Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced its intention to acquire British company iSIZE, founded in 2016, specializing in the development of AI solutions for improving video quality for streaming. Image source: iSIZE Source: 3dnews.ru
Dell Technologies, Intel and the University of Cambridge have announced the creation of a jointly developed supercomputer, Dawn, in the UK. The launch will be carried out in two stages. The first will be completed within two months, that is, before the end of the year. The second phase, which will be completed in 2024, will increase Dawn's productivity tenfold and will be completed next year. […]
The release of the Nitrux 3.1 distribution kit, built on the Debian package base, KDE technologies and the OpenRC initialization system, has been published. The project offers its own NX Desktop, which is an add-on to KDE Plasma. Based on the Maui library for the distribution, a set of typical user applications is developed that can be used on both desktop systems and mobile devices. For installation […]
After a year of development, a new release of the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language is presented - Gawk 5.3.0. AWK was developed in the 70s of the last century and has not undergone significant changes since the mid-80s, in which the basic backbone of the language was defined, which has allowed it to maintain the pristine stability and simplicity of the language over the past decades. Despite his advanced age [...]
Developers from the Russian studio the Bratans have announced the “Russ on the Moon” addition to their pseudo-historical action film “Russ vs. Lizards,” which is beloved by players (97% positive reviews on Steam). Image source: the BratansSource: 3dnews.ru
The UK government has announced the allocation of £225 million ($273 million) for the construction of the country's most powerful supercomputer, Isambard, with a performance of more than 200 PFLOPS in FP64 calculations and more than 21 EFLOPS in AI tasks. According to The Register, the new machine, based on thousands of NVIDIA Grace Hopper hybrid Arm superchips (GH200), will be located at the University of Bristol and will be built by HPE. The car is expected to be […]
Microsoft launched the Azure cloud region in Israel without much fanfare. The official announcement has been removed. The new region is said to include three Azure Availability Zones, which offer customers additional resiliency as the region is self-powered, networked, and cooled together to provide additional resiliency to data center failures. The Central Israel region is listed on the Azure Regions page as […]
Gaijin Entertainment, a former Russian computer game developer, has opened the source code of the Dagor Engine, which is used to create the multiplayer online game War Thunder. The source code is available on GitHub under a BSD 3-clause license. Currently, Windows is required to build the engine. This engine is also used as the basis for the announced open cross-platform engine Nau Engine, announced as an alternative to leading […]
A release of the free sound editor Audacity 3.4 has been published, providing tools for editing sound files (Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3 and WAV), recording and digitizing sound, changing sound file parameters, overlaying tracks and applying effects (for example, noise reduction, changing tempo and tone ). Audacity 3.4 was the fourth major release created after the project was taken over by Muse Group. Code […]
Google has published the release of the Chrome 119 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser differs from Chromium in the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, modules for playing copy-protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, permanently enabling Sandbox isolation, supplying keys to the Google API and transferring […]
At AMD's quarterly event, company management only explained that revenue from sales of Ryzen 7000 family processors has doubled sequentially. But the company decided to talk in more detail about the reasons for the 42% year-on-year revenue growth in the client segment only on the pages of Form 10-Q, which was published this morning. In particular, it turned out that Ryzen shipments jumped by more than […]
The French company Segula Technologies has installed ten hybrid solar-wind generators on the roof of a commercial building in the municipality of Angers-en-Santerre, which will supply and distribute energy to the structure all year round. One such installation includes a 1500-watt wind generator and two 800-watt solar modules, as well as individual batteries and a distribution system, making it smart. […]
