How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
So in 2006, Nvidia announced the CUDA platform. CUDA allows programmers to write “kernels,” short programs designed to run on a single execution unit. Kernels allow a big computing task to be split up into bite-sized chunks that can be…
Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y’all
The global space community awoke to a new reality on Wednesday morning. The founder of this century’s most innovative space company, Elon Musk, successfully used his fortune, time, and energy to help elect Donald Trump to president of the United…
Review: M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis are probably Apple’s best Mac minis ever
In our tests on the Mac mini, any performance gain from using High Power mode was essentially negligible, so small that we haven’t bothered to make charts showing the difference—there are signs of a very small upward nudge in a…
The PS5 Pro’s biggest problem is that the PS5 is already very good
In many ways, the timing of Sony’s 2016 launch of the PS4 Pro couldn’t have been better. The slightly upgraded version of 2013’s PlayStation 4 came at a time when a wave of 4K TVs was just beginning to crest…
iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games
Even the bad clickwheel iPod games—like Sega’s nearly impossible-to-control Sonic the Hedgehog port—might find their own quirky audience among gaming subcommunities, Olsro argued. “One [person] beat Dark Souls using DK bongos, so I would not be surprised if the speedrun…