Microsoft has just announced DirectSR, a new application programming interface (API) designed in partnership with major GPU manufacturers that will allow game developers to enable “seamless integration of Super Resolution into a new generation of PC games.” Programmer Joshue Tucker notes in the official blog post that “DirectSR is the missing link developers have been…
The government has begun a recruitment drive to hire top-tier engineers as it builds out i.AI, the plan run by the deputy prime minister to develop artificial intelligence (AI) in government. According to information posted on the ai.gov.uk website, i.AI is a new initiative that aims to work across government to identify where targeted applications…
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The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is harnessing technology to support its mission to conserve the natural world through a deal with IT services supplier Atos. Planned projects set out to use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate environmental monitoring, predict the risk of epidemics, and modernise a monitoring and reporting tool used by thousands of…
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I’m a longtime iPhone user who has not upgraded to one of the iPhone 15 models. The iPhone 14 Pro is still an amazing device. It’s practically the equivalent of the base iPhone 15. And I’m fairly confident that I could keep it for one more year after the iPhone 16 hits stores next September.…
Working at a company that is a giant of the tech sector has many advantages, but for Arvind Jain, the CEO of Glean, it also helps to work at much smaller organisations. Glean positions itself as the Google of enterprise knowledge and discovery. In fact, it was founded in 2019 by a number of Google…
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The rate of cyber fraud dropped slightly over the first six months of 2023, falling 2% compared to the same period in 2022, but even so criminals and fraudsters still managed to steal approximately £580m via both authorised and unauthorised fraud during the period, according to UK Finance’s latest half-yearly report. At the same time,…
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Tenstorrent this week announced that it had chosen to use Samsung’s SF4X (4 nm-class) process technology for its upcoming low-cost, low-power codenamed Quasar chiplet for machine learning workloads. The chiplets will be made at Samsung’s new fab near Taylor, Texas when it becomes operational in 2024. Tenstorrent’s Quasar chiplet is a new addition to the…
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G42 and Cerebras Systems announced their strategic partnership in July 2023, along with a roadmap that the two companies said will significantly reduce the time it takes to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. Work is underway to build Condor Galaxy, a cluster of nine supercomputers with a planned capacity of 36 exaFLOPs in total. …
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A week after releasing firmware update 6A303 to AirPods Pro 2, Apple is seeding a new version, number 6A305. At the moment, it’s unclear what’s changed, but since the last update was all about bug fixes and other improvements, Cupertino might have broken something. This firmware is available to all AirPods Pro 2 with both…
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Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle Applications product development, spoke to Computer Weekly at Oracle Cloud World 2023 in Las Vegas about what he sees as an inflection point among the firm’s customers – a tipping point from project-based to business-driven conversations with the supplier. He also spoke about how generative AI is a big…
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