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As soul-crushing as Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC can be, crossing the greatbridge to Castle Ensis means entering a whole new world of pain. And at the top of that world sits a tall drink of water named Rellana, a boss you have to beat to advance the DLC’s story. Read more... View the full article

The Fallout series from Amazon isn’t done teasing fans over the potential canonicity of Obsidian’s beloved New Vegas. After constant questions about whether that game even existed in the show’s world (which were pretty definitively answered by the first season’s final episode), the second season is gearing up to bring … Read more... View the full article

The Fire Knight’s Greatsword is a Colossal Sword found in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This powerful armament not only looks intriguing, but can also deal some hefty damage to your foes, making it a sought-after armament for those interested in hitting baddies with slow but hard attacks. Read more... View the full article

Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm launched his first Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree livestream on Monday with a glitzy intro and lots of theatrics. Just a few hours later he decided to call it quits, however, saying he was burnt out on streaming and would be logging off indefinitely. The sudden shift recalled his last-ever… Read more... View the full article

The Pokémon Company holds regular illustration contests for fans to submit their artwork to possibly be used as official art for Pokémon trading cards, more recently made available to artists in the U.S. However, the company’s 2024 competition has had a new, not-so-fun wrinkle of controversy as AI-generated art has… Read more... View the full article

The Black Steel Greatshield is a Greatshield that can only be obtained in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. You’ll need to defeat a boss in a pretty well-hidden area to get your hands on this one, but those looking for top-tier physical and Holy protection should make an effort to do so. Read more... View the full article

Like most folks, you probably saw Wing Stance used on the Milady in early gameplay footage of Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree. Unfortunately, Milady doesn’t come bearing this exciting Ash of War—but that doesn’t mean you can’t find it pretty early in the game and apply it to the sword whenever you’d like. Read more... View the full article

Dryleaf Arts is a Hand-to-Hand weapon found in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This weapon, if you can call it that, grants you the abilities of a monk or martial artist. You’ll be able to punch and kick your way to victory in a flurry of flashy attacks, making it perfect for anyone interested in getting… Read more... View the full article

The Dueling Shield is a Thrusting Shield found in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This unique type of shield allows you to defend yourself from enemy attacks while also being able to dish out your own damage using the shield as a weapon. This makes for a fun, defensive playstyle that doesn’t force you to… Read more... View the full article

Generative AI has revolutionized software development with prompt-based code generation — protein design is next. EvolutionaryScale today announced the release of its ESM3 model, the third-generation ESM model, which simultaneously reasons over the sequence, structure and functions of proteins, giving protein discovery engineers a programmable platform. The startup, which emerged from the Meta FAIR (Fundamental AI Research) unit, recently landed funding led by Lux Capital, Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, with investment from NVIDIA. At the forefront of programmable biology, EvolutionaryScale can assist researchers in engineering proteins that can help target cancer cells, find alternatives to harmful plastics, drive environmental mitigations and more. EvolutionaryScale is pioneering the frontier of programmable biology with the scale-out model development of ESM3, which used NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs for the most compute ever put into a biological foundation model. The 98 billion parameter ESM3 model uses roughly 25x more flops and 60x more data than its predecessor, ESM2. The company, which developed a database of more than 2 billion protein sequences to train its AI model, offers technology that can provide clues applicable to drug development, disease eradication and, literally, how humans have evolved at scale as a species — as its name suggests — for drug discovery researchers. Accelerating In Silico Biological Research With ESM3 With leaps in training data, EvolutionaryScale aims to accelerate protein discovery with ESM3. The model was trained on almost 2.8 billion protein sequences sampled from organisms and biomes, allowing scientists to prompt the model to identify and validate new proteins with increasing levels of accuracy. ESM3 offers significant updates over previous versions. The model is natively generative, and it is an “all to all” model, meaning structure and function annotations can be provided as input rather than just as output. Once it’s made publicly available, scientists can fine-tune this base model to construct purpose-built models based on their own proprietary data. The boost in protein engineering capabilities due to ESM3’s large-scale generative training across enormous amounts of data offers a time-traveling machine for in silico biological research. Driving the Next Big Breakthroughs With NVIDIA BioNeMo ESM-3 provides biologists and protein designers with a generative AI boost, helping improve their engineering and understanding of proteins. With simple prompts, it can generate new proteins with a provided scaffold, self-improve its protein design based on feedback and design proteins based on the functionality that the user indicates. These capabilities can be used in tandem in any combination to provide chain-of-thought protein design as if the user were messaging a researcher who had memorized the intricate three-dimensional meaning of every protein sequence known to humans and had learned the language fluently, enabling users to iterate back and forth. “In our internal testing we’ve been impressed by the ability of ESM3 to creatively respond to a variety of complex prompts,” said Tom Sercu, co-founder and VP of engineering at EvolutionaryScale. “It was able to solve an extremely hard protein design problem to create a novel Green Fluorescent Protein. We expect ESM3 will help scientists accelerate their work and open up new possibilities — we’re looking forward to seeing how it will contribute to future research in the life sciences.” EvolutionaryScale will be opening an API for closed beta today and code and weights are available for a small open version of ESM3 for non-commercial use. This version is coming soon to NVIDIA BioNeMo, a generative AI platform for drug discovery. The full ESM3 family of models will soon be available to select customers as an NVIDIA NIM microservice, run-time optimized in collaboration with NVIDIA, and supported by an NVIDIA AI Enterprise software license for testing at ai.nvidia.com. The computing power required to train these models is growing exponentially. ESM3 was trained using the Andromeda cluster, which uses NVIDIA H100 GPUs and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. The ESM3 model will be available on select partner platforms and NVIDIA BioNeMo. See notice regarding software product information. View the full article

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Valve’s popular portable PC, the Steam Deck, is currently on sale ahead of the company’s upcoming Steam Summer Sale. You can currently buy the powerful gaming device for less than a Standard Switch or Switch OLED. Read more... View the full article

Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm co-founded Midnight Society in 2021 to make the types of online shooters he got famous for playing on Twitch. Now the game studio is moving on without him following new allegations about why the streamer was banned from the Amazon-owned platform back in 2020. Read more... View the full article

Dawntrail, the next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV, launches into early access this week, but before you can dive into the adventures that await on the gorgeous continent of Tural, the game will be down for roughly 48 hours. That means it’s time to do any last-minute tasks before you’ll have to leave Eorzea alone for… Read more... View the full article

Do you remember the live-action Street Fighter film from 1994? Well, in 2024 the film is still making Capcom “tens of millions of yen” every year according to data from a recent shareholder’s meeting. Read more... View the full article

Taking a break from unraveling the mysteries of the stars in my repeated trips across the Unity into parallel replications of the universe, I encounter a new group that promises credits in exchange for dangerous and hopefully exciting quests hunting down the galaxy’s most wanted. I take up the challenge and…I lose the… Read more... View the full article

It turns out that one of Shadow of the Erdtree’s bosses is actually even more 'frell'ed up than you already thought it was. When most people took on the Dancing Lion in Elden Ring’s new expansion, they probably thought that it was more or less what it appears to be, a creature that’s simultaneously regal, tragic, and… Read more... View the full article

Multi-die chips, known as three-dimensional integrated circuits, or 3D-ICs, represent a revolutionary step in semiconductor design. The chips are vertically stacked to create a compact structure that boosts performance without increasing power consumption. However, as chips become denser, they present more complex challenges in managing electromagnetic and thermal stresses. To understand and address this, advanced 3D multiphysics visualizations become essential to design and diagnostic processes. At this week’s Design Automation Conference, a global event showcasing the latest developments in chips and systems, Ansys — a company that develops engineering simulation and 3D design software — will share how it’s using NVIDIA technology to overcome these challenges to build the next generation of semiconductor systems. To enable 3D visualizations of simulation results for their users, Ansys uses NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform of application programming interfaces, software development kits, and services that enables developers to easily integrate Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and NVIDIA RTX rendering technologies into existing software tools and simulation workflows. The platform powers visualizations of 3D-IC results from Ansys solvers so engineers can evaluate phenomena like electromagnetic fields and temperature variations to optimize chips for faster processing, increased functionality and improved reliability. With Ansys Icepak on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, engineers can simulate temperatures across a chip according to different power profiles and floor plans. Finding chip hot-spots can lead to better design of the chips themselves, as well as auxiliary cooling devices. However, these 3D-IC simulations are computationally intensive, limiting the number of simulations and design points users can explore. Using NVIDIA Modulus, combined with novel techniques for handling arbitrary power patterns in the Ansys RedHawk-SC electrothermal data pipeline and model training framework, the Ansys R&D team is exploring the acceleration of simulation workflows with AI-based surrogate models. Modulus is an open-source AI framework for building, training and fine-tuning physics-ML models at scale with a simple Python interface. With the NVIDIA Modulus Fourier neural operator (FNO) architecture, which can parameterize solutions for a distribution of partial differential equations, Ansys researchers created an AI surrogate model that efficiently predicts temperature profiles for any given power profile and a given floor plan defined by system parameters like heat transfer coefficient, thickness and material properties. This model offers near real-time results at significantly reduced computational costs, allowing Ansys users to explore a wider design space for new chips. Ansys uses a 3D FNO model to infer temperatures on a chip surface for unseen power profiles, a given die height and heat-transfer coefficient boundary condition. Following a successful proof of concept, the Ansys team will explore integration of such AI surrogate models for its next-generation RedHawk-SC platform using NVIDIA Modulus. As more surrogate models are developed, the team will also look to enhance model generality and accuracy through in-situ fine-tuning. This will enable RedHawk-SC users to benefit from faster simulation workflows, access to a broader design space and the ability to refine models with their own data to foster innovation and safety in product development. To see the joint demonstration of 3D-IC multiphysics visualization using NVIDIA Omniverse APIs, visit Ansys at the Design Automation Conference, running June 23-27, in San Francisco at booth 1308 or watch the presentation at the Exhibitor Forum. View the full article

Lara Croft from Tomb Raider is reportedly the next crossover character arriving in the popular online asymmetrical horror game Dead by Daylight. According to early, leaked details, the character will arrive in July. Read more... View the full article

Despite warnings from reviewers and FromSoftware itself, fans are quickly finding out that Shadow of the Erdtree is extremely difficult. The expansion to 2022’s Elden Ring was released on June 21 and has gained a reputation for being tough, even for a FromSoftware game. This has led to the DLC’s review status on Steam… Read more... View the full article

Herschel “Dr Disrespect” Beahm was one of the biggest streamers on Twitch when the Amazon-owned streaming platform permanently banned him in mid-2020. The suddenness of the high-profile ejection, coupled with both Beahm and Twitch staying silent over what had actually happened and why, turned the incident into the… Read more... View the full article

The Two-Headed Turtle Talisman is a Talisman only available in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. Besides your health, there are few things as important in the game as your stamina, so you’ll certainly want to snag this useful accessory—it increases the recovery speed of your stamina bar. Read more... View the full article

Red Bear’s Claw is a Beast Claw found in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This thrilling weapon allows you to slice up your foes in a flurry of attacks, and look exceedingly cool doing so. This is a great option for anyone wanting to get speedily in and out while dishing out some hefty damage in the… Read more... View the full article

War Thunder devs had to apologize over the weekend after players quickly noticed that a newly added loading screen featured imagery from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Read more... View the full article