Ratings agency Fitch on Tuesday downgraded the U.S. government's top credit rating to AA+ from AAA, citing an expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years as well as a high and growing general government debt burden.
They're easier to recycle, and chips come right off. Will they take off?
![Dissolving circuit boards in water sounds better than shredding and burning](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/Y8mCmrUQ0e.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Cool stuff!
Artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices are about 80% as fast as those from Nvidia Corp , with a future path to matching their performance, according a Friday report by an AI software firm.
![AMD's AI chips could match Nvidia's offerings, software firm says](https://partizle.com/pictrs/image/2a6054a6-1cf4-4222-b369-c1e8a5964df7.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
This article was mostly fluff but I haven't seen much ml talk.
I do wish nvidia had more competition, though I somewhat doubt AMD will offer it soon. Having competive performance in PyTorch is a good start.
Japan plans to stoke competition in smartphone app payments, dominated by Apple and Google, by banning major app store operators from forcing software developers to use the operators' own payment systems, a government panel said.
![Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone apps to competition](https://partizle.com/pictrs/image/1b416beb-9b81-4df2-b994-c2dda6276172.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I'd love apple products if they didn't make me feel compelled to be part of the ecosystem.
Edit: oops, just saw this was already posted in the news community a couple days ago