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Latest News - May 2017
- IBM Watson To Power AI Assisted Voice Commands In Star Trek Bridge Crew VR Game
- Acer And HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset Dev Kits Now Available For Preorder
- Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Fall Creators Update With 'Fluent Design' And OneDrive On-Demand
- EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 GAMING Review: Dialing-In On Performance
- Facebook Tweaks News Feed To Squash Viral Clickbait And Fake News
- Google Buys Job Simulator VR Game Developer Owlchemy Labs
- Super Mario Odyssey To Headline Nintendo’s Switch Dominated E3 Outing
- AMD Ryzen Whitehaven Monster Enthusiast CPU With 16 Cores And 32 Threads Spotted
- Toyota Chooses NVIDIA DRIVE PX As Its Artificial Intelligence Platform For Autonomous Cars
- NVIDIA Volta-Powered DGX-1 And DGX Station AI Supercomputers Debut At GTC 2017
- NVIDIA Unveils Beastly Tesla V100 Powered By Volta GPU With 5120 CUDA Cores And 16GB HBM2
- iPhone 8 Renders Based On Leaked CAD Files Provide Best Look At Apple’s New Flagship
- Microsoft Cortana Skills Kit And Devices Now Available Via Public Preview
- HP’s Elite x2 1012 G2 Refresh Is A Kaby Lake Powered Surface Pro 4 Killer
- Windows 10 Installs Edge Past 500 Million Following Creators Update Release
- Opera Browser Extreme Makeover Integrates WhatsApp And Messenger Functionality
- NVIDIA Rocks Fiscal Q1 Earnings Thanks To Deep Learning AI Demand For GPUs
- Windows 10 HomeHub Leak Exposes Microsoft’s Alternative Amazon Echo Alexa Killer
- AMD Raven Ridge Zen APU Hits SiSoftware Benchmarks With Integrated Vega Graphics
- Samsung And Best Buy Begin Taking Preorders For Unlocked Galaxy S8 and S8+ Handsets
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All News for May 2017
IBM is boldly going where no company has gone before. IBM just announced that Ubisoft’s Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game will incorporate Watson's interactive speech and cognitive capabilities.
IBM Chief Developer Advocate Willie Tejada, remarked, “For the first time, Watson will power the technology that makes it...
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If you’ve been itchin’ to get your hands on new [relatively] affordable mixed reality hardware designed for Windows 10 PCs, the wait is nearly over. Microsoft today at Build 2017 announced that preorders are open for Windows Mixed Reality headset dev kits from Hewlett-Packard and Acer.
Both of the headsets use...
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Today, during its Build 2017 conference, Microsoft announced the official name for Redstone 3: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Microsoft isn’t exactly being very creative with its name for the next major update to the Windows 10 operating system, but at least we know when it will be released to consumers.
As the...
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Soon after NVIDIA's Founder’s Edition GeForce GTX 1080 Ti hit the scene, board partners readied custom cards, like the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 with iCX technology we’ll be showing you here. We have already taken a look at a powerful behemoth from Gigabyte, and MSI chimed in recently as well. Today’s combatant...
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Imagine for a moment if British forces never arrived at Lexington and Concord over 240 years ago. The colonial militia would have accused Paul Revere of spreading fake news after his infamous midnight ride to warn patriots of the advancing redcoats. It did not play out that way, of course, but had he lived in an era...
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Google just pulled off a major VR coup by scooping up Owlchemy Labs, a game development studio based in Austin, Texas that is best known for its VR title Job Simulator. The company's latest game, Rick and Morty Simulator: Virtual Rick-ality, has also helped put Owlchemy Labs on the map, though it is Job Simulator that has racked up multiple
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The Nintendo Switch has been a sales blockbuster, which is a much needed “win” for the Japanese game company following the disappointed of its immediate predecessor: the Wii U. Given the excitement surrounding the Switch, which is still sold out at retailers across the United States, it should come as no surprise that...
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Just as Intel is readying a new platform (X299) and line of performance processors (Skylake-X) for users who are willing to pay a premium for more cores and PCI Express lanes, so too is AMD. Hot on the heels of AMD's Ryzen launch will be new "Whitehaven" processors, and based on what has been spotted in the wild, at...
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Toyota is tapping NVIDIA to deliver the necessary artificial intelligence hardware that will power the automaker's autonomous driving systems. In doing so, Toyota joins a growing and impressive list of automotive partners that have teamed up with NVIDIA to push the autonomous vehicle category forward, a category that...
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Soon after unveiling the Tesla V100 data center GPU based on its next-generation Volta architecture at GTC 2017, NVIDIA CEO Jen Hsun Huang announced an updated, Volta-infused DGX-1 server appliance for deep learning data center deployment, along with a totally new product, the NVIDIA DGX Station, that’s being dubbed a...
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If you want an early look at what to expect with NVIDIA’s next generation of high performance GeForce graphics processors, code-named Volta, today at GTC 2017 the company's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just offered the first public unveiling of a product based on the next generation GPU architecture. NVIDIA just announced its...
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The iPhone 8 is not due until this autumn, however, that has not stopped the Internet from leaking photos and information about the device. OnLeaks and tech blog Gear India have released renders of the iPhone 8 based on leaked CAD files. The images offer the most detailed look at Apple’s upcoming flagship to...
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Have you been itching to get your hands on the Cortana Skills Kit? Microsoft just announced at Build 2017 in Seattle, Washington that the Cortana Skills Kit will now be available for public preview. The kit had originally only been available for select developers.
According to Microsoft, Cortana is “the world’s...
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It looks as though Hewlett-Packard has a new 2-in-1 convertible alternative waiting in the wings if you’ve been disappointed with the longish life-cycle of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4. HP today announced the Elite x2 1012 G2, which appears to have many of the feature that Surface Pro 4 owners have been looking for in a...
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Microsoft has just reported that its Windows 10 operating system has crossed another milestone. At the Build 2017 conference, which is going on right now, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 now has over 500 million monthly active users.
According to Microsoft, that number includes devices that have been active in...
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The Opera team has gone and completely revamped its Opera browser for Windows PCs and Macs. Codenamed "Reborn," the newest version of Opera puts a heavy emphasis on chat with native integration of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram. The idea is to allow Opera users to chat with friends while browsing the web...
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NVIDIA's push into deep learning and artificial intelligence markets is is paying off in a big way. As a result of its ongoing investments into data center GPUs, the company was able to rake in $1.94 billion in revenue during the first quarter of 2017, an increase of 48 percent from $1.3 billion in same quarter a year...
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Late last year, we began hearing whispers about Microsoft’s HomeHub feature, which is being billed as a direct attack on devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. Whereas those aforementioned devices are standalone hardware products, HomeHub is a primarily software solution that leverages that power of the Cortana...
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It is only a matter of time before AMD comes out with an accelerated processing unit (APU) based on its Zen microarchitecture. Giving us a glimpse at what AMD has in store is a new listing in SiSoftware's SANDRA benchmark database. One of the newest entries shows what looks to be an engineering sample of AMD's...
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In a perfect world, all smartphones would be able to connect to any wireless carrier's network. But we do not live in a perfect world, and as such most smartphones are tied to either CDMA or GSM networks, thereby narrowing a user's choice of wireless carrier. The exception is when a smartphone is unlocked to support...
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These days, we all take Google’s Android operating system for granted. We just accept that Android is highly capable, customizable, and ubiquitous enough that it is installed on over 70 percent of smartphones sold around the globe. However, could you imagine a mobile landscape without Android? It appears that Google...
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