Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 mobile processor. This is a somewhat simplified and more affordable version of the flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, operating at lower clock speeds, but at the same time retaining many of the advanced features that are present in the flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Snapdragon chips 8 Gen 2. Image source: Qualcomm Source: 3dnews.ru
Apple CEO Tim Cook's promises to make an important announcement regarding artificial intelligence systems by the end of the year probably intrigued many, but few could have imagined that the company would cooperate with competitors. According to Bloomberg, Google's Gemini platform could be the basis for some of the new iPhone features due to be unveiled this fall. Image source: Unsplash, […]
Publisher and developer SNK Corporation, as part of the finals of the SNK World Championship 2023 tournament, presented fresh trailers and release dates for the fighting game Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves - the first new game in the series in more than 25 years. Image source: SNK CorporationSource: 3dnews.ru
The xAI company, which Elon Musk launched in the summer of 2023, has published the source code of the Grok chatbot. xAI said in a statement that the Grok-1 language model contains 314 billion parameters, and the published data includes “base model weights and network architecture.” Her training completed in October 2023. Grok-1 is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Elon Musk explained the step in opening […]
A recent update of VKD3D-Proton to version 2.12 (*) added support for Nvidia Reflex. This patented technology reduces system latency by synchronizing the GPU and CPU. This way, CPU-rendered frames don't have to wait in the render queue, resulting in almost immediate rendering by the GPU. Also in the new addition: API D3D12 Render Pass; Shader Model […]
Fabrice Le Fessant summarized the 20-year development of the free GnuCOBOL compiler, which allows you to translate COBOL programs into a C representation for subsequent compilation using GCC or other C compilers. According to Fabris, the project has reached maturity, readiness for use in industrial systems and the ability to compete with proprietary solutions. Among the competitive advantages of GnuCOBOL […]
The company xAI, founded by Elon Musk and which has received about a billion dollars for the development of technologies related to artificial intelligence, announced the discovery of a large Grok language model used in a chatbot integrated into the social network X (Twitter). The set of weighting coefficients, neural network architecture, and use cases are published under the Apache 2.0 license. A ready-to-use archive with the model is available for download, [...]
The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have published updated builds of the Raspberry Pi OS 2024-03-15 (Raspbian) distribution, based on the Debian 12 package base. For Raspberry Pi 4/5 boards, the Wayfire composite manager based on the Wayland protocol is used by default, and for other boards - X server with Openbox window manager. The Pipewire media server is used to control audio. About […]
On March 3th, a group of researchers from the VUSec laboratory and IBM revealed details of a new cyber threat called GhostRace. This speculative execution vulnerability affects a wide range of processor architectures and operating systems (OS), including Arm. Image source: AMD Source: XNUMXdnews.ru
Initially, Apple CarPlay and Google Android Auto functions meant synchronizing the interface of on-board infotainment systems with car owners' smartphones, but the latter transformed several years ago into Android Automotive, which can work without a smartphone. Apple is now planning similar progress in the development of CarPlay. Image source: AppleSource: 3dnews.ru
It has long been known that one of the reasons for the current shortage of advanced computing accelerators is TSMC's limited ability to test and package chips for them using CoWoS technology. All of the company's core facilities are concentrated in Taiwan, but now Reuters reports that TSMC has intentions to build a similar enterprise in Japan. Image source: TSMC Source: 3dnews.ru
Developers from 343 Industries have announced the next patch for their sci-fi shooter Halo Infinite. The update should fix some network problems and add Easy Anti-Cheat support to the game. Image source: Xbox Game StudiosSource: 3dnews.ru
