Jan 03
Look upon this list of 10 affordable gaming monitors we recommend, and see that they are organized by size and resolution and valued according to their worth.
Jan 03
Raw speed meets Ducati’s motorcycle engineering magic. Can the Streetfighter V4 SP justify being twice the price of the base V2?
Jan 03
The 12 Best V12 Engines Ever Made
Posted in: Today's ChiliV12 engines add extra power through extra cylinders — and many have been installed into some of the most impressive automobiles of all time.
Jan 03
Innocent Black Man Jailed After Facial Recognition Got It Wrong, His Lawyer Says
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Randall Reid says he’s never even been to Louisiana, much less stolen $10,000 worth of Chanel and Louis Vuitton handbags there. That didn’t stop police from arresting the 28-year-old Georgia resident for the theft, committed in a New Orleans suburb, based on an algorithmic guess at what his face looked like. Reid was…
Jan 03
In New Orleans, you can drink alcohol openly in the streets. You can even throw your own parade. But to access porn on the internet, you now need to present proof of government-issued ID, as a new law goes into effect.
Jan 03
Google Joins Meta in Providing Free Terrorism Moderation Software for Smaller Websites
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Tens of thousands of smaller websites bracing to comply with new anti-extremism measures introduced by the European Union may soon have a new, unexpected ally: Google.
Jan 03
Verizon's new kids’ smartwatch has a camera to let kids video call their parents
Posted in: Today's ChiliVerizon has announced the latest model in its kids’ line of cellular-connected smartwatches. The Gizmo Watch 3 is a $150 children’s wearable that gives them basic smart features while allowing their parents or caregivers to keep tabs on their location.
The newest Verizon watch for tikes continues the company’s goal of “providing a safe smartwatch experience for children that aren’t quite ready for a smartphone.” The new version has a front-facing camera, allowing children to take photos, make video calls and record messages with approved contacts. (Although smartwatch cameras can sound privacy alarms, I see the value for children who don’t already have a smartphone camera.) The new model also lets parents add more safe zones, designated areas that the children can’t leave without the watch notifying their parents. The new model also doubles the number of trusted contacts parents can set up — from 10 to 20.
The Gizmo Watch 3 gets a new processor in the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 platform. Verizon says the chip helps it add 80 percent more talk time and 20 percent more standby time than its predecessor. It also includes Bluetooth for the first time so that kids can pair the wearable with wireless earbuds or headphones. Additionally, it has new watch faces (including ones that change with the seasons and time of day) and three new games: Tic Tac Toe, Gizmo Says and Puzzle.
The Gizmo Watch 3 will be available through Verizon on Thursday in Blue Clay and Mint colors. Of course, if you don’t want to pay the full $150 upfront, the carrier will let qualified customers pay it off over 36 months. For a limited time, it’s also running a deal where buying one will get you $100 off a second.
Jan 03
NVIDIA has had an incredible run with its RTX 30 Series for mobiles, and the company is poised to double down with the new RTX 40 Series, which features higher peak performance and better performance per Watt, a dream combination for mobility applications.
NVIDIA claims its new discrete GPUs are so power efficient that, in some cases, they require only a third of the power for the same task, compared to the RTX 30 Series. The time for benchmarks will come later, but at a high level, this could happen in best-case scenarios.
From a laptop perspective, higher power efficiency is extremely valuable because it translates into lower temperatures for any given task. Heat prevents discrete GPUs from getting into thinner form factors, and if NVIDIA’s claims are valid, you should see these graphics chips make their way into even thinner laptops than their RTX 30 Series predecessors.
If you think of it, a GPU-powered laptop like the Lenovo Slim 7i Pro X already has excellent graphics performance (for its weight), and the 2023 version could therefore be significantly faster. We’ll hopefully see faster GPUs in popular form factors such as the Dell XPS 13, the HP Spectre x360, or the Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 or comparable size/weight.
The new NVIDIA RTX 4050 and RTX 4060 might fulfill this role. We’ll see. For Creative work and Gaming, the new RTX 4070, RTX 4080, and RTX 4090 mobile GPUs should cover the performance spectrum all the way to the top.
Based on our hands-on experience with the 2022 NVIDIA GPUs, 2023 is shaping up like a great year for mobile GPUs and graphics workloads on the go. GPUs have become even more pervasive during the pandemic, and NVIDIA’s new applications, such as NVIDIA Broadcast, have significantly expanded the need for a discrete GPU to virtually everyone.
In addition to the GPU architecture changes, some progress can also be attributed to system-level technologies such as Max-Q (gen5) and GPU+VRAM power management. Additionally, software such as DLSS 3 plays a huge role in increasing game framerates without a linear strain on the hardware.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, Now Mobile
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Jan 03
Bills-Bengals Game Will Not Resume This Week As Damar Hamlin Remains In Critical Condition
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Bills safety suffered cardiac arrest during Monday night’s game.
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