After much speculation, Nvidia today at its March 2022 GTC event announced the Hopper GPU architecture, a line of graphics cards that the company says will accelerate the types of algorithms commonly used in data science. Named for Grace Hopper, the pioneering U.S. computer scientist, the new architecture succeeds Nvidia’s Read more…
Non-fungible tokens have risen in interest and value over the last year, with Bored Ape Yacht Club among the most popular and valuable collections. Here’s what one of the Ethereum co-founders had to say about the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The rise of NFTs has led to a rise in Read more…
President Biden on Monday urged American companies to put up their cyber-defenses, citing “evolving intelligence that the Russian Government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks” against the U.S. “The Federal Government can’t defend against this threat alone,” Biden said in a lengthy statement released by the White House. He called Read more…
Hundreds of thousands of sites use the OAuth protocol to let visitors login using their existing accounts with companies like Google, Facebook, or Apple. Instead of having to create an account on the new site, visitors can use an account that they already have — and the magic of OAuth Read more…
The Washington Post looks at what happened after Starlink activated its satellite-based internet service to help Ukraine: Ukraine has already received thousands of antennas from Musk’s companies and European allies, which has proved “very effective,” Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov said in an interview with The Washington Post Read more…
There are already several startups focused on replacing long-haul freight trucks with self-driving trucks, reports Bloomberg — and the potential is huge. (Alternate URLs here and here.) The short trip from a factory or distribution center to an interstate is usually far more complicated than the next several hundred miles. Read more…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine turns up in Mike Melanson’s column “This Week in Programming”: While the Open Source Initiative’s (OSI) definition of open source software is quite clear on the matter — there must be “no discrimination against persons or groups” and “no discrimination against fields of endeavor” — the Read more…