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Back in simpler times, startups in Silicon Valley used to brag about how much funding they’d received as a useful metric to compare their importance with their rivals. These days, for AI-based startups, at least, that metric is now the number of Nvidia H100 GPUs they can acquire. With Nvidia’s …

Although many people are currently away on vacation, aside from tech journalists obviously, AMD engineers are apparently hard at work in their labs testing next-generation APUs. The distributed computing platform [email protected] recently posted a listing for a contributor with all the markings of a Zen 5 APU, which the company …

WWDC is right around the corner, and though it’s a conference focused on software, Apple rarely misses a chance to show off some new hardware as well. Its mixed reality headset is the most highly anticipated unveiling for this year’s event, but the company might also pull the wraps off …

Zoologists believe they have found a previously unknown species of tree hyrax in the Taita Hills, Kenya. A female tree hyrax in Ngangao Forest, Taita Hills, Kenya. Image credit: Hanna Rosti. Tree hyraxes, members of the genus Dendrohyrax, are medium-sized (3-5 kg) mammals native to Africa. Also known as tree …

Marine biologists working with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society believe that they have discovered a previously unknown species of beaked whale in the waters north of Mexico’s San Benito Islands. Possibly a new species of beaked whale. Image credit: Simon Ager / Sea Shepherd. A team of researchers on board …

Time travel with free will is logically possible in our Universe without any paradox, according to new research from the University of Queensland. Physicists seek to understand the underlying laws of the Universe. Image credit: Johnson Martin. “Classical dynamics says if you know the state of a system at a …

A grid of small polygons spotted by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover may have originated as cracks in drying mud more than 3 billion years ago, according to the Curiosity science team. This view of a Martian rock slab called ‘Old Soaker,’ which has a network of cracks that may have …

Net neutrality is firmly on the chopping block in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election. The two Republican members of the FCC, Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly, have made this clear in a letter sent to small ISPs with less than 100,000 subscribers, in which they vow to revisit both …

A Taiwan-based startup called Next Entertainment has raised $25 million in an outsized Series A round of funding for apps that make it possible to live stream for a living. The company’s founder and CEO, Andy Zhong, is no stranger to tech and new media. He previously started FunPlus, a …

Recent findings by a team of experimental nuclear physicists in Hungary indicating the possible discovery of a new subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth force of nature, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of California, Irvine. The discovery of a possible fifth force of …