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Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle. Like Wordle, Connections, and the Mini Crossword, Strands can be a bit difficult to solve some days. There’s no shame in needing a little help from … Read more
3D-printed active electronics Researchers from MIT demonstrated fully 3D-printed semiconductor-free resettable fuses. Produced using standard 3D printing hardware and an inexpensive, biodegradable polymer filament doped with copper nanoparticles, the device can perform the same switching functions as the semiconductor-based transistors used for processing operations in active electronics. After 4,000 cycles of switching, the devices showed … Read more
(Glenn’s Technical Insights… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can get more visibility. It covers interesting new hardware and software developments that are generally relevant for SQL Server). It also can just be technically-oriented items that I find interesting. AMD … Read more
Multimodal sensor calibration is critical for achieving sensor fusion for robotics, autonomous vehicles, mapping, and other perception-driven applications. Traditional calibration methods, which rely on structured environments with checkerboards or targets, are complex, expensive, time-consuming, and don’t scale. An automatic sensor calibration solution that simplifies the calibration problem is the Main Street Autonomy Calibration Anywhere software. … Read more
Boasting a powerful AMD Ryzen 8940H CPU, and an AMD RX 7600M XT discrete graphics card, the GEEKOM APro8 Max is poised to set new standards in performance and visual capabilities. Renowned as the Green Mini PC global leader, GEEKOM is debuting at CES 2024, ready to showcase its latest innovations. With two decades of industry expertise, … Read more
At the Adobe MAX creativity conference this week, Adobe announced updates to its Adobe Creative Cloud products, including Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as to Substance 3D products and the Adobe video ecosystem. These apps are accelerated by NVIDIA RTX and GeForce RTX GPUs — in the cloud or running locally on RTX … Read more
The CXL consortium has had a regular presence at FMS (which rechristened itself from ‘Flash Memory Summit’ to the ‘Future of Memory and Storage’ this year). Back at FMS 2022, the company had announced v3.0 of the CXL specifications. This was followed by CXL 3.1’s introduction at Supercomputing 2023. Having started off as a host … Read more
The New York Times has introduced the next title coming to its Games catalog following Wordle’s continued success — and it’s all about math. Digits has players adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers. You can play its beta for free online right now. In Digits, players are presented with a target number that they need to … Read more
At ROSCon in Odense, one of Denmark’s oldest cities and a hub of automation, NVIDIA and its robotics ecosystem partners announced generative AI tools ,simulation, and perception workflows for Robot Operating System (ROS) developers. Among the reveals were new generative AI nodes and workflows for ROS developers deploying to the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge … Read more
![Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Giant Theft Auto [RETRO-2004]](https://i3.wp.com/thegeek.hu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/gtasa-9.jpg?w=664&resize=664,374&ssl=1 "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – Giant Theft Auto [RETRO-2004]")
RETRO – How does a small black kid from the hood become the king of the crime world? That is the question you’ll see an answer to if you finish the newest GTA in the franchise, called San Andreas. Carjacking, crime, and high-octane action: in the series’ best entry yet. Twenty years ago, Grand Theft … Read more