Renowned mathematician John Conway, creator of the Game of Life, passed away on April 11. In honor of Conway and his work, software engineer Nick Kelly shared a Game of Life project designed to run on the Raspberry Pi .

Conway created the Game of Life in 1970. It uses a fixed set of rules to change cells in a grid. The cells can live, die, or multiply on each turn. It receives input only at the beginning, after

HiSilicon, Huawei's elite chip division, has placed 14nm orders with Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), China's top chipmaker, instead of TSMC, according to a DigiTimes report today citing unnamed industry sources.

HiSilicon's Kirin 710 smartphone processor, which is based on TSMC's 12nm FinFET node, has been out since mid-2018. There is a rumor that HiSilicon is planning to release a gimped variant of the Kirin

After weeks of recruiting, Folding@Home has now grown to so many users that it is surpassing 2.4 ExaFLOPS of computational power, making it a staggering (give or take) 15 times as powerful as the world's strongest supercomputer, IBM's Summit at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

With our collective power, we are now at ~2.4 exaFLOPS (faster than the top 500 supercomputers combined)! We complement supercomputers like

The Twitter channel @Crysis has been dormant since 2016, but that just changed when Crytek's employees outed the first tweet in 4 years, as spotted by TweakTown .

RECEIVING DATA April 13, 2020

Of course, that tweet doesn't tell us anything concrete, but it does bear further weight to our previous suspicions that Crytek is working on a remastered Crysis game or a new Crysis title of some sort. The company has been teasing us for

Nvidia and Microsoft have announced that the Minecraft RTX public beta will be landing on April 16th, two days from now—so be ready to give it a go.

No More Half-Tracing: Minecraft RTX Features Full Path Traced Render

When it comes to the ray tracing capabilities, Minecraft RTX will be one of the most encompassing titles out there with the full whammy of Nvidia's RTX features. It will come with full path-based ray tracing in lighting, reflections,

Intel recently resigned itself to engaging in a price war with AMD's EPYC processors as it slashed gen-on-gen pricing for its Cascade Lake Refresh processors . Now AMD is taking the battle in an entirely different direction as it unveils three new workload-optimized processors that strike at the heart of the mid-range market, but with higher pricing than the preceding models.

AMD says the new 7Fx2 frequency-optimized processors offer the world's fastest per

“The average consumer probably shouldn’t be buying anything right now unless it’s related to COVID needs,” electronics manufacturer Adafruit’s managing director Phillip Torrone told me over the phone from the company’s Manhattan factory last week. And yet, Adafruit’s 50,000 square foot space remains open, with “eight to ten employees” commuting in daily to churn out products. Even as the rest of New York City locks down for the pandemic,