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LG confirms Stadia will be supported on 2020 TVs, but nothing older than that

Stadia is set to make a couple of platform expansions in 2021, including LG’s WebOS as announced at CES 2021. In a further announcement, LG has clarified what TVs will be getting access to the Stadia app, and there’s both good news and bad news. The good news? Stadia will be available on a lot more TVs than the original reveal let on. Instead of just LG’s high-end offerings, the Stadia app…
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US Navy should get bigger slice of defense budget, top sea power lawmakers say

WASHINGTON — To rebuild American sea power and face a growing Chinese threat, the U.S. Navy must get a larger share of the Defense Department’s budget, the top Democrat and Republican on the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee said Monday at the annual Surface Navy Association meeting. Reps. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., respectively the chair and ranking…
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Google Chrome address bar may soon default to HTTPS

Google Chrome will soon have an experiment that will automatically try to connect to the HTTPS versions of website URLs that you type into the address bar instead of the insecure HTTP version. For years now, HTTPS has steadily grown from being a way of feeling secure about…
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LG Unveils Beautifully Thin, Color-Accurate 4K OLED Monitor

Though LG is responsible for creating most (if not all) of the OLED panels you’ll see in TVs and displays on the market, the company had yet to produce its own OLED monitor. Today that changes with the announcement of the LG UltraFine Display OLED Pro. Using OLED technology for monitors has historically been a bit of a risk. While OLED technology can offer incredible color accuracy, top-tier…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Stanford researchers design accelerator chip that speeds up AI inferencing

Researchers at Stanford have developed hardware that can run AI tasks quickly and energy-efficiently by harnessing special-built chips. A paper published in Nature Electronics describes the chips, each of which have data processors built next to their own memory storage, which leverage algorithms to meld eight separate cores into one AI processing engine called the Illusion System. AI accelerators…
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