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Graphics chips are good at taking 3D scenes like video game battlefields or airplane designs and rendering them as 2D images on a screen. Nvidia, a top maker of such chips, now is using AI to do the exact opposite. In a talk at Nvidia’s GTC, the company’s annual GPU Technology Conference, researchers described how …

UK police arrested seven people, including teenagers, in connection with an investigation into a hacking group, according to CNET sister site ZDNet. The arrests followed a Bloomberg report that a teen was the mastermind behind the Lapsus$ hacking group, which has claimed responsibility for data hacks of Samsung and Nvidia, as well as recently revealed breaches at Microsoft and Okta. …

Okta, an authentication service used widely across the globe, is investigating a data breach Tuesday morning after hackers posted screenshots claiming to show the company’s internal systems. Any hack impacting Okta could have rippling ramifications for the other companies and organizations that rely on Okta’s authentication services to access their own systems. As listed on Okta’s website, JetBlue, Grubhub, T-Mobile, Peloton …

Chipmaker Arm, owned by Japanese tech giant SoftBank, is making plans for layoffs after SoftBank’s $40 billion deal to sell Arm to Nvidia collapsed in February. The company is preparing to cut 12% to 15% of its staff in the US and UK, Bloomberg reported on Monday.  The layoffs were announced to staff via a memo from Arm CEO Rene Haas and could potentially …

If you want a glimpse of where the processor business is headed, check out Apple’s new M1 Ultra processor. To deliver speed and performance, the consumer electronics giant married two of its older M1 Max chips using advancements in a once humble aspect of chipmaking called packaging. Packaging no longer just provides a protective housing but now also offers cutting-edge …

When Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPad 12 years ago, the Apple co-founder touted the homegrown chip inside the tablet computer, promising, “It screams.” Since then, Apple has improved the designs of its homegrown chips, which now power its iPhones, Apple Watches and other products. On Tuesday, Apple took the wraps off its latest chip, the mammoth M1 Ultra, which …

Chromebook variety has grown over the last several years as these laptops moved from fringe devices into the mainstream. There is one thing that hasn’t changed too much with them, though, and that’s size. Except for the occasional 15-inch Chromebook, manufacturers have stuck with screen sizes of 14 inches or smaller. It wasn’t until last year that the first 17.3-inch …

Are you ready to take your gaming to the next level? The Asus TUF Gaming laptop is ready to be your player two. It features an Intel Core i5 processor with machine intelligence that anticipates your needs and an enormous 17-inch FHD display with 1920×1080 screen resolution and a 144Hz refresh rate for the size and clarity you need for …

With the ever-growing field of streaming services and subscriptions, it can become increasingly difficult to keep track of which services you subscribe to. On Thursday, Verizon revealed its plan to try to manage that chaos, debuting a service it calls Plus Play. Verizon describes Plus Play as a “platform that allows users to discover, purchase and manage some of their …

Are you baffled by the multitude of laptop, desktop and tablet options being hurled at you as a generic “creative” or “creator”? Marketing materials rarely distinguish among the widely varying needs for different pursuits; marketers basically consider anything with a discrete GPU (a graphics processor that’s not integrated into the CPU), no matter how low power, suitable for all sorts …