Police say the man who blew up Cybertruck in Las Vegas used a planning tool
Matthew Livelsberger, the US soldier who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said. Livelsberger left notes saying that the explosion was a stunt meant to be a “wake up call” for the nation’s troubles, officials said last week.
Meta will end fact checking as the Silicon Valley prepares for Trump
Facebook’s third-party fact-checking tool Meta has decided to end its partnership with the platform. It will rely on a community notes program which it said would allow users to write and rate notes next to posts, instead of automated systems. Meta CEO Alexios Mantzarlis said that Meta has made “too many mistakes” in how it applied its content policies.
As of this April, you will be able to install SteamOS on other handhelds
Lenovo has announced that its Legion Go S handheld will ship with Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system this month, four months ahead of the SteamOS versions. The 16-inch Legion Go S device ditches the Nintendo Switch-like detachablegamepads and kickstand for a lighter and more traditional design. It will have a 1.6-pound weight and will be available in white or black colours.
The Z2 is not coming to a steam deck near you, it is an official chip
Lenovo will be launching a Windows version of its Legion Go S handheld, four months ahead of the Windows versions of its SteamOS devices. It will be shipping the Windows version this month, four months ahead of SteamOS models. It’ll also be one of the few handhelds that will offer a 120Hz variable refresh rate screen.
Is this the best time to invest incryptocurrencies in the foreseeable future?
The US President Donald Trump has said that the country will start a “strategic national stockpile” made up of Bitcoins. The US could buy up to 2,00,000 Bitcoins a year for five years, until they reach 10,00,000, he added. This plan comes after US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved investment funds to track the price of Bitcoin.
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.