The FPGA Chip Is an IEEE Milestone
Many of the world’s most advanced electronic systems—including Internet routers, wireless base stations, medical imaging scanners, and some artificial intelligence tools—depend on field-programmable gate arrays. Computer chips with internal hardware circuits, the FPGAs can be reconfigured after manufacturing. On 12 March, an IEEE Milestone plaque recognizing the first FPGA was dedicated at the Advanced Micro […]
Match Group invests $100M in Sniffies, a cruising app for gay men
Match Group, the dating app behemoth that owns Match, Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge, says that it has invested $100 million in yet another mobile service designed to bring people together: a Grindr competitor known as Sniffies. The website for Sniffies sports various images of men in their underwear. That tells you pretty much all you […]
Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
Almost as soon as OpenAI announced that its major investor and cloud partner, Microsoft, no longer has exclusive rights to any of its products, Amazon started gloating. After the revised OpenAI/Microsoft agreement was announced on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy noted in a tweet that it was a “very interesting announcement.” That agreement solved OpenAI’s […]
Now YouTube TV lets you multiview any channel you want
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday that YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview. Users have “full control to mix and match live streams” and can “build the personalized viewing experience you’ve been asking for,” Mohan says. You can pin up to four streams in your multiview window. YouTube initially introduced multiview in a more […]
Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
Amazon launched a new AI-powered feature on Tuesday that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses generated in real time. The responses are delivered by what the company calls “AI-powered shopping experts,” which present information in a natural, discussion-style format. The new “Join the chat” feature aims to save customers […]
Sparse AI Hardware Slashes Energy and Latency
When it comes to AI models, size matters. Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a staggering 2 trillion parameters that define the model. As models grow in size, […]
Rupee weakens, bond yields harden tracking rise in crude oil prices | Finance News
The rupee weakened and government bond yields hardened on Tuesday, tracking the rise in crude oil prices, said dealers. The rupee depreciated by 0.38 per cent to settle at 94.55 per dollar, against the previous close of 94.19 per dollar. Market participants said that state-owned banks bought dollars, likely on behalf of […]
Can cops use digital dragnets to track you?
A years-old bank heist may soon have major privacy implications for every American who owns a cellphone. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States, a case involving police’s use of controversial “geofence warrants” to find and arrest Okello Chatrie, the suspect of a 2019 bank robbery outside Richmond, Virginia. At […]
Poem: Danica Radovanović’s “Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
It started with word, cave, and storytelling,A line scratched on stone walls:“Meet me when the young moon rises.”The first protocol for connection. Coyote tales, forbidden scripts,Medieval texts hidden from flame.What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics II?Was it God who laughed last, or we who made God laugh? Letters carried by doves, telepathic waves.Then Nikola Tesla […]
The resurrected Commodore 64 is getting a facelift like the original
The creators of the C64 Ultimate, a recreation of the iconic ‘80s personal computer that uses an FPGA chip to accurately replicate the original, have announced a follow-up version that continues in its predecessor’s footsteps. The original Commodore 64 first debuted in 1982 and was followed by the Commodore 64C in 1986, which was functionally […]