Eight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour By Francisco Pires last updated 18 October 22 Even faster if it's still "password"
AX-Gaming Announces White RTX 4090 By Francisco Pires published 17 October 22 Chinese graphics manufacturer AX-Gaming introduces its white RTX 4090 graphics card.
Binance Loses $110 Million In Latest High-Profile Crypto Hack By Francisco Pires published 7 October 22 Binance, one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges that operates on its own blockchain, halted all transactions as soon as a hacker exploited its services to steal some $110 million.
SMART Protocol Extends Silicon Qubit' Coherence by 100x By Francisco Pires last updated 7 October 22 A team of researchers has achieved a world record coherence time for silicon qubits, extending the amount of time entangled qubits can remain coherent by a hundredfold.
Samsung Details GDDR7 and 1,000-Layer V-NAND Plans By Francisco Pires published 6 October 22 Increasing investments as others tighten their belts
Water-Based Chips Could be Breakthrough for Neural Networking, AI By Francisco Pires published 5 October 22 Wetware has gains an entirely new meaning
Ethereum's Merge Completed Without a Hitch, GPUs Are Free By Francisco Pires published 15 September 22 ETH Proof-of-Work is now Proof-of-Stake
Fujitsu Develops Optical Tech Unlocking 1.2 Tbps per Wavelength By Francisco Pires published 14 September 22 Enough to transmit six 25GB Blu-ray discs in a single second.
Fed Recovers $30 million in Stolen Crypto Thanks to Chain Analysis By Francisco Pires published 9 September 22 Blockchain specialist Chainalysis collaborated with US institutions to track and freeze crypto assets stolen by the North Korea-aligned Lazarus group.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution V2.1 Improves Ghosting, Temporal Stability By Francisco Pires published 8 September 22 AMD keeps providing the goods with its open-source alternative to NVIDIA's DLSS, heating up the supersampling tech wars.
What is Quantum Computing? By Francisco Pires published 6 September 22 Here's an explanation of why we need quantum computing and all the details of how it works.
FBI Warns of Increased Cybercriminal Activity Surrounding Crypto By Francisco Pires published 30 August 22 Decentralized Exchanges are particularly vulnerable to exploits
Lightmatter Aims to Bridge Chiplets With Photonics By Francisco Pires published 29 August 22 As chiplets are increasingly seen as the future of computation, Lightmatter aims to reduce power consumption and latency by interconnecting chips through light rather than wires.
Intel Arc A770 Shown off in Case Modder Video By Francisco Pires published 26 August 22 The company has started distributing its Arc A770 graphics cards to renowned case modders.
AMD’s MI300 APUs Power Exascale 'El Capitan' Supercomputer By Francisco Pires last updated 26 August 22 El Capitan will be leveraging AMD's recently-announced MI 300 Accelerated Processing Units (APUs).
Bitcoin Falls Under $21.4K, Traders Lose $600 Million By Francisco Pires published 19 August 22 Newfound uncertainty around inflation renews market trembling.
Intel Factories in China Shut Down to Conserve Electrical Power By Francisco Pires published 18 August 22 Intel factories in China's Sichuan Province, have been shutd down in order to reduce the strain in the electrical grid.
China Breaks Record for Quantum Memory Entanglement Distance By Francisco Pires last updated 17 August 22 A team of researchers from China managed to entangle two different quantum memories across a 12.5 km distance in an urban environment, bringing the promise of a quantum internet closer.
Chinese Exascale Supercomputer Faces Frontier in Gordon Bell Prize By Francisco Pires last updated 17 August 22 The Chinese supercomputer OceanLight has just made it into the top five finalists in the Gordon Bell prize, steadfastly facing the premier US Frontier exascale supercomputer.
Ethereum Testnet Success Paves Way for 'The Merge' in September By Francisco Pires published 11 August 22 On its way towards the final boss.
Solidigm Introduces Industry-First PLC NAND for Higher Storage Densities By Francisco Pires last updated 10 August 22 Penta-level-cell has nothing to do with Doom, and all to do with density.
SSDs Are Worse for the Planet Than HDDs: Report By Francisco Pires published 10 August 22 A recent study highlights that the choice between HDD and SSD in terms of carbon footprint isn't as clear-cut as you might think. But the complexity of the calculation means we should be wary.
Quantum World Record Set for Two-Qubit Gate Operation By Francisco Pires published 9 August 22 Researchers with the Japanese Institute for Molecular Science have broken the previous record for the fastest two-qubit gate operation ever done in quantum computing.
Leaked Nvidia CEO Memo Assures No Layoffs After Disappointing Q2 By Francisco Pires published 9 August 22 The company is seemingly doubling down on its commitment to employees.
AMD, Intel, Nvidia Slow Hirings as Economy Falters By Francisco Pires published 5 August 22 Major technological players AMD, Intel and Nvidia have all reduced their pace of new hires in context of the worldwide economic downturn.