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Data-mined code that recently emerged on the Anandtech forums indicates that AMD was working on an RDNA 4 GPU at one point, doubling most of the RX 7900 XTX's system specs. Team Red hasn't confirmed anything regarding its upcoming graphics cards, but rumors suggest the company canceled the new flagship... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102807-amd-cancelled-enthusiast-class-rdna-4-gpu-could.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Financial Times analyzed hundreds of job listings, LinkedIn profiles, and many studies over the last several years and found that Apple has recruited at least 36 AI experts from Google, starting with John Giannandrea in 2018, who now heads up Apple's AI division as senior vice president of Machine... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102806-apple-poached-three-dozen-google-experts-open-secret.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Philipp Schindler, Google SVP and chief business officer, said during the company's most recent earnings call that early testing in Q1 exhibited "strong traction." The executive added that pause ads are "commanding premium pricing from advertisers" and "driving strong brand lift results," likely suggesting a wider rollout could be just... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102803-youtube-experimenting-showing-ads-when-you-pause-video.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Publisher Hooded Horse recently confirmed that Manor Lords sold over 1 million copies and reached a peak concurrent player count of 170,000 on its first day on Steam Early Access. The latter number sets a new record for city builders on Steam. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102790-manor-lords-achieves-steam-most-successful-city-builder.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The IEA's "Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions" report finds that capital costs for battery storage systems are projected to fall by up to 40 percent by 2030. This significant cost reduction will make combining solar and wind with battery storage more affordable than building new coal or gas power plants... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102786-battery-cost-plunge-turbocharge-renewable-energy-shift-iea.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The used graphics card market has long been plagued by scammers and unscrupulous sellers who take advantage of unsuspecting buyers. Numerous reports have surfaced about buyers receiving dead on arrival (DoA) graphics cards that were knowingly sold online. Another such case has recently come to light, where a person who... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102785-scammers-selling-fake-rtx-4090-graphics-cards-without.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

At the helm of this $20 billion endeavor is Pranav Adani, the 30-year-old executive director of Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) and nephew of billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani. His namesake Adani Group struck it rich moving coal but is now seemingly moving hard into sustainable energy sources. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102783-india-gujarat-desert-host-renewable-energy-park-5.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Apple's Let Loose iPad livestream event takes place on May 7, when it's expected to unveil a new iPad Air and updated iPad Pro, the latter of which will likely receive the first OLED panel in the long-running iPad series. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102780-apple-oled-ipad-pro-unveiled-next-week-could.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Bernard Kim, the CEO of Match.com and Tinder owner Match Group, was questioned by CBS News about an investigation by the publication into online romance scams perpetrated by overseas-based criminals. Kim was asked what he would say to those who have become victims of this crime. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102778-match-ceo-message-romance-scam-victims-things-happen.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

According to a leaked message seemingly intended for motherboard manufacturers, which was obtained by Igor's Lab, Intel says the root cause hasn't been pinpointed yet, but it has spotted a pattern. The company claims the stability headaches are mostly impacting unlocked, overclockable systems where manufacturers have gone a little overboard... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102772-intel-issues-statement-raptor-lake-crashes-asks-mobo.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Last week President Biden visited Syracuse, NY, to do something government officials typically do: tout a massive investment in the local economy. But this was not just any investment – it was $6.1 billion provided by the CHIPS and Science Act to Micron Technology, which plans to spend $100 billion... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102770-how-chips-act-remade-us-semiconductor-manufacturing-put.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Loongson Vice President Zhang Ge revealed that the company has made huge strides in single-core performance through its R&D efforts. While admitting that its chips lag mainstream offerings in multi-core grunt, Loongson claims its latest iterations have seen up to a 20x gain in single-core capabilities. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102771-chinese-chipmaker-loongson-new-3b6600-3b7000-chips-narrow.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Intel faces a challenge. Its ramp-up of Core Ultra, led by Meteor Lake, continues to accelerate beyond its original expectations, with units projected to double sequentially in the second quarter. Specifically, the three Core Ultra families – Core Ultra 100 (Meteor Lake), Core Ultra 200 (Arrow Lake), and Core Ultra... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102768-intel-has-wafer-level-assembly-problem-hurting-core.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

For those not in the know, DARPA has been working on self-driving military vehicles for two decades now as part of its RACER (Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency) program. The goal is to develop autonomous ground vehicles that can navigate off-road terrain without any human input. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102769-darpa-unleashes-20-foot-autonomous-robo-tank-glowing.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

One of the largest automotive companies in the world lost $1.3 billion in its EV-only business unit known as "Model e" in the first quarter. Ford's EV division sold 10,000 cars during the three-month period of the new fiscal year, which means that the corporation lost $132,000 on every vehicle delivered to customers. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102755-ford-losing-boatloads-money-every-consumer-electric-vehicle.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The DOE released a new National Blueprint for the Building Sector, aiming to reduce GHG emissions from buildings by 65 percent by 2035 and 90 percent by 2050. Developed in collaboration with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal agencies, the plan is... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102552-us-federal-government-has-new-plan-slashing-greenhouse.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The board utilizes GX optical switches (your choice of tactile or linear), dual-shot PBT keycaps, RGB lighting, and Logitech's Lightspeed wireless technology for a speedy, cord-free connection. Optionally, you can connect wirelessly over standard Bluetooth. Battery life is rated at up to 65 hours, and recharging is as simple as... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102559-logitech-new-wireless-keyboard-caters-pro-gamers-move.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Satoh shared a video of his new creation on Instagram (via Dexerto), showing off the handheld PlayStation console running Mega Man 8, also known as Rockman in Japan. Another post shows the console playing games like Resident Evil Survivor, known in Japan as Biohazard Gun Survivor, as well as The... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102553-modder-builds-handheld-playstation-console-out-rare-ps1.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The official Champions of Otherworldly Magic Twitter/X account posted a message that reads: "We pay our AI artist 15,000 USD per month for exactly 10 hours of work." Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102551-card-game-creator-paid-ai-artist-1500-hour.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Seagate recently introduced its Mozaic 3+ storage platform, which implements HAMR technology for 30TB hard disk drives. The US storage giant is now collaborating with Sony to develop new HAMR write heads to meet the ever-growing storage needs of the technology industry. In the near future, Seagate may need to... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102540-seagate-developing-dual-layer-heat-assisted-magnetic-recording.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Back in November, NASA's Voyager 1 space probe lost its ability to send back telemetry data to flight engineers here on Earth. Without it, the probe and the agency in charge of it are essentially flying blind. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102543-nasa-engineers-identify-root-voyager-1-malfunction.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

China has seen its high-end Nvidia RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 D prices increase recently, writes IT Home. Citing reports in the Taiwanese media, it adds that this trend has now spread to other products further down Nvidia's card hierarchy, with add-in board partners set to raise prices by around 10% on average. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102541-graphics-card-prices-rise-china-demand-surpasses-supply.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

GPU-Z 2.58 adds support for Intel Meteor Lake and for Radeon RX 7600M and RTX 3050 4GB GPUs. Other enhancements include 8K support and improved formatting for certain values. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4452-gpu-z.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In order to access more reputable English language-based text on the internet in 2021, OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper, writes The New York Times. It was designed to transcribe audio from YouTube videos, giving the company a trove of data to train its LLMs. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102536-openai-transcribed-over-million-hours-youtube-videos-train.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

When it comes to GPUs and graphics cards, we go in full depth. Year after year, we test dozens of GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and now Intel, to determine which are worth your money and which are dead on arrival. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/bestof/gpu-2024/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

About a year ago, the US Patent and Trademark Office published a patent filed by Apple in September 2021 for a set of AirPods that came with a built-in touchscreen display and case. The users could control the AirPods from the screen as well as perform a number of other... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102533-fake-airpods-cases-feature-display-screen-popping-up.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A much improved version of Intel PresentMon is now available, enhancing its frame rate monitoring capabilities and showing key metrics using histogram plots, alongside various fixes and optimizations. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7561-intel-presentmon.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In a report from The Hacker News, security researcher Bartek Nowotarski was credited with reporting the issue to Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center on January 25. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102530-new-http2-vulnerability-leaves-servers-danger-devastating-dos.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Apple has opened its App Store marketplace to retro game emulators, announcing yesterday that they can be listed on the store and offer downloadable games on a global basis. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102531-apple-opens-up-app-store-allow-retro-game.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In a promotional campaign called "Test Drive a Win," Washington State Lottery officials created an interactive web app to help customers visualize themselves using their winnings on their dream vacations. Users could upload a selfie, and then the AI would generate an image themed around a type of vacation while... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102528-washington-lottery-pulls-promotional-ai-web-app-after.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A recent update to Opera's development version adds the ability to download and run powerful large language models (LLMs) on a user's PC. The AI algorithm runs in a local environment, doesn't need to send data to external "AI servers" and, according to the software company, is designed to protect... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102520-opera-starts-offering-local-access-llms-ai-chatbots.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Available now until April 11, Obsidian's The Outer Worlds can be grabbed gratis by anyone with an Epic Games account. This is the Spacer's Choice Edition of the 2019 RPG, meaning you get the Murder on Eridanos and Peril on Gorgon story expansions in addition to the base game. The... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102519-you-can-currently-get-outer-worlds-complete-dlc.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

NASA has selected three private companies, Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab, to design and build the next lunar terrain vehicle (LTV). The rover will accompany the Artemis crew's mission to the moon's south pole. These companies will be responsible for the design, construction, and testing of the vehicle... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102512-nasa-select-one-three-concepts-artemis-rover.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The groundbreaking device, the largest digital camera ever built for astronomical observations, serves as the primary component of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Upon its completion, the observatory, situated at a high altitude of 2,663 meters, will scrutinize the sky, aiming to... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102504-mapping-cosmos-32-gigapixel-camera-scan-southern-sky.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act was passed by Congress last month. If it comes into effect, Chinese owner ByteDance will be forced to divest TikTok within about 180 days; otherwise, the app will be blocked in the US. That could involve ISPs blocking traffic to TikTok,... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102508-former-white-house-cio-warns-tech-industry-prepare.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Exchange Online hack that took place last May is believed to have been linked to a China-affiliated threat actor known as Storm-0558 stealing an Azure signing key in late 2021 from an engineer's compromised laptop that came into Microsoft's possession after an acquisition. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102500-government-review-criticizes-microsoft-security-lapses-preventable-exchange.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A new report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) highlights the seismic change the electronics manufacturing world is undergoing right now. Foxconn and other major Taiwanese corporations have been asked by Western (mostly US) clients to move a big part of their production outside China, and Mexico is likely to... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102499-industry-insiders-reveal-ai-technology-manufacturing-shift-china.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The next Matrix movie will be written and directed by Drew Goddard, whose past credits include the excellent The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian, Cloverfield, World War Z, and Bad Times at the El Royale. His TV work includes classics from the late 90s/early 2000s, including Buffy the Vampire... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102498-new-matrix-movie-works-new-writerdirector.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition to allow companies to use facial age estimation (FAE) technology to obtain parental consent when collecting data from children under 13, a requirement for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The FTC dismissed the application without prejudice, meaning the petitioners can re-file. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102493-ftc-denies-esrb-petition-suggesting-facial-age-estimation.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A five-person indie studio launched a comedic multiplayer horror game on April Fools Day with a unique promotion. Due to the project's funny and intriguing gameplay, the gamble paid off, resulting in millions of players on day one. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102489-viral-co-op-horror-game-content-warning-latest.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Amazon's senior vice president of grocery stores said the company is moving away from Just Walk Out technology and "sprucing up the stores across the board," reports The Information. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102487-amazon-dropping-walk-out-technology-grocery-stores-favor.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A strange, cylindrical object slammed into the roof of a house in Naples, Florida, last month, tearing through two floors and nearly hitting a person inside. The house's owner is searching for who is responsible and suspects that the debris came from the international space station. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102482-florida-home-hit-possible-debris-international-space-station.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Personas are avatars that look like their users. In that sense, they are similar to Memojis on iPhone. The primary difference is that Personas look way more lifelike. Users set up the realistic avatar by allowing the Vision Pro to perform a 3D face scan, which it uses to create... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102479-apple-spatial-personas-apple-vision-pro-bring-facetime.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Microsoft describes the Copilot key for Windows 11 PCs as a means to "empower" users and enable them to easily embrace the upcoming AI "transformation." The new key will soon become a standard part of Windows keyboard configurations, and newly released laptops are already equipped with this additional keyboard feature. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102480-microsoft-copilot-key-leverages-function-key-not-found.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) earlier this year proposed a rule change that makes accessing, using, or maintaining social media accounts by prisoners a high-severity-level prohibited act considered to be on the same scale as fighting, blackmail, extortion, and bribery. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102477-us-prison-system-proposes-total-social-media-ban.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Starting with the Steam survey's best-performing GPUs chart, March was a good month for Nvidia's newer mid- to higher-end cards. Seven of the top eight were variants of RTX 3060/70 and RTX 4060/70 products, with the RTX 3060 taking the number one spot. The RTX 4080 and 4090 didn't fare... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102472-latest-steam-survey-nvidia-mid-range-gpus-top.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

A quality mouse is the most cost-effective way to improve your experience using your PC. The best mice today are lighter, more sensitive, and more durable than before. Here are all our favorites. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/bestof/mouse-24/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In 2020, Florida resident William Byatt and California residents Chasom Brown and Maria Nguyen filed the lawsuit against Google. It accuses the tech giant of violating wiretap laws and claims that sites using Google Analytics or Ad Manager collected information from browsers in Incognito mode, including web page content, device... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102471-google-delete-billions-incognito-mode-browsing-records-part.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Shatner and fellow astronaut Scott Kelly are among the esteemed guests planning to set sail for Antarctica this December. The Space2Sea voyage will take place aboard the Seabourne Venture, which debuted in 2022 and was designed specifically for the icy waters of Antarctica. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102466-boldly-go-william-shatner-heading-antarctica-you-can.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In guidance to congressional offices issued by The House's Chief Administrative Officer, Catherine Szpindor, and seen by Axios, it's stated that Copilot is "unauthorized for House use." The guidance adds that Copilot will be removed from and blocked on all Windows devices controlled by the House. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102464-house-representatives-bans-use-copilot-over-security-concerns.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger