Mark Tyson
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Modular laptop trailblazer Framework has made some big new product announcements at the GDC 2023. Where previously the DIY-friendly laptop maker had one Intel-based 13-inch model, it has now launched a 16-inch device – and thrown the option of AMD Ryzen processors into the mix. One more surprise announcement, was of...
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Graphics chip maker NVIDIA and game developer CD Projekt Red have showcased a stunning new version of Cyberpunk 2077 at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco as promised. The key change to this already graphically glorious PC gaming title is the implementation of path tracing. This means that ray...
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Lenovo has updated its Legion Slim series gaming laptops to their 8th generation. This latest generation of powerful yet svelte gaming laptops is notable for a handful of firsts; they are the first to feature Lenovo’s AI chips for real-time system optimization, the family includes a 14-inch option for the first time...
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Today, computer networking pioneer Bob Metcalf has been recognized for the creation of Ethernet, receiving one of the highest honors of the computing world. MIT graduate Metcalfe has been named by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as the winner of the 2022 A.M Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel...
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A ray tracing technique known as path tracing looks set to make it to mainstream PC gaming, thanks to an SDK release by NVIDIA today. Implementing real-time path tracing is claimed by the graphics centric firm to be “the next frontier in video game graphics.” With an SDK available, we should start to see this...
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Gigabyte has revealed more than it should have in the release notes accompanying a utility software release. The latest Gigabyte Control Center release is claimed to support RGB features of the “GV-N4070AERO OC-12GD/ GV-N4060GAMING OC-8GD products.” These Ada Lovelace architecture graphics cards have not been...
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We may have just caught our first glimpses of two new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards. Leaked images of a purported GeForce RTX 4070 Ti FE and an RTX 4060 (Ti) have emerged, providing signs that NVIDIA is ready to pay attention to what is traditionally the high-volume midrange market. Sadly, the images are...
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A breakthrough at Pusan National University in Korea could hold the key to the large-scale fabrication of high-quality OLED monitors using a solution-processed method. Why is this an important discovery? The researchers behind the project explain that this is a far more economical and less labor-intensive process than...
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A Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) fan has just paid out the equivalent of roughly $160,000 USD for a weapon skin. The astonishing transaction took place on the Chinese side of the Buff online marketplace for Steam game goods traders. With NFTs and their integration into games going out of fashion, we hope the...
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Some AMD Radeon 780M benchmarks have surfaced in the Geekbench benchmarks browser. According to the listing, the iGPU is part of an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS APU. This is a Ryzen mobile chip from the Ryzen 7040 Series, perhaps more memorable due to its codename, ‘Phoenix’. In the benchmark's OpenCL tests, AMD’s Radeon 780M...
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Apple is expected to take the wraps off its highly anticipated augmented reality (AR) / virtual reality (VR) headset this summer, but we may have just got the first glimpse of some of the actual hardware. An Apple leaker of some repute shared a quartet of headset component images today, and the Apple tech press is...
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AMD hasn’t officially announced a Radeon RX 6300 desktop graphics card, but an example appears to have turned up on a Chinese second-user marketplace. If genuine, and we have seen some evidence of this product’s existence before, this will become the lowest tier Radeon 6000 series desktop graphics card available. That...
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Utah-based PCIe add-in-card developer Apex Storage has launched its maiden product, and it is pleasingly ambitious. The Apex Storage X21, earns its suffix for its ability to cram 21 M.2 NVMe SSDs into a single expansion slot. This add-in-card (AIC) thus facilitates the addition of up to 168TB of storage (using 8TB M.2...
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Today, at Embedded World 2023, DFI has taken the wraps off a new Single Board Computer (SBC) which it refers to as its second-generation Industrial Pi. The new PCSF51 1.8-inch SBC is based around the AMD Ryzen Embedded R2000 Processor and DFI boasts that it offers “a 50% increase in CPU power… [and] graphics...
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We have been enjoying some hands-on time with Alienware’s new Aurora R15 gaming desktop PC. The sleek exterior may be familiar, as Alienware has continued to iterate the Legend 2.0 design language for several generations now. Nevertheless, gamers should be satisfied to hear this machine has the latest gen processors –...
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A report emanating from a Chinese tech news source asserts that the next generation of NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards are “expected” to come packing GDDR7 memory. It is also claimed that the next-gen NVIDIA lineup, unsurprisingly referenced as the RTX 50 series by the source, will be the first graphics cards featuring...
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After various concepts, experiments and leaks in the tech press, it looks like motherboards with the majority of their surface-mount headers located on the rear are entering into the mainstream. ASUS has released the TUF Gaming B760M-BTF WIFI D4, which brings the PCs and components giant’s DIY-APE concept to the...
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NVIDIA may soon welcome another sibling to the GeForce RTX 3060 family. A graphics card cataloging source on Twitter highlighted that a new version of the popular Ampere architecture RTX 3060 has caused a blip on the radar. This could be the best RTX 3060 yet, with 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM delivering over 456GB/s of...
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Researchers have been investigating how fungi can replace or benefit existing computer architectural components. Studies have recently been completed that show it is possible to implement basic logical circuits and basic electronic circuits with mycelium – the network of fungal threads usually hidden deep beneath the...
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Microsoft is preparing a new AI-powered upscaling technology for distribution as part of its Edge browser experience, dubbed Video Super Resolution (VSR). The technology behind VSR sounds a lot like NVIDIA’s recently enabled RTX Video Super Resolution, or RTX VSR. However, Microsoft's implementation has a great...
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The graphics card market has been very turbulent for an extended period of time, so it is gratifying to see powerful latest-generation models significantly below MSRPs. The headlining AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT at $100 below MSRP is an ASRock branded model, from the firm’s Phantom Gaming stables, packing a triple fan 0dB...
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Valve has delivered an OS update which adds native ray tracing to the Steam Deck. The first game benefitting from this change is DOOM Eternal. At the time of writing, the necessary Steam Deck OS update is a beta, version 3.4.6 Beta to be precise, so some will prefer to wait for a mainstream update before testing ray...
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