The biggest headlines for Twitch this year focused on the past. Last month, high-profile streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm admitted that he was permanently banned from Twitch in 2020 after “messaging with an individual minor in 2017.” Following the reports, a former Twitch employee alleged that Beahm continued to send sexually explicit messages even after … Read more
Analysis AMD expects to have notebook chips within a few years that can locally execute 30 billion parameters in major languages at a rate of 100 tokens per second. Achieving this goal – which also requires 100ms first token latency – isn’t as simple as it sounds. It will require optimizations on both the software … Read more
Colorado-based aerospace and defense contractor Ursa Major has announced the first successful “hot fire” test of its Draper liquid-fuel engine. Funded by the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL), Ursa Major debuted the 4,000-lb thrust closed-cycle engine in May 2023, with the ultimate goal of having a fully operational engine capable of operating in the atmosphere … Read more
The International Space Station can’t last forever, but since it first went into service in 2000, there has always been a crew of astronauts living and working in space. NASA has already announced that it has selected SpaceX to build the American Deorbit Vehicle, which is supposed to safely deorbit the space station around 2030. … Read more
Image source, Blavatnik School of Government Image caption, Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the hack was “one of the most serious cyber incidents in British history” Article information Author, Guy Lynn and Stephen Menon Role, BBC Investigations, London tweeting, @guy_lynn July 8, 2024, 01:18 BST A leading cyber security … Read more
Image source, Blavatnik School of Government Image caption, Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the hack was “one of the most serious cyber incidents in British history” Article information Author, Guy Lynn and Stephen Menon Role, BBC Investigations, London tweeting, @guy_lynn July 8, 2024, 01:18 BST A leading cyber security … Read more
The topic of 8K TVs has become a complicated one over the past few years. At one point or another, many brands, including LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL, and Hisense, jumped on the 8K TV bandwagon and embraced the new technology in an attempt to future-proof their TVs. So, if 8K TVs were supposed to be … Read more
From more than 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers began repairing a space probe headed toward the constellation Ophiucus in April, though it will take another 38,000 years to arrive. NASA launched Voyager 1 in 1977, and it has already exceeded expectations, but the space agency hopes to continue receiving data from the probe until … Read more
Image shows a Hamiltonian cycle (visited atoms not shown). Credit: University of Bristol In new research, physicists have harnessed the power of chess to design a series of intricate mazes that could eventually be used to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Their unique labyrinthine creations, inspired by the knight’s moves on a … Read more
Researchers at ETH Zurich have successfully demonstrated high-vacuum levitation of a silica nanoparticle on a hybrid photonic-electric chip. This major achievement, detailed in their latest study published in Nature Nanotechnologyrepresents a major step forward in the field of nanotechnology and opens up new possibilities for future technological applications. The breakthrough is the latest in a … Read more