As we head into spring flowers are starting to bloom, and Twitter is also beginning to blossom with fresh GPU rumors. So far there’s been a lot of reporting on Nvidia’s next-gen Ada Lovelace architecture. Rumors from AMD, however, have been exceedingly rare. Interestingly the Nvidia rumors point to a nuclear reactor GPU consuming 600W of power. This has lead people to wonder why Nvidia would be going all out on power consumption, and the answer might be obvious: because it must. The latest rumor comes from noted leaker on Twitter, who is a prolific GPU tipster. Their latest intel is that AMD’s RDNA3 GPU will be comprised of seven chiplets.
(Photo: Warren Umoh/Unsplash)For many of us, the topic of cloning animals elicits memories of Dolly the sheep—AKA the world’s first cloned mammal. But cloning technology has seen its fair share of developments since Dolly’s birth in 1996. These days, despite the financial investment, more people are choosing to clone their beloved household pets. ViaGen, a Texas-based firm that purchased the intellectual property to cloning technology in 1998, is in the business of helping individuals and families clone their pets. But it wasn’t always that way. ViaGen originally aimed to improve livestock breeding by “bypassing the genetic lottery” that produces high-value bulls and other animals, to a new feature by the BBC.
Ever since Alder Lake was launched there was concern over its rectangular shape and how it might impact cooling. Previously every chip from Intel was basically square, with the heat being generated in the center of the Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS). This made for a straightforward situation of where the cooler made contact with the IHS. Alder Lake’s elongated design is different though, allowing for a larger surface area where pressure needs to be applied. Seemingly complicating the situation is both the mechanism Intel uses to secure the socket to the motherboard, and how the CPU is locked into the socket.
Samsung that it would partner with iFixit to make it easier to repair your own phone, and now Google is following suit. The Android maker says its Pixel phones . It’s going a little further than Samsung, too, offering kits for almost all of its Pixel phones, including the latest Pixel 6 and 6 Pro. Today’s smartphones are much harder to repair than devices just a few generations ago. Whereas one of the early Nexus phones had an easily separated plastic body and a removable battery, phones like the Pixel (or any other modern Android device) are basically metal spaghetti when you open them up.
While surveys suggest that most game developers , some of the largest devs are going all-in with crypto. Ubisoft announced its first NFT drop in Ghost Recon Breakpoint late last year to widespread criticism. That didn’t stop the company from adding “Digits” items to the game, but that phase of Ubisoft’s infatuation with NFTs is already over. There won’t be any more updates or items for Breakpoint, and the company is threatening, er… promising NFTs in more games soon, . You would have to be living under a rock with poor wireless reception to have missed the massive interest in (non-fungible tokens) over the past few years.
A bit over a week ago, Intel officially launched its first Arc GPUs. The company will be offering mobile Arc chips first, with desktop GPUs coming later this year. Although the launch certainly answered many questions, it also raised several new questions at the same time. One of the most pertinent queries has to do with its advertised clock speeds. As it turns out, Intel is not following in the footsteps of its competitors in the way it lists GPU clock speeds. This led to some confusion at launch, but Intel has clarified the situation to Extremetech. Right off the bat, the seem to have rather low clock speeds.
There is no longer any doubt that the universe is teeming with planets — NASA that the total number of known exoplanets has crossed 5,000, and we’ve only just begun our search of the heavens. Upcoming projects leveraging the shiny new James Webb Space Telescope will certainly teach us more about these distant worlds, but Hubble still has its place. In fact, its longevity is a real asset. Astronomers recently leaned on archival Hubble data to study the formation of a large gas giant, and it stands out amongst exoplanet discoveries by . The proto-world is known as AB Aurigae b, and it sits some 531 light years away.
Militaries around the world are hyped up for hypersonic missiles, but the US has been seen as behind the times following a series of failed tests in 2021. However, that the US successfully tested a Lockheed Martin hypersonic missile last month, but it kept the news quiet to avoid further antagonizing Russia. This comes amid reports that Russia has used its own hypersonic missile system in Ukraine, making it clear the race to faster weapons has already begun. The hypersonic missiles in development in the US, Russia, and China come in various forms, and the term itself can be confusing.
Microsoft will be answering the prayers of legions of users soon by adding tabs to Windows Explorer. The company made the announcement in a recent presentation on how it’s answering the needs of hybrid workers. Microsoft wants people to be as productive as possible, and one way to do that is to make navigating files easier. Tabs in Windows Explorer allow you to open new tabs for various file locations in a single window. This makes copying and moving files much easier than the current system, where you need a separate Explorer window open for each file location.
