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The federal government is so tired of the lawsuit battle between Microsoft and Amazon over the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI), it’s telling the court it may just kill the project rather than continue to litigate the matter. The original JEDI program was supposed to provide the government with a cloud computing platform that would sit atop all other cloud deployments at the DoD and provide a general-purpose cloud environment. Smaller, specific clouds — what the government called “fit for purpose” clouds — were only to be utilized on an as-needed basis. The original JEDI plan.
If you were playing games 20 years ago, you probably spent at least a little time with Diablo II. This game was so popular that some people are still playing it, but an upgrade is on the way. Blizzard is working on a remastered version of the game, and it will be very faithful to the original. How faithful? Blizzard producer Matthew Cederquist , allowing you to finish the quest you started two decades ago. Like the other Diablo titles, the second incarnation takes place in the mystical realm of Sanctuary. At the opening of Diablo II, the hero from the original game has been corrupted by the malevolence of the eponymous prime evil, known as Diablo.
Today you can get a highly versatile laptop from Dell with over $1,000 marked off the retail price. This system is perfect for work, but it also has a 100 percent sRGB compatible display for editing images and a GPU that’s powerful enough to keep the average gamer happy. The new Vostro 15 7500 laptop is a true jack-of-all-trades. Dell’s Vostro systems are oriented as business solutions, and this system is no different, but it also has fairly strong gaming capabilities. Its 100 percent sRGB display is also well suited for editing images. No matter what you need a laptop for, this system should fit the bill.
When AMD announced its , it introduced a feature it dubbed Smart Access Memory, known more generally across the industry as Resizable BAR. Resizable BAR allows a CPU to access more than 256MB of GPU memory at any given time. The feature can boost game performance on Ryzen 5000 CPUs by between 3-7 percent on average based on our tests at 1080p, 1440p, and 4K. Nvidia claims improvements for Ampere GPUs. Initially, SAM was going to be a Ryzen 5000 feature and required a 500-series motherboard from the B550 or X570 families to use. Now, AMD has announced it’ll be bringing the feature to its Ryzen 3000 CPUs as well.
Every few years, the FCC considers whether or not the current minimum standard for US broadband service needs to be redefined or not, and what those changes ought to be. Four US senators — Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Angus King (I-Maine), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — have sent a letter to the FCC, asking it to consider setting a broadband service goal of 100Mbps/100Mbps for symmetric service. This would be an improvement over the current standard in many regards. While it represents a quadrupling of minimum download bandwidth, it’s no less than 33x improvement to the minimum requirement for upload.
The European Union is considering plans that would put it on course to manufacture up to 20 percent of all leading-edge semiconductors in the world by 2030. There’ve been reported conversations between EU officials, Samsung, and TSMC, with an eye towards increasing the number of semiconductors manufactured in Europe. Now, officials at the EU are reportedly prepping a draft proposal on the topic for consideration by various member states and the European Parliament. Currently, about 10 percent of the world’s semiconductor manufacturing facilities are located in Europe, but this figure makes the situation look better than it is. The vast majority of European foundries are off the leading edge.
According to a new report, cryptocurrency miners aren’t just buying up desktop PC GPUs — they’ve started hoovering up gaming laptops as well. This has kept gaming laptop sales high through Q1 when normally the market would have cooled off by now. This information comes courtesy of , via . The original DigiTimes article is now behind a paywall. According to them, cryptocurrency miners in China, Taiwan, and South Korea buy large stocks of laptops fitted out with RTX 3000 GPUs. Miners have (again, according to DT) even been lobbying manufacturers to create systems with low-budget components and powerful GPUs, since there’s no intent to use them for anything but cryptocurrency mining.
SpaceX is running through Starship prototypes like they’re growing on trees. Just a few weeks after its last rocket exploded following a hard landing, the company succeeded in landing a Starship rocket after its test flight. Sadly, the vessel exploded several minutes later. hasn’t talked about the cause of the incident, but it does seem to consider the SN10 flight an overall success despite what transpired after. All of SpaceX’s current launch operations are based on the Falcon 9, which is certified to carry even astronauts into space. It’s also the basis for the company’s Falcon Heavy launch platform.
