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Watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote here — Blackwell 300 AI GPUs expected
Nvidia GTC 2025 will start in a few hours, and its CEO, Jensen Huang, will give the keynote address where he's expected to reveal some new AI GPUs.
2025-03-18 15:00
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Samsung 9100 Pro SSD Review: Samsung’s Capable Answer To Phison’s Storage Gauntlet
The Samsung 9100 Pro is Samsung’s answer for the high-end PCIe 5.0 storage market. It’s a good drive, but falls short of being truly impressive.
2025-03-18 15:00
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GPU meets PCIe-based hard drives: Seagate and Nvidia demo NVMe HDDs
Seagate and Nvidia demonstrate a proof-of-concept NVMe HDD system at GTC, showcasing how PCIe-based hard drives, combined with DPUs, can enhance AI datacenter storage by reducing latency, improving scalability, and offering a cost-effective alternative...
2025-03-18 14:48
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AMD's beastly Ryzen AI Max+ 395 comes to a new GMKTec mini-PC, and AMD's Lisa Su appears to approve
China's GMKTec has announced the EVO-X2 mini PC with Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor at the AMD Greater China Channel Summit today.
2025-03-18 14:40
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Intel finally releases the XeSS 2.0 SDK for developers — Technology still gated by closed-source barriers
The XeSS SDK 2.0.1 is now available, bringing support for XeSS-SR, XeSS-FG, and XeLL, though the technology itself remains closed-source.
2025-03-18 13:30
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AMD Radeon RX 9070-series GPU supply to stabilize after April claims AIB partner Yeston
As AMD's Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards remain nearly impossible to find at MSRP, Yeston confirms unstable supply until April is over.
2025-03-18 13:05
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New undersea cable tech listens for sabotage — can be retrofitted to existing fiber optic lines
AP Sensing developed a technology that monitors photons reflected back in a fiber optic cable to detect nearby vessels and movement.
2025-03-18 12:38
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Qualcomm debuts new Snapdragon G handheld gaming PC chips to compete with Intel and AMD
Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon G3 Gen 3, Snapdragon G2 Gen 2, and Snapdragon G1 Gen 2 for handheld gaming devices.
2025-03-17 18:30
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China to spend $55 billion on R&D in 2025 — Semiconductor, AI and quantum computing fields to benefit
China set to inject $55 billion in research and development of fundamental technologies and innovating enterprises.
2025-03-17 18:05
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Bambu Lab Announces New Printer: H2D
Bambu Lab’s new printer will go on sale on March 25th, 2025.
2025-03-17 17:52
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Finally, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is readily available again, and at MSRP
Finally, back in stock at multiple retailers, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is available at its $479 launch MSRP.
2025-03-17 17:04
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Motherboard dies after marathon 100-hour BIOS update process, vigil attended by thousands online
A marathon BIOS update process ended as the ‘monitor lost signal,’ then the system became ‘completely unresponsive’ with 100+ hours down the drain.
2025-03-17 17:02
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AMD boasts its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is up to 12.2x faster than Lunar Lake in AI workloads
AMD benchmarked its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 flagship against Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V in a plethora of AI benchmarks. The AMD chip was up to 12x faster than the Intel counterpart.
2025-03-17 16:30
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Freeware image editor GIMP 3.0 arrives after seven years of incubation
A major update to GNU's image manipulation program has arrived today, as GIMP 3.0 relieves version 2.10 from its duty as the premier free and open-source image editing software across multiple platforms.
2025-03-17 15:00
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Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash is reportedly capable of removing watermarks — Also found to generate AI celebrity photos
Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model has been found capable of removing watermarks from copyrighted material and depicting copyrighted characters in its generated images.
2025-03-17 14:52
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Raspberry Pi and ChatGPT bring AI conversations to your retro rotary phone
Pollux Labs is using a Raspberry Pi to power this rotary phone project that integrates Chat GPT and remembers previous conversations.
2025-03-17 14:52
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Keydous NJ98-CP V2 HE Review: Dedicated calculators
The Keydous NJ98-CP V2 HE is a magnetic switch gaming keyboard with a compact 96-percent layout, a hot-swap PCB that supports both magnetic and mechanical switches, and a built-in calculator.
2025-03-17 14:00
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MSI Afterburner update enables RTX 50 series owners to push their GDDR7 VRAM up to 36 GT/s
An unofficial MSI Afterburner update by Unwinde” unlocks memory overclocking for Nvidia'; GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cardsl.
2025-03-17 13:18
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AMD manager reports 45% GPU retail market share in Japan — Eyes 70% as the next target
AMD marketing manager Yoshiaki Sato reported that Radeon GPUs have accounted for 45% of GPU sales in Japan, presumably since RDNA 4 launched.
2025-03-17 12:50
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ERNIE 4.5 AI model by Baidu claims to match DeepSeek R1 at half the cost
Baidu claims its ERNIE 4.5 model offers advanced multimodal understanding with enhanced language, reasoning, generation, and memory capabilities.
2025-03-17 12:30
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