Zak Killian
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Hey, remember how we had over five full years of increasingly detailed "Switch Pro" rumors, including accurate hardware specifications, before Nintendo finally unveiled the Switch 2? Well, hopefully the first revision to Nintendo's...
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Last week, AMD dropped Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.10.1, so-named because it was the first AMD graphics driver release in October. Graphics driver releases are usually a little humdrum, so we don't normally cover them in detail...
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Self-described "feline fan" and longtime Windows Insider Xeno (@XenoPanther on X) has spotted a curious new toggle in Microsoft's Windows 11 Experimental builds that seems to let users enable Intel APX, an upcoming instruction set...
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An independent developer has gotten Xbox One games running on Apple devices with Utsuro, an open-source project that brings the console's software environment to macOS and iOS. Its early results are promising, although the developer's...
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AMD and Intel are teaming up to simplify AI development on x86 CPUs, consolidating their respective optimizations for PyTorch under the open-source oneDNN library. The move aims to give developers a common software path across both...
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AMD's HIP is its "Heterogeneous Interface for Portability". It's a library that functions similarly to NVIDIA's CUDA in that it provides runtime APIs for compute applications across multiple platforms, including CUDA itself. So there's a...
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DRAM is fundamentally different from logic. Logic cells are like those in your processor, and in that form, they're all the same sort of thing: switching transistors. DRAM is different because each cell is made up of a transistor and a...
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In a blog post and accompanying YouTube video, AMD has just revealed that it has finally brought its ML-powered upscaling technology, FSR 4.1, to Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs, Xbox Series X|S consoles, and to integrated graphics, including...
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Modal is a specialized cloud provider that offers on-demand computing infrastructure for AI developers, including isolated environments where AI coding agents can execute shell commands, compile software, manipulate repositories, and run...
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For several years now, one of the key defining features separating NVIDIA's GeForce RTX GPUs from AMD's Radeon graphics cards is the software feature set that NVIDIA has developed, particularly surrounding its "Deep Learning Super...
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If you read that headline and you thought "wait, I thought DLSS 5 hurt your FPS", you're right. The idea here is that NBA 2K27 has been updated with the new DLSS 5 Neural Rendering that NVIDIA announced prior to the RTX Spark platform...
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HP OmniBook Ultra 16: Starting at $3,199 (32GB); $6,229 As Tested
HP's first machine based the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X processor delivers a first-class premium portable experience and outstanding local AI performance, but it may be...
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Researchers have used generative AI to design entirely new protein-cutting enzymes from scratch, overcoming a longstanding challenge in computational biology. The synthetic enzymes, known as proteases, can recognize and cut specific...
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Intel has officially revealed the final form of Crescent Island, which turns out to be branded the "Intel GPU D-Series." The company's latest attempt to carve out a place in the data center AI accelerator market is led by the Intel GPU...
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When we tested DLSS 5's 3D-guided neural rendering in NBA 2K27, we were impressed with the upgrade in visual fidelity, but a little less impressed by the enormous performance hit imposed by the tech on non-flagship graphics cards. NVIDIA...
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The Helios AI is AMD's massive, double-wide GPU-focused compute blueprint that has eighteen blades with four GPUs and one CPU each. It's an incredibly powerful system for training frontier AI models like those used for ChatGPT, but most...
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Game hitching and stuttering is the enemy of a good experience. It's a plague on modern gaming, though it's far from exclusively a modern affliction; we just notice it more because we have higher expectations and lower frame times. A...
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According to ZDNet Korea, Sony is transferring 419 extended-reality (XR) patents and patent applications to Meta, raising serious questions about the future of PlayStation VR. The portfolio spans virtual reality (VR), augmented reality...
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Are you excited for the new Intel desktop CPUs? No, not Nova Lake; I'm talking about the upcoming "Raptor Lake Next" re-refresh chips. We've known about these parts for a while, but Intel hadn't officially announced anything, and still...
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Along with Microsoft's Windows & Surface event yesterday, HP revealed the full details of its OmniBook Ultra 16 and OmniBook X 14 laptops, as well as the ZGX Fury workstation, powered by NVIDIA's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip. We'll start with the ZGX Fury, since we've already...
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Alienware AW3926QW OLED Gaming Monitor - Image: HotHardware Alienware AW3926QW Ultrawide WOLED Gaming Monitor: $1,099.99 With a 5K ultrawide resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, 330Hz dual-mode support, 1300 nits peak brightness, perfect OLED...
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Microsoft just wrapped its Windows & Surface event in San Francisco, during which the company unveiled a handful of new Windows features and initiatives designed to simplify, streamline, secure and optimize Agentic AI use cases on PCs. The...
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