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Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I won’t lie — I was pretty scared of Nvidia’s RTX 50-series, and I stand by the opinion that those fears were valid. They didn’t come out of thin air; they were fueled by Nvidia’s approach to GPU pricing and value for the money. However, the RTX 40 Super refresh is a step in the right direction, and it’s one I never expected to happen. Nvidia’s most recent choices show that it may have learned an important lesson, and that’s good news for future generations of graphics cards. The price of…

“Unlike many start-up ecosystems worldwide, Australia continues to go from strength to strength. We have more young people entering the tech sector, more talented executives leaving their day jobs to start companies, and more investors competing to invest in the next great Australian businesses,” Gillings said.No new “unicorns” joined the club: Canva co-founders (from left) Cliff Obrecht, Cameron Adams and Melanie Perkins.Cut Through Venture produced the report with Folklore Ventures. Folklore founder and managing partner…

In the minutes before we address the business of their 15th album, the Pet Shop Boys outline a small curriculum’s worth of subjects. It’s mid-January and Neil Tennant arrives at London’s Somerset House in a black corduroy blazer and black rollneck, and likens bandmate Chris Lowe’s lateness to something out of Gormenghast. When our synthpop Titus eventually appears in a grey Adidas hoodie, minus the sunglasses that have made him pop’s most mysterious foil, the former architecture student is expounding on illogical new…

If signs of life really do exist on Mars, there's a chance the Perseverance rover has already rolled over them.Underground radar images suggest it is searching in the perfect spot for fossilized microbial life.As the robotic explorer, nicknamed Percy, wheels across a three-billion-year-old landscape, its instruments have confirmed that at least one Martian crater was filled with water long ago.Scientists strongly suspected the Jezero Crater once contained a delta system, as its surface holds the telltale signs of a…

Art Garfunkel Jr.’s first memory of singing onstage with his father is pretty hazy, but he knows it took place in Japan sometime before his third birthday. “I believe I was pushed out in a wheelbarrow, wearing a traditional Japanese kimono,” he tells Rolling Stone. “My parents picked me up and I sang a little bit of the high part of ‘Feelin’ Groovy.'” For most children of rock stars, this would be little more than a sweet, one-off moment. For Art Garfunkel Jr., 33, it was the start of a career singing his father’s…

January 24, 20244min readThe most detailed global look at groundwater yet shows a lot of loss but also stories of success in restoring some aquifersBy Stephanie PappasGroundwater-fed irrigation of maize in Kabwe, Zambia. In 1997 Union County in southern Arkansas faced a serious crisis: its key water source, the Sparta Aquifer, was declining by as much as two meters per year. This underground reservoir of water trapped within pores and fractures in rock was the county’s only supply, and it was disappearing.“If we didn’t…

Looking back at the 2023 movie release schedule, even some of the most infamous movies have their silver linings. For supposed flop Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, one such bright spot is the fact that we have yet another score from composer John Williams we’ll be able to obsess over for years to come. That brightness may have just grown a bit shinier though, as in a recent interview, the 91 year old music legend made candid comments about his retirement plans that have us hopeful for new music.(Image credit:…

Gujarat Minister Rushikesh Patel on Thursday said his government was "very hopeful" that Elon Musk-led Tesla will choose the state to set up a plant and informed communication was on with the firm in this regard. Patel was responding to queries based on news reports suggesting that the US-based electric vehicle maker was planning to set up a manufacturing plant in Gujarat. "The state government is very hopeful of Tesla coming to Gujarat. Even Elon Musk is looking at Gujarat as his first choice. Gujarat is in his mind ever…

I won't dwell on some of this nice man's more vivid admissions -- they've been covered elsewhere. For me, what was most affecting were these words: "Frankly, I think that the AI model is always more clever than me because it includes all of the written text throughout all of history."I fear several things shot through my head at this very moment. No, of course 'How clever actually are you?' wasn't one of them.Also: The promise and peril of AI at work in 2024, according to Deloitte's Tech Trends reportNot even when he…

Brit Marling spent the summer of her junior year at Georgetown University interning at Goldman Sachs, an investment firm that this very publication once called “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.” She ended that summer with a cushy job offer — only to reject it and, along with her pal Mike Cahill, head to Cuba to film a documentary about boxers and ballerinas caught in the middle of the U.S.-Cuba imbroglio. Marling drank from the capitalist cup and it left a very bitter taste in her mouth.…