can we can we do it like a new girl can we have like a frame and just be like
who's that guy it's alex
china has held the trophy for the world's fastest super computer for the
last five years but now the united states has climbed to the top once again
with summit an ai-powered supercomputer developed as a joint project between ibm
NVIDIA and oakridge national laboratories in tennessee the previous
champ has 93 petaflops of processing power while summit hits a staggering 200
petaflops meaning it can process 200
000 trillion calculations per second the
system includes four thousand six hundred and eight compute servers each
housing two power power9 cpus which use
non-x86 chips designed for server and ai
workloads and six NVIDIA tesla v100 gpus giving it more
than 10 petabytes of memory that's 10
000 terabytes i haven't taken that many bytes of anything
in my whole life we've all had the experience of
revisiting an old game and being surprised that the graphics suck way
worse than we remember like star wars battlefront 2 like
oh but now NVIDIA is trying to keep that from
happening to future games or at least that's what their new patent
infinite resolution textures suggests oversampling old games to super high
resolutions we use today can introduce artifacts that look yucky
and that's because the textures used in those games were designed for a particular scale in mind the new
infinite resolution textures though use scalable vector graphics that
automatically adapt to the screen resolution the game is running on so i
guess when i'm playing rocket league on my 16k
720hz monitor in 2030 the graphics will
suck but at least there won't be any scaling artifacts
neat but not all patents are cool
google is seeking a patent that will give it broad rights over compression
technique that's been open source for years asymmetric numeral systems compression
was created by dr geroslaw duda
from the jaguar why would you do this to me james
university in poland who dedicated the technique to the
public domain but since the technique was introduced
in 2014 facebook apple and google have all
created software based on it and now google wants to patent one of their
specific applications a video encoder in this case which they say relies on
additional work from google engineers but duda argues that google's patent
just applies ans to a conventional video decoder and doesn't want to see it go
through unless google guarantees that the patent will become open for all to
use and pinky swears don't count you gotta spit on your head
i'm not spitting on my hands brothers
and now it's time for quick bits brought to you by question mark us what
oh by us not the us us ltx 2018 is the meetup and tech event
coming up on july 14th at the richmond olympic oval here in beautiful british
columbia meet the Linus tech tips team and participate in everything from cable
management challenge to a lan tournament to vr and 12k gaming stations that's
only a glimpse of what's on offer so come out and see us tickets are just 35
canadian pesos and you can buy them at ltxexpo.com
or in the link below quick quick quick computex is over now but there's still
some stuff to be excited about in the afterglow like new prototype coolers
from Noctua the prototypes focus on improving either motherboard clearance
to make room for that tall RGB RAM you've been eyeing or raw performance
with extra heat pipes and increased surface area oh and chromax coolers that
are going to be available in all black in case you like your pc to run in night
mode the first 1000 flamethrowers from elon musk's boring company made into the
hands of customers on saturday this first round of units had to be picked up
in person at the company's hq in la while the remaining 19 000 due to
customs rules will be shipped with a new name on the box
not a flamethrower silly rules deserve silly workarounds
future apple watches will be reportedly less physically clicky as these physical
buttons will be swapped for solid state haptic buttons all of the iphone 7's
home button it's unclear whether the new buttons which will be in the same
configuration as before will appear on their new watches this fall or not until
2019 so watch watch out yeah i hope this isn't
the ending pun ah is it yeah
oh that was amazing wow oh but that wasn't
the end e3 is happening now and already a bunch of sweet games have been
announced including halo infinite which runs on 343's new slip space engine and
a new gears of war game that's just called gears 5. and even a tease of
bethesda's elder scrolls vi aka skyrim 2
if you're one of those gen z kids Jake yeah Jake
oh and battlefield 5 is going to have a battle royale mode because
it's 2018
they are awesome but we only need pubg
so that's probably a good spot to end it with a broken game so thanks for
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