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New multi-threading technique promises to double processing speeds 'SHMT' also sliced power usage by 51% compared to existing techniques By Zane Khan Today 11:12 AM Researchers at the University of California Riverside developed a technique called Simultaneous and Heterogeneous Multithreading...

Crackgate?: Apple Vision Pro EyeSight Display Randomly Cracking For Some Users OLIVER HASLAM·FEBRUARY 23, 2024 The Apple Vision Pro headset hasn’t even been on sale for a month yet but some people are starting to report strange cracks that could wind up costing hundreds of dollars to fix. The...

Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games By John Walker "But it remains strange why enough people would want to subscribe—and at $17.99 a month it’s not cheap—to a single publisher’s output. That’s not a diss of Ubisoft’s games—although you might want to apply your own—but...

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 13 January 2024 at 09:40 AM EST. Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer "end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration" with ease for this Red...

Apple now sending $92 payments to iPhone users affected by ‘batterygate’ throttling Payouts to iPhone users are finally on their way as part of Apple’s $500 million settlement of the “batterygate” throttling controversy. iPhone users who filed a claim as part of the case will receive a payment...

Kioxia reportedly kills off 30-year-old Plextor brand — icon of the optical drive days spins up its last SSD Plextor is one of the legendary names in client PC storage and has been associated with high quality and performance for nearly three decades. But it looks like Kioxia thinks...

Apple quietly launched an open-source multimodal LLM called Ferret BY MIKE WHEATLEY Artificial intelligence researchers from Apple Inc. and Cornell University quietly unveiled an open-source and multimodal large language model last October known as Ferret, which is said to use parts of images...

Apple’s Metal FX upscaling is powered by AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution technology A reference to the use of AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution technology in Apple’s Legal & Regulatory disclosures has revealed that Apple’s MetalFX is powered by AMD’s graphics upscaling technology. AMD’s tech is...

AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code Written by Michael Larabel Back in September AMD released FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) and at the time they noted the open-source code would be made available "soon". As a nice Christmas present, the FSR3 source code is public as of today. AMD today made...

Google researchers discover 'Reptar,’ a new CPU vulnerability Today, we’re detailing the findings of Reptar (CVE-2023-23583), a new CPU vulnerability that impacts several Intel desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Google’s Information Security Engineering team reported the vulnerability to Intel...

iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network. On Wednesday, the world learned that the feature has never worked as...

Alan Wake 2 Requires Mesh Shaders, Excluding Most Older GPUs If you cast your eyes above at the official Alan Wake 2 PC requirements table, you will quickly see the minimum spec GPU for playing this game is the GeForce RTX 2060 or Radeon RX 6600. Packing such a GPU — along with an appropriate...

Nvidia begins developing Arm-based PC chips in challenge to Intel NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) has quietly started designing central processing units, in a move that fires a shot across the bow at Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), according to reporting from Reuters.

Microsoft is now teaching developers how to code for Arm as x86 end of life approaches "Adams says that ensuring Arm compatibility is essential in order to keep developers’ apps viable, which has spurred Redmond on to guide developers before it’s too late."

Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as a Cloud Storage Solution Using Project Silica technology, it is possible to store approximately 1.75 million songs or around 3,500 movies on a palm-sized slice of glass. Moreover, Microsoft asserts that the 7 TB storage per glass sheet...

Nvidia, one of tech’s hottest companies, is fine with remote work—and is ignoring the return-to-office trend *Yet while those companies and many others have issued return-to-office mandates, Nvidia, which has about 26,000 employees worldwide and a valuation of over $1 trillion, is bucking the...

Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage Apple’s iMessage system is a dozen years old, but it still only provides a feature-rich messaging experience between iMessage users. That makes sense for Apple—it’s a big selling point for i-devices—but change may be coming. "...Green bubbles and blue...

As Phantom Liberty cements Cyberpunk 2077's comeback, CDPR gets candid about its horrible launch: "We repeated a lot of mistakes we got away with on Witcher 3" "In a newly released 75-minute documentary from Ard Media, multiple CD Projekt Red leads discuss Cyberpunk 2077's long comeback arc...

Toyota Shut Down 14 Factories Due to 'Insufficient Disk Space' Even major car manufacturers can never have too much storage space. In late August, Toyota had to shut down 28 assembly lines at 14 auto plants in Japan due to computer issues. Today, Toyota provided more details on the shutdown...

Intel’s Answer to AMD 3D V-Cache: Cache DRAM, 50% Faster & 60% More Efficient than HBM "Till now, boost clock hikes have been Intel’s primary response to the Ryzen V-Cache threat. Together with Samsung, it is finally working on a worthy competitor to the 3D-stacked CPUs from its archrival."

A $5 Starfield mod to enable DLSS Frame Generation has been cracked to remove modder's DRM Modder PureDark made the DLSS 2.0 version free but charged $5 for the Frame Gen compatible version via a Patreon subscription.

Apple's Impressive Emulation Tech Brings Popular Windows Games to Mac Game Mode in Sonoma introduces enhanced video game performance and low-input latency options, while the Game Porting Toolkit gives developers a convenient emulation environment and monitoring features to get unmodified...

Intel Embree Delivers Massive Boost In Ray Tracing Performance For Arc GPUs Comparing a feature without its competitors doesn't complete the whole point. Judging by this, Intel has also benchmarked the Arc A750 against its nearest NVIDIA competitor, the GeForce RTX 3060. NVIDIA utilises the...

Steam players are reverting back to GTX 1660 graphics cards, despite Nvidia's best efforts The Nvidia GTX 1660 released back in 2019, but Valve’s latest Steam Hardware Survey figures suggest people are still buying the graphics card. Rather than necessarily jumping from lower spec favorites...

Your Ubisoft account can be suspended and subsequently permanently deleted for 'inactivity,' taking your games library with it I'm pretty sure I have a Ubisoft account⁠—it's the sort of thing that's come up every few years when there's a Ubisoft game I want to play, and I've had to go through...

Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud Microsoft has been increasingly moving Windows to the cloud on the commercial side with Windows 365, but the software giant also wants to do the same for consumers. In an internal “state of the business” Microsoft presentation from June 2022...

Bug Forces Intel to Halt Some Xeon Sapphire Rapids Shipments "Intel has confirmed that it has paused shipments of some of its fourth-gen Xeon Sapphire Rapids processors due to a newly-discovered bug. We received a tip that Intel had paused the shipments, and following up on the matter, we...

Intel Xeon Max 9480/9468 Show Significant Uplift In HPC & AI Workloads With HBM2e Today is a very fun and interesting round of benchmarking... Recently Supermicro sent over their Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR and Intel supplied the Xeon Max 9468 and Xeon Max 9480 for finally being able to...

AMD Ryzen CPUs See Up To 27% Performance Boost In Cyberpunk 2077 With Unofficial SMT Fix "PCGameshardware did just that and the results showed improvements of up to 27% with the new unofficial patch applied. Using the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, an 8 Core 3D V-Cache chip, the CPU saw an average...

SVT-AV1 1.6 Squeezes Out Even More Performance For CPU-Based AV1 Encoding Written by Michael Larabel on 19 June 2023 at 10:20 AM EDT. SVT-AV1 1.6 is now available as the latest version for this leading CPU-based AV1 encoder that is now enjoying 30~40% faster performance with high quality...

Windows 10 and 11 Are Ignoring Update Settings and Installing GPU Drivers By Josh Norem June 14, 2023 Windows 11 has a reputation for forcing certain things on users, such as putting the deleted icon for its Edge browser back on the desktop after an update. Of course, some updates it pushes out...

Radeon RX 7600 to launch at $269 The company has now provided a new MSRP for its upcoming Radeon RX 7600 graphics cards. This is information was shared with the press and influencers yesterday, and we have confirmed it with several of them. Instead of what was originally communicated as $299...

Google is so desperate for iPhone owners to buy Pixel Fold that it'll pay top dollar for your old Apple phone By Oliver Haslam Looking at Google's Pixel Fold and wishing that Apple would make its own iPhone bend in the middle? That isn't going to happen any time soon it seems, but Google is...

Apple’s AR Headset Was Seemingly Tried Out By Oculus Founder Omar Sohail The Apple AR headset could be the company’s most polarizing product to date, but to the founder of Oculus, the mixed-reality head-mounted wearable has apparently put an excellent first impression, if his tweet is anything...

Matrox Video Announces Intel Arc-based LUMA Graphics Cards Video technology innovator Matrox Video today announced the launch of its new Matrox LUMA series of graphics cards with Intel Arc GPUs. The series consists of three single-slot cards: the LUMA A310, a low-profile fanless card; the LUMA...

PS5 Scalpers Having a Hard Time Selling Consoles PS5 scalpers are apparently having a hard time offloading their inventory after Sony officially put an end to stock shortage stemming from the pandemic. Like other in-demand products, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S suffered from restricted supply for...

AMD ROCm Comes To Windows On Consumer GPUs AMD introduced Radeon Open Compute Ecosystem (ROCm) in 2016 as an open-source alternative to Nvidia's CUDA platform. ROCm supports AMD's CDNA and RDNA GPU architectures, but the list is reduced to a select number of SKUs from AMD's Instinct and Radeon...

Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best A user behind an "experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous," created an AI program called ChaosGPT, designed, as Vice reports, to "destroy humanity," "establish global dominance," and "attain immortality."

The Decade-Long Effort To Make Alice: Asylum Has Reached An End The decade-long push to get Alice: Asylum--a theoretical third game in the Alice series--has ended, announced developer American McGee. After the completion of an Alice: Asylum design bible--a huge document containing concept art...

AMD and Intel motherboard prices skyrocket past surging inflation rates thanks to 35-40% ASP increases "...By March 2023, those ASPs had risen to a whopping €197 (US$214) for Team Blue boards and €163 (US$177) for Team Red boards. The incredible increase stands out more when you look at them as...