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Xbox CEO Joins Federal Reserve’s Productivity And Jobs Task Force Amid Tumultuous Time

Xbox CEO Joins Federal Reserve’s Productivity And Jobs Task Force Amid Tumultuous Time https://ift.tt/SzyVoWR The United States central bank, the Federal Reserve, has announced new task forces to "advance the conduct of monetary policy," and its board has chosen Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to help guide one task force pertaining to AI, as part of a wider effort to help create jobs and keep prices stable. The new Productivity and Jobs task force will look into the "economic impact of new general-purpose technologies," including AI, to help the Fed make better policy decisions. Sharma is joined on this task force by billionaire businessman and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, along with Stanford University economics professor Charles I. Jones--he is currently on leave from the university to become a scholar-in-residence at the AI company Anthropic. Fed chairman Kevin Warsh said the new task forces are part of the group's "commitment to price stability a...

Switch 2 Will Support DLSS Upscaling And Hardware Ray Tracing, Nintendo Confirms

Switch 2 Will Support DLSS Upscaling And Hardware Ray Tracing, Nintendo Confirms https://ift.tt/C74WBDG

While Nintendo isn't intending to market the Switch 2 as high-performance hardware, the upcoming console still has quite a few new tricks up its sleeve, including Nvidia-powered DLSS upscaling and hardware ray tracing.

Nintendo confirmed the Switch 2's support for DLSS upscaling in a Q&A session following the Switch 2 direct. Takuhiro Dohta from Nintendo's Entertainment Planning and Development Department said the Switch 2 will use Nvidia's upscaling tech, and that it is "something that we will continue to use as we develop games."

"When it comes to the hardware, [the Switch 2] is able to output to a TV at a max of 4K," Dohta explained. "Whether or not the software developer is going to use that as a native resolution or get it to a smaller res and then upscale is something that the software developer can choose. I think it opens up a lot of options for the software developer."

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