Enlarge / Intel arrives at a crucial sub-$300 price for its medium-end GPU option. But will that bear out as a worthwhile price compared to its performance? (credit: Intel) Intel’s highest-end graphics card lineup is approaching its retail launch, and that means we’re getting more answers to crucial market questions of prices, launch dates, performance,…
Enlarge / The Arc A770 GPU, coming from Intel on October 12, starting at $329. (credit: Intel) One week after Nvidia moved forward with some of its highest graphics card prices, Intel emerged with splashy news: a price for its 2023 graphics cards that lands a bit closer to Earth. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger took…
Enlarge (credit: Getty | REDA&CO) The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday proposed a long-awaited revision to the definition of the term “healthy” on food packaging—finally scrapping the mind-boggling criteria from the 1990s that made healthful foods such as nuts, salmon, avocados, olive oil, and even water ineligible for the label. The new definition…
This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories in the fields of nature and conservation. Spending time with Thabisa, a guest favorite at Carter Giraffe House, Bronx Zoo. Photo credit: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS. Like many zoo and aquarium…
Misinformation runs rampant online, but do services like Birdwatch help?. DepositPhotos On the internet, you can find just about anything—and quite a bit of it is misinformation. Online-derived falsities can range from silly to outright dangerous, and all of it can capture the minds of lots and lots of people if it catches wind on…
Google went all out today with a wall of launches of new hardware and tech. Here’s a collection of all the cool stuff Google launched, and you can watch the full event yourself if you have 90 minutes and a particularly deep curiosity streak for all things Google. Here is everything announced at the Made by…
So-called ‘personalized medicine’ is all the rage these days. Healthcare is being gradually affected by data-driven insights gleaned through what the healthcare sector calls ‘precision medicine’. The COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to this sector. The 15-minute appointment that ends in prescription medicine is also being affected by the advance of remote telemedicine, and this…
TikTok is introducing new editing tools to give users more creative freedom with their content, the company announced on Thursday. The new tools allow users to easily adjust clips, sounds, images and text. The changes announced today are now available to users in the U.S. and most regions globally, TikTok says. With the new tools,…
Bradley Tusk Contributor Share on Twitter Bradley Tusk is the founder and CEO of Tusk Ventures. More posts by this contributor Where does Facebook go from here? A California judge just struck down Prop 22: Now what? When we’re looking at different startups, we constantly ask ourselves the same question I imagine every venture fund…
Michigan, long the automotive manufacturing capital of the United States, is now getting pumped with investment both publicly and privately to build out a series of battery manufacturing plants that will power the wave of electric vehicles coming to market. The demand for domestically produced batteries has reached new peaks after the passage of the…