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A Polarised version of the black hole image sheds light on it’s magnetic fields

MIT Haystack Observatory is one of the 13 stakeholder institutions that constitute the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole. The EHT revealed today a new view of the massive object at the center of the M87 galaxy: how it looks in polarized light. This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure polarization, a signature of magnetic fields, this close to the edge of a black hole. The observations are key to explaining how the M87 galaxy, located 55 million light-years away, is able to launch energetic jets from its…

Budget ray tracing coming to laptops with the Nvidia RTX 3050 with 2048 CUDA cores

NVIDIA will soon be launching its GeForce RTX 3050 series graphics cards for both desktop and mobility platforms. The GeForce RTX 3050, in particular, has leaked out today in the form of its GPU-z screenshot which was posted over at Bilibili (via Videocardz). NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobility GPU is a budget laptop GPU, Features GA107 GPU With 2048 Cores & 4 GB GDDR6 Memory The specifications for both NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphics cards for the mobility platform were leaked out a few weeks back. We were able to confirm the most basic specifications and now we’ve got a…

The new Mi11 Ultra will be sporting a new cooling tech termed as “Phase Change”

Xiaomi is launching the Mi 11 Ultra on Monday, i.e, March 29. With just two days left for the event, the company has been revealing key features that coming with the device. Today, it has confirmed that the device will boast a full phase change cooling technology. The first device in the world to feature the new cooling design In a Weibo post, the company says that the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra will be the first device in the world to feature this cooling tech. If the company’s words are true, then an organic hydrocarbon material inside will change states…

Qualcomm releases the Snapdragon 780G. It packs 4x A78 cores and a speedy 3.3Gbps 5G modem

Qualcomm has revealed the latest chipset in its 7 Series, with the new Snapdragon 780G 5G Mobile Platform promising to cherry-pick some of the best tech from the more expensive Snapdragon 888 flagship. Expected to arrive in new Android phones sometime from Q2 2021, the Snapdragon 780G marks a number of “firsts” for the series, and looks likely to continue the trend of midrange devices to be arguably more exciting than their most expensive brethren. While it’s easy to throw everything and the kitchen sink at a four-figure flagship phone, it’s a whole lot harder to make something truly compelling…

Samsung releases a 512GB DDR5 memory module with HKMG DDR5 chips

Smartphones are starting to sport rather insane amounts of memory, up to 16GB in some places, but there is still lack of high density RAM for PCs, servers, and HPCs. Memory in those computers number in three digits but are mostly limited by how much RAM chips can be fit in a module. If you can cram more RAM in a single stick, you can have more memory in the same amount of slots, and Samsung’s new 512GB DDR5 DRAM module definitely breaks the barriers not just in capacity or speed but in the technology used. Samsung’s new module is…