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Inside the Apple M1 is an incredibly quirky GPU

TechSpot

In her efforts to develop an open source graphics driver for the M1, Alyssa Rosenzweig recently found a quirk in the render pipeline of the M1's GPU. She was rendering increasingly complicated 3D geometries, and eventually arrived at a bunny that made the GPU bug out.

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Bill Gates knows philanthropy alone can’t solve inequality

Vox

Bill Gates at the Global Investment Summit in London, in October 2021. | Leon Neal/WPA/Getty Images. The billionaire and public health leader answers five of Recode’s questions about pandemic prevention and economic disparities. The WHO estimates that the Covid-19 pandemic has killed almost 15 million people worldwide — not just from the virus, but as an indirect result of the crisis, such as being unable to get other kinds of medical care because hospital systems were overburdened.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 series might get announced as early as July

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According to reliable GPU leaker kopite7kimi, Nvidia might release their GeForce RTX 40 series in early Q3. While just a rumor at this point, it means that we could see an announcement of the eagerly-anticipated GPU lineup as early as July.

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The Future of Cybersecurity for Automotive OEMs

SecureWorld News

It is safe to assume that the automotive OEMs don't enjoy being regulated. And yet, regulation is a fact of life for the folks in the car business, and that's the reason every OEM needs to pay careful attention to a document titled ISO/SAE 21434 Road Vehicles – Cybersecurity Engineering (August 2021). ISO/SAE 21434 specifies the practices that safeguard against design, development, production, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning risks in the electrical and electronic systems of road vehi

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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PUBG's move to free-to-play is carrying it back to the top of Battle Royale charts

TechSpot

The transition to a free-to-play model resulted in a resurgence in PUBG's player base, showing an increase of more than 480% within a week of the transition. The surge rivaled the game's growth rates recorded during its original release back in 2017.

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Sample file: How to limit the columns in a filtered result set in Microsoft Excel

Tech Republic

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, How to limit the columns in a filtered result set in Microsoft Excel by Susan Harkins. The post Sample file: How to limit the columns in a filtered result set in Microsoft Excel appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Sample file: 5 tips for working with text in Microsoft PowerPoint

Tech Republic

This is the demonstration file to accompany the article, 5 tips for working with text in Microsoft PowerPoint, by Susan Harkins. The post Sample file: 5 tips for working with text in Microsoft PowerPoint appeared first on TechRepublic.