September 18, 2024

Hardware

PS5 outselling Xbox Series X/S by 3:1

Sony’s PlayStation 5 console may be outselling Microsoft’s Xbox Series X/S at a ratio of 3:1, new data estimates indicate. VIEW GALLERY – 6 IMAGES The Wall Street Journal recently put out a video that discusses Xbox’s current state in the games industry. The report included an interesting slide that provided sales estimates for the Xbox Series X/S duo from analyst firm Aldora Intelligence. The group puts Xbox’s gen 9 consoles at a combined 28.3

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Grounding LLMs in reality: How one company achieved 70% productivity boost with gen AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Drip Capital, a Silicon Valley-based fintech startup, is leveraging generative AI to achieve a remarkable 70% productivity boost in cross-border trade finance operations. The company, which has raised more than $500 million in debt and equity funding, is employing large language models (LLMs) to automate document processing, enhance risk assessment and dramatically increase operational efficiency. This

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Why Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff see ‘gigantic’ opportunity for agentic AI

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Going forward, the opportunity for AI agents will be “gigantic,” according to Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang.  Already, progress is “spectacular and surprising,” with AI development moving faster and faster and the industry getting into the “flywheel zone” that technology needs to advance, Huang said in a fireside chat at Salesforce’s flagship event Dreamforce this

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Hardware

Intel Lunar Lake CPUs: almost 24-hour battery life, beats Apple M3, M2 Macbook laptops

Intel’s new Core Ultra 200V series “Lunar Lake” CPUs are nearly here, launching on September 3, they’re slowly making their way into laptops across the world and we’ve got some early results that see it beating Apple’s new M3 and M2 MacBook laptops. Lenovo has teased its upcoming Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition laptop, which features the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V “Lunar Lake” CPU and has been benched against the M2 and M3 MacBook

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Hardware

Only 1 in 10 PS5 owners have a variable refresh display, most gamers won’t benefit from 120 FPS

Most PS5 owners won’t use optional 120FPS modes in games that offer them, Sony has said. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES Sony just announced its new PS5 Pro console, which features a beefier GPU that can output some serious visual upgrades. Another part of the PS5 Pro’s capability is Sony’s proprietary PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), a new secret sauce tech that uses AI to upscale image quality. PSSR can also help boost frame rates

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Hardware

ASUS ROG Falchion Ace HFX portable keyboard: smaller, thinner, ready for gaming, and pre-lubed

ASUS ROG has just announced the Falchion Ace HFX, a new 65% analog wired gaming keyboard that has been engineered for gamers who demand precision, speed, and customization. Check it out: VIEW GALLERY – 3 IMAGES The new ASUS ROG Falchion Ace HFX features ROG HFX Magnetic Switches with an 8000Hz polling rate, seeing the ultra-compact keyboard set a new standard in gaming peripherals. The Falchion Ace HFX packs in arrow and navigation keys into

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Playtika to acquire mobile game maker SuperPlay for up to $1.95B

GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday, August 16th. Join us by registering here.  Playtika has agreed to acquire SuperPlay, a mobile gaming company in Israel for a price ranging from $700 million to $1.95 billion. The price of the Tel Aviv,

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Hardware

AMD Ryzen 200 ‘Hawk Point Refresh’ APU tease: fights Intel Core 200 ‘Raptor Lake Refresh’ CPUs

AMD is reportedly cooking up some new Ryzen 200 series “Hawk Point Refresh” APUs to fight a future release of Core 200 series “Raptor Lake Refresh” CPUs from Intel later this year. VIEW GALLERY – 2 IMAGES In a new post by leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, we’re learning that AMD is dropping the “AI” naming from this APU, as the company just launched its new Zen 5-powered Ryzen AI 300 series “Strix Point” APU with

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Leveling Up My GraphQL Skills: Real Time Subscriptions | HackerNoon

For a few years now, I’ve tried to identify frameworks, products, and services that allow technologists to maintain their focus on extending the value of their intellectual property. This continues to be a wonderful journey for me, filled with unique learning opportunities. The engineer in me recently wondered if there was a situation where I could find a secondary benefit for an existing concept that I’ve talked about before. In other words, could I identify

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