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Nvidia has released a new brain for humanoid robots called Jetson Thor that promises more compute power and more memory than its predecessor.…

The role originally played in the movies by Rupert Grint in the movies, will now portrayed by 11-year-old Alastair Stout who cut a quirky figure in his costume on set.

For her upcoming The Life of a Showgirl album, Swift employed DEFCON-3 levels of security to prevent leaks. Only five people have been allowed access to the record.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: AMD's X3D-series Ryzen chips have become popular with PC gamers because games in particular happen to benefit disproportionately from the chips' extra 64MB of L3 cache memory. But that extra memory occasionally comes with extra headaches. Not long after they were released earlier this year, some early adopters started having problems with their CPUs, ranging from failure to boot to actual physical scorching and burnout -- the problems were particularly common for users of the 9800X3D processor in ASRock motherboards, and one Reddit thread currently records 157 incidents of failure for that CPU model across various ASRock boards. In an interview with the Korean language website Quasar Zone (via Tom's Hardware), AMD executives David McAfee and Travis Kirsch acknowledged the problems and pointed to the most likely culprit: motherboard makers who don't follow AMD's recommended specifications. Some manufacturers have historically shipped their AMD and Intel motherboards with elevated default power settings in the interest of squeezing a bit more performance out of the chips -- but those adjustments can also cause problems in some cases, especially for higher-end CPUs.

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CRAIG HOPE AND LEWIS STEELE: Rio Ngumoha was the hero for Liverpool as he secured a dramatic late win at Newcastle.

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license

The Linux Foundation on Monday welcomed Microsoft's DocumentDB into its stable of open source projects, waving the document database's permissive MIT license as if it were an "Open for Business" sign.…

President Donald Trump says he wants to formally change the name of the Department of Defense.

The patient was in Maryland and had recently returned to the US from abroad, officials said. The parasite is potentially fatal and burrows through living flesh.

Apple has filed a lawsuit against former Apple Watch staffer Dr. Chen Shi, alleging that he "conspired to steal Apple's trade secrets relating to Apple Watch and to disclose them to his new employers (Oppo)." The company alleges he downloaded 63 sensitive documents, attended technical meetings, and coordinated with Oppo to transfer proprietary information, though Oppo denies wrongdoing. The Verge reports: Ahead of starting his new job at Oppo, the employee, Dr. Chen Shi, attended "dozens" of meetings with technical members on the Apple Watch team to learn about their work and downloaded 63 documents "from a protected Box folder" that he loaded onto a USB drive, according to the lawsuit. Shi allegedly sent a message to Oppo saying that he was working to "collect as much information as possible" before starting his job. And he searched the internet for terms like "how to wipe out macbook" and "Can somebody see if I've opened a file on a shared drive?" from his Apple-issued MacBook before leaving the company. Shi was formerly a sensor system architect at Apple, and the company says he had "a front row seat to Apple's development of its cutting-edge health sensor technology, including highly confidential roadmaps, design and development documents, and specifications for ECG sensor technology." He now heads up a team working on sensing technology at Oppo -- which Apple says it learned because of "messages he left on his Apple-issued work iPhone." In his resignation letter to Apple, Shi said he was leaving "due to personal and family reasons." Via that iPhone, Apple also says it found messages from Oppo demonstrating that it "encouraged, approved, and agreed to Dr. Shi's plan to collect Apple's proprietary information before leaving Apple."

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Have you been chased by a monster, lost all your teeth or turned up to an event naked only to wake in a panic and realise it was all a dream?

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Justin Bieber seemed to be looking for some love or validation from his fans with his latest social media post. The singer, 31, shared a couple of shirtless photos Monday on social media.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - A three-year-old girl walked into a hospital in China with a fruit knife seemingly lodged deep in the side of her head.

A group of nine diners are said to have arrived at Tinel Seafood & Grill in Grantham, Lincolnshire before ordering some of the most expensive drinks and dishes on the menu.

Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas has defended his controversial decision to allow his daughter Scarlett to skip sitting her GCSEs.

A 'horrendous' infestation is underway following a period of hot summer weather and fast food waste that has created optimal conditions for vermin to thrive.

Nvidia has launched its Jetson AGX Thor robotics chip module, a $3,499 "robot brain" developer kit that starts shipping next month. CNBC reports: After a company uses the developer kit to prototype their robot, Nvidia will sell Thor T5000 modules that can be installed in production-ready robots. If a company needs more than 1,000 Thor chips, Nvidia will charge $2,999 per module. CEO Jensen Huang has said robotics is the company's largest growth opportunity outside of artificial intelligence, which has led to Nvidia's overall sales more than tripling in the past two years. "We do not build robots, we do not build cars, but we enable the whole industry with our infrastructure computers and the associated software," said Deepu Talla, Nvidia's vice president of robotics and edge AI, on a call with reporters Friday. The Jetson Thor chips are based on a Blackwell graphics processor, which is Nvidia's current generation of technology used in its AI chips, as well as its chips for computer games. Nvidia said that its Jetson Thor chips are 7.5 times faster than its previous generation. That allows them to run generative AI models, including large language models and visual models that can interpret the world around them, which is essential for humanoid robots, Nvidia said. The Jetson Thor chips are equipped with 128GB of memory, which is essential for big AI models. [...] The company said its Jetson Thor chips can be used for self-driving cars as well, especially from Chinese brands. Nvidia calls its car chips Drive AGX, and while they are similar to its robotics chips, they run an operating system called Drive OS that's been tuned for automotive purposes.

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Sophie Turner has spoken candidly about filming the controversial rape scene her character Sansa Stark endured in Game of Thrones.

The 16-year-old, who is the daughter of Coronation Street stars Ryan Thomas, 41, and Tina Thomas, 42, looks destined for a career in acting.

Former Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne has vowed to remove a non-binary option for users of his gyms and spas to declare their gender - after criticism from women's rights activists.