June 17, 2024

AR/VR

New Features Unveiled for MetalCore’s Closed Beta 3

After previous successful beta phases, MetalCore is preparing for its biggest update yet, Closed Beta 3. While the release date is still unknown, excitement is growing within the gaming community. The free-to-play mechanized combat game set on a futuristic and desolate planet continues progressing, offering a range of fresh features and improvements. Innovative Gameplay and Social Interaction The latest update for the game brings innovative additions to gameplay and social interaction. These new features include

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Generating audio for video

This work was made possible by the contributions of: Ankush Gupta, Nick Pezzotti, Pavel Khrushkov, Tobenna Peter Igwe, Kazuya Kawakami, Mateusz Malinowski, Jacob Kelly, Yan Wu, Abhishek Sharma, Ali Razavi, Eric Lau, Serena Zhang, Brendan Shillingford, Yelin Kim, Eleni Shaw, Signe Nørly, Andeep Toor, Irina Blok, Gregory Shaw, Pen Li, Scott Wisdom, Aren Jansen, Zalán Borsos, Brian McWilliams, Salah Zaiem, Marco Tagliasacchi, Ron Weiss, Manoj Plakal, Hakan Erdogan, John Hershey, Jeff Donahue, Vivek Kumar, and

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Hardware

Cadence Demos Optical PCIe 7 Connection At A Blistering 128GT/s

The 2024 PCI-SIG Developers Conference, or “SIG DevCon”, took place last week, and one of the most impressive demos on the show floor was undoubtedly Cadence’s. The company demonstrated PCIe 7.0 running stable on optical fiber at 128 GT/s, bidirectional, for the entire 48 hours of the show. Test results show good linearity and margin in the PAM4 signal. Cadence’s demo is impressive not only for the transfer rate, but for the low bit error

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Hardware

Computex 2024 Rewind: Lunar Lake, Snapdragon X, AMD Zen 5 And More

If you missed our latest livestream, here’s a chance to catch the VOD, as we recap the many unveilings of Computex 2024, from new Intel’s AI infused Lunar Lake platform, to Qualcomm Snapdragon X deep dive details, AMD’s many Zen 5 announcements in mobile, desktop and the data center, very cool NVIDIA AI demos, and more! Show Notes:

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Start-ups

Innovation Prize 2024 by InnSure & NYSERDA

The New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) and InnSure invite you to apply for the Insurance Innovation Prize. Funding for the Insurance Innovation Prize comes from NYSERDA, a public benefit corporation established in 1975, which works to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, and emissions reduction across New York’s economy. Since 2016, NYSERDA has invested over USD 600 million in programs to advance clean energy innovation. Through its Tech to Market portfolio, NYSERDA

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Robotics

At CVPR, NVIDIA offers Omniverse microservices, shows advances in visual generative AI – The Robot Report

Listen to this article As shown at CVPR, Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX microservices generate high-fidelity sensor simulation froman autonomous vehicle (left) and an autonomous mobile robot (right). Sources: NVIDIA, Fraunhofer IML (right) NVIDIA Corp. today announced NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX, a set of microservices that enable physically accurate sensor simulation to accelerate the development of all kinds of autonomous machines. NVIDIA researchers are also presenting 50 research projects around visual generative AI at the

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A Clean, Green Way to Recycle Solar Panels

Inside a shipping container in an industrial area of Venice, the Italian startup 9-Tech is taking a crack at a looming global problem: how to responsibly recycle the 54 million to 160 million tonnes of solar modules that are expected to reach the end of their productive lives by 2050. Recovering the materials won’t be easy. Solar panels are built to withstand any environment on Earth for 20 to 30 years, and even after sitting

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Plant-based ‘meat’ startup Tender has already nabbed a fast-food chain contract, and another $11M | TechCrunch

Food technology startup Tender Food Inc. is a four-year-old startup elbowing its way into a market that is already crowded with well-known brands. It’s doing so well that it already secured a contract with Clover Food Lab’s fast-food chain in the Boston area. The Somerville, Massachusetts-based company, formerly known as Boston Meats, develops plant-based alternative meat, including beef short rib, pulled pork, chicken breast and crab.  Its technology involves spinning plant protein fibers, including soy

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Today’s your last chance to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 | TechCrunch

Today’s the day, startup founders. It’s your final opportunity to join Startup Battlefield 200, the world’s preeminent startup competition, at TechCrunch Disrupt in October. It’s your last chance to launch on a global stage like 900+ other Startup Battlefield companies have, including Vurb, Trello, Mint, Dropbox, Yammer, TripIt, Redbeacon, Qwiki, Getaround and Soluto. Startup Battlefield 200 applications close today Don’t miss your shot! Submit your application today, before this opportunity disappears at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

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Hardware

Minisforum Unveils A Mini PC With An AM5 Socket For Desktop Ryzen CPUs

Minisforum has made a name for itself selling mini-PCs based around mobile hardware. There are systems like the Neptune HX100G, which pairs a Ryzen 7 7840HS with a discrete Radeon card, and then there are machines like the BD790i, which is an ITX desktop motherboard with a “mobile” Ryzen 9 7945HX CPU. As AMD and Intel continue to blur the lines between mobile and desktop CPUs, though, so does Minisforum. It’s with that idea in

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