Kevin Martin

I write code for a living. Die-hard curious.

[AMD Gaming @AMDGaming]

Old rivalries will be settled…

Rainbow Road will be revisited…

Oddjob will be unfairly selected…

All starting on July 28th, the official launch date for M64.

The M64 can be played with all your original cartridges and controllers, and is available for purchase on July 28th, along with ModRetro's own controller and 4 launch titles.

Learn More: https://t.co/iZNSdxcs87

[Jake Fitzgerald @earthtojake]

Introducing step . parts, an open source directory of 12,000+ STEP parts for your next CAD project

Many CAD tools like Autodesk have huge closed libraries of standard mechanical and electrical parts

The goal is to build an equivalent catalog for the open source CAD community

[The Rest Is Science @RestIsScience]

Welcome to The Rest Is Science! Whether you’re a lifelong science fan or just naturally curious, join mathematician Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (aka Vsauce) as they dig into the scientific questions that often go unexplored!

[Valve @valvesoftware]

Announcing: New @Steam Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: https://t.co/TUKoZdzn9B

[Halen Mattison @HalenMattison]

McMaster-Carr is going to make McMaster-Cards (!!!)

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

EA is reportedly close to a $50 billion deal to go private

The group of investors include Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund

(via: Wall Street Journal)

[Home Assistant @home_assistant]

Happy 12th birthday to us!! 🥳 Today we're celebrating the first PR made to the Home Assistant project by highlighting YOU, the community, and how the things you build keep this project growing. 😌

We may also have a couple of surprises for you! 👀 Read more - link in reply 🧵

[Framework @FrameworkPuter]

One of you must have sabotaged our office printer to force us to make one. There is no way HP is actually shipping printers that are this broken.

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

Here's a great example from @GrassValleyLive. They proudly talk about their fast H.264 decoder (from FFmpeg) in Linkedin marketing yet violate FFmpeg's licence and ship FFmpeg as "nonfree and unredistributable"

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

@benjibee We write code that is a substantial portion of Earth's compute. We have earned our opinions.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Announcing The Stargate Project

The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.

The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.

Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.

As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.

This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.

All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Kevin Martin @Inobtenio]

🐐

[𝐋𝐂𝐋 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫 @lclflavor]

On October 4, 1995, the first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion was aired in Japan.

Happy 29th anniversary, Evangelion!

[Kevin Martin @Inobtenio]

*Stares Motherfuckally*

[Memes Universidad Nacional @nacional_memes]

Jajajajajajajajajajajajaaj

[Linus Tech Tips @LinusTech]

Scrapyard Wars has a release date: July 23rd!

It’ll be live on Floatplane tomorrow at 4 PM PDT if you can't wait till Tuesday!

Get early access and a ton of extras at https://t.co/x20h0ouGnF

[HTC @htc]

2024.6.12
Coming soon
#ALLFORU #HTC

[Kevin Martin @Inobtenio]

@LaPlayerDos @DamianIsnardi @Lehu_SA @MrRocknGuns @TheOldVilla @EHR_11 @DamianIsnardi vas a pagar por lo de ayer

[Andrew Hutchings @LinuxJedi]

I thought this was fake when I saw it on Facebook, but it is a real Spotify playlist! 🤣
https://t.co/WESgv4ZGnR

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

The two Chinese labs working on replicating LK-99 appear to have found a room-temperature superconductor.

At first blush, here's what's different from last time:

• it's more like "room temperature" than room temperature, the paper says 250K which is -10 F or -23 C. That's still HUGE IF TRUE, because we can get things that cold with liquid nitrogen

• we have actually discovered a superconductor at this temperature before, but it was at high pressure. This paper says it's potentially superconductive AT AMBIENT, NORMAL PRESSURE

• it has *already* replicated, with two separate labs in China confirming the results. Last time the big question was "will it replicate." And the answer this time seems to be "it already has"