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| Oct 16, 2018 | Nvidia’s RTX 2070 Features 2016 Performance, Currently Useless Features, and a Massive Price Increase | Update (10/26/2018): This article incorrectly states that the RTX 2070 would debut at a $600 launch price — substantially above its communicated MSRP. This did not occur. We have reevaluated the RTX 2070 at the correct $500 price point. The... |
| Sep 14, 2018 | New Nvidia Data Suggests RTX 2080 Only Modestly Faster Than GTX 1080 Ti | Ever since Nvidia announced the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti, it’s been an open question just how much performance improvement these GPUs would offer in current games. The discussion has been driven in part by the significant price increases Nv... |
| Aug 27, 2018 | AMD Slashes Threadripper Prices, 12-Core Now a Killer Deal | AMD’s Threadripper family has been making mincemeat of Intel’s HEDT (High End DeskTop) product segment since it debuted in 2017, but with the recent launch of its second-generation Threadripper CPUs, the smaller CPU company is twisting the ... |
| Aug 23, 2018 | Nvidia Claims RTX GPUs Are Much Faster Than Pascal By Deliberately Comparing the Wrong Cards | Yesterday, I argued that Nvidia fans and customers should hold off on buying a new RTX GPU until Nvidia had actually demonstrated how much of a performance improvement these GPUs would deliver in current shipping titles. The company, at tha... |
| Aug 22, 2018 | Don’t Buy the Ray-Traced Hype Around the Nvidia RTX 2080 | On Monday, Nvidia announced a new set of GPUs in a presentation focused on ray tracing and the advent of ray tracing in today’s games. Nvidia has built an entirely new capability around ray tracing and announced an all-new SM (Streaming Mul... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | Things Nvidia Needs to Fix | The third and final installment in our 'Needs to Fix' series is focused on Nvidia. Having previously discussed what we feel Intel and AMD can do with their upcoming products to become more consumer friendly, it's now time to look at the gre... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | Things Nvidia Needs to Fix | The third and final installment in our 'Needs to Fix' series is focused on Nvidia. Having previously discussed what we feel Intel and AMD can do with their upcoming products to become more consumer friendly, it’s now time to look at the gre... |
| May 7, 2018 | Nvidia encerra programa de parceiros após acusações da AMD | Durou pouco tempo. o GeForce Partner Program (GPP) foi anunciado oficialmente pela Nvidia em março como uma iniciativa para promover placas e computadores baseados em suas GPUs como produtos premium. Mas a AMD viu ali algo capaz de prejudic... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Nvidia é acusada de usar programa de parcerias para prejudicar AMD | O GeForce Partner Program (GPP) é uma iniciativa da Nvidia para promover placas de vídeos e computadores baseados em seus chips como produtos premium. Para participar, os fabricantes precisam seguir uma série de requisitos. A AMD está preoc... |
| Apr 18, 2018 | AMD Targets Nvidia’s Controversial GeForce Partner Program | About a month ago, Kyle Bennett at HardOCP broke a story on Nvidia’s GeForce Partner Program (GPP), alleging that Nvidia is using the program to systemically disadvantage AMD GPUs. According to Bennett, all companies that wish to be part of... |
| Oct 6, 2017 | Woman Films Her New Internet-Connected Camera Whispering ‘Hello’ | The consumer Internet of Things is a sprawling ecosystem of hardware. For every well-made product, there are a dozen that raise serious concerns about basic security practices, or require the customer to risk paying top dollar for expensive... |
| Mar 23, 2017 | New DirectX 11 vs. DirectX 12 comparison shows uneven results, limited improvements | For the last few years, there’s been an ongoing debate about the benefits and advantages (or lack thereof) surrounding DirectX 12. It hasn’t helped any that the argument has been bitterly partisan, with Nvidia GPUs often showing minimal ben... |
| Sep 14, 2015 | AMD’s outspoken, plucky underdog routine is doing more harm than good | reader comments 50 with 21 posters participating
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| Jun 19, 2012 | Apple Wins Surprising Anti-Big Brother Surveillance Patent
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Apple has received a Granted Patent for an Anti-Big Brother patent. Apple's patent background states that a significant concern with electronic commerce and with the proliferation of electroni... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | More Mind-Blowing Real-World Kinect Interaction From Microsoft Research | Have you had your share of augmented reality this month? Between CMU’s OmniTouch, Microsoft’s HoloDesk, and Metaio’s updated AR app, you could be forgiven. But trust me, you’ll want to watch this video of Microsoft Research prototypes using... |
| Oct 12, 2011 | AMD’s Bulldozer Fails To Meet Expectations | The Intel-AMD war has been going on a long time, and I hope it will be going on longer. The last few years have been hard on the underdog, however, with huge growth by Intel in both the low-power and high-performance sectors. The Core 2 Duo... |
| Jun 1, 2011 | German ISPs Surrendering 300,000 Pirating Suspects' Details Every Month | As ridiculous as the copyright battles are here in the states, it’s a bit surreal when you see them exceeded elsewhere by an order of magnitude or two. According to German internet industry association ECO, ISPs in that country are giving u... |
| May 31, 2011 | This Stun Gun-Equipped Armored Glove Is Worthy Of Judge Dredd | http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1
Although I can picture a battalion of shield-faced riot police wielding these against a terrified populace, the concept really is too “life imitates sci-fi” to pass up.... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | Gigabyte's Touch BIOS Makes Changing Memory Timings Fun And Easy | If you’ve put together your own PC before, chances are you’ve had to dip into the BIOS to change a few things around, switch the boot priority, things like that. But as essential as the BIOS tools are, the UI has always been a bit daunting.... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | Video: Kinect Controlling Windows 7, Singularity Nears | Let’s start our post-WrestleMania Monday with a fun video of what could be. Here we see a gentleman, from Evoluce, controlling Windows 7 using Kinect. Minority Report, etc.
Incidentally, this is exactly what I talked about on After Dark Wit... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Crysis 2 Direct X 11 Patching Incoming? | It looks like the Crysis 2 Direct X 11 patch could be coming sooner rather than later. An item on a German PC gaming site—Germany certainly loves its PC gaming&mash;says that the patch should hit the Internets tomorrow. This is most wel... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | Digital Storm Updates Top-Of-The-Line Desktop With Nvidia GTX 590 | Digital Storm has bumped up its top-of-the-line gaming desktop PC to include the just-released Nvidia GTX 590. The absolute top-of-the-line PC is hilariously overpowered, with two GTX 590s in SLI that effectively deliver the power of four G... |
| Mar 24, 2011 | GeotHot: I'm On Vacation, Not Fleeing The Law! | Is George “GeoHot” Hotz in South America right now? Yes. Is he a fugitive running from the law? No, despite the convenience of such a story. The man is merely on vacation. Is that a crime?
GeoHot says that he’s had this vacation planned sin... |
| Mar 16, 2011 | Study: Emerging Economies Turn To Piracy Because Prices Are Entirely Too High | “[P]iracy is better conceived as a failure of affordable access to media in legal markets.” So says the just-released Media Piracy in Emerging Economies study, which looked at the hows and whys of piracy in countries like Brazil, India, Mex... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Does Broadband Create Digital Ghettos? | Flickr’d
Australia’s Special Broadband Service has warned that the steady increase in broadband speed, and its increasing availability, may lead to “digital ghettos.” The premise is simple: faster and more reliable broadband means that more... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | MPAA: Despite Piracy, 2010 Was Record Year For The Movie Business | The Motion Picture Association of America says [PDF] the movie industry had its biggest year ever last year. This, despite the fact that folks like the “US Copyright Group” have gone after people for ruining said industry. Down is up, black... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | Court: Adult Film Studio Has To Sue Alleged Pirates Individually | In a setback for adult film studios looking to make a quick buck (by fighting piracy), a court in Dallas has ruled that one such studio, Serious Bidness, cannot sue a group of John Does in one lump sum. If it wants to pursue legal action it... |
| Jan 10, 2011 | Bow Before The $2,200 HDMI Cable! | Even if you had the money I’m not sure we should go recommending things like this. It’s the AudioQuest Coffee, a $2,200, 40-foot HDMI cable. That works out to $55 per foot. Not even Alexandria at its height would have supported such excess!... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | Intel's Sandy Bridge Processors In The Wild And Reviewed | The “tock” portion of Intel’s latest tick-tock cycle has officially hit, and the shrink of last year’s Core processors brings a number of improvements to the line. Intel’s finally taking some steps towards reducing systems’ reliance on disc... |
| Dec 27, 2010 | Simple BIOS Flash Turns AMD Radeon HD 6950 Into A 6970! | Again, this font doesn’t have an apostrophe.
Did Santa give you an AMD Radeon HD 6950 this year? Good news: he actually gave you a 6970! It turns out that with a few clicks of your mouse you can unlock your 6950 so that it runs at 6970 spee... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | Video: Call Of Duty: Real Life Edition | OK, this is great. It’s a “real life” version of Call of Duty, complete with a guy running around in an old Andriy Shevchenko shirt. Oh, how I laughed!
The most realistic part, of course, is the corpse humping that follows a stab in the bac... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | They Got Him! Children's Cancer Ward Console Thief Apprehended | You guys, some days I love the internet. Do you remember that despicable burglar who made off with a bunch of consoles from a children’s hospital? Well, I’ve got good news and more good news.
The local police have made a point of tracking d... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Help Identify A Guy Who Stole Game Consoles From A Children's Cancer Ward | Stealing toys from seriously ill children is a one-way ticket to hell, but hopefully before that happens we can find this guy and give him a bonus trip to prison as well. The man pictured here (video at the link) stole five game consoles fr... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | Video: This Halloween Robot Will Destroy Us All! | How many of your friends hilariously dressed up as Lady Gaga this year for Halloween? Several, I bet! Were any of your friends brave enough to dress up as a robot?
Well, this guy was, and $1,000+ later he’s YouTube famous.
To his credit, hi... |
| Oct 21, 2010 | AMD's New 68XX Series Brings Solid Performance To Mainstream Budget Levels | I’ve been thinking of putting together a new system recently, and for the video card, I was almost certainly going to go for a GeForce GTX 460 — around $200 is the sweet spot for a good mid-budget GPU, and the 460 has been holding up to its... |
| Oct 1, 2010 | 10,000 Hard Drives Stolen, Craigslist Hard Drive Market Crashes | Thieves in Malaysia managed to drive off in a truck containing 10,800 Western Digital hard drives. Don’t expect to see the drives hit the market though, Malaysian police were able to identify the culprits, as they used to work at the wareho... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | Privacy-Conscious? Hear An Airhorn Every Time Google Detects You | http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13648673&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1
I doubt anybody is going to keep this Firefox plugin installed for very long (the ... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Steak-based computing from Intel, coming to a kitchen near you (seriously) | This is great. If it actually works, it’s like the Surfaceless Surface crossed with… I don’t know, Cooking Mama. Intel Labs’ Tabletop Computing is about natural interactions with real objects, on regular surfaces. Of course, I doubt your ki... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Someone has already disassembled, modded, and reviewed the new 360 | This isn’t the most creative or extensive modification one could conceivably do to the new Xbox 360, but it’s cool enough to post. Mainly because these things came out like two days ago — who the hell is this guy, the Flash?
Basically he ju... |
| May 28, 2010 | Who likes carbon fiber tablet PCs? | This is a nice-looking homebrew tablet created by “Slampana” just for fun. It may not be as slick in the UI department as the iPad (it’s poor, unadorned Windows 7), but it’s a nice-looking piece of hardware and I like that screen.
A little ... |
| May 25, 2010 | Concrete USB drives weigh as much as they hold | I think these are great, but to be honest I kind of question their practicality. I mean, they’re big — and that’s the point — but I think the novelty would wear off after a bit. 256 grams isn’t really that much, but it’s a hell of a lot mor... |
| Apr 22, 2010 | Did you know? Sony can pull a Reverse Amazon and push updates to your PS3 | This is interesting. While checking up on the implications of Sony’s removal of the “Install Other OS” option, Thinq ran into a particularly troubling clause in the EULA.
Some services may be provided automatically without notice when you a... |
| Apr 20, 2010 | Steam UI update hits on Monday | Steam has been working on their new UI for a few months now, I’ve been using it for a while, but it sounds like it’s finally going to be released. The new version has some really nice cosmetic updates, as well as some added functionality (s... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Leaked Gigabyte motherboard has seven PCI-E x16 slots | Are you the kind of person who likes to overclock like a madman? Maybe you’re the kind of person who needs room to tri-SLI your two-slot graphics cards? This is probably the mobo for you.
Yes, that is seven PCI-Express x16 slots in a row th... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | NVIDIA's flagship DX11 card drops, and the reviews are… decent | There’s been a lot of buzz about the code-name Fermi series of cards NVIDIA has been cooking up. They’re the company’s first DirectX 11-compatible cards, and rival AMD has had the DX11 58xx series on the market for months now, giving them a... |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Fake Processors, Passing The Blame, Legal Nastygrams And More… | Richard Corsale writes in to let us know about how popular electronics e-commerce site NewEgg apparently received 300 totally fake Intel processors and at least some of them were sold. They’re not processors at all. They’re just made to loo... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Aliens Vs. Predator on Eyefinity – sweet lord YES | Oh my gaaaaaawwwwd. Why would you play it in any other way? Are you kidding me?
One screen per claw. Take me now. |
| Feb 1, 2010 | Apple's subtle, subliminal message during the iPad event | Phenomenal.
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| Jan 4, 2010 | Meet CrunchMode for Windows 7 power users | Want a one stop access point for all those extended control panel settings in Windows 7? Well, it’s easy: just use CrunchMode*.
“CrunchMode” is really easy to set up: just create a new folder and then rename it to CrunchMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-... |
| Dec 29, 2009 | Patriot Box Office Media Player gets reviewed | I’m afraid it’s time for me to upgrade my media center. My old Xbox just isn’t cutting it any more, between the composite input and the lack of processing power, it looks like it may be time to put the old reliable out to pasture and upgrad... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | Our 13.5-inch Radeon 5870 X2 will blot out the sun! | ...Then we will benchmark in the shade.
There’s not a lot more to this story than “this is a freaking huge video card,” so just gaze in awe at this monstrosity and then move on to the next post. [via HardOCP] |
| Oct 26, 2009 | How much would you pay for this mouse? $1200? No? Okay, don't read this then | Of all the people on Earth, I’m probably at least in the top 100 of “most mice handled.” Not a particularly prestigious list to be on, but I’ll take what I can get. And I’m probably one of the biggest proponents of splurging on a good mouse... |
| Sep 6, 2009 | Got lag? Controller latencies of popular games compared | Back when I played a lot of original Half-Life online (robots versus scientists on Gasworks), I got real good at anticipating lag. On a server with 200 ping, you would click to fire your grenade or crossbow rail, and then, a fifth of a seco... |
| Aug 23, 2009 | The economy changes the course of chip design at Hot Chips conference | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Hot Chips conference that runs Sunday through... |
| Aug 23, 2009 | The economy changes the course of chip design at Hot Chips conference | The Hot Chips conference that runs Sunday through Tuesday at Stanford University in Silicon Valley will capture the evolution of the chip industry. This conference offers the first chance to see how the global economic crisis is affecting t... |
| Apr 2, 2009 | Behind the scenes at Netflix | Boston.com, that recent powerhouse in photojournalism (or at least in presenting it), has gone and documented a process I personally thought was automated: the returning and sending out of Netflix DVDs. As it turns out, there aren’t powerfu... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | Video: If you say your phone is bulletproof, you better mean it | Sonim’s XP1 is supposed to be virtually indestructible, and although it’s put up with quite a lot of hammer blows, Sonim felt they could confidently state that the thing could take a 22-caliber bullet. Well! What did they think was going to... |
| Jan 31, 2009 | Intel delays GPU-integrated processors until 2010 | The economic crisis and resultant drop in spending has slowed down a lot of tech industries. Even the big players like Intel, NEC, and IBM are taking major hits, part of which is due to, well, people not buying their products. Intel in part... |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Video: Real, useful bionic arm testimonial | http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1137883380
This British kid was involved in an accident whereby he was “degloved” — a polite way of saying his hand was torn off. Luckily, the damage was of a type that enabled a b... |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Inside the design process of Logitech's hot new G-series | We saw the leak, we got the release, and we got the hands-on; Logitech’s new G-series is sexy as hell. Of course, the G15 may be hard to sell and the G9 is pretty much unchanged since I reviewed it, but the G19 is gorgeous and functional. I... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | OLED Christmas tree: festive and efficient | Among the landmarks for OLED development, making a Christmas tree out of them probably isn’t high on a lot of researchers’ lists of priorities. Still, it’s a good demonstration of luminance and a very timely proof of GE’s inroads on OLED te... |
| Dec 9, 2008 | How did I miss this? Warcraft 3 + Multi-Touch = awesome | What the hell, this looks amazing. I simply cannot wait until I literally pound on my enemies in order to attack. And as you can see, it’s no weak application of the touchscreen interface: he’s dragging, he’s using multiple fingers, and I’m... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | G4saurus Defectus: AMD snipes at NVIDIA in viral cartoon | I think you have to be a real hardware geek to find this stuff funny, so it’s no surprise that it made me smile. Although it’s not exactly credited, it’s pretty clear that this is a low-key effort by AMD to discredit NVIDIA — the cartoon ca... |
| Nov 3, 2008 | It's international Nehalem day! | The next big thing in processors is hitting today — Intel’s Core i7, otherwise known as Nehalem, is finally hitting the ground. If you don’t know that it is, check out our past coverage. This first batch probably doesn’t have the processor ... |
| Nov 2, 2008 | This robot face is not creepy at all. Not even a little bit | http://www.viddler.com/player/41c202dd/
Did anyone else get a little scared when it did its mad face? This little robot is, I imagine, designed to be one of those greeter robots that tells you “welcome” and can respond when you ask it where... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | Awesome folding PC chassis from Asus | Do they just have an idea machine over there at Asus? This thing is great! Of course, it’s not very often that you have to take all the bits out of your PC case and travel with it separately, but if you did this would be indispensible. It’s... |
| Oct 15, 2008 | Playboy is getting out of the DVD business, going all-online | Facing rising ink and paper costs and a declining demand for physical discs, the world’s most recognizable skin rag — I mean, adult entertainment periodical — is getting out of the DVD business. Their online distribution system will be thei... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | Touchless touchpad detects inputs from 3cm away | How cool! While this touchless capacitive touchpad is not a usable technology at this point (“it often malfunctions”), it’s certainly promising. Not necessarily for notebooks, where tapping and precise multi-touch are key, but for perhaps p... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | Video: fixing a CPU with bent pins | http://www.viddler.com/player/79a884b9/
I’m not sure how many of you out there do a lot of CPU swapping, but if you’re like me and do it every once in a while, you know the terror that strikes when the processor doesn’t seat right. “Did I g... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Now that's one leet media center | I’m going to make a confession here. “1337” used to be the combination for my bike lock. Stop laughing. I said stop laughing. But not only is Donn’s leet little media center face-palmingly geeky (for the moment), it’s also actually leet: di... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | Video: Plastic Logic's awesome new eReader | http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/980795693
How pumped am I for this thing? I’m sure they have bugs, kinks, and production problems to work out, but buddy that thing is a quarter inch thick and works! It’s sexier t... |
| Aug 27, 2008 | Immersion, Microsoft, Sony finally settle their beef (beeves?) | I’m just going to refer you to the excellent diagram above for your lesson in force feedback lawsuitology. The outcome is basically that Sony ended up paying a bunch of money, Immersion came out on top for the most part, and Microsoft is st... |
| May 20, 2008 | New OLPC revealed: OLPC Dual Screen! | If the first OLPC XO laptop was considered a fashion item, just think how popular this thing will be. Of course, at the moment it’s only a little bit more real than fairy dust, and the idea that it will cost $75 in 2010 is laughable, but yo... |
| May 10, 2008 | Hard drive from space shuttle Columbia salvaged with data intact | This is insane. The hard drive crashed to earth with the rest of the wreckage, and at first they couldn’t even tell it was a drive at all. Data recovery expert Jon Edwards took a shot at it and due to a combination of technical skill and lu... |
| Dec 27, 2007 | Alienware no longer carrying Phantom Lapboard | The ghost of Ponzi schemes past.
I was doing a bit of research for the NYT on the Phantom Lapboard and I remembered that Alienware was supposed to carry it online. After trying to pry a photo out of Phantom itself, I emailed Alienware to as... |
| Mar 30, 2007 | Catalyst 7.3 Causes BSOD in Vista | Looking to boost your system’s performance? A driver upgrade is often a great way to do it, but in the case of AMD’s new Catalyst 7.3 driver package for Radeon graphics cards and Windows Vista, you might want to hold off before you take the... |
| Aug 14, 2006 | Xbox 360 Roadmap Sneak Peek | HardOCP got a peek at the upcoming Xbox 360 features heading our way in the near future. Among them, the $200-ish HD DVD drive, support for 1080p resolutions, and a Media Center overhaul for Xbox 360.
The $200 HD DVD drive is a welcome atta... |
| Jun 13, 2006 | AMD + ATI: does it add up? | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| May 17, 2006 | Infinium Labs' Founder Charged With Pump And Dump Scam | Within the gaming community over the past few years, there have been two companies that have been repeatedly questioned as being stock scams of some sort — and it appears that the founders of both companies are facing some legal trouble the... |
| Jul 12, 2004 | Notes from the Lab | By now, you’ve no doubt read about Intel’s manufacturing woes with its new 900 series chipsets. The story was first reported by HardOCP, but our own intrepid Mark Hachman dug up more details on the situation. Later, tier one motherboard mak... |
| Sep 18, 2003 | Evidence That The Phantom Console Is A Phantom | Terry Donaghe writes in, bringing up the story we wrote last month about mysterious Phantom gaming console that would supposedly allow all games to be downloaded – instead of inserted via CD/DVD/Cartridge. There was a lot of controversy ove... |
| Aug 22, 2002 | TechWatch: Palm’s Blunder | In an effort to fine-tune our efforts for you, our readers, we don’t spend too much time delving into the world of PDAs. However, they’re handy little gadgets, and most of the ET staff carries one around to remind them of appointments and s... |
| Aug 29, 2000 | Intel Recalls 1.13GHz Pentium | News Intel Recalls 1.13GHz Pentium By Scott BekkerAugust 29, 2000 As AMD released their 1.1GHz Athlon yesterday, Intel was recalling the fastest chip on the market, their 1.13GHz Pentium III. This returns AMD to the top of the clock rate wa... |