Monthly Archives: August 2022

‘Slumberland’ trailer sends you off to Netflix’s *other* land of dreams

Off you pop to Slumberland, Netflix‘s new film about a magical realm filled with dreams and nightmares but not the one you’re thinking of. Marlow Barkey stars as Flip, who lives happily in a lighthouse island with her dad, Peter (Kyle Chandler), who spins seemingly tall tales of lands beyond her wildest imaginations. When he’s…

DigitalOcean boosts web hosting offering with $350m Cloudways acquisition

DigialOcean has expanded its web hosting capabilities by acquiring cloud hosting firm, Cloudways. The company says the $350 million deal will help businesses that are looking for easier ways to build and scale their digital footprint. The pair have worked together since 2014, with the cloud hosting company utilizing DigitalOcean infrastructure to power approximately 50%…

Google’s amazing new photo AI brings light to darkness and much much more

Photographers may soon be able to effectively ‘see in the dark’ after Google Research added a new AI noise reduction tool to its MultiNeRF project. The RawNeRF program can read images, using artificial intelligence to add higher levels of detail (and far fewer unsightly artifacts) to photos taken in darker conditions and low-light settings. According…

Intel is on a collision course with Nvidia, AMD in a key battleground

Intel has released internal performance benchmarks for its new Ponte Vecchio data center GPU, which is said to be significantly faster than the Nvidia A100, the current market leader. At Hot Chips 34, Intel announced that Ponte Vecchio delivers 52 teraflops of FP32 and FP64 performance, upwards of 2.5x the performance achieved by the A100. …