Google and Qualcomm are prepping ‘desktop’ Android to enable ‘mobile and PC’ in one device, but should Windows and x86 be afraid?

So, Google and Qualcomm are bigging up what’s basically a desktop version of the former’s Android OS for smartphones (via 9to5Google). The idea, apparently, is to fuse “mobile and PC” into a single device. And given Qualcomm is part of this particular conversation, that device would presumably be running an Arm chip rather than a…

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A zero-water, zero-emissions, off-grid AI data center sounds like science fiction, but it’s actually real and already running

AI data centers are some of the largest consumers of electrical energy in the world of computing, and with gigawatt-sized projects currently in development, there is increased demand for sustainable means to power them. It just so happens that there’s one solution that’s entirely off-grid, with apparently zero emissions, and even generates the water required…

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Helldivers 2 devs say players are ‘absolutely right to expect better’ after latest update’s crashes and stumbles—promise mid-October patch and ‘better communication’

Helldivers 2 is in the “it’s so over!” part of the chart again, unfortunately. Despite its latest patch being a ton of fun, the entire engine is also buckling and groaning under the weight of extreme technical debt. Crashes, bugs, terrible performance, and an ever-balooning file size are all starting to get the game a…

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AI chatbots often can’t read between the lines and commit cultural cringe that even tourists in Italy ordering coffee in the afternoon couldn’t manage

From time to time, I rely on machine translation. From time to time, machine translation reminds me why it can never truly replace human translators—case in point, referring to this VR glove as having ‘vibrator’ touch panels. Large Language Models are trained on many libraries worth of words, spitting out a statistically likely word vomit…

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