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Pleb-tier LPDDR5x apparently good enough for Arm-backed AI startup's next-gen Asimov accelerators
On paper, Positron's next-gen Asimov accelerators, no doubt named for the beloved science fiction author, don't look like much of a match for Nvidia's Rubin GPUs.…
Strap yourself in for a Wembley showdown between Manchester City and Arsenal that should be as fascinating on the grass as the sideline where Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta bid to outsmart each other.
City’s manager was the Arsenal No 1’s tutor from 2016-19 when Arteta was his coach. This forged a friendship but there may be fireworks between them after Guardiola was incensed by the Spaniard’s claim he had “all the information” on City after they complained about Arsenal’s “dark arts” tactics in the 2–2 draw at the Etihad Stadium last season.
Continue reading...This troubling documentary charts the events leading up to and surrounding Jackson’s 2005 trial for molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo (of which he was found innocent) – and features newly released tapes of Jackson
In her 2019 essay Lost Boy, the Pulitzer-winning writer Margo Jefferson considered Michael Jackson’s legacy in the wake of Dan Reed’s Leaving Neverland, the HBO/Channel 4 exposé that starkly and devastatingly laid out the testimonies of two men who alleged that they had been sexually abused as children by the singer. “We’ve long seen how charming and generous [Jackson] could be,” opined Jefferson. “Now we’ve also seen how calculating, selfish and gripped by demons he was.”
Leaving Neverland remains the most effective résumé of that apparent duality, and of how – in the case of Wade Robson and James Safechuck – their memories of the singer’s dream-like ranch would take on an infernal quality. Michael Jackson: The Trial isn’t as stylised nor as groundbreaking – many of the people here have been telling their stories for decades, be it in books, podcasts, blogs or otherwise. Yet where Channel 4’s latest series triumphs is in collating these accounts from both sides, and letting you decide what is more plausible, as well as spotlighting details that can’t easily be explained away. And, of course, there are the tapes: recordings of Jackson from 2000 and 2001, many of which have never been heard before. They’re not definitive proof of any wrongdoing, but they’re certainly alarming. In one clip, Jackson declares: “If you told me right now … ‘Michael, you could never see another child’ … I would kill myself.”
Continue reading...Organisers are hoping for a celebration of winter sport at Milano Cortina 2026 but tensions will not be far from the surface
A short stroll from where the grandees of the International Olympic Committee are staying in Milan sits the Museum of Illusions – a place devoted to magic and misdirection. Mirrors distort. Perspectives shift. And nothing is quite what it seems. It is an apposite metaphor for these Winter Olympics, which officially open in Italy on Friday.
Over the following 16 days, the world will be enraptured by the dazzle and spin of these Games: downhill skiers bombing down mountains at 95mph, snowboarders twirling like gyroscopes, the balletic grace of the world’s best skaters. But in Milano Cortina a fresh cold war is also brewing amid global political chaos.
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@jackyan I think the staff decided to turn it off. the reasons I forgot.
[edit] found the post: https://mastodon.social/@staff/115849914607258480
MOUNTAIN VIEW (ANP) - Google-moeder Alphabet gaat dit jaar nog veel meer geld investeren in toepassingen rond kunstmatige intelligentie. Het bedrijf zei bij de bekendmaking van de cijfers over het vierde kwartaal en 2025 dat de kapitaalinvesteringen in 2026 zullen uitkomen tussen de 175 miljard en 185 miljard dollar.
"We zien dat onze AI-investeringen en infrastructuur de omzet en groei overal aanjagen", aldus topman Sundar Pichai. Volgens hem zijn de hogere investeringen nodig om aan de vraag van klanten te voldoen en om de mogelijkheden te benutten die Alphabet ziet komen in de toekomst.
De omzet bedroeg afgelopen kwartaal 113,8 miljard dollar. Dat is 18 procent meer dan een jaar eerder. Over heel 2025 werd een omzet behaald van 402,8 miljard dollar. Het is voor het eerst dat de jaaromzet van Alphabet de 400 miljard dollar overschrijdt, zei Pichai in de toelichting.
