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Tech Digest daily roundup: NASA Artemis blasts off from Florida
NASA's most powerful rocket ever has launched into space in the first step of a mission to return humans to the moon. The next-generation, multibillion-dollar Space Launch System lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with the Orion spacecraft in tow. It surged off the launch pad…
Tech Digest daily roundup: TikTok ditches 3 minute video limit
TikTok is to ditch its three minute limit on videos and will soon allow all users to upload clips up to 10 minutes long, the Chinese social network has confirmed. It brought in the existing limit in July 2021, upping it from 60 seconds, having initially expanded it from the original 15 seconds. The app…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Russia limits Facebook access
Russia has limited access to Facebook over the platform's stance on the accounts of several Moscow-backed news outlets amid the invasion of Ukraine. Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor accused the network of "censorship" and violating "the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens". Facebook said it had refused to stop fact-checking and labelling content from state-owned news…
Tech Digest daily roundup: US tries to block Nvidia $40bn Arm takeover
Image: Nvidia The US Federal Trade Commission has challenged the proposed takeover of chip designer Arm by Nvidia. The FTC said the proposed acquisition would give Nvidia too much control over computing technology that competitors rely on. Arm licenses its designs and technology to big tech companies, including Apple, Qualcomm, Sony…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Halo Infinite gets early launch for Microsoft anniversary
The latest game in the Halo series has been released three weeks early to coincide with the franchise's 20th anniversary. Halo: Infinite was originally supposed to be released last year but was delayed until December 2021. But on Monday, at an Xbox 20th anniversary event, Microsoft revealed the multiplayer part of the game was being…
Tech Digest daily round up: Donald Trump sues social media
Former US president Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against tech giants Google, Twitter and Facebook, claiming that he is the victim of censorship. The class-action lawsuit also targets the three companies' CEOs. Mr Trump was suspended from his social accounts in January over public safety concerns in the wake of the Capitol riots, led…
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series, the graphics gamechanger
At the CIE 2021 exhibition in September 2020, NVIDIA announced its release of the widely anticipated GeForce RTX 30 series to much fanfare. The RTX 30 series are much more advanced than any other graphics card available for computers. They are located primarily in gaming laptops. They are powered by Ampere, NVIDIA's second-generation RTX architecture.…
#CES2017 – Audi partners with NVIDIA for AI driven Q7 ‘deep learning concept’
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Audi demonstrated its Q7 deep learning concept, a piloted driving car produced in collaboration with NVIDIA. The car orientates itself by means of a front camera with 2 megapixel resolution, and the camera communicates with an NVIDIA Drive PX 2 processing unit, which in turn controls…
Acer announces first Tegra K1-powered Chromebook
Acer has today unveiled the Chromebook 13, which is the first device in its class to be powered by Nvidia's Tegra K1 chip. The Chromebook 13, which is also said to have 13 hour battery life on top of its 13" screen is thought to be one of the most powerful Chromebooks available yet. Something…
Nvidia announces Shield Tablet for mobile gaming
Graphics card-maker Nvidia is expanding its Shield line of handheld Android gaming devices with a new tablet that works with a separate controller. The 8-inch Shield Tablet - which can also stream games from a PC - is powered by a 32-bit Tegra K1 chip with 192 GPU cores. The tablet comes in several different…