It’s been almost exactly a month since I published my last where I showed how different AI software could upscale the show to something approaching HD quality. Despite the ongoing pandemic, I’ve kept the Cascade Lake testbed and RTX 2080 crunching busily away, testing various permutations. Some folks have contacted me to express interest in working together, and I’ve learned some interesting things along the way. I haven’t been able to find my DVDs, so I bought Season 6 brand-new and started working with that source. I chose Season 6 because it has some of the best space-combat scenes, including the largest battle ever staged in the Star Trek universe in the episode “Sacrifice of Angels.
A few months ago, how Mathwork’s Matlab software didn’t run workloads on AMD CPUs at full speed. These products use the Intel Math Kernel Library, which will only run fully optimized code on Intel CPUs. AMD CPUs were shunted into using a different and much slower code path. Despite widespread speculation from the community that MathWorks might either be unable or unwilling to patch the issue, the company has surprised us all and fixed it. According to NedFlanders1976 (the same individual who made the original Reddit report), MathWorks a permanent path fix into Matlab 2020a, the latest version of its application.
Google has essentially owned the premium market ever since it launched the first Chromebook Pixel way back in 2013. Now, Samsung is about to dive in with its Galaxy Chromebook, which it . Samsung has finally announced a release date for the laptop, which starts at $1,000. You’ll be able to get the Galaxy Chromebook at Best Buy . Many aficionados were expecting Google to refresh the Pixelbook in 2019, but the company instead announced the less expensive Pixelbook Go. Samsung worked closely with Google on the Galaxy Chromebook, and many think of it as the true successor to the 2017 Pixelbook.
Value-priced is not a term typically used to describe workstation GPUs that can support visualization and VR applications. Usually, 3D-focused GPUs come to market based on impressive performance claims and a price point to match. That was certainly the case with AMD’s Radeon Pro W5700 that we reviewed recently. But now the company has provided an impressive cost-reduced version, the AMD Radeon Pro W5500, at half the price ($399). We’ve been working with an early unit, and so far are quite pleased with what it can do at a price point more typical for a mid-range gaming or entry-level CAD GPU.
End users are waking up to the idea that AI-based products can demonstrate practical use cases for ordinary people. About a month ago, I covered my early work upscaling Deep Space 9 for the modern era — and I’m not the only one working on this sort of project. I was inspired by the work of CaptRobau back in 2019, and now a new individual has launched a project of his own, this time to remaster Star Trek: Voyager. Reddit user theboomsterz the TV show using Topaz Gigapixel AI initially before switching to Topaz Video Enhance AI. He’s published a couple of clips to show the net effect, and it’s interesting to see them now that I’ve been working on DS9 for the past few months.
Eighty years ago, automakers called themselves the “Arsenal of Democracy” as they built bombers, tanks, and heavy trucks for World War II. Now as Ford, GM and other carmakers in the US ramp up to manufacture ventilators and even masks, they’ve been labeled the “Arsenal of Health.” It’s possible because automakers are more than mile-long assembly lines. They also have expertise in procuring parts, they have specialized short-run assembly lines for development work, and they have 3D printers. They also have a workforce that is otherwise unoccupied since automobile manufacturing has been shut down beginning March 18. Even Tesla shut down after a short-term holdout on the part of its CEO.
Stay home where it’s safe and indulge in a blazingly fast gaming experience with one of Dell’s 240Hz Alienware displays for just $384.99. Enjoy your games to the fullest with a blazing 240Hz monitor! In addition to its extreme refresh rate, this display features support for both FreeSync and G-Sync and a fast 1ms response time giving you a highly responsive gaming experience. Right now you can get this display from Dell marked down from $509.99 to $384.99. ($599.00) Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 7 tablet features a 10th Gen Intel Core i3 processor and 4GB of RAM.
Being a smart person does not preclude making foolish mistakes. Case in point: Australian astrophysicist Daniel Reardon. With the ongoing pandemic, Reardon decided to tinker with a magnetic system that would warn people not to touch their faces. A noble idea, yes, but what followed was a comedy of errors that ended with Reardon . As doctors are frequently reminding us lately, touching your face can cause infection via virus particles on your hands. It’s good advice to follow, but we all absentmindedly do it from time to time. Dr. Reardon’s idea was to use a magnetic field detector and neodymium magnets to set off an alarm if the wearer’s hand got too close to their face.
Western Digital’s of external HDDs are among the most widely used models on the market today. Compared with external SSDs, these offer substantially more storage space at a far more affordable cost, but they aren’t necessarily the best-priced external drives. Design Western Digital designed this version of its My Passport external HDDs to be compact, pocket-sized devices with tons of storage space. These drives are available in capacities between 1 to 5TB. This review will focus on the 5TB model, but as these drives all ship with the same feature set, you can see this review as an introduction to the lower capacity models as well.
