Bitcoin Slides 12 Percent Amid Rising US Dollar

Cryptocurrencies plunged with bitcoin dropping more than 12 percent and ethereum 20 percent as rising US bond yields lifted the dollar broadly and hurt other safe assets that pay no income. Bitcoin fell as far as $33,447, its lowest since January 6.
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Podcast #75: Saving Citrus with NVIDIA AI

We've been covering a lot of edge use cases on the podcast and this week it's another one, but with an AI twist. The University of Florida is working with citrus growers to fight a terrible disease called "citrus greening" that kills off their trees. Professor Yiannis Ampatzidis, with the UF Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, has been working on intelligent sprayers that not only solve the problem but do so in a more ecologically friendly way. Thanks to a new relationship with NVIDIA and its Applied Research Accelerator Program,
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Supermicro 1023US-TR4 Server Review

The Supermicro 1023US-TR4 is a 1U server designed for organizations looking for a high-end solution in environments that can benefit from dense compute power like virtualization and cloud computing. The 1024US-TR4 comes equipped with an H11DSU-iN motherboard, which features dual-socket support for AMD EPYC series processors and up to 8TB Registered ECC DDR4 3200MHz SDRAM via its 32 DIMM slots. (more…)
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Acer Chromebook Spin 514 With AMD Ryzen 3000 C-Series Mobile Processor Launched Ahead of CES 2021

Acer Chromebook Spin 514 is priced in the US starting at $479 (roughly Rs. 35,000) and in EMEA markets starting at EUR 529 (roughly Rs. 47,400). It will be available in North America in February and in EMEA in March. Acer Chromebook Enterprise Spin 514, on the other hand, is priced in the US starting at $749 (roughly Rs. 54,800) and in EMEA starting at EUR 799 (roughl...
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