OceanLight, the Chinese high-end supercomputer that has failed to list the Top500, has become an exascale winner in the Gordon Bell Prize. Award winners from five winners receive a $10,000 grant. OceanLight, operated by the University of Science and Technology of China, once again breaks down the tiethnic and knitree achievements including Frontier and Summit,…
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A report by StorageNewsletter reveals that hard drive shipments have declined by 15% this quarter, thanks to weak PC market demand and OEM demand. But despite this, the total hard drive shipped capacity has only dropped by 2%, thanks to increasingly large HDDs. Seagate suffered a 14% unit reduction this quarter, falling to a total…
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A few years ago, Apple stopped including charging adapters in the box with its products. If you want to plug an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch into the wall, you’ll need to buy a charger separately. According to Apple, removing chargers from the box helps the company “avoid more than 2 million metric tons of…
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OceanLight, the Chinese exascale supercomputer that has defied listing in the Top500, has once again surged to prominence as a finalist in the Gordon Bell Prize. A yearly award in recognition for “outstanding achievement in high-performance computing,” the Gordon bell Prize awards a $10,000 fund to the winner, picked from a group of five finalists.…
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Nvidia’s RTX 3000 graphics cards may see further price reductions as August rumbles onwards, or that’s the latest gossip from the grapevine. As VideoCardz (opens in new tab) noticed, this theory was aired by a Chinese source (ZOL (opens in new tab), via MyDrivers (opens in new tab)), and the belief is that Nvidia’s price…
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Back pain, and eye strain are virtually guaranteed if you stare at a laptop screen for any length of time, and this is where large screen monitors come in. We speak to Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Director Sales and Marketing – IT Business, ViewSonic India about things buyers should look out for before choosing the right monitor.…
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Apple released iOS 16 beta 6 on Monday, only a few days after beta 5, in what seems like an unusual release for the iPhone OS. We’re in the final stages of beta testing as we approach the mid-September iPhone 14 launch event. Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised to see the new beta versions drop…
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An Apple leaker claims that one of his sources was able to test pre-release iPhone 14 units. The source apparently had access to the Pro devices. If the information is accurate, then this might be the first iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max hands-on preview. Previously, we have shared similar hands-on reports of…
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If you’re building a new PC (perhaps one of the best PC builds) with Microsoft’s operating system on it, you probably need a Windows product key. Yes, you can run Windows 10 or 11 without a key, but this “inactivated” version of Windows will have an annoying watermark in the lower right corner of the…
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Linux support with webcams has reportedly become a major issue in regards to 12th Gen Alder Lake laptops right now, as showcased by a recent Phoronix article. Linux kernel maintainer, Greh Kroah-Hartman, says causal users should steer clear of Alder Lake laptops using Linux if they want to make video calls on their machines. Issues…
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