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China's DeepSeek made quite the splash late last month, both within the tech industry at large and by disrupting the US stock market, at least initially. In particular, DeepSeek's open-source R1 model made waves by challenging far more expensive AI solutions—the R1 model was reportedly built on a comparatively meager...
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Meta is involved in a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, a claim the company disputes. Newly unsealed court documents containing private conversations between Meta employees appear to support the plaintiffs' allegations, however. These documents suggest Meta employees were aware of the potential...
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Much of the discussion around upstart Chinese AI firm Deepseek's technology has been centered around the idea that it can be deployed using considerably less powerful hardware than is typically required for useful language models. That means you can run it directly on your home PC; no internet connection required at...
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It seems the AI party on Wall Street might have hit an unexpected snag—and it's got a Made in China tag. In some circles, the debut of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's new models have shaken confidence in the dominance of western AI giants like OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google. DeepSeek's advancements, particularly...
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A well known provider of professional development tools, JetBrains, has unveiled Junie, an AI-powered coding agent that promises to revolutionize software development. The tool is claimed to be designed to supercharge productivity and streamline a developer's workflow. Junie exceeds the limitations of traditional...
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It’s late January, CES is behind us, and like clockwork, new Samsung flagship smartphones are here. In San Jose, California today, the company unveiled the Galaxy S25 Ultra ($1299), S25+ ($999). and S25 ($799). The good news is that the price of these new handsets remains unchanged versus last year’s...
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NVIDIA is once again readying a special version of its flagship consumer graphics card for the Chinese market, which be called the GeForce RTX 5090D. As we saw with the GeForce RTX 4090D, a special version of the previous generation flagship for China, there will be some limitations so as not to run afoul of US...
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After months of rumors, speculation and leaks, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 50 series based on the RTX Blackwell graphics architecture, during a mega-keynote address at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas during CES 2025. For regular readers, the initial announcements weren’t a...
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A recent World Economic Forum (WEF) survey reveals that 41% of employers are planning to lay off workers and replace them with AI by 2030. The January 2025 edition of the Future of Jobs Report surveyed over 1,000 employers, representing 14 million workers in 22 industries and 55 economies. In this extensive survey...
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The rollout of Apple Intelligence has been a rough, with features being released piecemeal through a series of updates to iOS 18, iPad OS 18 and macOS 15. Despite these operating systems having launched several months ago, there are still missing features that the company sold customers on. Unfortunately for Apple...
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Qualcomm announced today a slew of AI innovations that seek to transform user experiences across multiple categories, with automotive and enterprise/industrial applications among them. In the automotive sector, the chipset maker believes that with the advancements in Snapdragon Digital Chassis and Snapdragon...
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Nintendo has a little under three months to officially reveal the successor to the Nintendo Switch, but the company has been almost completely mum to date besides acknowledging that it will play your current Switch games. Fortunately, we have numerous leaks that paint a pretty vivid picture of what the machine will be...
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Researchers have found how slow the human brain is: it process information at a rate of around 10 bits per second. In comparison, the average Wi-Fi download speed in the U.S. is 260 million bits per second, while even an 80s dial-up modem does 40,000 to 50,000 bits per second. This slow processing speed of ours isn't...
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This story is fairly straightforward, and it's not as alarmist as you might think. Geoffrey Hinton, who won the Nobel prize this year for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence development, stated to BBC Radio 4 that he feels the chances of a potential AI apocalypse are "around 10 to 20%" within the next 30...
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A couple of days ago on the official PlayStation YouTube channel, Sony uploaded an unusually technical video. It features Mark Cerny, the architect of the last few PlayStation consoles, talking in bits-and-bytes fashion about the PlayStation 5 Pro and its hardware capabilities. It's a fun watch for HotHardware...
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Remember that scene from "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" where Clark Griswold loses his you-know-what in an epic, angry rant? That's the kind of rage that can come from braving the crowds during the holiday season. Well, if your only reason for abandoning online shopping for a trip to the mall is to see Santa...
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An Arizona charter school for K-12 students has been green-lighted to use AI, not teachers, to teach a "2hr Learning" curriculum. The only role humans will play in this process will be as "guides," i.e. someone who designs and personalizes learning content for students on the fly by using AI tools. The application to...
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OpenAI has been in the headlines as the company has been introducing several new products alongside a new pricing tier, but now Google is trying to make some noise of its own. The company’s newest model, which is referred to as Gemini-Exp-1206, is based on Flash 2.0, which is a complex reasoning model meant to tackle...
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Brace yourselves: your next limited-edition Oreo flavor may well be developed by artificial intelligence (AI). Worry not though, as each of these new cookies won't be any less artificial than the ingredients already used in them today anyway. The big news for the popular snack is that AI won't replace any human jobs...
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OpenAI has yet another new announcement as part of its 12 Days of OpenAI event. For Day 10, the company is debuting the ability for users to simply call or text ChatGPT, using 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478). This is part of the company’s effort to make its products as accessible as possible for as many people as...
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The Game Awards had blockbuster announcements and several nostalgic surprises for gamers this year, but one game announcement in particular has faced intense scrutiny. Catly, a virtual pet simulator, had its debut trailer shown at the event. With the game’s art style quickly drawing accusations that the developer is...
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NVIDIA is all about artificial intelligence (AI) these days, and with good reason—the AI market is booming. However, it's not a segment that's solely applicable to customers within the data center or other high-priced categories. Proving otherwise, NVIDIA has introduced the Jetson Orion Nano Super Developer Kit, a...
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