Intel Arc Pro B70 performance metrics: significantly faster than Nvidia’s RTX 4000 Pro at half the price and 33% more VRAM

Intel launched yesterday the Arc Pro B65 and B70 high-performance workstation GPUs aimed at AI LLM training / inference without providing specific performance info in the initial press release. A few hours later, the company released performance charts that compare the B70 model to Nvidia’s RTX 4000 Pro GPUs, which are a few years oldContinue Reading

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More than 250,000 people flee Lebanon in two weeks, with 125,000 crossing into Syria, including 7,000 Lebanese citizens., More than 250,000 people flee Lebanon in two weeks, with 125,000 crossing into Syria, including 7,000 Lebanese citizens. A man with his wife, displaced from Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, shelter fromContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by High Country News. The images of towering clouds of black smoke rising from petroleum facilities in and around Tehran after U.S. and Israeli forces bomb them horrify observers who understand the toxic implications and consequences for the environment and the millions of people whoContinue Reading

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The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and heContinue Reading

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This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Chromebooks are scattered all around the classrooms of Floyd M. Jewett Elementary School in Mesick, Michigan. Towers of them are teetering atop bookshelves. They’re piled up in corners of classrooms. They’ve even cropped up in one classroom’sContinue Reading

Iraq is seeing the worst of the Middle East crisis as its heavily oil-dependent economy is now collapsing with the trickling oil revenues amid the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz.  Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest oil producer behind Saudi Arabia, has done very little in recent decades to diversify its heavy dependence on oil…Continue Reading

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commentary Unusually timed trades around The Traitor’s Iran announcement have raised questions about who knew what and when Published March 26, 2026 9:25AM (EDT) Oil futures trading soared on March 23 just before President Traitor 47 announced “productive” peace talks with Iran (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Twenty-two years ago aContinue Reading