Next week, San Francisco will host the Game Developers Conference (GDC), which is one of the largest events dedicated to game development. Since the GDC is focused on developers, not consumers, major announcements that are of interest to the general public do not happen very often there. However, something interesting can always be found. And below we will talk about […]
Qualcomm, the world's largest supplier of mobile chips, won a legal victory against Apple on Friday. A federal court jury in San Diego has ruled that Apple must pay Qualcomm about $31 million for infringing on three of its patents. Qualcomm sued Apple last year, alleging that it infringed its patents on a way to increase the battery life of […]
In summer, the popular streaming service Spotify from Sweden will start working in Russia. This was reported by analysts of Sberbank CIB. It is important to note that they have been trying to launch the service in Russia since 2014, but only now it has become possible. It is noted that the cost of a subscription to Russian Spotify will be 150 rubles per month, while a subscription to similar services […]
MSI announced four GeForce GTX 1660 series graphics accelerators at once: the models presented were named GeForce GTX 1660 Gaming X 6G, GeForce GTX 1660 Armor 6G OC, GeForce GTX 1660 Ventus XS 6G OC and GeForce GTX 1660 Aero ITX 6G OC. The new products are based on the NVIDIA Turing generation TU116 chip. The configuration provides for the presence of 1408 […]
Manli Technology Group has introduced its own family of GeForce GTX 1660 graphics accelerators based on the TU116 chip with NVIDIA Turing architecture. The key characteristics of the video cards are as follows: 1408 CUDA cores and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory with a 192-bit bus and an effective frequency of 8000 MHz. For reference products, the base frequency of the chip core is 1530 MHz, the increased frequency is 1785 MHz. […]
Netgear has unveiled the Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR300 WiFi Router, optimized to handle gaming traffic with minimal latency. The novelty involves a dual-core processor operating at a clock frequency of up to 1,0 GHz. The amount of RAM is 512 MB. In addition, the equipment includes 128 MB of flash memory. Nighthawk Pro Gaming XR300 WiFi Router is a dual band router. In the range […]
In the early 2000s, MySpace introduced many users to the world of social networking. In the years that followed, the platform became a huge music database where bands could share their songs and users could add tracks to their profiles. Of course, with the advent of Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, as well as music streaming sites, MySpace's popularity waned. But […]
NVIDIA announced this week that it has acquired Mellanox, a major manufacturer of communications equipment for data centers and high-performance computing (HPC), for $6,9 billion. And such an acquisition, so atypical for a GPU developer, for which NVIDIA decided to even outbid Intel, is not at all accidental. As NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang commented on the deal, the purchase of Mellanox […]
This week, motherboard manufacturers started releasing new BIOS versions for their Socket AM4 platforms based on the new AGESA 0070 version. Updates are already available for many ASUS, Biostar and MSI motherboards based on the X470 and B450 chipsets. Among the main innovations coming with these BIOS versions is "support for future processors", which indirectly indicates […]
A smoker's waterfall and a healthy person's waterfall We all know how to draw an owl. First you need to draw an oval, then another circle, and then - it turns out a gorgeous owl. Of course, this is a joke, and a very old one, but Nvidia engineers tried to make the fantasy come true. A new development called GauGAN creates gorgeous landscapes from very simple sketches (really […]
Crytek has published a video demonstrating the results of developing a new version of its own game engine CryEngine. The demo is called Neon Noir, and it shows Total Illumination working with real-time ray tracing. The key feature of real-time ray tracing on the CryEngine 5.5 engine is that it does not require specialized RT cores and […]
Samsung has announced the price and release date of the updated Notebook 9 Pro convertible laptop, announced at the beginning of the year at CES 2019 in Las Vegas. Along with it, another transformable laptop Notebook 9 Pen (2019) was presented at the exhibition. Both new items will go on sale on April 17. The Notebook 9 Pro starts at $1099, the Notebook 9 Pen (2019) price […]
