Author: Nick Evanson
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Arise Arc owners and rejoice as Intel’s new drivers offer up to 36% more performance in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Maybe
All graphics cards get new drivers on a pretty regular basis these days, and that’s especially true of Intel and its Arc series. The chip giant has just released a new set, with performance improvements for a variety of games, one of which being Dragon’s Dogma 2. So I tested them out and guess what?…
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PlayStation 5 Pro hardware leak suggests its GPU is a RDNA 3/4-hybrid design, with some big improvements coming this way
Hot on the tails of the rumour that Sony is planning on releasing its own upscaling technology, with the forthcoming PlayStation 5 Pro, comes a wealth of tidbits purporting to be what the next-gen console’s hardware is going to be like. The CPU will still be the same ol’ Zen 2 core, and the RAM’s…
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Sony’s reportedly stopped making any more PS VR2 headsets until it can figure out a way of shifting a pile of unsold VR goggles
Sony’s virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 5, the PlayStation VR2, is a lovely device but it has a few drawbacks. It only works on that system, there’s not a huge amount of great VR games to play on it, and it’s as expensive as the base console. So with sales on the decline, Sony…
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Nvidia is finding NeMo in hot water as the GPU giant and its LLM toolkit are being sued for copyright infringement in the latest in a long line of AI lawsuits
If you’ve ever written a book and had it professionally published, you’ll know that your work is protected by copyright laws. There are exemptions and limitations, such as fair usage, but all of it is very clear and strict. However, three American authors have filed a lawsuit, claiming that Nvidia is guilty of breaching said…
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MSI Vector 17 HX (2024) gaming laptop review
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At face value there’s not an awful lot of difference between this Vector 17 HX laptop and its predecessor, the Vector GP68 HX. The chassis is the same, as is the 17-inch 2560 x 1600 IPS 240 Hz screen. Both can be configured with up to an Intel Core i9 CPU and an Nvidia RTX…
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It’s black, brown, and beige from here on out, as Noctua confirms it has ditched development on white fans and coolers
Fans of Noctua’s…umm, fans…have long bemoaned the company’s firm stance on colour. The original beige/brown palette is still popular, of course, but when the Austrian company started to offer many of its coolers and fans in black, PC aestheticists were hopeful that white would soon become an option, too. Well, not anymore, as a simple…
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AMD’s Chief Technical Officer: ‘We’re enabling our gaming devices to upscale using AI’
It’s the tiniest of teases and opens up a whole trunk full of questions, but in a recent online interview, Mark Papermaster was asked what the year has in store for AMD. The CTO’s response was all focused on AI, naturally, but he also mentioned a curious little tidbit: its gaming devices are to get…
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Nvidia will soon be showing adverts to calm queue rage for free tier users of GeForce Now
When Nvidia launched GeForce Now back in 2020, the game streaming service bucked the trend of most media companies by offering a completely free membership. With no strings whatsoever, other than a time restriction on the gaming session, there was little to complain about. That’s still the case now but users of the free tier…
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US White House: The responsibility of cybersecurity should be tech companies’ and the Federal government’s, not the individual
Of all the things I expected to read in my morning feed of tech news, a report from the US White House stating that tech companies and governments need to stop using certain programming languages to combat cybercrime wasn’t top of my list. But that’s exactly what has happened and the document in question, Back…
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One person’s journey to jailbreak a second-hand prison laptop is the most compelling read I’ve had in absolutely ages
What more does one need to add to a story headline like the one above? Basically just that thread below—go read it and then come back and tell me you weren’t absorbed even if you had no idea what they were talking about half the time. Bought a prison laptop on eBay. Thought it should…