Logic

How to Code Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock on Raspberry Pi

Home News Icons made by Smashicons from www.flaticon.com (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Before computers, smartphones, and the internet, kids entertained themselves for hours playing Rock Paper Scissors. Adults have made big decisions such as, “Who goes first?” or “Who gets the last piece of cake?” based on a game of Rock Paper Scissors. The magic… Read more

Algorithm draws descriptions: an avocado armchair as the future of AI

With GPT-3, OpenAI has shown that a single deep learning model can be trained in such a way that it can complete or even create texts in a realistic way – simply by using the system receives a gigantic mass of text as start data. It then became clear that the same approach also works… Read more

Entry-level smartphones: SoC Snapdragon 480 with 5G and much more performance

One year after the introduction of the Snapdragon 345 chip manufacturer Qualcomm brings the successor Snapdragon 480 for entry-level smartphones. The system-on-chip (SoC) is making big leaps in many ways. There is the computing power, as far as processor and graphics unit is concerned, but also the cellular network: The Snapdragon 480 transmits in 5G… Read more

Ex-Intel and AMD Chip Guru Jim Keller Joins AI Startup Tenstorrent

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Jim Keller, a famed chip architect with notable stints at Intel, AMD, and Tesla, has joined AI chip startup Tenstorrent as President, CTO, and board member. Keller previously worked with Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa Bajic at AMD and personally provided the first funding for the startup. Keller is known… Read more

Activist Hedge Fund Calls for Intel to Spin Off Fabs

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) As reported by Reuters, activist hedge fund Third Point, which reportedly owns a $1 billion stake in Intel, has penned a letter to Intel Chairman Omar Ishrak asking the company to explore “strategic alternatives,” like spinning off its fabs and/or divesting itself of unsuccessful acquisitions, to address the company’s… Read more

My top 5 phones of 2020 – Victor

Being knee-deep in the mobile industry on a daily basis is undoubtedly a dream job for me. For it lets me experience the latest and greatest tech. However, while far from complaining, there are certain aspects of my job I find a bit annoying. For a few years we’ve seen an avalanche of nearly-identical, bland… Read more

Forty years have passed as one day, that is, the favorite games of a forty-year-old once again. They used to make good games

Just over twenty years ago, PC owners did not have an easy life, especially if they were players. On the one hand, the entire market departed from MS-DOS, on the other hand, the fifth generation of consoles (mainly Sony PlayStation) was mixed up a lot, and on the third, the most popular PC software platform,… Read more

With technology for Midnight Mass – Christmas this year will be unusual, so it's worth recommending the Mass Online app. Especially the elderly

There is probably no person in Poland who would be unaware of the upcoming restrictions. So it is a waste of time to recall them all, although it is worth noting that the Christian church celebrations of the Midnight Mass have not been canceled at the moment. It has not been canceled, although the indignant… Read more

Civil rights groups move to block expansion of facial recognition in airports

A coalition of civil rights groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union have filed an objection to the proposed expansion of Customs and Border Protections facial recognition at land and sea ports. The National Immigration Law Center, Fight for the Future, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are also participating in the motion, alongside twelve… Read more

Qt Design Studio 2.0 revises the interface and evaluates crashes

The Qt Company has released Design Studio 2.0. The tool is based on the Qt Creator development environment and is intended to improve collaboration between designers and developers. The new features of the second main version include so-called logic helpers for implementing simple processes. The team has also redesigned the controls for 2D effects. After… Read more

Complaint statistics: dissatisfaction with parcel services is growing

Whether damaged parcels, incorrectly posted letters or opening times of post offices that are too short: The work of the postal service providers has again caused trouble this year. Until mid-December 17. 930 Letter of complaint received, announced the Federal Network Agency. In the same period of the previous year it was 17. 167. The… Read more