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Intel’s Arctic Sound-M Flex Series AIBs

With the explosive growth in cloud compute workload and complexity, new segments are bringing unique workloads that require processing pixels, inference, analytics, rendering, and sending those pixels back to the client device to be viewed ...

The future of 3D: Metaverse

There is no metaverse—there will never be a metaverse. There are dozens of metaverses and soon probably hundreds. Which view you hold depends on the definition of what a metaverse is, and we repeat: There ...

Curved monitor? Certainly! How much would you like?

Recently, Corsair, the specialist in memory and gaming hardware, revealed a new OLED monitor with a bit of a different take. It got me thinking about curved displays, a topic I haven’t covered for a ...

The hottest chips conference

This was the 34th year of the Hot Chips conference, which has traditionally been presented in Silicon Valley during August. The name “Hot” is a play on words for the weather and the performance of ...

The future of creativity

Source: Adobe How is creativity changing the world? To better answer that question, creative software vendor Adobe surveyed those in the forefront of online creativity: creators in the creator economy—the economy empowering people who are ...

Basemark debuts enhanced mobile device benchmark

Qualcomm led the industry in introducing variable rate shading (VRS) with the Snapdragon 888 last September. Apple filed a patent on VSR in 2019, Samsung has it in their GPU, and Arm’s Immortalis-G715 introduced it ...

Nvidia Q2 FY23 results

Nvidia reported revenue for the second quarter ending July 31, 2022, of $6.7 billion, up 3% from a year ago and down 19% from the previous quarter. GAAP earnings per diluted share for the quarter ...

Getting into the swing of Spider-Man Remastered on the PC

After spending many hours completing Spider-Man Remastered main story and being unable to tear ourselves away from the screen, editors at BabelTechReviews (BTR) recommend it as a great game with a few flaws. Mark Poppin, ...

Esports moves to mobile

This is the IEM, or Intel Extreme Masters. It is German esports organizer ESL’s desktop tournament series and is currently the longest-running global pro gaming tour in the world (established in 2006). At the ESL ...

Two new Dell Alienware monitors on the horizon

Gamers, if you are looking for new gaming monitors offering fast refresh rates, your wait is almost over. Dell has announced two new additions to its Alienware monitor line: a 27-inch and a 25-inch offering. ...

Viva the HTC Vive Mars CamTrack

The HTC Vive Mars CamTrack is portable and can be used in a wide range of scenarios.   HTC has now made available its Vive Mars CamTrack for virtual production in select countries. The offering, ...

Amazon File Cache to simplify hybrid cloud workloads

At its 4th Storage Day virtual event recently, AWS made announcements addressing customers’ need to reduce and optimize storage costs while building the cloud storage skills. AWS says customers want to protect their data and ...