This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The future of the data center: Handling greater and greater demands.
In recent years many data centers have transitioned from a centralized model to an edge computing approach. This brings computing closer to the point of use, reducing latency and improving performance.
The impetus for this change has been a surge in…
A recent study conducted by open-source AI solutions firm ClearML in partnership with the AI Infrastructure Alliance (AIIA) has shed light on the adoption of generative AI among Fortune 1000 (F-1000) enterprises.
The study, “Enterprise Generative AI Adoption: C-Level…
Apple's MacBook Air M1 is back on sale for $750
July 20, 2023
This is a great moment to get a Mac laptop on a budget, particularly if you’re heading back to school. Amazon has the MacBook Air M1 with 256GB of storage on sale for a record low of $750, or $249 off. That’s the same price we saw on Prime Day, and applies…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover sealed the tube containing its 20th rock core sample on June 23 (the 832nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission), and the mission’s science team is excited about its potential. That’s because this sample was drilled by the rover from an outcrop composed of tiny chunks of other rocks that were carried from elsewhere by a river in the distant past and deposited…
Xbox Game Pass adds Celeste, Venba in late July wave
July 20, 2023
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here.
Xbox announced today which games are coming to Game Pass in the second wave of July. The new games only include one launch day release, but otherwise…
AI21 Labs, the Tel Aviv-based NLP major behind the Wordtune editor, has announced the launch of a plug-and-play generative AI engine to help enterprises drive value from their data assets.
Dubbed Contextual Answers, the offering comes as a dedicated API that can be directly…
Researchers at Stanford University and University of California-Berkeley have published an unreviewed paper on the open access journal arXiv.org, which found that the “performance and behavior” of OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language models (LLMs) have changed between March and June 2023. The researchers concluded that their tests revealed “performance on some tasks have gotten substantially…
'Babylon 5' is finally coming to Blu-ray
July 20, 2023
The good news keeps coming for all Babylon 5 fans: The entire series is coming to Blu-ray just a few months after sharing that an animated feature-length film is in the works. The 30th-anniversary release will include all 110 episodes of its five-season run and its pilot TV…
STUTTGART, Germany — The French Navy has taken delivery of the LSS Jacques Chevallier, the first of a new class of supply ships meant to replace the service’s aging fleet tankers.
The Chevallier – named for the French engineer who pioneered the nation’s naval nuclear…
WASHINGTON — Problems with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s newest upgrades will cause the aircraft’s manufacturer to miss its 2023 delivery goal by up to roughly 50 jets, Lockheed Martin officials said Tuesday.
The delays could bring down Lockheed’s revenue for 2023 by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Lockheed originally planned to deliver between 147 and 153 fighters this year. But…
