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The Star Wars fandom is a fraught, fervent place. In the modern age, online communities rallying around franchises are often composed of numerous splinter groups, and Star Wars is no exception—it’s got far-right reactionaries, original trilogy boomers, millennial prequel loyalists, Gen Z animated series lovers, and,… Read more... View the full article

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn isn’t likely to make it to the top of most folks’ list of hardest soulslike titles, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t offer a challenge—especially if you’re not taking full advantage of everything the game has to offer. Read more... View the full article

Earlier today, most of the world effectively shut down thanks to an IT outage. A cybersecurity company named Crowdstrike pushed out an update that bricked millions of PCs around the world, resulting in blue screens of death (BSODs) globally. They might’ve even got the Sphere in Vegas! It’s the closest we’ve come to a… Read more... View the full article

Modders of The Witcher 3 have only had official tools from developer CD Projekt Red for two months, but they’ve already made great use of them. One ambitious modder was able to recreate some of the first game’s map with the new tools only a day after they were released. More recently, a new mod has given the already… Read more... View the full article

Once Human’s post-launch rollercoaster ride continues apace after a new update broke certain items and bases in the game. While frustrating for players and another headache for the developers, the funniest part is that the fresh problems arose just as the developers were asking fans to boost the survival MMO’s rating… Read more... View the full article

For someone who doesn’t care about Deadpool at all, I sure have been finding myself writing about him, his movies, and playing with his 'donkey' a bit more than I anticipated. It’s with that in mind that I come to deliver my latest missive: don’t watch the final trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine if you care at all about… Read more... View the full article

Oh, hi. Welcome to a totally normal weekend after a totally normal weekend where absolutely nothing troubling or strange happened whatsoever. There’s simply nothing that we’re turning to digital worlds to keep our minds off of. Why would you suggest a thing? Read more... View the full article

AI has seen unprecedented growth — spurring the need for new training and education resources for students and industry professionals. NVIDIA’s latest on-demand webinar, Essential Training and Tips to Accelerate Your Career in AI, featured a panel discussion with industry experts on fostering career growth and learning in AI and other advanced technologies. Over 1,800 attendees gained insights on how to kick-start their careers and use NVIDIA’s technologies and resources to accelerate their professional development. Opportunities in AI AI’s impact is touching nearly every industry, presenting new career opportunities for professionals of all backgrounds. Lauren Silveira, a university recruiting program manager at NVIDIA, challenged attendees to take their unique education and experience and apply it in the AI field. “You don’t have to work directly in AI to impact the industry,” said Silveira. “I knew I wouldn’t be a doctor or engineer — that wasn’t in my career path — but I could create opportunities for those that wanted to pursue those dreams.” Kevin McFall, a principal instructor for the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, offered some advice for those looking to navigate a career in AI and advanced technologies but finding themselves overwhelmed or unsure of where to start. “Don’t try to do it all by yourself,” he said. “Don’t get focused on building everything from scratch — the best skill that you can have is being able to take pieces of code or inspiration from different resources and plug them together to make a whole.” A main takeaway from the panelists was that students and industry professionals can significantly enhance their capabilities by leveraging tools and resources in addition to their networks. Every individual can access a variety of free software development kits, community resources and specialized courses in areas like robotics, CUDA and OpenUSD through the NVIDIA Developer Program. Additionally, they can kick off projects with the CUDA code sample library and explore specialized guides such as “A Simple Guide to Deploying Generative AI With NVIDIA NIM”. Spinning a Network Staying up to date on the rapidly expanding technology industry involves more than just keeping up with the latest education and certifications. Sabrina Koumoin, a senior software engineer at NVIDIA, spoke on the importance of networking. She believes people can find like-minded peers and mentors to gain inspiration from by sharing their personal learning journeys or projects on social platforms like LinkedIn. A self-taught coder, Koumoin also advocates for active engagement and education accessibility. Outside of work, she hosted multiple coding bootcamps for people looking to break into tech. “It’s a way to show that learning technical skills can be engaging, not intimidating,” she said. David Ajoku, founder and CEO at Demystifyd and Aware.ai, also emphasized the importance of using LinkedIn to build connections, demonstrate key accomplishments and show passion. He outlined a three-step strategy to enhance your LinkedIn presence, designed to help you stand out, gain deeper insights into your preferred companies and boldly share your aspirations and interests: Think about a company you’d like to work for and what draws you to it. Research thoroughly, focusing on its main activities, mission and goals. Be bold — create a series of posts informing your network about your career journey and what advancements interest you in the chosen company. One attendee asked about how AI might evolve over the next decade and what skills professionals should focus on to stay relevant. Louis Stewart, head of strategic initiatives at NVIDIA, replied that crafting a personal narrative and growth journey is just as important as ensuring certifications and skills are up to date. “Be intentional and purposeful — have an end in mind,” he said. “That’s how you connect with future potential companies and people — it’s a skill you have to develop to stay ahead.” Deep Dive Into Learning NVIDIA offers a variety of programs and resources to equip the next generation of AI professionals with the skills and training needed to excel in a career in AI. NVIDIA’s AI Learning Essentials is designed to give individuals the knowledge, skills and certifications they need to be prepared for the workforce and the fast moving field of AI. It includes free access to self-paced introductory courses and webinars on topics such as generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and CUDA. The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) provides a diverse range of resources, including learning materials, self-paced and live trainings, and educator programs spanning AI, accelerated computing and data science, graphics simulation and more. They also offer technical workshops for students currently enrolled in universities. DLI provides comprehensive training for generative AI, RAG, NVIDIA NIM inference microservices and large language models. Offerings also include certifications for generative AI LLMs and generative AI multimodal that help learners showcase their expertise and stand out from the crowd. Get started with AI Learning Essentials, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and on-demand resources. View the full article

In Elden Ring, applying an Ash of War to a weapon can completely change its usefulness to your build. Carian Sovereignty is one such Ash of War that Intelligence builds aren’t going to want to miss in the game’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. It can absolutely decimate your foes with a giant magical sword. Awesome. Read more... View the full article

Research published earlier this month in the science journal Nature used NVIDIA-powered supercomputers to validate a pathway toward the commercialization of quantum computing. The research, led by Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi, focuses on quantum annealing, a method that may one day tackle complex optimization problems that are extraordinarily challenging to conventional computers. To conduct their research, the team utilized 2 million GPU computing hours at the Leonardo facility (Cineca, in Bologna, Italy), nearly 160,000 GPU computing hours on the Meluxina-GPU cluster, in Luxembourg, and 10,000 GPU hours from the Spanish Supercomputing Network. Additionally, they accessed the Dariah cluster, in Lecce, Italy. They used these state-of-the-art resources to simulate the behavior of a certain kind of quantum computing system known as a quantum annealer. Quantum computers fundamentally rethink how information is computed to enable entirely new solutions. Unlike classical computers, which process information in binary — 0s and 1s — quantum computers use quantum bits or qubits that can allow information to be processed in entirely new ways. Quantum annealers are a special type of quantum computer that, though not universally useful, may have advantages for solving certain types of optimization problems. The paper, “The Quantum Transition of the Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glass,” represents a significant step in understanding the phase transition — a change in the properties of a quantum system — of Ising spin glass, a disordered magnetic material in a two-dimensional plane, a critical problem in computational physics. The paper addresses the problem of how the properties of magnetic particles arranged in a two-dimensional plane can abruptly change their behavior. The study also shows how GPU-powered systems play a key role in developing approaches to quantum computing. GPU-accelerated simulations allow researchers to understand the complex systems’ behavior in developing quantum computers, illuminating the most promising paths forward. Quantum annealers, like the systems developed by the pioneering quantum computing company D-Wave, operate by methodically decreasing a magnetic field that is applied to a set of magnetically susceptible particles. When strong enough, the applied field will act to align the magnetic orientation of the particles — similar to how iron filings will uniformly stand to attention near a bar magnet. If the strength of the field is varied slowly enough, the magnetic particles will arrange themselves to minimize the energy of the final arrangement. Finding this stable, minimum-energy state is crucial in a particularly complex and disordered magnetic system known as a spin glass since quantum annealers can encode certain kinds of problems into the spin glass’s minimum-energy configuration. Finding the stable arrangement of the spin glass then solves the problem. Understanding these systems helps scientists develop better algorithms for solving difficult problems by mimicking how nature deals with complexity and disorder. That’s crucial for advancing quantum annealing and its applications in solving extremely difficult computational problems that currently have no known efficient solution — problems that are pervasive in fields ranging from logistics to cryptography. Unlike gate-model quantum computers, which operate by applying a sequence of quantum gates, quantum annealers allow a quantum system to evolve freely in time. This is not a universal computer — a device capable of performing any computation given sufficient time and resources — but may have advantages for solving particular sets of optimization problems in application areas such as vehicle routing, portfolio optimization and protein folding. Through extensive simulations performed on NVIDIA GPUs, the researchers learned how key parameters of the spin glasses making up quantum annealers change during their operation, allowing a better understanding of how to use these systems to achieve a quantum speedup on important problems. Much of the work for this groundbreaking paper was first presented at NVIDIA’s GTC 2024 technology conference. Read the full paper and learn more about NVIDIA’s work in quantum computing. View the full article

The newest Overwatch hero is playable starting today for a limited time. Juno, a support hero Blizzard began teasing as far back as last year’s BlizzCon, brings a space-age flair to the hero shooter when she joins the roster as part of Season 12 when it launches on August 20. Based on Juno’s reveal trailer, it already… Read more... View the full article

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The first two episodes of Supacell could have done a more thorough job of focusing on Sabrina (Nadine Mills) and other women in the show. Instead, they’ve served primarily as support characters for the male narrative. So Sabrina’s episode is the one I’ve been waiting for, as it brings her superpowered struggles into… Read more... View the full article

Americans are waking up this morning to discover that the whole internet isn’t working properly. It’s a crisis that has spread around the world, grounding flights, shutting down hospital procedures, and causing worldwide travel chaos, and it seems it’s all because of a single software update by cyber-security firm… Read more... View the full article

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Paramount+ announced today that it has canceled Xbox’s Halo TV show after its second season. The team behind the show is reportedly looking to shop the sci-fi adaption around to other places in an effort to continue the series. Read more... View the full article

On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission pointed to Microsoft’s recent pricing overhaul of Xbox Game Pass as evidence of the harm its merger with Activision Blizzard has had on consumers. The agency filed a new letter in its ongoing appeal of last year’s deal, calling the changes “exactly the sort of consumer harm… Read more... View the full article

Earlier this week, No Man’s Sky announced its latest update, which apparently refreshes the entire universe to make it more diverse and lively. As part of the update, No Man’s Sky is also getting some graphical advancements from the studio’s upcoming survival game Light No Fire, and the most exciting bit of it for me… Read more... View the full article

As a crafting-survival game with a surprising depth, Once Human doesn’t shy away from the basics of the genre, either. You have countless resources necessary for crafting and construction. Various tools are required to harvest specific resources, with upgrades needed for late-game materials. Read more... View the full article

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A newly published report claims that the majority of adults in the United States play video games of some kind. It also found that most of them have spent real money on in-app purchases in a free-to-play game. Read more... View the full article

Palworld’s Sakurajima update massively expanded the game when it launched on June 27, update, 2024. Although most of the new content can be found within the new Sakurajima region, one of the biggest additions is tucked away on the other side of the map—an Oil Rig Stronghold with a staggering amount of enemies and… Read more... View the full article

Rolling Sparks is an Ash of War added in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. It’s a powerful ability on its own, but when combined with the Lightning Perfume Bottle and the right loadout, it can provide devastating damage to bosses. Learn more about it in our Lightning Perfumer build guide. Read more... View the full article

The best Simpsons game ever made has been ported to Sony’s old but still beloved portable console, the PS Vita. And it looks like a pretty awesome way to replay the classic game. Read more... View the full article

Do you believe in magic? What do you think it looks and feels like? In Dungeons of Hinterberg, magic is uncomfortably real. In the places that it has sprung up, monsters inspired by local folklore have come to life, and otherworldly dungeons have appeared. Quiet mountain towns have become booming centers of industry,… Read more... View the full article