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Nvidia announces Maxine, a set of GPU-accelerated AI conferencing tools that improve video quality, with early access available from next week — Nvidia today launched Nvidia Maxine, a platform that provides developers with a suite of GPU-accelerated AI conferencing software to enhance video quality.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Nvidia unveils the Jetson Nano 2GB, a $59 developer kit powered by CUDA-X, for students and hobbyists with an interest in robotics and AI — The $59 kit comes with online training and certification. — Nvidia has debuted the Jetson Nano 2GB, a new developer kit for students and hobbyists with an interest in robotics.
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Nvidia unveils new professional GPUs based on its Ampere architecture: the RTX A6000, coming in December, and A40, coming early 2021 — NVIDIA's second GTC of 2020 is taking place this week, and as has quickly become a tradition, one of CEO Jensen Huang's “kitchenside chats” kicks off the event.
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Nvidia announces an open beta for Omniverse, a virtual environment where engineers can collaborate using photorealistic 3D simulation tools — Nvidia has announced an open beta for its Omniverse, a virtual environment the company describes as a “metaverse” for engineers.| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
John McAfee has been arrested in Spain for tax evasion after SEC sues him for allegedly promoting ICOs in 2017, 2018 without disclosing he was paid to do so — John McAfee, the 74-year-old software magnate-turned-crypto-bull, has been arrested in Spain on allegations of tax evasion, according to the Department of Justice.
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Slack says it is investigating the cause of an outage that began at about 10am ET, the second time this week the service has experienced degraded performance — Slack Technologies Inc. experienced outages and degraded performance for more than six hours Monday, disrupting work for thousands …
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| Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
Researcher says that Macs with T2 chips are vulnerable to a variant of the checkm8 exploit, which could jailbreak certain iPhones and was unpatchable — Apple macOS devices with Intel processors and a T2 chip are vulnerable to an unfixable exploit that could give attackers root access, a cybersecurity researcher claims.
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UK government blames a “technical issue” for underreporting COVID-19 cases by 15,000+; reports suggest an Excel sheet with lab results reached its maximum size — A day after the UK government announced its highest number of new coronavirus cases in England, the reason behind the drastic rise has reportedly been revealed.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple removed headphones and speakers from Bose, Logitech, and Sonos from its online store at the end of Sept., asked retail employees to do the same — - Apple is working on first over-ear headphones, smaller HomePod — Products from Sonos, Bose, Logitech pulled from online store
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PayPal's Venmo announces a Visa credit card, managed through its app and with a QR code on the physical card, for making online and in-store payments — - The cash-back Visa card will be issued by Synchrony Financial — PayPal-owned Venmo to compete with Goldman's Apple Card
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Instagram has started labeling “state-controlled media” accounts for users in the US, with ad labeling to follow in the coming months — Over the last week, Instagram has started labeling state-backed media, following through on a policy the company's parent Facebook announced … | Allison Levitsky / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
A US District Judge ordered Cisco to pay $1.9B to Virginia-based Centripetal Networks for infringing four cybersecurity patents; Cisco says it will appeal — Cisco Systems Inc. was hit Monday with a $1.9 billion judgment in a 2018 patent infringement suit filed by Centripetal Networks, a small cybersecurity firm in Virginia.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Chicago-based Cooler Screens, which replaces glass doors of store coolers with interactive displays, raises $80M Series C from Verizon, Microsoft, and others — Cooler Screens, which replaces the glass doors in store cooler aisles with interactive digital displays, is announcing that it has raised …
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