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What is Edge Presents: Game Changers? Presented by Edge magazine, Game Changers is a new editorial series that dives deeper into pivotal moments from console war history, from the original PlayStation launch in 1994, to Xbox’s billion-dollar red ring of death rescue plan. Each episode recaps the industry at the time (The Background), replays key moments as Edge magazine reported them (The Moment), delivers present-day interviews with those involved (The Inside Story) and considers the event's historical impact (What Happened Next?). A new episode of Game Changers will debut at 5pm GMT / 1pm EDT every day this week. Over the past 26 years, Sony has sold close to 550 million consoles and handhelds under the PlayStation brand name. In context, that’s around 1.7 consoles for every single person living in North America today. The Background: How did the video-game market look before the launch of PlayStation? Ken Kutaragi, the ‘father of the PlayStation’ and former chairman of … [Read more...] about Edge Magazine Presents: Game Changers – Sony invents the PlayStation

Launched at a time when demand is very high, Vietnam’s video conferencing software products still cannot compete with foreign products in the home market. Teachers and students have become used to video conferencing software, but they still face problems during study. Students complain they sometimes are thrown out of class because of unstable internet connections. Most schools still use Zoom for online teaching, though experts have warned of security problems and limitations in free versions. Many online conferencing solutions have been developed by Vietnamese firms, including Zavi by VNG, CoMeet by CMC TS, NetNam, iWay, FDS and DQN, and TranS by Nam Viet. CoMeet is a made-in-Vietnam software product with no interruption during conferences thanks to 100 percent use of domestic bandwidth with high customization features, tailored to every business. However, despite the appearance of a series of Vietnam’s video conferencing platforms, many schools and businesses still use … [Read more...] about Vietnamese-made video conferencing platforms not popular in home market, Zoom dominates

Since NVIDIA announced construction of the U.K.’s most powerful AI supercomputer — Cambridge-1 — Marc Hamilton, vice president of solutions architecture and engineering, has been (remotely) overseeing its building across the pond. The system, which will be available for U.K. healthcare researchers to work on pressing problems, is being built on NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD architecture for a whopping 400 petaflops of AI performance. Located at Kao Data, a data center using 100 percent renewable energy, Cambridge-1 would rank among the world’s top three most energy-efficient supercomputers on the latest Green500 list. The AI Podcast · NVIDIA’s Marc Hamilton on Building the Cambridge-1 Supercomputer During a Pandemic – Ep. 137 Hamilton points to the concentration of leading healthcare companies in the U.K. as a primary reason for NVIDIA’s decision to build Cambridge-1. AstraZeneca, GSK, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London, and Oxford Nanopore have … [Read more...] about NVIDIA’s Marc Hamilton on Building Cambridge-1 Supercomputer During Pandemic

Clip expresses gratitude toward doctors in COVID-19 fight A video clip comprising a series of paintings by children on doctors, who are called intimately as white blouse warriors during the COVID-19 fight, has been published recently by the Ministry of Health. The paintings by child artists are part of a campaign initiated by the Vietnamese Ministry of Health and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). They depict doctors as white-blouse soldiers who have relentlessly fought against the pandemic, through which children’s gratitude toward health workers is expressed. The video also conveys a message of solidarity in the fight against COVID-19./. 110 foreign experts to be isolated for COVID-19 combat The administration of Quang Ngai province, central Vietnam, has outlined plans to put a total of 110 foreign experts into isolation in concentrated places in an effort to prevent the potential spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The foreign experts are … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES MARCH 3

For more than a century, iconic camera manufacturer Leica has created lightweight cameras favoured by street photographer pioneers, and world-class optical lenses that represent German engineering at its best. It still continues to attract consumers aspiring to achieve “the Leica look”, characterised by moody black-and-whites or rich painterly colours. It was no wonder that in its race to the top of the ultra-competitive smartphone market, Chinese handset manufacturer Huawei approached Leica in 2014 about the possibility of a collaboration. As Benjamin Duck, Group Leader of Leica’s Optical Design Photo, said: “Leica has really looked at what our competitors are doing, because we are leaders, not followers. The fruit of their latest collaboration was unveiled at a global launch in London on Oct 16: The Huawei Mate 20 series. Considered by industry insiders as one of the most anticipated smartphones of the year, the Mate 20 series features triple Leica lenses. The … [Read more...] about Leica on Huawei collab: ‘By far the best phone camera system we’ve ever had’