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Large language models (LLMs) have been widely used for chatbots, content generation, summarization, classification, translation, and more. State-of-the-art LLMs and  foundation models, such as Llama, Gemma, GPT, and Nemotron, have demonstrated human-like understanding and generative abilities. Thanks to these models, AI developers do not need to go through the expensive and time consuming training process … Read more

Over the last few years, USB Power Delivery (PD) has become standard on many batteries, such as power banks. But did you know that there’s an application where professionals rely on this technology daily, with a special kind of battery to meet their demands? Looky here: Background Power banks with USB PD are extremely popular. … Read more

An early listing for Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 graphics cards put them around the price of original GDDR6X models. Set to release this September, this new variant trades the faster VRAM to bring the AD104 GPU to more users. Spotted on Newegg, the first GeForce RTX 4070 using GDDR6 memory is priced like the … Read more

Gamers are buzzing with excitement over a rumor suggesting that Microsoft Flight Simulator might be coming to GeForce Now. Nvidia GeForce Now is a subscription based cloud gaming service that provides gamers with unlimited access to games hosted on Nvidia’s server. It already has several Microsoft games available. And it seems that one more Microsoft … Read more

2021 delivered one of the most exciting seasons of racing in Formula One™ history, with both championships going down to the wire at the last race of the year, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Our partners at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1™ Team finished the season on top by clinching a record-breaking astounding eighth consecutive FIA … 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 related items that I find interesting. … Read more

Half of the world’s population will experience a mental health disorder — but the median number of mental health workers per 100,000 people is just 13, according to the World Health Organization. To help tackle this disparity — which can vary by over 40x between high-income and low-income countries — a Madrid-based startup is offering … Read more

NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Design Contributions and NVIDIA Spectrum-X to Help Accelerate Next Industrial Revolution OCP Global Summit—To drive the development of open, efficient and scalable data center technologies, NVIDIA today announced that it has contributed foundational elements of its NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP) and broadened NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ … Read more

The growth of AI is driving exponential growth in computing power and a doubling of networking speeds every few years. Less well-known is that it’s also putting new demands on storage.  Training new models typically requires high-bandwidth networked access to petabytes of data, while inference with the latest types of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) requires … Read more

The Orbbec Femto Bolt is a RGBD camera based on the Microsoft Azure Kinect DK. Looky here: Introduction Late in 2023, Microsoft announced that they would no longer be producing Kinect hardware. Instead, Microsoft began licensing their Kinect technology to approved third-party manufacturers. Here we are looking at the Orbbec Femto Bolt, which is an … Read more