Zak Killian
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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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It's October, and you know what that means: time to get ready for the holiday shopping season. Amazon makes it easy, if you've got Prime; the site's "Prime Big Deal Days" started today, and it seems like half of the site is on deep...
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Microsoft has officially released the Windows 11 2026 Update (version 26H2), and while the announcement leads with productivity tools like AI-assisted File Explorer actions and long-awaited taskbar customization options, the real...
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Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days don't start until tomorrow, but some folks have already jumped the gun and posted what are, if we can be honest, some darn decent deals on storage as long as you look at them relative to recent pricing. Just...
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Valve has been quick to downplay most rumors about a potential "Steam Deck 2." The firm says that a next-gen handheld is not coming until Valve's developers feel that there has been a true generational improvement in technology, so that...
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There's been a lot of speculation over the last few months on the matter of what exactly Intel was going to name its Nova Lake processors. Most people seemed satisfied to expect "Core Ultra 400 Series", which would make sense in light of...
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The GDDR7 memory used on the GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs may have considerably more memory overclocking headroom than NVIDIAs official specifications suggest, with one enthusiast pushing Samsung GDDR7 memory all the way from 28 Gbps to a...
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It appears 14-inch laptops have sure come a long way since the days of the HP EliteBook 8440w. Remember that chunky beast? Remember what laptops looked like 16 years ago? Now check out the new HP OmniBook 5 for a bit of culture shock...
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Rockstar Games is apparently bringing some appropriately Floridian weather to Grand Theft Auto VI, with hurricanes and tropical storms confirmed for Leonida alongside a substantially revamped weather system. The news comes from Game...
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Ookla, the network intelligence company behind the ever-popular Speedtest.net, has just posted up a fascinating blog post that will be of particular interest to anyone who travels a lot and has to work remotely from fast food restaurants...
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Intel filed a patent in 2022 that's now been granted for "IC PACKAGE WITH MICRO LEDS". Only, the interesting part of the patent isn't exactly the micro-LEDs, but rather, what Intel is doing with them.
Well, the micro-LEDs are actually...
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