RTX 3080 spotted in database: 10GB of GDDR6X, 2.1GHz maximum clock speed
Rumor mill: We’re just two weeks away from Nvidia’s Ampere GPU launch event, which means leaks and rumors about the RTX 30xx cards are arriving thick and fast. Following on from Micron’s premature listing of the RTX 3090, what appears to be the RTX 3080 has appeared in an online database, revealing some of the high-end card’s specs.
The listing, discovered by Twitter user @_rogame , reveals a 10GB (GDDR
ZTE is launching a 5G phone with the world's first in-display camera next month
Something to look forward to: After hearing about the technology for the last few years, the first mass-produced smartphone with an under-screen camera arrives next month, and it will come from ZTE. The Chinese giant has announced that the ZTE Axon 20 5G will launch on September 1 in its home country.
Back in 2018, an in-screen camera was one of the technologies Samsung talked about in its plans to kill off smartphone notches. The run-up to each new Galaxy
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You can now play the Quake arcade game on PC
What just happened? Did you know that there was an arcade version of Quake? Back in 1998, id Software partnered with a company called Lazer-Tron to create Quake Arcade Tournament Edition—a version that looked like the original but came with a few differences. It’s been available on PC for years, but copy protection meant it couldn’t be run on emulator MAME. Now, however, that protection has been cracked.
Quake Arcade ran on a custom computer known as the Quantum3
Over a hundred TSMC engineers have been poached by Chinese chip makers
A hot potato: According to the Nikkei Asian Review, two of China’s government-backed semiconductor manufacturers have hired over 50 TSMC engineers and executives this year. Both companies are coaxing some of the world’s best researchers with offers of exorbitant compensation packages to accelerate the growth of China’s domestic chip industry.
Quanxin Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (QXIC) was founded in 2019, while Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (HSMC) was founded in 2017. Neither are producing competitive
Russell Kirsch, the computer scientist who invented the pixel, has passed away
Why it matters: It's hard to imagine a world without the pixel. Computer scientist Russell Kirsch is credited with creating the pixel in 1957, and subsequently the first ever digital image. Decades later, and millions of pixels later, the pioneering work and research done by Kirsch has served as a progenitor to digital imaging everywhere. From CAT scans to selfies to everything else, it's hard to overstate how important Kirsch's contributions to computing are.
Russell Kirsch was born in 192
Nvidia assembled the world's 7th fastest supercomputer in one month
In a nutshell: Nvidia has detailed the assembly process of the Selene supercomputer, which became the world’s seventh fastest supercomputer in June. The entire thing was assembled amid the pandemic in just three and a half weeks with a socially-distanced team of six, plus a handy robot named Trip.
Selene is a rather unique supercomputer. It uses Nvidia’s commercially-available GPU-accelerated DGX SuperPOD architecture, instead of the custom CPU-heavy designs that dominate most of the Top500 list. It
Appeals court says Amazon can be held liable for defective third-party products
In context: Amazon is one of the largest online retailers in the world, due in no small part to its massive number of third-party sellers. Amazon's own products are decent enough in many cases, but its these unaffiliated companies and users that truly keep the platform afloat. Unfortunately, third-party sellers might also become a serious liability for Amazon moving forward.
According to a ruling filed by an appeals court in California's Fourth District, Amazon can be held liable for facilitating the sale of defective
Origin and Access services get rebranded as EA Play next week
Keep it simple: Do you ever get the feeling that game publishers intentionally try to confuse players with their branding schemes? Often you find similar services from the same company with different names or different services with similar names. EA is trying to fix that with new names for its Access and Origins brands.
EA announced on Friday that it is consolidating its Access and Origin Access subscriptions under a single brand umbrella. On August 18, EA Access and Origin Access Basic will become EA Play, while Origin Access Premier will be
Researchers detail a now fixed exploit in Alexa that could have exposed your voice history and personal information
Editor's take: Amazon has patched a serious flaw on its Alexa platform that allowed attackers to grab every bit of information from your Alexa device and Amazon account. This is a reminder that smart assistant devices are as vulnerable as they are convenient, and you, the user, should lock down your interactions with them to make them more secure.
Amazon has sold an estimated 200 million Alexa-powered devices over the last five years, most of which are Echo smart speakers that can aid in some aspects of