Nvidia has confirmed that its next-generation Blackwell Ultra GPU will not begin shipping until the third quarter of this year, the company told investors in a briefing on Monday. The chipmaker had previously indicated a late Q2 availability window. The delay is attributed to thermal management issues identified during final validation testing. Nvidia said the … Read more
Sony has held the top position in consumer noise-cancelling headphones for the better part of five years. The WH-1000XM5 raised the bar. The WH-1000XM6 keeps Sony in first place — but the margin of victory is narrower than it has been in years, and in two categories, it has lost it entirely. Design and Build … Read more
Dr. Annika Hoffman spent seven years as a senior policy advisor to the European Data Protection Board before moving to academia. She now leads the Digital Rights Research Centre at Utrecht University. We spoke for ninety minutes over video call. She was direct in a way that regulators rarely are while still in post. Let’s … Read more
Every time you ask a chatbot to write your email or summarize a contract, a data center somewhere draws more electricity than your home uses in a day. The model running that request was trained on hardware that consumed water equivalent to filling an Olympic swimming pool — not once, but repeatedly across months of … Read more