Be Quiet's created the quietest mechanical gaming keyboards I've ever used, offering the striking benefit of not annoying everyone in a five meter radius

Be Quiet’s created the quietest mechanical gaming keyboards I’ve ever used, offering the striking benefit of not annoying everyone in a five meter radius

A lot of us love a mechanical keyboard that offers a good, cacophonous clack—but a lot of us share either office or living space with those who do not share our enthusiasm for typing that sounds like a drum roll. That in mind, it’s heartening then that purveyor of slightly less percussive hardware, Be Quiet!,…

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‘Are you ready to rock?’ Jack Black randomly appears at A Minecraft Movie showing, but jokes that he wants to see ‘absolutely no chicken jockeys’

A Minecraft Movie has been plagued by the chicken jockey trend ever since the film entered cinemas. It sees movie-goers erupt in chaotic celebrations as soon as they hear Jack Black utter the sacred words “chicken jockey” towards the end of the movie. The trend has garnered some conflicting viewpoints, as some people think it’s…

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Intel is selling its 51% stake in Altera, for presumably a few billion, to private firm with over $104 billion in investments

Intel has entered a deal to offload 51% of its stake in Altera, a specialised chipmaker focusing on programmable logic devices, to Silver Lake investment firm. Before it was owned by Intel, Altera and Intel worked together on several projects often using each other’s technologies. It wasn’t until 2015 when Intel acquired Altera for $16.7…

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Trump’s Secretary of Education—and former WWE CEO—may repeatedly refer to AI as ‘A1’ but when she calls A1 learning ‘a wonderful thing’ she could genuinely be onto something

I don’t know if there’s anything better than a person in power mispronouncing a word. Better yet if it’s an important word, and if their mispronunciation implies a lack of understanding around the basics of said word. It can get even juicier if you might have some reason to already disrespect this person, so this…

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Microsoft pulls out of two big data centre deals because it reportedly doesn’t want to support more OpenAI training workloads

Microsoft has pulled out of deals to lease its data centres for additional training of OpenAI’s language model ChatGPT. This news seems surprising given the perceived popularity of the model, but the field of AI technology is a contentious one, for a lot of good reasons. The combination of high running cost, relatively low returns,…

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