Month: December 2024

In the Philippines and local online casino and sportsbetting firm Jade Entertainment and Gaming Technologies Incorporated has announced that its domain at JadeSportsBet.com has just introduced a host of special promotions and features.

The Manila-headquartered operator used an official press release published by European Gaming Media and Events to disclose that these offers are all part of a campaign to improve its customer acquisition and retention rates over the course of the upcoming year. The firm noted that this endeavor also now incorporates ‘improved margins’ on action from the ever-popular National Basketball Association (NBA) alongside the premiere of a new free-play platform ‘where users can enjoy playing basketball mini-games.’

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In the United Kingdom and the horseracing industry has reportedly been told that the government has no intention of launching a formal review into the nation’s Horserace Betting Levy before the end of the year.

According to a Thursday report from the Daily Mail newspaper, British horseracing has already lost an estimated £300 million ($407 million) due to the prolonged absence of crowds brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. The industry had purportedly been hoping that the government of Prime Minster Boris Johnson would allow it to claw back some of this cash by increasing the mandatory 10% duty locally-licensed bookmakers are charged on profits made from wagers that involve domestic races.

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Jacob was distinctly non-plussed by the tiny uptick that is Intel’s “new” 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh CPU, at least by the top Core i9 14900K chip. Might he be a bit more impressed if it ran at 9GHz?

That’s exactly what Asus’s overclocking team managed to achieve with the new 14900KF version, the one with the integrated graphics disabled. Well, exactly would be 9.04392GHz on a single Performance core courtesy of liquid helium, which just so happens to be a new world record (via Tom’s Hardware).

The full spec of the machine that achieved the full 9GHz includes an Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Apex Encore motherboard, 16GB of G.Skill Trident Z memory and a 1200W Enermax PSU. Oh, and that liquid helium, which is that little bit colder than the liquid nitrogen more commonly (a…

We reported just the other day that AMD’s AI GPU business has gone from zilch to about the same as its combined CPUs sales in less than a year. Well, the news from Intel isn’t quite so good. It looks like the Gaudi 3 AI chip is a flop.

Speaking to the usual throng of implausibly-well remunerated bean counters on the latest earnings call with investors and analysts, CEO Pat Gelsinger said that Intel will not now meet its modest target of selling $500 million worth of Gaudi 3 GPUs in 2024.

To put that into context, AMD recently revealed that it sold over $1.5 billion of its MI300 AI chips in September, while Nvidia is likely to exceed that $500 million figure for Gaudi 3 by a factor of over 100 in 2024. In short, Gaudi 3 has made almost no impact.

Gelsinger also reveal…