From ExtremeTech: It's widely known now that Nvidia is cooking up some Super GPUs that it expects to launch in early January at CES. Last week, we reported Nvidia is allegedly ending production of the RTX 4080 and 4070 Ti to make way for their Super successors, but now a new ripple has to do with...
From TechCrunch: Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Nadella said Monday, capping three days of intense discussions following the unexpected decision by OpenAI’s board to dismiss...
From Forbes: OpenAI is facing a mutiny amongst its own staff, with more than 500 threatening to walk out and join former CEO Sam Altman at Microsoft.
In an extraordinary open letter posted by Wired journalist Kara Swisher and signed by 505 members of staff, the group claims that Friday’s firing of...
From PC Mag: Don't expect a wide rollout for SpaceX's new Starlink dish for consumers.
SpaceX will first offer this "standard" dish as part of a beta trial before making it available to all customers, according to an update on the Starlink support page.
"At this time, the ability to purchase the...
From PC Mag: It looks like Nvidia has halted sales of the RTX 4090 graphics card in China to comply with a US export ban blocking AI chip sales to the country.
Nvidia previously featured the RTX 4090—a $1,599 and up product—on its Chinese website. But the company has mysteriously deleted mention...
From ExtremeTech: NASA's Psyche spacecraft is en route to an asteroid of the same name, but it won't arrive until 2028. In the meantime, NASA has used Psyche to test a new technology that could change how it communicates with spacecraft. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has...
Back in August, when I was in Toronto, I was standing in line at the Hockey Hall of Fame's gift shop. I am not normally one to buy things at a gift shop, especially since they are usually a bit more expensive, but I really wanted a baseball cap. As I was standing in line, there was a family ahead of me talking to the cashier during their checkout. Both the father and his son were wearing New York Islanders paraphernalia, making their loyalties...
From PC Mag: UPDATE: Sam Altman has published a tweet about his departure. He didn't elaborate on why he was forced to step down, but he signaled he already has a new project in the works.
"Will have more to say about what’s next later," he wrote.
OpenAI's President and co-founder Greg Brockman...
From PC Mag: SpaceX has quietly revealed a new Starlink dish that’s geared toward residential users and will likely offer a boost in broadband quality.
The company published specs, images, and videos of the new dish on Starlink.com, which comes about two months after SpaceX received FCC clearance...
From PC World: Microsoft is currently investigating a problem that prevents the activation of Windows 10 and Windows 11, as The Verge reports. The issue affects computers on which users have upgraded from Windows 7 or Windows 8 to the newer Windows versions free of charge. If you’ve subsequently...
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