Move over GPUs, with 1,536 cores the Thunderbird RISC-V CPU is ready to eat your lunch

Four chips can be installed on a single accelerator card, in a form factor similar to a GPU. That sounds like a lot of horsepower, but who is it geared toward? InspireSemi says their product addresses several critical areas of HPC workloads. This means existing HPC workloads running on CPUs should have little to no custom code to run in Thunderbird. Thunderbird means to inherit the power efficiency of the RISC-based architecture....

June 30, 2024 · 1 min · 109 words · Brian Meyer

AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaling tech arrives in five games, many more on the way

FSR 3.1 promises enhanced image quality with improved temporal stability, reducing those pesky flickering and shimmering issues. Additionally, ghosting reduction and better detail preservation have been implemented, ensuring smoother gameplay. Featured on TechSpot

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 33 words · Joshua Carter

Blistering 402 Tb/s fiber optic speeds achieved by unlocking unused wavelengths

That’s fast enough to download over 50,000 HD movies in a single second. The researchers presented theirresultsthis week at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in San Diego. Six methods were used, including doped fiber amplifiers and distributed Raman amplification. Newly developed optical gain equalizers also allowed access to wavelength bands not used in current fiber optic deployments. Combining these new bands with next-gen fiber types could also help future-proof networks....

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 90 words · Ethan White

DRAM and VRAM pricing expected to climb in Q3, you can thank server demand for that

Server DRAM products are expected to see an eight to 13 percent price increase. Finally, older memory products such as DDR3 and DDR4 will cost three to eight percent more. Featured on TechSpot

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 33 words · Joseph White

Google Translate adds support for 110 new languages using the power of AI

We’re using AI to add over 100 new languages to Google Translate, our largest expansion ever. Featured on TechSpot

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 19 words · Johnathan Johnson DDS

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6 leaks reveal new colors and updated design

foldablespic.twitter.com/XXM6cfuY07 It also appears that the hinge and bezels have been shrunk. The images also show two color options for the Fold 6: Gray and Navy Blue. WinFuture showed it in light Pink, too. Like the Z Fold, the new Flip is slightly shorter and rounder. The Z Flip 6 also has rings around the lenses, though these are color-matched to the unit casing. The phone is shown in pale green, silver, light blue, and yellow....

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 96 words · Dr. Samantha Rose

Steam Cleaner

This tool can potentially clean up gigabytes of data in just a few seconds. There is no configuration or installation needed. What’s New:

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 23 words · Erik West

This "super SIM card" features a built-in RISC-V CPU for increased storage, faster transfers, and better security

But the RISC-V CPU core is the real star of the show here. The chipmaker rates algorithm performance at over 2x better on average. The SIM also packs some serious security smarts baked in at the hardware level. The super SIM card is also pretty robust from a connectivity standpoint. Super SIM cards are growing in popularity in China. They even feature NFC support to enable digital ID scans. Featured on TechSpot

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 72 words · Michelle Hines

US mobile customers are suffering from roaming outages, third-party provider Syniverse is to blame

The company in question is Syniverse, a US provider of 5G roaming connectivity and other communication services. Syniverse plays a crucial role in connecting 7.4 billion devices across nearly 200 countries and territories around the world. This is one of several issues that AT&T has experienced this year. Featured on TechSpot

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 51 words · William Thomas

Wallets beware: The annual Steam Summer Sale has arrived

Luckily, with plenty of steep discounts available, you might just survive with minimal financial casualties. Those looking to escape with as little damage as possible should head directly to the new deep discounts section. Manor Lords, thewildly successfulcity building game from Slavic Magic, is 25 percent off, as isPalworldandLethal Company. Featured on TechSpot

June 28, 2024 · 1 min · 53 words · Cody Chapman

Critical vulnerability in file transfer software Moveit could result in a new security disaster

Progress Software Corporation recentlypublisheda bulletin about a new security vulnerability in Moveit. The enterprise-focused file transfer program is affected by a critical flaw that cyber-criminals could easily exploit. The flaw (CVE-2024-5806) has a severity rating of 9.1 out of 10. It was located inside Moveit Transfer’s SFTP module, a third-party component of the software. This vulnerability provides a vector for hackers and cyber-criminals to bypass user authentication and gain access to sensitive data....

June 27, 2024 · 1 min · 146 words · Helen Carroll

Samsung surpasses Apple in US phones sales, but Cupertino still sells more flagships

However, the US tech giant still managed to sell more flagship premium-priced models during the same period. CIRP defines flagships as “the most current model family” for each vendor. For Apple today, this means the iPhone 15 family. Before the September 2023 launch of the iPhone 15, the iPhone 14 models were Apple’s flagships. It will be interesting to see if this update can challenge Samsung’s dominance in the mid-range market....

June 27, 2024 · 1 min · 74 words · Eduardo Williams

Scientists have figured out how to put biological skin on a robot's smiling face

It won’t fool anyone into thinking the robot is a human, though WTF? This could be a breakthrough for medical and cosmetic research, as similar developments have already shown. Moreover, realistic-looking smiling robots could one day become more accepted in the workplace and social situations. By engineering small perforations instead, essentially any shape of surface can have skin applied to it. One such ability is self-healing, which Takeuchi says is a big deal....

June 27, 2024 · 1 min · 159 words · Michael Cox