Loongson and CXMT three years behind Intel
Published in PC Hardware


And closing fast

Chinese chip houses Loongson and CXMT have been showing off some chips which should be putting the fear of the Middle Kingdom into Western chipmakers and the US government.

Developers can code in their sleep
Published in News


Employers can make you work when you nod off

Start-up Prophetic claims it has developed a headpiece which will allow people to work when they are having a lucid dream.

GPT-4 beaten in Turing test by 1960s ELIZA
Published in AI


Move over generation Z boomer code has beaten you

In a preprint research paper titled "Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?", two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA to see which could trick participants into thinking it was human with the greatest success.

Amazon’s Q is stoned out of its box
Published in News


Hallucinating and leaking like crazy

Three days after Amazon announced its AI chatbot Q, some employees are warning that it is experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data.

CAPTCHA is a waste of time
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Slows the internet and provides little protection

CAPTCHA systems are a waste of time, according to boffins at UC Irvine.

Electric vehicles are less reliable
Published in Transportation


79 per cent more problems

According to Consumer Reports ' newly released annual car reliability survey, shows that electric vehicle owners continue to report far more problems with their vehicles than owners of conventional cars or hybrids.

Circuit-based quantum computers limited
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If they only had more time

Timekeeping quality in circuit-based quantum computations are limited by the achievable circuit complexity, according to a new analysis published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Biostar bundles motherboard with Ryzen 5 Pro CPU as ultimate business solution
Published in PC Hardware


B650MT motherboard paired up with Ryzen 5 PRO 7654 CPU

Biostar has launched yet another combo, pairing up its own B650MT motherboard with AMD's Ryzen 5 PRO 7654 CPU and calling it the ultimate business solution.

Marvell expects falling revenue
Published in PC Hardware


Miserable time to be alive

Marvell said it’s expecting its revenue to decline as it enters the final quarter of the fiscal 2024 year, and its stock was trading more than four per cent lower in the after-hours session today.

Microsoft pauses Windows 11 version 23H2
Published in News


Annoying bug

Microsoft has paused the rollout of Windows 11 version 23H2 due to an annoying bug which causes desktop icons to move between monitors.