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With the global outbreak of coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, affecting every area of life, you might be surprised to hear that NASA and other space agencies still intend to go ahead with their plan to send more astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) next month. In fact, ISS astronauts already undergo strict quarantine restrictions as part of their launch preparations, so they might be some of the few people in the world whose plans for the next few weeks haven’t changed....

There are a number of interesting things coming out of Computex in Taiwan this week. The two that initially stood out were from AMD’s ATI unit and NVIDIA. Both promise a dramatic change in how some of us do things and with only few days to go till the iPhone launch, one of them could redefine the competitive landscape. Let’s chat about how these announcements could change our mobile future....

After more than four years of neglect, Apple has finally refreshed theMac mini, giving it one of the biggest performance bumps the line has seen to date. The new Mac mini tops out with a six-core Intel 8th-gen processor, enhanced security thanks to the Apple T2 chipset, and upgradeable memory. Despite coming only in the same space grey hue as the prosumer-targetediMac Pro, the Mac mini retains its consumer branding — there’s no “Pro” in the name, contrary toearly rumors....

Asus is another laptop manufacturer that’s making a serious investment in AMD’s latest CPUs. This time around, as announced at CES 2021, the company is introducing the ZenBook 13 OLED UM325 and the ZenBook 14 UM425, both of which will utilizeAMD Ryzen 5000CPUs for superior performance. With so manynew laptops at CESthis year, there’s a lot to be excited about. Asus ZenBook 13 OLED Asus hasn’t provided many details on the new ZenBook 13 OLED UM325, but we do know that it’s among the lightest OLED AMD-based laptops on the market at just 2....

WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey made remarks earlier this year that led some to fear that AT&T was intent onturning HBO into Netflix. The good news is, that doesn’t appear to be the case. The bad news is that AT&T is instead planning on launching a Netflix-style service that would mean HBO and Time Warner content will eventually disappear from other services,according to the Hollywood Reporter. Stankey announced the service on Wednesday at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, saying that the service is currently planned to launch in the fourth quarter of 2019....

Inter Milan carry a 1-0 aggregate lead into Estadio Metropolitano today, as the Serie A leaders take on Atletico Madrid for a spot in the Champions League quarterfinals. Inter have won 13 straight matches across all competition, while Atletico are stuck in poor form, but as we’ve seen so many times before, nothing should be taken for granted in this competition. The match kicks off momentarily, at 4:00 p.m. ET, and it will be broadcast onParamount+in the United States....

If you’re in the market for an electric luxury SUV but don’t want a Tesla, you don’t have many options to choose from — at least not yet. TheJaguar I-Paceand theAudi E-Tronare currently your only other options in North America, though theMercedes-Benz EQCwill finally hit the market in early 2021. But, if you can’t wait that long, the I-Pace and the E-Tron are both competent electric vehicles (EVs). Keep reading to decide which one is right for you....

Best settings for The First Descendant on Steam Deck & Windows handhelds The First Descendant, Nexon’s latest live service game, does work on the Steam Deck – with some caveats. You’ll be limited to 30FPS and supersampling to squeeze the most stable performance out of the game. Despite the game’s start screen alert that the Steam Deck’s specs don’t meet the minimum requirements, you’ll find it runs just fine. As the game utilizesUnreal Engine 5, there are a few concessions you’ll have to make when playing....

Baidu, the Chinese search giant, is sometimes hailed as China’s Google. And just like Google, it has a bunch of innovative side projects which go way beyond straightforward search. We recently covered Baidu’s amazinghandheld universal translator. Now the company has announced its latest feat: Using artificial intelligence algorithms tohelp pathologists better diagnose cancer. The company has developed an A.I. that is capable of analyzing slides containing biopsied tissue. Reviewing these slides can be difficult, even for experienced pathologists, but Baidu’s deep learning technology is able to look for tiny tumor cells faster and with greater accuracy than previous approaches....

WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS ahead for all 8 seasons of Dexter & Dexter: New Blood. Summary There have been several compelling and even iconic villains inDexterandDexter: New Blood. The beloved original Showtime series ran forsix excellent and two questionable seasonsthat featured numerous villains and antagonists throughout its 96 episodes. Developed for television by James Manos Jr.,Dexterwon 4 Emmy Awards including one for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for John Lithgow’s unforgettable performance as Arthur Mitchell....

Dune: Part Two review – A reality you must experience Dune: Part Two is a screen-quaking cinematic landmark that should hold the future of blockbuster filmmaking accountable; imperfect, cold, but mighty. Denis Villeneuve is the Mahdi of modern sci-fi. He delivered an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s infamously unwieldy, seminal tome (lest we forget David Lynch’s disasterpiece or Alejandro Jodorowsky’s doomed Shai Hulud-scale recreation) that was one thing above all else: comprehensively watchable....

Between Tesla and xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence aspirations have cost some $10 billion dollars in bringing training and inference compute capabilities online this year,according to a Thursday post on X (formerly Twitter)by Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt. “Tesla already deployed and is training ahead of schedule on a 29,000 unit Nvidia H100 cluster at Giga Texas – and will have 50,000 H100 capacity by the end of October, and ~85,000 H100 equivalent capacity by December,” Merritt noted....

The Twitter takeover sagacontinues with a new development and, of course, a new SEC filing. On Thursday, ElonMusk confirmed in a new filing that he has secured fundingfor his bid to buy Twitter and take it private.The filing statesthat Musk has secured a total of $46.5 billion in funding. This large sum is broken down in the filing as follows: $21 billion of equity financing, $12.5 billion in margin loans from banks (Morgan Stanley among them), and $13 billion from banks (that also include Morgan Stanley) in the form of three different loans and a “senior secured revolving security....