In an effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. government, IBM, Energy Department National Laboratories, Amazon, Microsoft and more, are granting researchers access to a total of 16 supercomputers. This comes as an initiative from the White House, which started a partnership between the various parties and launched the COVID-19 HPC Consortium .
All supercomputers combined are able to crunch out a total of 330 PetaFLOPS through a total of 775,00
As the Coronavirus spreads around the world and leads countries to enforce lockdown regulations in order to 'flatten the curve,' industries are getting hit all around the world. The latest to fall victim is the storage devices industry, which resides for the most part in Malaysia and the Philippines in Southeast Asia.
As reported by Storage Newsletter , HDD manufacturing in the Philippines has halted for a minimum of three days, and other storage(-related) manufacturing has also come to a crawl or stopped
Two weeks ago we showed you Bleujour's Meta U , a passively cooled NUC Elements unit. Now, the company is offering two new finishes on its KUBB NUC. The vendor claims that they offer improved thermals over the standard finish, but they also just look great.
The KUBB NUC is a 12cm cube packing an Intel NUC inside. Most of the chassis is the heatsink , which makes it quite the ornament in the chrome finish. The NUC board based on the Intel
Nvidia's DLSS stands for Deep Learning Super Sampling (our analysis here ), and is a technique that was introduced together with the RTX 2000-series graphics cards in September 2018. Now, Nvidia is introducing DLSS 2.0, which ups the ante further, promising improved performance, customizability, and compatibility.
Deep Learning Super Sampling is a deep-learning-based rendering technique that uses the Nvidia Tensor cores on RTX graphics cards to increase game performance
Apple announced a new MacBook Air last week, and now we might know which chips will be powering the laptop. Geekbench results spotted by Twitter user TUM_APISAK point to two Intel Ice Lake processors.
When Apple revealed its new MacBook Air, it said it updated it with a new keyboard, additional storage and Intel's 10th Gen Core processors. It didn't offer many details about those CPUs, but based on their LPDDR4X RAM support and Iris Plus graphics
As the list of event cancelations due to the coronavirus grows, we're becoming ever-more curious about the fate of Computex. Thus far, the show has not been canceled or postponed, nor has there been news of 'safety protocol' to ensure that the show can go on. Now, Taiwan-based hardware manufacturers are requesting that the show gets postponed, as reported by DigiTimes .
Over the last 3 months, the Coronavirus situation has become increasingly severe around the
Here's a strange one: CyberNews reported Friday that a Google Cloud database exposed the personal information of roughly 200 million Americans. It's not clear who owned the database, however, and it appeared to have been wiped on March 3. But that wasn't actually the end of the saga; things only got weirder from there.
First things first. CyberNews said the database contained 800GB of data in three folders. The first had 200
It's starting to seem like Microsoft can't update anything without breaking it. Windows Latest reported yesterday that Windows Defender, the built-in antivirus tool for Windows 10, stopped functioning properly after it was updated recently.
The report indicated that Windows Defender--which is set to be renamed Microsoft Defender as it expands to additional platforms --has shown an error message to multiple Windows 10 users. Windows 7 and 8 users don't appear to be affected.
Last week, lawmakers in the U.S. ordered all non-essential retail to close, keeping only the basics open. Some companies such as Gamestop didn't adhere to this order very well, considering themselves essential, but for essentials such as supermarkets, this wasn't a problem.
The case for Best Buy was a bit of a gray area, as people do need various goods in order to be able to make it through the quarantine period. These include webcams,
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has put a lot of strain on internet services, and Microsoft said on Saturday that its Azure platform will prioritize first responders, should there come a time when it has to limit some people's access to the platform.
Microsoft said in a blog post that Azure is "supporting many large-scale corporations, schools, and governments in the mobilization of remote workforces" because global health officials have recommended social distancing in response to COVID-19.