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Microsoft raises Xbox Game Pass prices — changes also include overhauled tiers, and the new bottom tier can no longer play Day 1 games
Microsoft announced the abolition of the Xbox Game Pass for Console to be replaced by a future Standard tier and a price increase of $5 for Game Pass, an ultimate total of $19.99 per month, instead of its current $14.99.
OBS encoding enhancements come to Nvidia's Maxwell GPUs — GeForce GTX 900 series can now leverage the Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting feature
With OBS 30.2 RC1, Twitch streamers with older GeForce 900-series graphics cards and above can enable 'Enhanced Broadcasing' on Twitch. This takes advantage of sending multiple encodings to Twitch, which will send the best-suited stream quality to its viewers.
NATO outlines Internet doomsday plan — researching tech to reroute subsea Internet traffic via satellite in case of attack
NATO wants to ensure the reliability of its internet communications network by ensuring that data can seamlessly switch between undersea cables and satellites in case of any disruption.
Researchers developing next generation 2D semiconductors investigate potential silicon replacement in transition-metal dichalcogenide
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is working on how it can induce defects on TMDs and create materials with the desired electrical properties that will replace silicon for our chips.
Current AIs only have the IQ level of a cat, asserts Google DeepMind CEO
The CEO of Google DeepMind has compared the IQ levels of contemporary artificial intelligence and domestic cats. However, AI is progressing fast, with some huge cash and compute investments propelling it forward.
Intel's Arrow Lake-S won't be an AI powerhouse — 13 TOPS NPU is only slightly better than Meteor Lake, much less than Lunar Lake
Arrow Lake-S is reportedly coming with an NPU, but it isn't the same NPU equipped in Lunar Lake. The desktop architecture will arrive with just 13 TOPS of NPU performance, making Arrow Lake-S' NPU only 3 TOPS quicker than Meteor Lake's NPU.
AMD's Ryzen 9000 single-core performance again impresses in early Geekbench results — 9700X, 9600X dominate previous-gen AMD and Intel CPUs
The 9700X and 9600X chips beat the single-core performance of other comparable chips, but still lag behind in multi-core numbers when compared to Intel's 14700K and 14600K.
Microsoft Azure China offers Chinese businesses a loophole to OpenAI’s departure
In the midst of OpenAI cracking down on developers accessing its AI models through VPNs and other forms of obfuscation, Microsoft's Azure China continues to give businesses a legitimate means to use GPT-4.
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