The data center will be Ditched by the “Personal AI Supercomputer” manufactured by Nvidia
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has unveiled the ‘Cosmos’, a family of foundational AI models that can be used to train humanoids, industrial robots and self-driving cars. The new system will be on desks of “every data scientist, AI researcher and student”, he said. “Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher and student empowers them to engage and shape AI age,” Huang added.
There is lots of graphics in the latest gaming laptops from Intel, and also from Nvidia
At the Computex 2020 in Taipei, MSI unveiled the Titan Dragon Edition which has a 15.6-inch diagonal IPS display, and is powered by the new NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti graphics card. The laptop also has an Intel CoreU 240H or AMD Ryzen 7 260 CPU choice. MSI also announced the Crosshair and Pulse series gaming laptops with just Nvidia RTX 5070 GPUs.
Alienware’s flagship desktop is finally done with proprietary parts
Dell-owned Alienware has announced Area-51 and Area-51 XL gaming laptops that will feature RGB lighting and will be available in liquid teal colours from May. Alienware said that the Area-51 will move 37% more airflow and run at 15% quieter than the older X16 R2 from 2024. The laptops will come with 1600 QHD panels and a 300Hz refresh.
The most potent laptop chips yet were unveiled by the company
AMD has announced the first gaming chips based on its RDNA 3 architecture. The Z2 Extreme has the highest TDP of 15W in its class and boasts of 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, and a memory interface that holds up to 2 million files per second. Meanwhile, the Z2 Go has fewer cores than the Z1 but has more graphics cores.
The robovac has an arm that can pick up dirty laundry
Roborock has revealed that its Saros Z70 robot vacuum will come with a feature that can recognise objects like a teddy bear or purse. The robot will be trained to recognise these objects by using the StarSight software for navigation and obstacle recognition, Roborock said. The robot will also be able to pick up socks without touching its arm.
It has been a challenge to prevent vehicular attacks
The suspect in the New Orleans attack had visited the city twice beforehand, and used “smart glasses” to record video of the area he later targeted, the FBI said. The man that rammed his truck into a crowd celebrating New Year’s on Bourbon Street on December 31 is currently being investigated as a terrorist attack, the FBI added.
Net Neutrality was a bad idea
A US appeals court on Tuesday overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) net neutrality rule that would have prevented internet service providers from favouring certain websites over others. “The existence of a fact or a thought in one’s mind is not ‘information’ like 0s and 1s used by computers,” the ruling read. The net neutrality rule was repealed by the FCC in 2017.
The driver of the cybertruck likely died from a gunshot wound to the head
The driver of the Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday was identified as 37-year-old Master Sgt Matthew Alan Livelsberger. Livelsberger had served in the US Army from January 2006 to March 2011. The FBI and local law enforcement officials are still looking for a motive.
There were 7 injured and 1 dead when a truck exploded outside a Las Vegas hotel
An explosion caused by “very large fireworks and or a bomb carried in the bed” of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday killed at least one person and critically injured two others. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the blast was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck.
The truck was outside of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas
A pickup truck rented through the Turo app exploded in Las Vegas on Thursday morning, killing at least one person and injuring several others, according to officials. Elon Musk said a bomb was carried into the bed of the Cybertruck, but it was not related to the vehicle itself. He added all vehicle information was positive at the time of the explosion.