Author: Jacob Ridley
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Playtron promises an alternative to SteamOS for handheld PCs: ‘Play all your games from every store, Steam, Epic and more’
Playtron hopes to become the Linux-based operating system for gaming across handhelds, laptops, TVs, and, uh, in cars. According to the company, the PlaytronOS will be an improvement over Valve’s own Linux-based gaming distro, SteamOS, because it won’t be locked to a single storefront: it will be “compatible with every game store and many 3rd…
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Google researchers find novel way of turning a single photo of a human into AI-generated video good enough to make you think ‘this might go badly’
Google researchers have found a way to create video versions of humans generated from just a single still image. This enables it to do things like, generate a video of someone speaking from input text, or changing a person’s mouth movements to match an audio track in a different language to the one originally spoken.…
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Nvidia CEO brings out a monster dual-GPU Blackwell chip at GTC: here’s what it tells us about the next GeForce graphics cards
There’s a new Nvidia architecture in town, and it’s a doozy. Blackwell has just been announced by Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang at GTC and will feature inside the ludicrously large B200 GPU. To call them ‘GPUs’ would technically be wrong, however. They’re dual-GPU packages with a total of 208 billion transistors across them. To put…
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) review
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The Asus Zephyrus G14 that earned my pick as the best 14-inch gaming laptop is gone. But don’t fret. The stalwart styling of the 2023 G14 may have given way to a newer design for 2024, but it’s sleeker, shinier and now includes the very latest AMD Ryzen mobile processors. I dare say the new…
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RTX Remix ‘is the great equaliser’ bringing veteran and hobbyist devs together to remaster the most beloved and best PC games
RTX Remix enables modders to breathe new life into beloved videogames. The platform, created by Nvidia, replaces the very core of classic games to take advantage of advanced modern features, such as path-traced lighting, enhanced assets, and upscaling. What’s most exciting about RTX Remix, however, is how it appears to have motivated the modding community…
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Asus ROG Swift OLED PG49WCD review
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The promise of vibrant worlds strewn across a 49-inch ultrawide OLED is what a PC gamer’s dreams are made of. The Asus ROG Swift OLED PG49WCD makes good on that promise. It’s a mammoth monitor capable of enveloping your entire vision with whatever game you choose to play on it (providing it supports ultrawide resolutions).…
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This real-world Angel Lamp from Alan Wake 2 actually works to make you feel like you’re stuck in a horror novel of your own creation
Feel like you’re trapped in a horror novel of your own creation? Here’s the home accessory for you! Prop maker and game designer Cloak&Kill on X has designed their very own Angel Lamp from Alan Wake 2, and it actually works to ‘steal’ or ‘return’ light from their house. Modelled after the Angel Lamp that…
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Intel Core i9 14900KS surfaces ahead of release with claims to a 6.2GHz Turbo and peak wattage to make your graphics card jealous
If you thought Intel had already strung every drop of performance out of its top Raptor Lake die, you’d be wrong. Though it does appear that it’s getting tougher and tougher for the company to crank up clock speeds. The unreleased Core i9 14900KS has been spotted in the OCCT benchmark database with a supposed…
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I created a highly personalised large language model with Nvidia’s entertaining Chat with RTX app but at 60GB+ I’m now beginning to wonder if it’s worth keeping around
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Owners of RTX 40- and 30-series graphics cards can now setup their own personalised large language model (LLM) on their own PC. It’s one that’s eminently capable of sifting through old documents or distilling down the essence of YouTube videos. Chat with RTX is now available to download from Nvidia’s website for free from today,…
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Machine learning means we can read a 2,000-year-old carbonized scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius and turns out it’s all about the pleasures of stuffing your face
You hear that? That’s the sound of people everywhere saying ‘they can do that?’ after reading how researchers used imaging, computer vision, and machine learning to read ancient Roman text within what most would think amounts to little more than a stick of charcoal by looking at it. The 2000-year-old scroll is one of more…