Denon is addressing an omission in its current turntable lineup: Bluetooth streaming. With the new DP-500BT, the company combines refined design, analog sound and high-resolution wireless connectivity. With its semi-automatic operation and switchable phono preamp, this model has the features to suit beginners and experienced vinyl listeners alike. The DP-500BT has a belt drive system,…
Nvidia announced DLSS 5 on Monday during its GTC conference, and based on early reactions, it’s going to be a divisive update, with some reactions calling it “slop” that unacceptably alters artistic intent. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is calling this the “GPT moment for graphics — blending hand-crafted rendering with generative AI to deliver a…
When an AI agent loses context mid-task because traditional storage can’t keep pace with inference, it is not a model problem — it is a storage problem. At GTC 2026, Nvidia announced BlueField-4 STX, a modular reference architecture that inserts a dedicated context memory layer between GPUs and traditional storage, claiming 5x the token throughput,…
Humility is in short supply in politics and business these days. Last night, it showed up in Hollywood of all places. A few presenters at this year’s Oscars ceremony made jokes at Donald Trump’s expense, without ever mentioning him by name. The real rebuke to the president, however—and to some other aspects of our current…
The SEC is working on a proposal to allow public companies to release earnings reports twice a year instead of quarterly, per the WSJ. Chatter about making the 50-plus-year-old quarterly requirement optional has picked up steam in the past year, as companies lament the cost and burden of preparing for quarterly earnings. The requirement is…
Industry analysts said memory chip prices have surged more than 300% over the past three months.
Sometimes, it’s the little details in a software update that make the biggest improvements. Google is rolling out a new feature for Chrome that will add a bookmark bar to the browser on Android foldables and tablets. Spotted by 9to5Google, this move will make the browsing experience on larger mobile devices more akin to that…
After a chaotic week following the Justice Department’s mid-trial settlement with Live Nation-Ticketmaster, the antitrust trial picked back up surprisingly smoothly on Monday — this time, with dozens of states leading the case. This isn’t the outcome the states originally wanted. Out of concerns about being able to effectively take over the case and fear…
Nvidia on Monday unveiled a deskside supercomputer powerful enough to run AI models with up to one trillion parameters — roughly the scale of GPT-4 — without touching the cloud. The machine, called the DGX Station, packs 748 gigabytes of coherent memory and 20 petaflops of compute into a box that sits next to a…
Alphabet’s self-driving car company is “kicking down the walls of an entrenched industry.” Uber, Lyft, and Tesla may have trouble keeping up. A new research note just named Waymo the “Kool-Aid man” of the ride-haling economy.
