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Ampere has slipped a new Altra developer kit into its catalog, with software creators firmly in its sights.

Revealed in a tweet from the company’s head of edge, Joe Speed, the Altra Dev Kit, described by the company as an IoT prototype kit, is based on the Altra and is available in 32-core, 64-core, and 80-core formats costing $2,003, $2,518, and $2,621 respectively.

According to Ampere, the modules have been designed specifically with industrial embedded applications in mind, where long life, low failure rate, and strict revision control are all important.

Ampere Altra Dev Kit

At its heart are SoCs with either 32, 64, or 80 64-bit ARMv8.2 cores, which promise 1.7GHz, 2.2GHz, or 2.6GHz respectively.

Its COM-HPC Server base uses as many as three x16 and two x4 PCIe slots, two M.2 connectors, and four USB 3.0/2.0 ports. A further Gigabit Ethernet LAN port and GPIOs round up the Dev Kit’s connectivity, allowing a maximum of 768GB of DDR4 memory.

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On top of the Dev Kit, Ampere is also offering a pre-build Developer Platform with the same number of cores ($3,250, $4,200, and $4,784) with a three to four week lead time, along with a 128-core version ($5,658) with a six to eight week wait time. Each also has the option to add a further four 10GbE LAN ports to the single GbE LAN port, though many of the models have sold out currently.

From the box, the Dev Platform runs Ubuntu Server OS however other operating systems are compatible including consumer-focused Windows.

While the 750W power unit does present a pretty hefty environmental consideration, Ampere will offer an optional liquid cooling assembly.

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There's no question that Apple is hard at work on its latest next-gen silicon, the Apple M3 chip, but if a new report is correct, then it'll be a lot more advanced than we realized.

It has long been speculated that Apple would be going with TSMC's 3nm process for its M3-series chips, but it looks like Apple will skip this iteration entirely and go for TSMC's N3E, which is a more advanced 3nm process at the Taiwanese chip foundry.

The report from the China Times, via Wccftech, indicates that Apple will be the first customer to use this process node and that it will use it for both the M3 chip expected to power the next MacBook Air and iPad Pro. 

It might also be using the advanced 3nm node for its A17 Bionic chip, which is what will power a future iPhone and non-pro iPad, but as with all things Apple, take everything with a grain of salt. This company in particular is about as tight-lipped as a Skull & Bones member during pledge week.

What an advanced 3nm process might mean for the MacBook Air

It was initially thought that the Apple M2 chip announced in 2022 would be fabbed on a 3nm process, but that turned out to not be the case. Whether that's because of lingering issues around Covid and supply chains isn't known, but Apple went with 5nm for both M1 and M2 chips, and it undoubtedly didn't get the performance gains from M2 it was hoping for.

The M2 chip is impressive, sure, but its performance improvement over the M1 chip was a fairly standard gen-on-gen refresh. A jump to 3nm though would be much more substantial, actually offering a compelling reason to make the jump from an M1 MacBook Air to an M3 MacBook Air.

Personally, I think the MacBook Air (M1) is still the best laptop for most users thanks to its phenomenal performance, excellent battery life, and even better pricing. The price increase for the MacBook Air (M2) is hard to justify, in my opinion, given the modest increase in performance over its predecessor.

That could very well change with the jump to TSMC's N3E, which should bring a substantial improvement to performance on the order of 30% or more, as well as even better battery life. Given how poor sales of the M2 Mac lineup have been in the past year, Apple really needs to give people a better reason to switch than a bland redesign and some fancy marketing.

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A new survey carried by Onepulse on behalf of TechRadar Pro has highlighted how mainstream generative AI tools have become in less than a year. 

Out of the 890 US and UK respondents that completed our survey, a staggering 27% had tried ChatGPT, with another 12% having used one of several other generative AI tools (Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Replika, Midjourney, Night Cafe etc).

Since its reached general availability in November 2022, traffic to OpenAI, the virtual birthplace of ChatGPT, has surged to help it become one of the most popular websites in the world. According to web analytics service Similarweb, OpenAI jumped from 51st place in January, to 27th in February and 18th in March 2023, sandwiched between VK.com, Russia’s largest social network and Reddit.

The service registered more than 1.6 billion visits last month, a 55% improvement over the previous month and data from Similarweb highlights how sticky ChatGPT is with average visit durations of more than five minutes and nearly seven pages per visits. It will be interesting to see how sustainable its growth is amidst growth pangs (service outage) and various mishaps (such as Samsung).

The introduction of paid services hasn’t dampened the appetite for AI tools

Given that we’re at the beginning of an AI journey, it’s surprising to see that a sizable minority (around 5%) of those who answered our survey are daily users of one or more AI services - and that number jumps to about 15% when accounting for those using AI tools several times per week.

The introduction of paid services hasn’t yet dampened the appetite for AI tools, and it is likely that businesses will jump on that bandwagon in a bid to, ahem, reduce costs by replacing jobs with automation and chatbots where possible.

Our last question, “Do you think that generative AI will replace your job”, saw a slim majority of participants answering a straight “no” with 5.5% of the overall set acknowledging that AI will probably make them redundant in the next year or so. Quite bleak indeed.

390 users of Onepulse answered the question in the UK, while 500 others answered our three questions in the US.

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It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints. And you might need them - because this popular online game takes the Wordle format and quadruples the difficulty. So if you already find yourself searching for Wordle hints, you'll probably need some for Quordle too. 

I'm a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who's been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Quordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Quordle hints to game #440 and bookmark this page so you can easily return. 

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. 

Quordle today (game #440) - hint #1 - Vowels

How many different vowels are in Quordle today?

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 3*.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too). 

Quordle today (game #440) - hint #2 - total vowels

What is the total number of vowels in Quordle today?

• The total number of vowels across today's Quordle answers is 6.

Quordle today (game #440) - hint #3 - repeated letters

Do any of today's Quordle answers contain repeated letters?

• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 3.

Quordle today (game #440) - hint #4 - total letters

How many different letters are used in Quordle today?

• The total number of different letters used in Quordle today is 13.

Quordle today (game #440) - hint #5 - uncommon letters

Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?

• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today's Quordle answers.

Quordle today (game #440) - hint #6 - starting letters (1)

Do any of today's Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?

• The number of today's Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.

If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you're not ready yet then here's one more clue to make things a lot easier:

Quordle today (game #440) - hint #7 - starting letters (2)

What letters do today's Quordle answers start with?

• V

• C

• P

• G

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #440) - the answers

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The answers to today's Quordle, game #440, are…

• VERGE
• CAMEL
• PUTTY
• GRASS

Another day, another Quordle. And this one appears to have a theme to it - well, to an extent. 

Here goes: VERGE and GRASS go together easily, no explanation needed there. CAMEL? Well, camels eat grass right? Do they? I'm actually not sure. Maybe they prefer hay or something. But I'm sure they'd eat grass if they had the chance. 

And PUTTY? Well, this is even more tenuous but, well, someone on a golf green might be PUTTY when they're using their putter. No? Fair enough, I'm just trying to inject some fun into proceedings.

Not that there's any problem with today's Quordle as such, it's just that it's a fairly standard one without any particularly notable features, and there's only so many times you can say that before your mind starts to wander. There are some repeated letters (three of them in total), but otherwise it's just a standard Quordle, and I solved it with two guesses remaining.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

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Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #439, Saturday 8 April: CRUEL, LIVID, SPIED, BLEND
• Quordle #438, Friday 7 April: RIVET, VISOR, CEASE, AFOOT
• Quordle #437, Thursday 6 April: COVEY, BREAK, AWASH, STALK
• Quordle #436, Wednesday 5 April: SKULL, POLAR, SPREE, THOSE
• Quordle #435, Tuesday 4 April: OUNCE, WHINE, FROCK, POSIT
• Quordle #434, Monday 3 April: TURBO, WHOLE, LIGHT, SPRIG
• Quordle #433, Sunday 2 April: WHOSE, SUPER, SHARK, FABLE
• Quordle #432, Saturday 1 April: GODLY, MOTOR, EPOXY, HEART
• Quordle #431, Friday 31 March: CHOIR, TUBAL, SCOUR, PARRY
• Quordle #430, Thursday 30 March: ALIBI, REACH, ACRID, QUARK
• Quordle #429, Wednesday 29 March: MOIST, BRAND, FAITH, ADMIN
• Quordle #428, Tuesday 28 March: SUGAR, FIBRE, DITTY, TRIAD
• Quordle #427, Monday 27 March: READY, REVUE, BELOW, HASTE
• Quordle #426, Sunday 26 March: AWAIT, DROVE, MORAL, REEDY
• Quordle #425, Saturday 25 March: AWOKE, THESE, LEASE, DITTO
• Quordle #424, Friday 24 March: COUCH, APRON, BROTH, TITHE
• Quordle #423, Thursday 23 March: CROSS, SAUCE, DOING, USUAL
• Quordle #422, Wednesday 22 March: FAULT, ADAGE, SOOTH, HABIT
• Quordle #421, Tuesday 21 March: WRING, SCRAP, THIRD, NOBLE
• Quordle #420, Monday 20 March: BISON, BOTCH, ABHOR, GLINT

Quordle FAQs: Everything you need to know

What is Quordle?

Where Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day, Quordle presents you with four puzzles to solve. And rather than complete them in turn, you do so simultaneously. You get nine guesses, rather than the six for Wordle, but the rules are otherwise very similar. 

It's played online via the Quordle website and you can also get to it via the Merriam-Webster site, after the dictionary purchased Quordle last year. 

As with Wordle, the answers are the same for every player each day, meaning that you're competing against the rest of the world. And also as with Wordle, the puzzle resets at midnight so you have a fresh challenge each day.

The website also includes a practice mode - which I definitely recommend using before attempting the game proper! - and there are daily stats including a streak count. You also get Quordle Achievements - specific badges for winning a game in a certain number of turns, playing lots of times, or guessing particularly hard words.

Oh, and it's difficult. Really difficult.

What are the Quordle rules?

The rules of Quordle are almost identical to those of Wordle.

1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.

2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow. 

3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray…

4. …BUT the word you guess appears in all quadrants of the puzzle at the same time, so an A could turn green in one square, yellow in another and gray in the final two. 

5. Answers are never plural.

6. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.

7. Each guess must be a valid word in Quordle's dictionary. You can't guess ABCDE, for instance.

8. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses and there is no equivalent of Wordle's Hard mode.

9. You have nine guesses to find the Quordle answers.

10. You must complete the daily Quordle before midnight in your timezone.

What is a good Quordle strategy?

Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can't blindly throw letters at it and expect to win - you'll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.

That's the case in Wordle too, of course, but it's even more important in Quordle.

There are two key things to remember. 

1. Use several starting words

Firstly, you won't want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words. 

The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.

For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options - you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe - but something like that should do the trick.

If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!

2. Narrow things down

Secondly, if you're faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options - for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH - you'll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options. 

In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It's risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it's the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure - you simply don't have enough guesses.

In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.

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Just days after a report from Goldman Sachs saying that 300 million jobs could be at risk of being replaced by so-called generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or solutions from Google or Microsoft (and others), data collected by TechRadar Pro shows that search around jobs most at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence has increased by an order of magnitude since November 2022 when ChatGPT opened up to the general public.

Not surprisingly, programmers were the ones most attuned to the risk of losing out to AI with will chatgpt replace programmers, will ai replace programmers and can chatgpt replace programmers seeing search queries increase by almost 20x over the past four months to tens of thousands of searches per month. 

It’s almost been two years since Microsoft released Copilot on Github, a tool developed with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which helps programmers code better and as of February 2023, accounts for almost half of all the code written on Github (up from 27% in June 2022).

Artists have also been particularly intrigued by the arrival of a plethora of AI tools like Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion or Adobe Firefly, tools that offer a new sort of challenge for thousands of freelancers, small businesses, creatives and professionals worldwide. Search for will ai replace artists shot up by 3100% but even that was dwarfed by the 64x rise in search for will AI replace designers.

AI will surpass human beings at, well, being what makes us humans at the core

Large language models and chatbots that can not only converse like humans do (ChatGPT has passed the Turing test) but can also deliver results in a variety of forms (images, text, audio, videos).

And yes, there’s some buzz amongst a lot of my colleagues as to how this new technology can help empower rather than replace journalists, how it can become an exoskeleton for us humans rather than a super soldier. Fittingly enough, we’ve also written a best AI writer buying guide.

The common denominator of the above job categories is creativity and it seems inevitable that given enough time and resources, AI will surpass human beings at, well, being what makes us humans at the core, our ability to create new things using nothing more than our imagination and life experience.

Other jobs singled out during my keyword research include software designers, graphic designers, web developers but also accountants, lawyers, data analysts, radiologists and doctors. I used an SEO keyword tool called Keywordtool.io to extract the data from Google global search database with the latest numbers as of the end of February 2023.

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