ASRock introduced its Phantom Gaming series, a family of graphics cards based on AMD’s Radeon RX 500 Series released in 2017. There are four models in all, each providing three switchable speeds: Silent, normal, and overclocked.
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On the south end of the Vegas strip, a different kind of gaming is taking root. At the Luxor casino, the Esports Arena Las Vegas just opened its doors, occupying the former home of the LAX nightclub. Following a special event on March 22, the arena, owned by Allied Esports, opened for regular operations on Monday, March 26.
Allied Esports is a joint venture of Chinese gaming companies Ourgame International, KongZhong and iRena that aims to build a global network of at least 10 esports arenas over three to five years. The effort is just the latest sign that yes, esports is mainstream now and its momentum — and its accompanying business ventures — will only ramp up from here.
The 30,000-square-foot space is custom-built to accommodate the flashy, massive events that have come to define the esports world, including an in-house “network TV quality” production studio replete with 24 cameras and a two-story LED TV wall. In addition to console and PC gaming stations, the arena also boasts competitive VR gaming via two immersive Virtuix Omni machines and free retro gaming. The modern forward or backward-gazing gamer should have plenty to do, even beyond events like a kick-off weekend Super Smash Bros. tournament with $25,000 on the table.
In true Vegas fashion, the space is accompanied by a gamer-themed menu from chef José Andrés, an avid gamer himself. The space will host big events while also being open to normal non-pro gamers, who can buy a $25 all-you-can-play gaming pass. The fresh space in the Luxor joins other major dedicated gaming venues like Blizzard’s new LA area Overwatch arena and Allied Esports sibling spaces in Orange County, Beijing and Shenzen, with another location set to open next month in downtown Oakland.
Dedicated competitive gaming spaces, oddities just a few years ago, are now springing up all over, moving esports away from traditional sporting venues and into increasingly high-profile purpose-built spaces.
Source: TechCrunch
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving north from Palo Alto to San Jose. The company will relocate 1,000 employees to a 220,000-square-foot space in late 2018. HPE was spun-off from Hewlett-Packard in 2015 and is focused on servers and storage.
This news comes months after HPE announced a different plan in which the company was moving to Santa Clara, where Aruba Networks, a company it previously acquired, is headquartered.
HPE is going to occupy six floors in San Jose’s America Center, which is located near a forthcoming Berryessa BART station.
This move is the latest win for San Jose. Google recently announced it would move in the coming years. According to a report in The Mercury News, the city of San Jose did not offer HPE any financial incentives.
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Boeing has reportedly been struck in a major way by Wannacry, the ransomware that spread like wildfire last year. The Seattle Times obtained a memo from Mike VanderWel, of the company’s commercial airliner division, describing the malware as “metastasizing rapidly.”
Wannacry, you may remember, spread using a Windows exploit leaked from NSA files, demanded a modest sum in bitcoin to decrypt the victim’s files, and was stopped in dramatic fashion by a single person. Investigators confidently but, as with most attacks like this, circumstantially attributed the attacks to North Korea.
VanderWel’s memo says that the infection appears to have started in North Charleston, and for all we know is still spreading: “I just heard 777 (automated spar assembly tools) may have gone down,” he writes, and “airplane software,” whatever that term really means inside a company that makes airplanes, could be next.
Although the attacks may have originated in North Korea and Boeing is of course a major defense contractor, it would be premature to connect those dots at this moment. Wannacry was far from a targeted strike; it was “indiscriminately reckless,” as one U.S. official rather redundantly put it, spreading geometrically and affecting soft targets like hospitals as well as individuals.
Wannacry’s initial flare-up may have been tamped down with the “kill switch” and subsequent patches addressing the exploit, but clearly it was not eliminated altogether — though this may very well be a mutation or modified version of the original software.
This story is developing. We’ve contacted Boeing for more information and have been told to expect it momentarily, so check back soon.
Update: Boeing issued a statement on Twitter downplaying the situation:
A number of articles on a malware disruption are overstated and inaccurate. Our cybersecurity operations center detected a limited intrusion of malware that affected a small number of systems. Remediations were applied and this is not a production or delivery issue.
I’ve asked for clarification on how to reconcile this with VanderWel’s description.
Source: TechCrunch
Drivers say competition from Uber and Lyft is lowering their incomes, contributing to four recent driver suicides.
Source: Wired
When you’re looking for the best Lenovo laptop, there’s plenty to choose from. There are larger and smaller options, ones with more powerful hardware and plenty of budget options. These are our outright favorites, ranging from Yogas to ThinkPads.
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La máquina con los dedos más ágiles que se ha inventado se sirve del aprendizaje automático para reconocer y recoger diferentes tipos de objetos más rápido que ninguna otra. Estos robots industriales hábiles podrían ser muy útiles en fábricas, almacenes y hospitales
Source: MIT
Un software que cambia los edificios antiestéticos del primer plano de una foto y un editor para reemplazar el cielo de una imagen por otro son algunos de los prototipos con inteligencia artificial que, según el director de Adobe Research, Gavin Miller, darán más tiempo a los artistas para centrarse en crear
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La última medida económica aprobada por EE. UU. podría aliviar la brecha financiera para modernizar las plantas de energía, especialmente en el sector industrial. Así se podrán reducir las emisiones de dióxido de carbono y su efecto en el cambio climático
Source: MIT
Engineers hope a special heat shield will keep the craft cool while it collects space weather info.
Source: Wired