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AMD's HIP is its "Heterogeneous Interface for Portability". It's a library that functions similarly to NVIDIA's CUDA in that it provides runtime APIs for compute applications across multiple platforms, including CUDA itself. So there's a ray-tracing library for HIP, known
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We’re less than a month away from the release of Grand Theft Auto VI, and Rockstar is putting on the full court press with its marketing efforts to keep those pre-orders rolling in. That includes running numerous commercials, and fans who’ve been obsessively waiting for the game for
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Black Friday isn’t until Nov. 27, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait another month to start saving. Retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy are already rolling out early discounts on everything from TVs and laptops to headphones and more. CNET’s shopping experts are tracking
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Watch World Series 2026 live streams as the Brewers and the Rays face off in a bid to claim the ultimate prize: being crowned champions for the first time. It should make for a fascinating contest, with up to seven games taking place across nine days to decide the Fall
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* Stranger Than Heaven director Mikinobu Abe says RGG Studios did a lot of "difficult" research to depict the game's many cities across different time periods * However, Abe says "historical accuracy wasn't the goal from the very beginning," and the team took creative
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The never-ending Half-Life 3 saga continues, thanks to a passing mention of "HLX" by Valve composer Mike Morasky. For those unaware, past data mining efforts pointed toward HLX being a codename for Half-Life 3. The full quote is in the context of how HDR sound is handled by
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Last week, Starshield — the version of SpaceX’s Starlink used by the Ukrainian military — was throttled to block terminals traveling above certain speeds from accessing the service. The Ukrainian army’s interceptors, which counter Russian drones carrying bombs, suddenly stopped working at high speeds, making it easier for Russia to
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Most fine-tuning teaches a model to produce a better answer to a single prompt. Agentic tasks are different. An agent that files an expense report or triages a support ticket takes a sequence of actions, and each step depends on what came before. There’s rarely one correct sequence to
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Douglas Rissing/Getty Images ByFrank Konkel, Editor-in-Chief October 23, 2026 01:37 PM ET The Maryland firm known for its Intelligent Computing Platform will offer significant discounts to government customers on software licenses and pilots through September 30, 2028. * GSA * Industry The General Services Administration has inked its first direct-to-government
