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Spotify indefinitely postponed its high-quality music service
High expectations have been generated around him Spotify, after knowing a project that would bring high-quality audio to the streaming platform.
Despite the advancement of other competing platforms with the implementation of some sound technology that allows lossless audio transmission, the Swedish music service discreetly reported the indefinite postponement of this project.
Spotify lags behind with lossless audio
The arrival of audio lossless a Spotify was announced at the beginning of 2021 to be released at the end of the same. At the end of the year, its postponement was announced without providing further details.
In the meantime, their direct competition advanced on this issue. Several sources of the technological medium point out that Spotify eventually delayed its launch due to the premiere of the lossless music catalog of Apple Music with Spatial Audio and Dolby Atmos, without charging additional charges to its subscribers.
Steps similar to those of Apple were taken by Amazon Music, a platform that also launched a similar service, also at no additional cost to its customers. Apparently, this strongly influenced Spotify, since initially their plans contemplated charging an additional charge to the Premium plan to unlock a music catalog hi-fi.
The suspense surrounding the future of Spotify in this area was recently dispelled. Through a thread Of conversation in an official forum of the community of this platform, the classification of this project to “under consideration” was notified, putting in doubt not only its release date, but also its complete continuity. “We know that HiFi quality audio is important to you. We feel the same, and we are excited to bring a Spotify HiFi experience to Premium users in the future. But we don’t have time details to share yet. Of course, we’ll update it here when we can “, pointed out from the company.
If the project is resumed and specified, it will be an exclusive function for users subscribed to Spotify Premium, as confirmed by the previous announcement. Meanwhile, audiophiles will continue to have other alternatives to consume high-quality sound content, apart from Spotify.
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Software
Windows artificial intelligence will become much smarter. Copilot system will switch to GPT-4 Turbo

Microsoft’s Copilot assistant, integrated into Windows 11, will soon move to the GPT-4 Turbo language model.
General Director of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, Mikhail Parakhin, said that the company still needs to correct some shortcomings. However, no time frame for the transition has been announced yet.
As a reminder, GPT-4 Turbo features a large number of improvements relative to GPT-4, including a context window for 128,000 tokens. True, with Copilot it may well be limited.
In addition, this language model is trained on data up to April 2023, which gives it an advantage over older versions.
Components
A pocket-sized video card that can also accommodate an SSD. OneXGPU is finally out on Indiegogo for $600

The OneXGPU external video card has finally become available for order. The company has entered Indiegogo, and anyone can now buy the device as part of a fundraising campaign.
The campaign price is $600. At retail, the device will cost $790, which is more expensive than a similar product from GPD. However, let us remind you that OneXGPU is not just an external video card with a large set of ports. There is a slot for an M.2 SSD, so all games can be stored directly on the video card.
Let us remind you that the OneXGPU is based on the mobile Radeon RX 7600M XT, which is identical in basic parameters to the desktop RX 7600. It is worth noting that in this case the TDP is 120 W. The dimensions of the device are 188 × 106 × 16 mm and weighs 789 g. You can also note a USB4 port, a pair of HDMI, a pair of DisplayPort, RJ45 and two USB 3.2. Active CO with an evaporation chamber is responsible for cooling. The Oculink port is used to connect to a PC or console, but USB4 can also be used.
The company promises deliveries in early 2024. The campaign, by the way, is already successful: with the requested $10,000, more than $110,000 has already been collected, and there is still a whole month left.
News
Nvidia and Amazon will create a supercomputer called Ceiba with a performance of 65 ExaFLOPS. But this performance is not FP32 or FP64

Nvidia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the expansion of their strategic cooperation, which will also include the construction of the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer, Ceiba.
Ceiba will have 16,384 GH200 Superchips and will have a performance of an incredible 65 ExaFLOPS. True, it’s worth saying right away that this is performance specifically in AI tasks, that is, we are not talking about calculations with double or single precision. There is no data on classical indicators.
But this is not all that expansion of cooperation will consist of. Amazon will also use the latest Nvidia adapters for its Amazon EC2 service. We are talking about accelerators GH200, H200, L40S and L4. Overall, the press release said the companies will combine the best of their technologies—from Nvidia’s latest multi-node systems with next-generation GPUs, processors, and AI software, to the advanced virtualization and security of the AWS Nitro system, Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) interconnect, and UltraCluster.
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