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How to play PS1 Doom on PC (and why you might want to)
A recent trend in modding involves reverse engineering classic console games to play them on various platforms without resorting to emulating the original console. While Doom is already an iconic PC game, the version released on the original PlayStation holds a special place in the hearts of many fans.Read Entire Article
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Sony's Ghost of Tsushima brings familiar PlayStation features to PC
Sony recently published the PC spec sheet for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut. While somewhat demanding (especially at 4K), the system requirements aren't unusual compared to recent big-budget releases. The PC port's most significant addition is the debut of a PlayStation overlay, which enables multiplayer cross-play and access to PlayStationRead Entire Article
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Meta's Llama 2 LLM is still prone to hallucinations and other severe security vulnerabilities
Meta's Llama LLM performed poorly in a recent third-party evaluation by AI security firm DeepKeep. Researchers tested the model in 13 risk-assessment categories, but it only managed to pass in four. The severity of its performance was particularly evident in the categories of hallucinations, prompt injection, and PII/data leakage, whereRead Entire Article
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Astronomers detected the most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way
European astronomers have confirmed the existence of Gaia BH3, a previously unknown stellar black hole. BH3 is the most massive stellar black hole discovered in the Milky Way so far and the second largest black hole in the galaxy after the supermassive monster known as Sagittarius A .Read Entire Article
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Boston Dynamics unveils impressive all-electric Atlas robot
Whereas the original used hydraulics for movement, Boston Dynamics' latest creation is fully electric. The company says Atlas is now stronger and more agile than previous iterations and has far more range of motion as well. With improved dexterity, Boston Dynamics is also able to experiment with new gripper variationsRead Entire Article
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Debris from the International Space Station confirmed to have hit a Florida home
Update (April 17): NASA has confirmed that a piece of hardware survived re-entry through Earth's atmosphere and impacted a house in Naples, Florida last month. Analysis conducted at Kennedy Space Center in Florida verified the homeowner's suspicions that the object belonged to the International Space Station.Read Entire Article
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Survey: 63% of US employees would take a pay cut to work remotely
The tech sector emerged as the top industry for remote work in the U.S. last year. That's not so surprising when you consider the nature of the workforce within the sector, many of whom are individual contributors.Read Entire Article
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Samsung introduces the fastest LPDDR5X DRAM in the industry, up to 10.7Gbps
Samsung just announced the development of its latest LPDDR5X chips, a DRAM technology seemingly capable of providing the fastest performance in the industry, optimized for AI applications. The new LPDDR5X chips can reach speeds of up to 10.7 gigabits per second (Gbps), though they aren't quite ready for prime timeRead Entire Article
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AMD unveils new Ryzen Pro 8000 processors for AI PCs
Built on the Zen 4 architecture, these are the first set of Pro chips from AMD to include built-in Neural Processing Units (NPUs) for AI workloads. They also come with integrated RDNA graphics.Read Entire Article
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Los Alamos' Nvidia-powered Venado supercomputer trades accuracy for efficiency with 10 exaFLOPS for AI workloads
The Los Alamos National Laboratory has a new high-performance computing (HPC) system named Venado, a supercomputer specifically designed to accelerate AI algorithms and AI-based research programs. Venado is far from being the fastest supercomputer in the world, but it packs enough Nvidia chips for AI acceleration to provide the DepartmentRead Entire Article
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Amazon Prime US customer numbers jump 8% to 180 million, an all-time high
The latest Amazon Prime numbers come from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), which has been tracking memberships since 2014. The report notes that growth slowed down in the US before Covid after years of impressive figures. It remained flat in the post-pandemic period before picking up over the last 12 months.Read Entire Article
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Microsoft blames a bug for accidentally installing Copilot on Windows 11 devices
In an official support document on its website, Microsoft clarified that the updates to the Edge browser (version 123.0.2420.65), released on March 28, 2024, "incorrectly install(ed) a new package (MSIX) called 'Microsoft chat provider for Copilot in Windows' on Windows devices. Resulting from this, the Microsoft Copilot app might appearRead Entire Article