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Waymo is disclosing more autonomous vehicle data for research purposes

Waymo is publicizing more data from its autonomous vehicles, which it says is for the benefit of the research community. Building on the trove of data it released in 2019, the Alphabet company is calling this latest batch “the largest interactive dataset yet released for research into behavior prediction and motion forecasting for autonomous driving.”… Read more

Waymo simulated real-world crashes to prove its self-driving cars can prevent deaths

In a bid to prove that its robot drivers are safer than humans, Waymo simulated dozens of real-world fatal crashes that took place in Arizona over nearly a decade. The Google spinoff discovered that replacing either vehicle in a two-car crash with its robot-guided minivans would nearly eliminate all deaths, according to data it publicized… Read more

PNY GeForce RTX 3070 XLR8 Revel Epic-X RGB Review

Introduction We have with us the PNY GeForce RTX 3070 XLR8 Revel Epic-X RGB graphics card. The XLR8 (reads “accelerate”) line of graphics cards by PNY targets the gaming and PC enthusiast community and comes with the trust creative professionals associate with the PNY brand. PNY is a major vendor of professional visualization graphics cards… Read more

How to watch the 2021 Golden Globes online

Awards season in Hollywood begins Sunday, February 28th, with the 78th Golden Globe Awards, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Golden Globes, usually considered a harbinger of who may take home awards at other shows like the Oscars, will look a bit different this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. The hosts and… Read more

Motional is now testing fully autonomous vehicles in Las Vegas

Add Motional to the very short list of companies that have tested fully autonomous vehicles on public roads. The Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture announced that it has tested its vehicles without safety drivers behind the steering wheel on public streets in Las Vegas. The tests, which took place in February, came less than three months after… Read more

Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Redefining Gen4 Performance (Updated)

Our Verdict Samsung’s 2TB 980 Pro delivers some of the fastest performance we have seen from a Gen4 SSD. Although costly, Samsung’s 980 Pro is a solid pick for those looking for one of the best SSDs you can get your hands on. For Responsive PCIe Gen4 performance Sustained write speeds Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption… Read more

Zack Snyder has revealed a new version of Jared Leto’s Joker

The Joker is such an elemental comic book villain that any new version is bound to be compared to previous iterations. It’s rare, then, that an actor would get to play two versions of the character in the span of a few years, but such is the blessed life of one Jared Leto. As part… Read more

Resident Evil 2 Remake is the 3rd best selling Capcom game ever

Mustafa Mahmoud 4 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming, Tech News While each game publisher approaches its game sales differently, Capcom has historically been much more transparent than most when it comes to disclosing how well its games and franchises have been performing. The publisher has now updated its list of best-selling games… Read more

We don’t object to this Reddit bot that turns arguments into Ace Attorney videos

Someone had to do it: there’s now a bot that turns Reddit arguments into scenes from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, complete with music and the iconic “OBJECTION!” intercuts. It’s from those moments that it draws its name: objection-bot. Users can summon the bot by typing “!objection-bot” under a thread that would work as an Ace… Read more

The 'mole' fails: NASA gives up measuring the internal temperature of Mars

NASA raises the white flag and gives up to measure the temperature of Mars. The “mole” that had to place a thermal probe 3 meters deep to measure the heat loss of the Red Planet did not go beyond 3 centimeters. by Manolo De Agostini published 17 January 2021 , at 08: 01 in the… Read more

Start-up with CPU architect veterans: Qualcomm wants to buy Nuvia

Founded less than a year ago and already valued at a ten-digit figure: Mobile processor manufacturer Qualcomm wants to take over the start-up Nuvia. Both companies have agreed on a purchase price of 1.4 billion US dollars – now only the authorities have to approve the takeover. Reason for the high price, Nuvias are engineers,… Read more

Qualcomm acquires Nuvia, the developer of the Phoenix processor core

Nuvia made headlines last fall when it announced that the company’s Arm-based Phoenix core would hit both competing Arm and x 86 cores from the board. System circuit giant Qualcomm has decided to start the year 2021 with an acquisition. The company announced yesterday that it would buy the startup company Nuvia for just over… Read more

Qualcomm to Acquire CPU Designer Nuvia: Focuses on High-Performance Processors

Home News (Image credit: Nuvia) Qualcomm on Wednesday said that it had agreed to acquire Nuvia, a small yet ambitious microprocessor startup. The takeover of Nuvia will get Qualcomm a high-performance CPU design along with a proven CPU and system architecture design team, something that could give a strong boost to the company’s mobile and… Read more

FOSDEM 2021: Matrix is used for communication in online infrastructure

The organizers of the developer conference for free software FOSDEM announced in September 2020 that the FOSDEM 21 will only take place online as a virtual event. A new supporter also helps with the ongoing preparations: Immediately after the announcement, the Matrix.org Foundation, under whose aegis the development of the instant messaging platform Matrix is… Read more

Xbox Game Pass: These games are included in the subscription for 2021

Initially only a niche product, cloud gaming services are becoming increasingly popular. Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass is no exception. The monthly subscription now includes over 100 games and only in January four new titles are added. Since the end 2020 EA Play has already been included in the basic version of the subscription. This additional… Read more