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NVIDIA introduced the flagship Titan graphics card RTX
NVIDIA has officially unveiled its most powerful consumer graphics card — Titan RTX. The announcement followed a few days later after the Network began to appear supposedly “accidentally exposed” to some Western bloggers ‘ image of the graphics accelerator. Novelty, as expected, has enormous power (at least, based on technical characteristics), as, indeed, and not…
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#news high technology 272 | landing InSight and cyber attack in Moscow
Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies” we summarize the results of the last week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. Today we will talk about planting InSight, hospitalized in Moscow and not only! Below the news you can find in a text format.…
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The NASA OSIRIS-Rex entered the orbit of the asteroid Bennu
Automatic spacecraft “Osiris-Rex” space Agency NASA after more than two years since launch, traveled more than 124 million miles of outer space and finally entered the orbit of the asteroid Bennu. The National management of the USA on Aeronautics and space research said on his page on “Twitter”. The entry into orbit took place on…
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The HP Spectre Folio Is Gaudy, Ambitious, and Maybe the Future
I had hopes for a secret fourth mode where you stare down at the display, but the keyboard doesn’t work outside of laptop mode.Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) This thing works great when I’m tooling around in Chrome or Microsoft Edge and Slack—you know, basic web browsing—but it’s a lot less zippy when I open up…
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Google’s Virtual Vermeer Museum Is a Legitimately Cool Use of AR
Nothing like taking in Art and Culture in your pjs. Screenshot: Victoria Song (Gizmodo) To view the Meet Vermeer virtual museum, you can download the free Google Arts and Culture app for iOS and Android. So long as you have a smartphone with a working camera, all you have to do is point your phone…
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What’s the Deal With Nvidia’s Ridiculous $2,500 Titan RTX Graphics Card?
Image: Nvidia For those that have been balking at the $1,200 price tag of the RTX 2080 Ti cards, you might want to look away now, as Nvidia has now topped that with the new $2,500 Titan RTX. Positioned as the follow up to last generation’s Titan V, Nvidia’s new “fastest-ever” PC GPU boasts the…
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Physicists Spot Four Black Hole Collisions, Including the Largest One Ever Recorded
Computer simulation of colliding black holes.Screenshot: LIGO Lab Caltech/MIT (YouTube) Physicists have spotted four new instances of black holes colliding and sending their gravitational waves toward the Earth, including the most massive collision recorded to date. We now know that black holes collide with some regularity throughout the universe. Individual collisions are no longer huge…
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NASA’s Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft Has Arrived at Its Target
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AT&T Wants More Money to Cancel DirectTV and Internet Service
Photo: AP It’s always been hard to find something to like about AT&T, and the list of options just got shorter. The telecom giant has announced the end of its prorated credits for some subscribers who cancel a service in the middle of a billing period. AT&T bills service for DirecTV, U-verse TV, AT&T Phone,…
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Wisdom Tooth Surgery a Gateway to Teen Opioid Addiction, Study Finds
Photo: rgerber (Pixabay) A common rite of passage—having your wisdom teeth pulled—might be raising the risk of teens and young adults becoming addicted to opioids, a new study out Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests. Youngsters who are prescribed opioids by their dentist, often for wisdom tooth extractions, are more likely to abuse opioids within…