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Following months of uncertainty about whether Nvidia could sell its H20 GPUs to China, we have a new wrinkle in the story: Now, China doesn’t trust the hardware. China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) organization is reportedly investigating whether Nvidia’s GPUs include location tracking and other spying hardware.Although other companies are rushing …

Google wasted no time releasing its Bard AI chatbot in early 2023 following the reveal of ChatGPT in Microsoft Bing, but maybe it should have spared a little time. Bard launched with embarrassing glitches, and Google still finds itself apologizing for the AI. It’s not that Bard is worse than …

There’s a new set of leaks around AMD’s next-generation server CPU, codenamed Milan-X. Milan-X uses the same microarchitecture as AMD’s current Milan, but with one significant difference: Up to 768MB of L3, divided between 8 chiplets and 64 cores. AMD’s plans to staple an extra 64MB of L3 cache per …

Cox Claims It Can Reduce Your Gaming Lag, but Only If You Pony Up the Cash After over a year in beta testing, Cox is rolling out its Elite Gamer add-on for new customers. The ISP claims it can improve your latency by up to 32 percent if you subscribe …

When Waymo sued Uber earlier this year, claiming that its former employee stole 14,000 documents containing trade secrets about its self-driving car project and took the documents to Uber, it was a stain on Uber’s reputation. Now, it looks like the damage could be more extensive — the judge in the …

Last week, we covered Google’s internal benchmarks of its own TPU, or tensor processing unit. Google’s results revealed that the TPU is much faster than a conventional GPU for processing inference workloads, at a fraction of the power consumption. While machine learning still takes place on GPUs, Google’s TPU results …

Intel had a tech day this week to discuss the future of its own 14nm and 10nm chips, and it laid out some impressive claims in the process. It also laid out what it believes is a better metric for calculating process nodes in the future, though we suspect TSMC, …

When Microsoft was still building Windows 10, it launched the Windows Insider program to push fast and slow updates to customers who were also willing to serve as beta testers. Today, the company declared this approach was both inspired by Xbox and has created a network of 10 million “fans” …

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), the counterpart startup to Hyperloop One, which is also building a prototype of Elon Musk’s hyperloop system, says it has raised a little over $108 million dollars to build the tech aiming to zip us from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under half an hour. …

Herbivorous, or plant-eating, mammals have bigger bellies than their usually slim carnivorous counterparts, according to a study led by University of Zurich researcher Marcus Clauss. Hippo family in Botswana. Image credit: Hans Stieglitz / CC BY-SA 3.0. Prof. Clauss and his colleagues from Germany and the UK studied the shape …