Stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens that now rival the volumes of Visa and Mastercard for international payments, are about to get faster. While their traditional finance rivals can process upwards of 65,000 transactions a second (TPS), the web of decentralized blockchains in existence today offer a variety of latency values. However, the connections between large chunks … Read more
The next Need for Speed game could be revealed this week. Responding to a tweet questioning the legitimacy of the next entry in the NFS franchise, the publisher tweeted the side-eye emoji, hinting at some big announcement. The speculation comes in the wake of an earlier report from journalist Tom Henderson, who claimed that a … Read more
NFS Unbound — expected to be the next Need for Speed game — might heavily lean into the anime aesthetic, as per leaked screenshots. For a brief period, Japanese storefront Neowing had NFS Unbound listed with a description and a set of images, which seem to align with previous reports. EA has scheduled an official … Read more
Need for Speed Unbound trailer and full car list has dropped. Following a set of leaks and a lengthy premiere countdown, EA has finally revealed the first look at its newest entry in the NFS racing franchise. NFS Unbound sports a revamped anime-like art style that combines super-realism with graffiti-like cell-shaded animations, resulting in a … Read more
Need for Speed Unbound — now out on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X — sets itself apart from the competition by adopting a unique street art-inspired style, while continuing to offer the high-octane action that the NFS franchise is renowned for. We get police chases with real jeopardy, a racer AI that is … Read more
YouTube announced several new and updated features in October. Among them were a new sleep timer, a resizable miniplayer, and some visual improvements. The Alphabet-owned video streaming platform has now reportedly started rolling out a redesigned version of the playback speed box. This is said to allow users to control the playback speed more intricately. This feature was … Read more
Microsoft on Wednesday introduced a new computing service aimed at helping chemical companies speed up the research and development of new materials. Azure Quantum Elements, as the service is called, relies on computing power to help chemical companies simulate huge numbers of possible combinations of atoms. The point is to use computers to explore possible … Read more
MLCommons, a group that develops benchmark tests for artificial intelligence (AI) technology, on Tuesday unveiled results for a new test that determines system speeds when training algorithms used for chatbots like ChatGPT — and Nvidia came out on top. The MLPerf benchmark is based on GPT-3, an AI model used to train ChatGPT, the viral chatbot developed by … Read more
Intel launched its latest addition to the 14th Gen Core desktop processor family on Thursday. The 14th Gen Intel Core i9-14900KS is being touted by the company as the world’s fastest desktop processor. The CPU is said to deliver a clock speed up to 6.2GHz. It includes 24 cores and 32 threads, and the chipmaker claims … Read more
Apple is partnering with Nvidia in an effort to improve the performance speed of artificial intelligence (AI) models. On Wednesday, the Cupertino-based tech giant announced that it has been researching inference acceleration on Nvidia’s platform to see whether both the efficiency and latency of a large language model (LLM) can be improved simultaneously. The iPhone … Read more