Arm Cortex Immortalis 2023. Say it with me: Arm doesn’t sell chips. But it does design CPU and GPU cores its licensees can optionally use. What’s new? Cortex-X4 (big CPU): 15% more perf, 40% less power Cortex-A720 and A520: 20% and 22% more efficient, respectively Immortalis-G720 (the GPU): 15% more perf, 40% lighter on memory … Read more
WhatsApp is developing a number of new features, including usernames and screen sharing, as reported by WABetaInfo. The username feature was spotted in the beta version 2.23.11.15 for Android, and allows WhatsApp users to select a unique username attached to their account. The feature could mean that in the future, users could find each other … Read more
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Execs at AmEx Digital Labs, the company’s innovation arm, say they likely won’t launch their own LLM and will instead rely on integrating existing offerings The wave of new business products and … Read more
Tesla’s plan to open up Superchargers is now extending to Canada after the government revealed that the company will open access to some of its existing Supercharger network to other brands’ EVs. The effort starts later this year with a pilot route between the capital city of Ottawa and Sudbury. There will be 750 opened … Read more
There’s a special pleasure to be had from watching a character who is just aggressively competent go about their job. It helps if they have a sharp tongue, a short fuse, and don’t suffer fools gladly. Oh, the vicarious release of watching them Figure It Out and Get Shit Done — running rings around fatuous … Read more
WhatsApp’s newest update takes a page out of work-centric video call platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The messaging app is in the process of rolling out a screen sharing feature that will record and display the contents of your screen with whoever is on the other end of the video call, WABetaInfo reports. An … Read more
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike just shy of a month now, with no foreseeable end in sight. Motivated by a breakdown in negotiations with Hollywood studios over pensions, residual compensation for streaming productions, health care, and protections for writers rooms in the wake of AI, the WGA strike represents a … Read more
NVIDIA has unveiled technology called Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) that would allow gamers to speak naturally to non-playable characters (NPCs) and receive appropriate responses. The company revealed the tech during its generative AI keynote at Computex 2023, showing a demo called Kairos with a playable character speaking to an NPC named Jin in a dystopic-looking … Read more
I realized two things when the pandemic forced me to start working from home: I suck at hiding the rat’s nest of cables on my desk, and modern laptops don’t provide anywhere near enough ports. Laptop docks have become an indispensable part of most office setups because they solve both of these issues, but not … Read more
From its very earliest moments, Succession threatened to be the story of how one excessively egotistic son — with far less talent, acumen, and venom than his father — might one day take over a media empire and grow into the role or be swallowed by it. It felt like a too-obvious metaphor for the … Read more