(PR) Team Group Collaborates With B&H Photo Capturing the Creator Market, Fueling th

Team Group announced its partnership with B&H PHOTO, a leading U.S. retailer of photo and video equipment. Founded in New York in 1973, B&H is renowned in the industry for its professional photo and video equipment, exceptional service, and fast logistics. With over 50 years of expertise in the U.S. market, B&H brings extensive experience in market operations and a sophisticated understanding of consumer demand, leveraging insight to anticipate market shifts, identify emerging trends, and deliver products and services that resonate with American consumers. Team Group and B&H will drive growth in the U.S. professional photography and videography market, offering creators unparalleled solutions and support.

Team Group has achieved remarkable success in the U.S. market over the years, having established a strong presence initially through e-commerce for many years. With the rise of the Creator Era, Team Group leveraged its robust research and design capabilities to launch the T-CREATE brand in 2020, which aims to unlock the creators' limitless potential through innovative technology. The U.S. is a vibrant market for multimedia producers, attracting pioneering professionals who demand the highest quality in creative production and photography equipment. This market represents immense potential and business opportunities. Team Group is well-positioned to meet the ever-evolving needs of creators in the U.S. market. Read full story


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Neuralink Gets FDA Go-ahead for Developing Device that Lets Blind-from-birth People

Neuralink, the company founded by Elon Musk that's working on brain user interfaces, announced that it received US-FDA device designation for a neural implant that lets visually impaired people see. Neuralink is calling this device "Blindsight." This paves the way for the public to participate in the development of the device. The device lets those with full vision loss, including damaged optic nerves, to see, provided that the brain's visual cortex is intact. Commenting on the development, Musk set expectations for what the very first version of the device is capable of—it interfaces with the visual cortex, and lets visually impaired people, including those that have been blind from birth, see for the first time, however, this vision is of low resolution—resembling "Atari graphics," as Musk puts it. It's what he said next that is raising eyebrows.

If Neuralink succeeds in building and deploying the first generation of "Blindsight," Musk says that future generations of the device will only grow in resolution, and acquire capabilities such as seeing the electromagnetic spectrum beyond natural human perception, such as infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar waves—something Geordi La Forge, the chief engineer of the USS Enterprise in the cult sci-fi show "Star Trek: The Next Generation" does, with his device called simply "the visor."


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Schedule a PowerShell Script with SQL Server Agent

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There are many ways to schedule a PowerShell script to run within windows. The most common way is to use task scheduler however if your PowerShell script is invoking SQL commands, I find it is best to use the SQL server agent to schedule the job. This keeps all of your database based scripts in one place. This is very important when it comes time to upgrade or migrate the server. I will go over how to schedule the script in SQL Server 2016 as well as add email notifications and output to a text file.

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AMD Outs Adrenalin Preview Driver for GoW Ragnarok and Frostpunk 2

AMD today released a preview driver that provides optimization for a couple of new games, and fixes a few issues. Preview Driver version 24.20.11.01 adds optimization for &quot;God of War: Ragnarök,&quot; &quot;Frostpunk 2,&quot; and the DirectX 11 mode of &quot;Sims 4.&quot; It also extends Radeon Boost support for &quot;Final Fantasy XVI.&quot; HYPR-Tune support is extended to &quot;Black Myth: Wukong,&quot; &quot;God of War Ragnarök,&quot; and &quot;Creatures of Ava.&quot; HYPR-Tune now autoconfigures Anti-Lag 2 in &quot;Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut.&quot;

The drivers also address intermittent driver crashes when playing &quot;Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2,&quot; including crashes when loading maps on RX 5000 series GPUs. Driver crashes on &quot;Final Fantasy XVI&quot; have also been fixed. The bug that causes overly dark shadows in &quot;Black Myth: Wukong&quot; with medium-high global illumination settings, has been fixed. AV falling out of sync during AV1 codec playback has been fixed.

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(PR) ASUS Zenbook DUO (2024) and ASUS ProArt PZ13 Laptops Win Silver at IDEA 2024

ASUS today announced that the Zenbook DUO (2024) (UX8406) and ProArt PZ13 (HT5306) laptops won Silver Awards in the Consumer Technology category at the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2024. Additionally, eight more ASUS products were named as finalists, marking 2024 as the company's most successful year at IDEA. This strong showing underlines the company's dedication to redefining user experiences through innovative design that balances aesthetics and technological excellence.

ASUS Zenbook DUO (2024) also earned a spot in the permanent collection of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, highlighting the ingenuity of the world's first AI-powered 14-inch dual-screen laptop. The museum, a longstanding partner of the IDEA awards, adds select award-winning products to its permanent collection every year. Read full story


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Beyerdynamic Extends its Wireless In-ear and Over-ear Headphone Series

At this year's IFA, beyerdynamic, celebrating its 100th anniversary extended its portfolio of audio products with three brand-new models: the AMIRON 100 and AMIRON 300 in-ear models, and the AVENTHO 300 over-ear wireless headphones. All three products feature ANC technology and high-quality drivers, covering the everyday needs of users who value sound quality and functionality in various scenarios—at home, during remote work, while commuting, or enjoying outdoor sports.

The AMIRON 100 is a lightweight, in-ear headphone offering high-quality sound, active noise cancellation (ANC), and Bluetooth 5.3 with LC3 codec. Weighing just 4.15 g per earpiece (without the included five silicone ear tips in sizes XS to XL), it ensures a comfortable fit and features automatic play/pause functionality. The battery lasts up to eight hours (six hours with ANC), with an additional 19 hours from the charging case. A 15-minute charge in the case provides another three hours of use. Read full story


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Crucial MX500 SSD Firmware M3CR046 Vulnerable to Buffer Overflow Attacks

One of the most popular SATA SSD brands, the Crucial MX500, has a vulnerability in its firmware version M3CR046. Apparently, specific ATA packets issued from the host can trigger a buffer overflow in the drive, cause data leaks. The vulnerability has been chronicled as CVE-2024-42642. At this point we're not sure if older versions of firmware for the MX500 are affected. M3CR046 happens to be the latest firmware version we could see in the Crucial Storage Executive app, which means the company is still working on a firmware update.


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(PR) GameMax Introduces the Innovative N80 Chassis Featuring an Independent Dual-Cha

GameMax, an emerging brand of PC gaming components including gaming cases and power supply units, is thrilled to introduce the innovative N80 panoramic dual-chamber chassis. The GameMax N80 features an innovative design that's both functional and aesthetic that's unlike most panoramic cases today. The GameMax N80 features a split dual chamber design creating two compartments with independent cooling. The opening between the lower and upper chambers allows colder fresh air to enter the upper chamber which greatly improves cooling compared to typical case designs. The N80 also features a panoramic curved clear glass panel providing a view of the interior. Read full story


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Destiny 2 Developer Looks to Alternative Game Formats and Pivots Game's Update Strat

Over the years, Destiny 2's popularity has waxed and waned, once peaking at over 300,000 players per month and subsequently settling at around 35,000 players, with annual updates often resulting in an influx of returning and new players. Now, according to a blog post from Bungie, the developer claims that Destiny 2 will adopt a new content delivery strategy and look to a combination of non-linear narratives and new game formats, like &quot;rogue-likes or survival shooters&quot; for future content updates.

In the blog post celebrating the Destiny franchise's 10th anniversary, Bungie details how the company will be moving away from large, yearly explanations containing one-shot stories. Instead, with the new content delivery strategy, which Bungie calls Codename: Frontiers, the free-to-play RPG will get two expansions per year and four major free content updates every year. Read full story


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(PR) Rambus Announces Industry-First HBM4 Controller IP to Accelerate Next-Generatio

Rambus Inc., a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today announced the industry's first HBM4 Memory Controller IP, extending its market leadership in HBM IP with broad ecosystem support. This new solution supports the advanced feature set of HBM4 devices, and will enable designers to address the demanding memory bandwidth requirements of next-generation AI accelerators and graphics processing units (GPUs).

&quot;With Large Language Models (LLMs) now exceeding a trillion parameters and continuing to grow, overcoming bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and capacity is mission-critical to meeting the real-time performance requirements of AI training and inference,&quot; said Neeraj Paliwal, SVP and general manager of Silicon IP, at Rambus. &quot;As the leading silicon IP provider for AI 2.0, we are bringing the industry's first HBM4 Controller IP solution to the market to help our customers unlock breakthrough performance in their state-of-the-art processors and accelerators.&quot; Read full story


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