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NVIDIA’s CEO has delivered one of the firm’s most optimistic products, the DGX Spark, to billionaire Elon Musk, highlighting the importance of the device in Jensen’s eyes. NVIDIA’s DGX Spark To Launch Into Retail By October 15th, Bringing Immense AI Power to Users The DGX Spark is known to be one of the most compact devices available, offering computational performance …

News Summary: NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers DGX Spark to Elon Musk at SpaceX. This week, NVIDIA and its partners are shipping DGX Spark, the world’s smallest AI supercomputer, delivering NVIDIA’s AI stack in a compact desktop form factor. Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HPI, Lenovo and MSI debut DGX Spark systems, expanding access to …

In just over two weeks, Obsidian will release The Outer Worlds 2, the second triple-A RPG of its outstanding year (which also includes the early access launch of Grounded 2) after Avowed. As we get closer to launch, Game Director Brandon Adler was interviewed by Danny Peña and discussed how this sequel improves upon the 2019 original, such as bigger …

A Seattle man once discovered a super-rare Xbox at a garage sale and snapped it up for just $50, but was able to sell it for a whole lot more. The original Xbox was released by Microsoft more than two decades ago, in 2001.  By May 2006, Microsoft had sold more than 24 million units.  So you might think that …

In late October 1975, a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed back the first images ever captured from the surface of another planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The pictures of its baking hot terrain marked a huge leap forward in our understanding of our nearest …

A flurry of Xbox first-party games is launching over the next few weeks, including yet another title from Obsidian Entertainment with The Outer Worlds 2. Ahead of the game’s launch, we’ve got some details on what the game’s directors are up to and how they’re working with other Xbox studios, not just on this game but on future projects as …

Scientists in Wales have built the world’s most sensitive table-top interferometer, which is a miniature, ultra-precise instrument capable of measuring distortions in space-time smaller than a trillionth of a human hair. The research team at Cardiff University took a bold step toward understanding the quantum nature of gravity by setting new limits on the existence of very high-frequency gravitational waves. …

The Baiyun Ebo mine in China’s Inner Mongolia region is the site of almost half the world’s rare earth production. (Image courtesy of NASA.) Businesses across the global semiconductor supply chain are bracing themselves for disruptions from an escalating trade war, after China imposed curbs on rare earth mineral exports and the US responded with additional tariffs and restrictions on …

Paranthropus was adapted for chewing, with teeth up to four times the size of a modern humans. Teeth image © S.E.Bailey, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project and model image © Tim Evanson. The first fossil hominins were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in South Africa, just over half a century after the publication of Darwin’s milestone work The Origin of …

A $2 billion investment from NYSE parent ICE vaults Polymarket’s 27 year-old founder Shayne Coplan into the three-comma club and intensifies its rivalry with prediction market competitor Kalshi. At 27, Shayne Coplan has become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. His estimated 11% stake in Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction platform he founded in 2020, is now worth at least $1 billion. …