Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Lego's new Lord of the Rings set puts Sauron's head on your shelf
Lego The Lord of the Rings: Sauron's helmet set announced and up for pre-order, with a Sauron bust and minifigure.
The top 10 best Ice King Adventure Time episodes, ranked
A list celebrating the very best of Ice King, one of the most iconic and complex characters in Adventure Time.
A powerful AMD gaming desktop is hundreds off at Costco
Given that RAM has become so expensive to buy recently, you might have considered buying a prebuilt desktop computer. If so, and you’re leaning toward a high-end gaming model, Costco has a model that’s an impressive value at $1,999.99 ($300 off) for members through February 8th. It’s an all-AMD, liquid-cooled machine built into Asus’ ROG […]
Microsoft’s latest AI chip goes head-to-head with Amazon and Google
Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, Microsoft says its Maia 200 AI accelerator "delivers 3 times the FP4 performance of the third generation Amazon Trainium, and FP8 performance above Google's seventh generation TPU." Each Maia 200 chip has more than 100 […]
A brief history of pooping in Game of Thrones
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms raises an interesting question: Where do people poop in Westeros?