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A YouTuber has demonstrated how Portal 2 with a path tracing mod makes Nvidia’s high-end RTX 4080 look like a budget graphics card. GPUs still have a long way to go to become viable for fully path traced games. YouTube channel MxBenchmarkPC has put the RTX 4080 through its paces in Portal 2, showing more […]

Well, that was a scary few days—Apple has convinced an appeals court to let it sell the latest Apple Watch hardware, pausing an import ban imposed by the International Trade Commission (ITC). So, you can once again head to Apple’s website or your nearest brick-and-mortar Apple store to get the Apple Watch Series 9 or

A new cell-phone-sized device—which can be deployed in vast, remote areas—is using AI to identify and geolocate wildlife to help conservationists track endangered species, including wolves around Yellowstone National Park.  The battery-powered devices—dubbed GrizCams—are designed by a small Montana startup, Grizzly Systems. Together with biologists, they’re deploying a constellation of the devices across the Greater

ASUS has been making Android phones since the early days of the platform, long before we settled on the standard flat glass slab form factor. ASUS tried its hand at convertible Android laptops and phones that turned into tablets, but even after giving up on all of that, it kept experimenting with its gaming-focused ROG

Equipping agentic AI applications with tools will usher in the next phase of AI. By enabling autonomous agents and other AI applications to fetch real-time data, perform actions, and interact with external systems, developers can bridge the gap to new, real-world use cases that significantly enhance productivity and the user experience. xpander AI, a member

Samsung has officially taken the wraps off the Galaxy S24 family. As usual, we’ve already learned plenty about Samsung’s new flagship phones thanks to the many, many leaks, but now we’re getting to see what Samsung has in store for its big AI play. These phones have a raft of new “Galaxy AI” features, along with

Today, Polars released a new GPU engine powered by RAPIDS cuDF that accelerates Polars workflows up to 13x on NVIDIA GPUs, allowing data scientists to process hundreds of millions of rows of data in seconds on a single machine. Growing data challenges  Traditional data processing libraries like pandas are single-threaded and become impractical to use

Each August, tens of thousands of security professionals attend the cutting-edge security conferences Black Hat USA and DEF CON. This year, NVIDIA AI security experts joined these events to share our work and learn from other members of the community. This post provides an overview of these contributions, including a keynote on the rapidly evolving

Today, NVIDIA released a unique language model that delivers an unmatched accuracy-efficiency performance. Llama 3.1-Nemotron-51B, derived from Meta’s Llama-3.1-70B, uses a novel neural architecture search (NAS) approach that results in a highly accurate and efficient model. The model fits on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU at high workloads, making it much more accessible and affordable.

Much has been written about the performance of Arm-based processors exceeding that of x86-64 CPUs, but depending on your perspective, that fully hasn’t come to pass. There are Apple’s M-series processors that do perform competitively in many tasks, along with an array of data center-focused products that emphasize power efficiency, but ultimately the overall performance