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Intel Arc desktop GPUs are coming in Q2, but don’t expect them to end the GPU shortage

Enlarge / Intel Arc GPUs. (credit: Intel) Intel’s Arc GPUs continue to creep closer to release. At an investor meeting yesterday, Intel reiterated that it would be shipping mobile Arc GPUs based on its Alchemist architecture in the first quarter of 2022 and that desktop GPUs would follow at some point in Q2. Workstation GPUs […]

The omicron variant is a mystery. Here’s how science will solve it

Enlarge (credit: Remko De Waal | Getty Images) Starting last Friday, the race was on—between a virus and information about it. And for a while, the information moved faster, even though there was hardly any of it. Scientists in South Africa identified a new variant of the virus that causes Covid-19—within days the World Health […]

Infectious disease experts are very excited about the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine

As news broke of a successful trial of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine on Monday morning, the reaction of epidemiologists and virologists came pouring in. Reader, they’re excited. Always a cautious bunch, scientists—so far, reaction skews European and U.K. heavy as the U.S. wakes up to the news—measured their words, but some, like Cambridge University’s Gordon […]