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Thursday, 7 April 2016

Tesla Motors unveils its long-awaited $35K Model 3 electric car; IBM's resistive computing could massively accelerate AI; Nest to permanently brick Revolv smart home devices; and More

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April 7, 2016

If you're like us, then you're looking for information on technology in upwards of 50 different places. In a medium that's meant to be efficient, the Internet has yet to offer you a lot of efficiency. That's where ExtremeTech comes in.

Tesla Motors unveils its long-awaited $35K Model 3 electric car

After almost a decade of teases and promises, Tesla has finally unveiled the Model 3, a $35,000 sedan that aims to bring high-end electric cars to the masses.

IBM's resistive computing could massively accelerate AI

Neural networks have enabled a revolution in machine learning. IBM researchers show how resistive computing can be used to make them massively more powerful.

Nest to permanently brick Revolv smart home devices

Google's Nest division is shutting down a competitor it bought 17 months ago -- and deactivating the $299 smart home systems that those users purchased at the same time, with no plan to provide a replacement and in violation of the original company's lifetime guarantee.

PlayStation 4K could offer 'twice' the PS4's GPU horsepower

A post on the popular gaming forum NeoGAF claims the "PS4K" will feature a significantly more powerful GPU and support for the UHD Blu-ray standard.

Nvidia's Pascal GP100 GPU: massive bandwidth, enormous double-precision performance

Nvidia's new Pascal GPU debuted this week, and it's looking like an absolute monster for HPC workloads and double-precision floating point.

So metal: New alloys can prevent hydrogen embrittlement inside nuclear reactors

Even the best alloys can't last forever, so scientists applied statistical thermodynamics to materials science and found a better way to dope zirconium alloys to use in fuel rod cladding.

Archaeologists may have discovered additional Viking settlements in the New World

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a second Viking settlement in the New World. The site could change our understanding of how the Norse settled the North American continent.


	Jamie Lendino Managing Editor, ExtremeTech.com Follow me on Twitter: @jlendino

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Tesla Motors unveils its long-awaited $35K Model 3 electric car; IBM's resistive computing could massively accelerate AI; Nest to permanently brick Revolv smart home devices; and More

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