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MSI’s graphics card overclocking tool MSI Afterburner is used for graphics card monitoring, overclocking and voltage reduction. But its developer said earlier this month on the app’s Guru3D discussion forum that MSI hasn’t been paid for nearly a year, and its development is half-abandoned. MSI Afterburner was developed by Russian developer Alexey ‘Unwinder’ Nicolaychuk, who […]

Obese children as young as 12 years old may consider weight-loss pills, and severely obese children as young as 13 years old may consider metabolic or bariatric surgery, according to new guidelines released Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The guideline marks the first time the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends diet pills for

Getting an effective vaccine remains the safest way to prevent hospitalization for COVID-19. In the United States, some people refuse to be vaccinated for political reasons. The phenomenon of refusing or being able to be vaccinated but delaying vaccination is known as “vaccine hesitancy”. According to an international survey, the acceptance of the new crown

Dutch company Fairphone has announced that it will end support for its modular smartphone, the Fairphone 2, seven years after its release, in March 2023. Fairphone 2 was launched in October 2015 and is only available in the UK and Europe. It is designed and manufactured by an OEM factory in China and costs 525

Microsoft is in talks to invest tens of billions of dollars in OpenAI, valuing the hot AI startup at $29 billion. OpenAI developed ChatGPT, a chatbot prototype, and Dall-E, a text-to-image authoring tool. Under the terms of the financing, once OpenAI finds a way to make money from products like ChatGPT, Microsoft will keep three-quarters

In a report released Monday by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization, researchers found a significant increase in the ozone layer. The ozone layer is the region of the atmosphere 15 to 35 kilometers above the earth’s surface that absorbs harmful ultraviolet light, preventing it from reaching the surface. The ozone

Ant Group issued a statement last weekend confirming that Jack Ma is no longer the company’s controller. Ant-owned Alipay and WeChat Pay are two of the most popular mobile payment methods in China. Ant originally planned to conduct an IPO at the end of 2020, but it was suddenly called off on the eve of

Microsoft’s new text-to-speech model, VALL-E, can replicate anyone’s voice just by listening to a 3-second voice sample. VALL-E is a transformer-based text-to-speech model that represents a significant improvement over previous models, which took a long time to train to generate new sounds. Furthermore, the intonation, charisma (or charisma) and style of the voices are all

America’s lumberjacks have some of the happiest and most rewarding jobs on earth. Agriculture, logging and forestry workers have the highest self-reported levels of happiness and the lowest self-reported levels of stress, according to an analysis of the U.S. Department of Labor’s American Time Use Survey. The American Time Use Survey asks to record what

A team at Nagoya University in Japan has observed energy transfer from resonant electrons to whistler mode waves in space for the first time, confirming the effective wave growth theory. People often think that space is a perfect vacuum, but in fact this is a wrong impression, because the vacuum is filled with charged particles.

After entering 2023, Twitter’s layoffs continue. It fired dozens of employees from its Trust Safety team in its Singapore and Dublin offices, as well as staff who handled global content moderation and policing of hate speech, among other things. Elon Musk also fired Nur Azhar Bin Ayob, head of website integrity for Asia Pacific, and

Dell reportedly plans to stop using Chinese-made chips in its products by 2024 amid tensions between the U.S. and China. And before 2024, Dell will begin to significantly reduce the use of Chinese-made chips. Dell’s move is to promote the diversification of the supply chain on the one hand, and to respond to national security

In the era of short TikTok videos, anyone can be caught in a video and unknowingly become part of the entertainment. Many are now resisting the trend, chanting “don’t put me on video in 2023”. Public space has increasingly become an arena for content creation long before TikTok was born. As long as you go