streaming companies would be mandated to follow new Canadian...
“The key to our success was keeping a 2D mindset":...
Marvel Rivals art director Dino Ma on creating a unique comic book style for the hit superhero shooter
The transatlantic race to create the television
Number 1519 Connecticut Avenue lies just north of Dupont Circle, just over a 20-minute walk from the White House in Washington DC. In 1921, the inventor Charles Francis Jenkins set up his laboratory and offices there, upstairs from a...
Accelerating Articul8’s domain-specific model deve...
Learn how Articul8 is redefining enterprise generative AI with domain-specific models that outperform general-purpose LLMs in real-world applications. In our latest blog post, we dive into how Amazon SageMaker HyperPod accelerated the development of Articul8’s industry-leading semiconductor model—achieving 2X...