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Deal | The tactical military shooter Squad, with its large-scale 100-player battles, is completely free to try on Steam until September 28. After that, a 50% discount brings the price down to $19.99 until October 1.
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In a surprise announcement, Call of Duty will finally be getting an operator skin toggle with the launch of MW4 Season 1. The post Call of Duty is finally adding a highly-requested ‘Operator Skin Toggle’ first appeared on KitGuru.
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NVMe over Fabrics RDMA initiator with direct GPU memory support
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Flipkart’s early access deals are currently live on the platform ahead of the main Big Billion Days sale 2026. Deals across mobiles and electronics are up for grabs at good discounts. Besides smartphones, a range of good offers are currently available on premium laptops powered by Intel and…
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Looking for a compact flagship smartphone? The Oppo Find X9s could be worth considering. The handset is priced at Rs 84,999 and packs a 6.59-inch display, a MediaTek Dimensity processor and a large 7,025 mAh battery. It is currently available with an offer on Flipkart, with which you can save up to…
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Seiko has teased a new Power Design Project product for October 6, using a silhouette of a panda eating bamboo alongside the line "Who are you?" For context, the design lab's first commercial release, the Collection 1, arrived last October and quickly sold out.
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levers9 SDK and CLI: run jobs, endpoints, queues, crons, boxes and GPU work on a levers9 cluster
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Stirling PDF 3.0.0 bringt den neuen „PDF Processor“ für die automatisierte Dokumentenverarbeitung, einen überarbeiteten Texteditor und OAuth-SSO.
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Apple wollte eigentlich mit dem iPhone 18 Pro (Max) auf den eigenen C2-Chip umstellen. Bei einem Modell für den US-Markt wurde das aber nicht umgesetzt.
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Govee has released the Holiday Pattern Projector Light in the US. The smart light can throw colorful lighting effects onto the side of your home. Features include dual lights and support for the Matter smart home protocol.
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Garmin is rolling out system software 23.39 to several flagship smartwatches. This release brings a new voice related feature to the wearables and also resolves a couple of issues linked to Spotify.
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Rockstar has unveiled a GTA 6 collector’s box that does not even include the game. While some of the items have caught fans’ attention, many say the package simply is not worth the roughly $400 asking price.
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Seiko has expanded its 145th Anniversary collection with the HGK003 “Edo Purple,” a limited-edition quartz chronograph featuring a textured purple dial, an angular 40mm steel case, and sapphire crystal. The watch is powered by the 8T63 quartz movement and is water-resistant to 100 meters.
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levers9 SDK and CLI: run jobs, endpoints, queues, crons, boxes and GPU work on a levers9 cluster
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Companies building AI need more than powerful chips. They need places to run the heavy CPU work that keeps AI agents and applications running. Akamai built its business by putting The post Akamai Signs $11.6B Seven-Year Deal With Anthropic to Power CPU Workloads on Akamai Cloud appeared first on…
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Pine64 is an open-source-community-centered project of mostly-open hardware, known for such hits as the PinePhone, the Pinecil soldering iron, and the PineTime. Now, the Pine64 project wants to know what …read more
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The long-awaited Sekiro: No Defeat anime will officially premiere globally in January of 2027 – following its theatrical debut in Japan earlier this month. The post Sekiro: No Defeat anime premieres January 2027 first appeared on KitGuru.
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The new Xiaomi 18 Pro and the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max bring a hardware-based privacy display, akin to the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. However, as we've seen with the Galaxy S26 Ultra's panel, the privacy display takes its toll on the image quality of the Xiaomi 18 Pro's OLED panel.
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GPU-accelerated image viewer with non-destructive develop, RAW/HDR/panorama support, AI upscale, XMP sidecars, and a plugin system.
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GPU Cluster Health Management
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Command-line client for CompShare GPU compute and MiniMax H3
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Ugreen's new Nexode 45W power bank is now available in the US in 10,000mAh and 20,000mAh versions. Both support up to 45W fast charging and can juice up three devices at once. More importantly, they promise better protection against battery fires and explosions.
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Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM. Ahead of that milestone there have been various other last minute tweaks and improvements to its HDMI 2.1 support…
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After another successful year of updates, Saber Interactive have confirmed that Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 will be getting a 3rd year of post-launch support. The post Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is officially getting another year of support first appeared on KitGuru.
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Google will launch an experimental satellite into orbit on October 1, taking four tensor processing units with it.
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ClawMetry - Real-time observability for 32 AI agent runtimes (OpenClaw, NVIDIA NemoClaw, Claude Code, Codex & more)
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Correctness-validated heterogeneous Laya runtime for Apple Silicon (MLX GPU + Apple Neural Engine)
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A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors...
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With the new “Call for me” feature, Gemini on the Pixel 11 will soon be able to make calls autonomously – for example, to ask about product availability or make reservations. For now, however, the feature will only be available in the US.
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Akamai Technologies plans to spend about US$5.5 billion building cloud infrastructure to support a US$11.6 billion, seven-year commitment from Anthropic, as the US cloud provider expands memory procurement, server hardware and distributed CPU capacity.
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Singapore is deepening semiconductor R&D ties with Applied Materials, KLA, GlobalFoundries (GF) and other industry players across advanced packaging and silicon photonics, as the city-state builds on its manufacturing base to strengthen technology development, validation and commercialization.
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Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten is pressing Washington to avoid another round of export restrictions on ASML's China business as US lawmakers pursue legislation that could tighten controls on the chip-equipment maker's immersion lithography systems and servicing activities.
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From a failed venture in South Africa to co-founding an AI cybersecurity powerhouse, CyberAlliance president Larry Yon II sits down with PHATHISANI MOYO for Coffee With… to explain why digital trust and diaspora capital are key to unlocking Africa’s true tech potential. The first time Larry Yon II…
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The most popular ones on the site cover record revenue in the server market, Samsung running prototypes of Tesla’s 2nm A15 chip, and OpenLight sampling the first 3.2T DR8 silicon photonic power ICs. The post Most Read – Prototyping Tesla’s A15, LPDDR5X DRAM, Silicon photonics PICs appeared first on…
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Model-agnostic GPU/CPU memory management for PyTorch — host offloading, block streaming, and LRU model caching.
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The Division 2’s long-awaited crossplay update will begin rolling out in November – albeit in somewhat of a staggered manner. The post The Division 2 crossplay update will begin rolling out in November first appeared on KitGuru.
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Citizen has unveiled two new Promaster Sky Navihawk automatics in Europe, at €599 each. The blue NK0040-58L and black NK0044-57E drop Eco-Drive for the mechanical Caliber 8314, in a 40 mm Super Titanium case with a slide-rule bezel and sapphire crystal.
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Google is preparing to send a small batch of its AI chips into orbit next week, putting data-centre hardware through its first real test in space. The post Google to launch AI chips into orbit appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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Project Suncatcher will enable Google’s experts to test hardware survival, cooling processes, and satellite interconnectivity
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Smartphones have become increasingly powerful these days, but all that raw performance is rarely utilized. Outside of a few mobile games, the processing power of flagship smartphone chips often goes to waste. However, future flagship Galaxy phones with Qualcomm chips may soon double as true PC…
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A Sony Interactive Entertainment patent application published on September 17, 2026, describes PlayStation controllers that read payment details from credit cards, gift cards and smartphones over NFC or Bluetooth.
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A Sony Interactive Entertainment patent application published on September 17, 2026, describes PlayStation controllers that read payment details from credit cards, gift cards and smartphones over NFC or Bluetooth.
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ClusterMAX GPU cluster audit and security CLI
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Update | (Display specifications updated) iQOO has officially revealed its new Pad Ultra gaming tablet with an 8.8-inch 165Hz OLED display, a 5.74mm all-metal body and a weight of 298g. It also features up to 5,000Hz touch sampling, a built-in cooling fan and several gaming-focused features.
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GPU recipes for Ellf (spaCy curated transformers training & inference)
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For 30 years, one rule has kept one website in your browser from reading another. In agent mode that guarantee turns into a question about model quality. Two research groups showed it independently, a security firm demonstrated it, and the browser with the clearest finding is gone.
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GPU utilisation shows compute activity, not whether capacity is actually available. A GPU can report low utilisation while remaining fully allocated to one workload. This post explains why workloads queue beside idle-looking GPUs, how allocation, memory, placement, and application bottlenecks…
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Darkweb & threat intelligence CLI — cross-source IOC lookup with automatic correlation across ThreatFox, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar, RansomLook, GreyNoise, Shodan and more
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As edge AI transforms smart buildings, Wi-Fi HaLow bridges the gap between bandwidth, long range, and low power. The post Balancing Bandwidth, Range, and Power in Intelligent Buildings appeared first on EE Times.
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Our in‑house PC building expert, James, recently bought a new Samsung Galaxy smartphone on Amazon only to discover that he had unknowingly purchased an imported grey‑market device sold as a standard UK model. The situation left the phone without any manufacturer warranty and raised concerns that…
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The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a maritime radio communications tool used to allow different vessels to identify each other and communicate their movements and other telemetry. You can readily …read more
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EML language and compiler for verified mathematical computation across 36 targets: software, GPU shaders, hardware (FPGA/ASIC, SPICE, KiCad, and JLCPCB), formal verification, and safety-critical systems.
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With its tele-zoom camera, high-resolution selfie camera, and sharp images in daylight, the Oppo Reno 16 FS holds its own against even some significantly more expensive phones. However, in camera tests, there are also situations it doesn’t handle quite as well.
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The seven-year cloud infrastructure deal will support' Anthropic's growing CPU workloads and involves total capital expenditures of around $5.5 billion.
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Vivo has launched the Y600i in China at CNY 1,999 (about $300) for a single 6GB RAM and 256GB storage model. The phone combines an 8,000mAh battery and 44W charging with a 6.87-inch 120Hz LCD, a Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 chipset, a 50MP rear camera, and IP68 and IP69 protection, with sales starting on…
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Google will herausfinden, ob sich das All für KI-Infrastruktur eignet. Mit Project Suncatcher steht der erste praktische Test bevor. (Google, KI)
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Python, C/C++ und ein CPU-Simulator: Q.ANTs neues Open-Source-SDK bringt photonisches Computing ohne Spezialhardware auf den Laptop.
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AI agents move deeper into chip design; China doubles down on AI compute and memory; chip supply chains tighten for equipment and critical materials; TSMC partners accelerate; ICs head to space; optics advances, neural super resolution, auto PQC; Purdue-UIUC workforce training. The post Chip…
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s advanced packaging technology, chip-on-wafer-on-substrate-L, or CoWoS-L, remains the dominant force in AI semiconductor packaging. But Korean chip substrate makers are already preparing for the next market shift. Samsung Electro-Mechanics and LG Innotek are…
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QuiX Quantum has partnered with Tohoku Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd. (TEI-C) for exclusive distribution of its integrated photonic processing hardware in Japan. This includes the Alquor 2.0 quantum photonic processor and the PACU control unit. The partnership aims to accelerate access to…
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Google has added 14 connected apps to Gemini, including Adobe, Peloton, Experian and Airtable. According to Google's own availability table, 10 of them work only in the US. Outside the US, just Adobe, monday.com and Wispr AI are available, and only in English. Disconnecting an app later does not…
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Mesa Quantum has raised $11.8 million in funding, led by Playground Global, bringing their total venture funding to nearly $16 million. This capital will accelerate the development and manufacturing of their chip-scale quantum sensors and alternative PNT infrastructure. Their technology, which…
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High-performance GPU tensor quantization and inference engine for AMD ROCm. Native AOT GEMV (K-Quants & I-Quants), State Space Model (SSM/DeltaNet) kernels, FP8 WMMA WaveAttention, and portable HIP C++ kernels for RDNA4, RDNA3, and CDNA.
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High-performance GPU tensor quantization and inference engine for AMD ROCm. Native AOT GEMV (K-Quants & I-Quants), State Space Model (SSM/DeltaNet) kernels, FP8 WMMA WaveAttention, and portable HIP C++ kernels for RDNA4, RDNA3, and CDNA.
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Infleqtion has achieved 30 entangled logical qubits on its commercial Sqale quantum computing platform, utilizing 80 physical neutral-atom qubits. This breakthrough, announced at Quantum World Congress 2026, was enabled by an AI-assisted logical circuit discovery and software-based loss correction…
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Citizen has launched two new two-tone automatics in the UK, the black NJ0226-56E and the blue NJ0224-51L, at £329 (~$435) each. Both are additions to the NJ022 series, with a 38.5 mm case, 100 m water resistance and Citizen's caliber 8210 automatic movement.
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The multi-year agreement is designed to support Anthropic's accelerating CPU workload demands by leveraging Akamai Cloud's distributed artificial intelligence infrastructure and specialised software suite.
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Dauerhafte Pulsmessung, S11-Chip und die Messung der persönlichen „Tagesform“: Wir haben geprüft, was das Watch-Update bringt – und ob es am Akku zehrt.
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The XLeRobot dual-arm cart adapter for quackd. Install it as quackd[xlerobot].
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The LeRobot SO-101 arm adapter for quackd. Install it as quackd[lerobot].
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Bluesfest Tours booked artists for the festival as well as other gigs, with acts including Erykah Badu and The Wailers secured for Australian dates. The post Bluesfest touring arm enters liquidation six months after festival collapse appeared first on SmartCompany.
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Tech-Milliardär Elon Musk spricht seit langem von Rechenzentren im All. Jetzt offenbart ein anderes Tech-Schwergewicht konkrete Test-Pläne – mit Hilfe einer der Raketen von Musks Firma SpaceX. weiterlesen auf t3n.de
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Sony PS6 and Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox, codenamed Helix, are reportedly nearing key hardware milestones, with leaked AMD RDNA 5 GPU specs suggesting 40 TFLOPS for PS6 and 56 TFLOPS for Xbox. Here’s what the reported specs could mean and why TFLOPS alone does not determine gaming performance.
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Control Resonant looks stunning on PC thanks to Nvidia's Ray Reconstruction, DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and more. Here are my thoughts after 30 hours of playing on a gaming PC.
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Read STDF V4 and V4-2007 semiconductor test data files, and convert them to JSON Lines
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Bihar-based Swadeza is building FORGE, an AI-native chip platform for verification, design and post-silicon engineering workflows.
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The Trump-Xi summit left rare-earth supplies among the unresolved issues in US-China economic relations, as the US and Japan confront uneven access to yttrium, a little-known rare-earth metal used in heat-resistant coatings for semiconductor manufacturing tools.
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Timex has launched the TWEG256SMU01 in India at ₹5,696, or about $59. The 43 mm quartz watch pairs a gunmetal brass case with a teal dial and a small seconds sub-dial at 6 o'clock, on a steel bracelet, with mineral glass and 30 m water resistance.
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Despite Prime Minister Andy Burnham telling the UN that the UK and US are working hand in glove on AI safety the US has told OpenAI and Anthropic not to […] The post UK blocked from pre-release access to US AI frontier models appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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Terafab is either a massive chip fab being built by Elon Musk in Texas or a desk-top photolithography tool for prototyping devices (pictured above). No doubt Elon was surprised to […] The post Which is the real Terafab? appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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AI accelerators , HBM Integration, and Co-packaged optics are pushing higher performance packaging past $51 billion by 2031, says Yole. High-end performance packaging revenue has a 27% CAGR during 2025-2031. […] The post Advanced packaging to be a $51bn market by 2031 appeared first on Electronics…
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The UK has added 16 unicorns so far this year taking the country’s current total to 100 unicorns with 91 reaching unicorn status since 2017, according to Tracxn Technologies. This […] The post UK adds 16 Unicorns so far this year appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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Mikroe, the click board specialist, has come up its Spatial Anchor S1 and Spatial Anchor R1 precise spatial accessory tracking modules for Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Both are now shipping […] The post Spatial accessory trackers for Apple headsets appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
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Electricity is the once and future drivetrain for automobiles, but until the advent of lithium batteries their capabilities were somewhat modest. One EV blip on the automotive timeline is the …read more
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ABS2 GPU QUBO solver plugin for PyQBPP (unofficial)
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memQ Inc. has released memQ DQC, an open-source Python framework for distributed quantum computing. It compiles and schedules quantum programs across multi-processor quantum architectures, addressing challenges in scaling quantum processing units beyond physical limitations. The framework allows…
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ClawMetry - Real-time observability for 32 AI agent runtimes (OpenClaw, NVIDIA NemoClaw, Claude Code, Codex & more)
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Citizen has listed the NJ0210-56E on its UK site for £299. The 40 mm automatic pairs a black dial with a steel bracelet and runs the caliber 8210, and it's a new combination in the series. With VAT stripped, the UK price is about 41% above Europe's.
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arXiv:2606.03159v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck. In closed-loop simulation, the driving policy model actively interacts with the environment, where its…
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arXiv:2609.30059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning inference and training performance depends critically on GPU kernel efficiency. Modern compilers such as PyTorch Inductor automatically generate GPU kernels from high-level model code, but frequently underperform expert-written…
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Intel OpenVINO SDK for AI Edge LiteRT
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Native WRF preprocessing and GPU-native limited-area weather modeling
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JAX benchmarking, profiling and evaluation metrics for Flax NNX: a metric registry across regression, classification, calibration, uncertainty, forecasting, generative, image, text, audio, graph and fairness domains, XLA FLOP counting, roofline analysis, GPU and energy monitoring, regression…
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Compare 6 gaming laptops priced below ₹1 lakh, featuring dedicated GPUs, fast displays, ample RAM and SSD storage for gaming and everyday tasks.
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Microsoft has tasked Activision with making a new Halo game following development struggles. However, according to a report, Halo Studios leader Pierre Hintze hopes to remain a factor. The executive had concepts for more remakes and a 7th entry, but those plans are now in flux.
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Sources: AI chip startup DensityAI, founded by ex-Tesla Dojo team members, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $10B valuation — DensityAI, an AI chip startup founded just a year ago by former leaders of Tesla's Dojo supercomputer program…