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Windows 10 May 2020 Update now available with built-in Linux kernel and Cortana updates

The Verge

Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 May 2020 Update today. Microsoft released a final version of the update to testers last month , and everyone on Windows 10 can get access to the May 2020 Update through Windows Update today. The May 2020 Update also includes some big Cortana improvements.

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OctoML raises $28M grow machine learning software used by Qualcomm, Microsoft, AMD

GeekWire

The University of Washington spinout aims to help companies deploy machine learning models on various hardware configurations. The technology: OctoML is led by the creators of Apache TVM , an open source “deep learning compiler stack” that started as a research project at the UW’s computer science school. Madrona Photo).

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What Sundar Pichai’s ‘long-term’ hardware commitment means for the Pixel

The Verge

Last week, I wrote about Google’s somewhat confounding hardware strategy in the wake of a report about internal conflict from The Information. Not to belabor the metaphor, but when it comes to Google’s hardware efforts, there’s a bit of a “darkest before the dawn” vibe. Hardware is hard. Hardware is hard,” Pichai says.

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You can see Netflix’s new AV1 streaming tech on select TVs and the PS4 Pro

The Verge

Netflix shared this lineup of supported devices with The Verge : Select Samsung 2020 UHD Smart TVs. Select Samsung 2020 UHD QLED Smart TVs. Select Samsung 2020 8K QLED Smart TVs. Samsung The Frame 2020 Smart TVs. Samsung The Serif 2020 Smart TVs. Samsung The Terrace 2020 Smart TVs.

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

According to IDC, IBM sold more than 4,300 IBM Z systems in 2020, for approximately $3.5 The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source. IBM’s hardware timetable calls for CPU upgrades approximately every two and a half years. “We

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The Oculus Go’s operating system is being unlocked, John Carmack announces

The Verge

The Go was officially discontinued in 2020. This opens up the ability to repurpose the hardware for more things today, and means that a randomly discovered shrink wrapped headset twenty years from now will be able to update to the final software version, long after over-the-air update servers have been shut down.

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Groq sparks LPU vs GPU face-off

Dataconomy

This week, Groq’s LPU astounded the tech community by executing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) like Llama-2, which boasts 70 billion parameters, at an impressive rate of over 100 tokens per second. Furthermore, it demonstrated its prowess with Mixtral, achieving nearly 500 tokens per second per user.

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