AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips
Nothing brings rivals together like a common enemy, and in this case it’s the rise of ARM pulling Intel and AMD closer together than ever. The two chip makers — not exactly the friendliest frenemies — are the headlining members of a new x86 Advisory Group to try and defend the platform’s interests against ARM, which finally appears poised to challenge x86’s dominance. The alliance includes a long list of other founding members including Microsoft, Google, and Meta, as well as Lenovo, the company that hosted the announcement at its Tech World 2024 conference in Bellevue, Washington. This morning’s keynote featured appearances by AMD CEO Lisa Su as well as Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who unsurprisingly said that the x86 architecture is...
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Nvidia vs. Palantir: Which Is the Better Red-Hot AI Stock?
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Adobe teases AI tools that build 3D scenes, animate text, and make distractions disappear
Adobe is previewing some experimental AI tools for animation, image generation, and cleaning up video and photographs that could eventually be added to its Creative Cloud apps. While the tools apply to vastly different mediums, all three have a similar aim — to automate most of the boring, complex tasks required for content creation, and provide creatives more control over the results than simply plugging a prompt into an AI generator. The idea is to enable people to create animations and images, or make complex video edits, without requiring a great deal of time or experience. The first tool, called “Project Scenic,” gives users more control over the images generated by Adobe’s Firefly model. Instead of relying solely on text...
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Amazon has seen massive adoption of passkeys since the company quietly rolled them out a year ago, announcing today that over 175 million customers use the security feature....
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European Road Safety Orgs Are Terrified of the Cybertruck
Tesla's bulky and sharp-cornered Cybertruck is a disaster waiting to happen, the safety organizations claim.
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Volatility Skew Sets Up In Meta Stock. Here's How To Profit With Options.
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At the University of Toronto, just across the street from the football stadium, workers are putting up a 14-story building with space for classrooms and faculty offices. What’s unusual is how they’re building it — by bolting together giant beams, columns, and panels made of manufactured slabs of wood. As each wood element is delivered by flatbed, a tall crane lifts it into place and holds it in position while workers attach it with metal connectors. In its half-finished state, the building resembles flat-pack furniture in the process of being assembled. The tower uses a new technology called mass timber. In this kind of construction, massive, manufactured wood elements that can extend more than half the length of a football field replace steel beams and concrete. Though still relatively uncommon, it is growing in popularity and beginning to pop up in skylines around the world. Read full article
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The Great Cosmic Atlas Begins: Euclid’s 208-Gigapixel Image Maps 14 Million Galaxies
260 observations showcase data from ESA's dark matter telescope, which will eventually be used to create the largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos.
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Nvidia Stock Falls After ASML Earnings Leak Early. Why the Drop Is an Overreaction.
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Pay Just $117 for Both the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE and the Galaxy Buds FE, Better than Black Friday
Save up to over $500 when you trade in your old phone and get Galaxy Buds FE.
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Chip-Gear Giant ASML Crashes On Q3 Report, Pulls Down Nvidia, Other Stocks
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MAB Robotics Tuesday showcased the latest trick from its Honey Badger robot. In a video, the quadruped is seen running along the bottom of a pool. Legs don’t generally make more sense than propellers or other more standard methods of underwater robot locomotion, but the video demonstrates a sense of robustness and dynamism not often […]
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Terrifier‘s David Howard Thornton on Art the Clown’s Origins—and Future
Cinema's clown of the hour also reveals which gag in Terrifier 3 literally made him gag.
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Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them
Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
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Meta’s X rival Threads is rolling out a new “activity status” feature that will let you see when someone on the social network is online. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the feature on Tuesday in a Threads post, noting that it’s meant to act as “a way to help you find others to engage with […]
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