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Boldly go: William Shatner is heading to Antarctica, and you can join him
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Russia slams HP for closing local website, claims world is boycotting the company
In compliance with US-mandated sanctions
IEEE will no longer accept Playboy's "Lenna" image for image processing research
A hot potato: Simply known as "Lenna," the test image was scanned by Alexander Sawchuk at the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing Institute in 1973. It's been used in research papers about image processing since then, but now the time has come to retire this piece of fortuitous standard in digital beauty.
Despite increasing to $16.8 million, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's compensation still pales in comparison to AMD's Lisa Su
Expect Jensen Huang to be the top earner
Hulu content is now available on the Disney+ app in the US
The "Hulu on Disney+" beta test started last year
Discord looks to boost gaming revenue by ditching its long time ad-free stance
The company plans to incentivize users to complete specific in-game tasks
Mark Zuckerberg meets with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, calls him the "Taylor Swift of Tech"
Zuck also confirmed that Meta is planning to Buy Nvidia's B100 AI accelerators
In a nutshell: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently met up with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and shared a photo of the two of them together. The viral Instagram post, which has already received over 170,000 likes, shows the two billionaires wearing each other's jackets.
FuryGPU is an open source hardware GPU built from scratch
In a nutshell: Can someone build a 3D graphics card from scratch? Dylan Barrie wanted to find out and spent four years trying. The result was a complete GPU that can theoretically run older gaming software on Windows.
Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison
Not as bad as the 110 years he could have received
50 Years Later: The Revolutionary 8008 Microprocessor
#TBT Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was produced over 50 years ago, the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now. While the 8008 wasn't the first microprocessor, it was truly revolutionary, triggering a revolution and leading to the x86 architecture that dominated personal computers for decades to come.
World's fastest camera can capture 156.3 trillion frames per second
Made with off-the-shelf components
Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second consecutive year
It's like the 80s all over again
Apple "Find My" app led a Missouri SWAT team to raid an innocent family's home, lawsuit pending
"Find My is not that accurate," says family lawyer
Florida bans children under 14 from holding social media accounts
Older teens will require parental consent to be on social media
Steve Jobs signed Apple business card sells for over $180,000 at auction
Anything signed by Jobs usually fetches a fortune
Steve Wozniak says TikTok ban is governmental hypocrisy
The Apple co-founder is a fan of TikTok's dog rescue videos
Forgotten Tetris sequel "Tetris Reversed" resurfaces after a decade
"Tetris for 300 IQ people," says original creator Alexey Pajitnov
Survey reveals almost half of all managers aim to replace workers with AI, could use it to lower wages
Define "collaborative"
A hot potato: A lot of companies try to assuage fears that employees will lose their jobs to AI by assuring them they'll be working alongside the tech, thereby improving efficiency and making their duties less tedious. That claim feels less convincing in light of a new survey that found 41% of managers said they are hoping to replace workers with cheaper AI tools in 2024.
China bans purchase of Intel and AMD processors, Microsoft Windows for government computers
China wants "safe and reliable" processors and operating systems
Two mines in North Carolina are the world's only producer of the quartz necessary for semiconductor manufacturing
If they were to stop operating, it would mean a few years of catastrophic disruption, says Wharton professor Ethan Mollick