Microsoft revealed new details on its next-generation console, text, on Monday morning, confirming specifications on what the company calls its “superior balance of power and speed” for its new hardware. From a report: The next-gen Xbox, Microsoft said, will be four times as powerful as the original Xbox One. The Xbox Series X “next-generation custom processor” will employ AMD’s Zen 2…
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Top 10 tips for meteor-watchers
How to watch a meteor shower. Tips for beginners. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/observing-meteors…
AMD Launches 16-Core Ryzen 9 3950X At $750, Beating Intel’s $2K 18-Core Chip
MojoKid writes: AMD officially launched its latest many-core Zen 2-based processor today, a 16-core/32-thread beast known as the Ryzen 9 3950X. The Ryzen 9 3950X goes head-to-head against Intel’s HEDT flagship line-up like the 18-core Core i9-9980XE but at a much more reasonable price point of $750 (versus over $2K for the Intel chip). The Ryzen 9 3950X has base and…
AMD Unveils the World’s Most Powerful Desktop CPUs
ZDNet reports: In the never ending war between the chip giants, AMD has released a salvo by unveiling what are the world’s most powerful desktop processors — the new 24-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X… These 3rd-generation Ryzen Threadripper Processors are built using AMD’s 7-nanometer “Zen 2” core architecture, and both chips feature 88 PCIe 4.0…
Intel Launches Core i9-9900KS 8-Core CPU At 5GHz Across All Cores
MojoKid writes: As the “S” in its name implies, the new Intel Core i9-9900KS that launched today is something akin to a Special Edition version of the company’s existing Core i9-9900K 8-core CPU. The processors are built from the same slab of silicon — an 8-core, Coffee Lake-refresh based die and packaged up for Intel’s LGA1151 socket. What makes the Core…
The paradoxes of Zen Buddhism could help us grasp fundamental physics
If you’re struggling to understand the mysteries of quantum physics and relativity, you need all the help you can get – even borrowing Buddhist mysticism, shows a new book Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332460-100-the-paradoxes-of-zen-buddhism-could-help-us-grasp-fundamental-physics/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
DevNull127 writes: The 77th World Science Fiction Convention announced the winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards at a ceremony Sunday night. Here’s some of the highlights. At least two of these stories can be read (for free) online: BEST NOVELETTE: “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” by Zen Cho. The entire text is availabe online in the B&N…
Zen 2 Ryzen IPC Testing Shows AMD Has Closed the Performance Gap With Intel
MojoKid writes: AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 processors can boost as high as 4.6 GHz, a notable bump over previous Ryzen models, but what about AMD’s purported Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) gains? Has AMD’s Zen 2 architecture finally caught up to Intel’s Coffee Lake-based Core series processors in terms of IPC? To prove this out, HotHardware pitted a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X…