Computing

Following its developer conference last week, Baidu today detailed Quantum Leaf, a new cloud quantum computing platform designed for programming, simulating, and executing quantum workloads. It’s aimed at providing a programming…
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Nvidia is reportedly finalizing the acquisition of chip designer ARM from SoftBank, in a deal said to be worth more than $40 billion. The deal, reported by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, will…
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Nvidia recently unveiled its long-awaited Amepre-based graphics cards, displacing the famously spendy Turing architecture. Ampere isn’t going to be cheap necessarily, but the value seems great based on some early tests. You might also be…
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The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G chip is designed to bring 5G to commercial and consumer Always On, Always Connected PCs. The processor supports Wi-Fi 6 and offers productivity and security benefits. As the race to roll out 5G networks and…
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Microsoft’s planned .NET 5 software development platform produces safe warnings for the C# compiler and automatically finds latent bugs. With .NET 5, a new capability called AnalysisLevel introduces warnings in a way that alerts developers…
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Computer vision identifies and often locates objects in digital images and videos. Since living organisms process images with their visual cortex, many researchers have taken the architecture of the mammalian visual cortex as a model for…
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Though AMD’s latest Ryzen 4000 processors are commanding plenty of interest and the next-generation Ryzen 5000 processors have yet to launch, the company isn’t sitting idly by. A recently leaked road map suggests AMD’s Ryzen 6000…
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Nvidia has revealed details for the supercomputer equipped with AMD’s 560 Epyc 7742 CPUs which have 64 cores each, and Nvidia’s 2240 A100 GPUs. It can reach a theoretical peak performance of 35 thousand teraflops. Selene was built by a…
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Micron has made a pair of announcements around next-generation memory technologies, HBMnext and GDDR6X. The latter will debut with the upcoming RTX 3090, which will offer 12GB of onboard RAM. There has been talk that Nvidia might bump…
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There are a lot of practical reasons to set up an OS like Windows 10 in a VM rather than using it as a native installation. If you have to deal with files you can’t trust, need to test multiple OS installations on the same system, or need…
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