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Announced today, AMD released its latest refresh of its Ryzen Pro lineup of low-power mobile CPUs, used in commercial and business sectors. These CPUs are in effect the same 2nd generation Ryzen CPUs we saw launched at CES, but with AMDs Pro security co-processor. These new Ryzen Pro CPUs are built around…..

At GDC 2019, there was a surprise announcement that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been slated for release sometime in 2020, published by Paradox, and developed by Hardsuit Labs. Being released under Paradox does have quite a silver lining: its openness to modding. That was something that was critical to…..

Over the last decade or so, we’ve seen many attempts at online game streaming services, very few of which survive. At this year’s GDC, Google made a surprise announcement by launching its own cloud gaming service called Stadia. Powering this new service will be custom built AMD Radeon datacenter GPUs. Singled out…..

We’re here at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference 2019, and there is a tonne to talk about. From RTX Servers and Workstations, Omniverse collaboration software to unite 3D film studios, CUDA-X AI libraries, a huge focus on data science, a $99 Jetson Nano dev kit, and more.

Getting directions to places you’ve never been before is pretty easy these days with sat nav. But what if where you want to go doesn’t have an address, rather a string of GPS coordinates, or uses a language you are not familiar with? At CES 2019, we found what3words, and it proposes an interesting solution to this problem.

Audio seemed to have a great deal more focus this year at CES than in years past, with HyperX surprising us with some of its new products. While we saw the usual assortment of new peripherals, there is in fact still some interesting aural tech going on. The first thing that grabs your…..

On show at Corsair’s press event was an appearance by new acquisition, Elgato, maker of the numerous streaming and capture decks, as well as the more recent Stream Deck. Streaming has grown increasingly popular, with some making it their full-time job. However, there are numerous technical obstacles along the way that Elgato…..

At CES 2019, Corsair showed off some its latest projects. Up first were three new mice to be released over the coming year, including a new wireless series that we’re going to see spread out into its own series. Slipstream took a fair bit of focus as it’s a project that Corsair…..

The global standards developer, JEDEC, responsible for the creation and updating of various microelectronics standards used in the tech industry, has announced the publication of its JESD235 High Bandwidth Memory DRAM standard. HBM is the high-performance alternative to GDDRX type memory used extensively by GPU manufacturers, and this latest update standardised the…..

AMD has started to get into a habit of releasing large feature updates to its software package at the end of each year, and this year is no different. Adrenalin 2019 introduces many new features that have been frequent requests from users, as well as some interesting extras along the way. These…..

With some more news after the TITAN RTX launch, NVIDIA has decided to release its physics modeling SDK, PhysX, under an open source BSD license, released on GitHub. This isn’t just the CPU engine, but also the GPU acceleration aspect as well. NVIDIA’s reasoning for this relates to its push for AI,…..

Dubbed the ‘T-Rex’ by NVIDIA, the TITAN RTX is the latest in the ray tracing focused RTX graphics cards to be announced. As is expected of a TITAN card, it’s a rather hefty GPU. Most of the performance specifications relate to its compute and ray tracing performance, rather than gaming, but needless…..

Intel has released tidbits of information regarding its next generation server architecture, Cascade Lake, for a few months. It builds off of the Xeon Scalable Skylake family, with most of its focus on security and compute. However, there are now going to be two Cascade Lake families, with the latest to be…..

We don’t report on Kickstarter projects very often, despite the hundreds of emails we get about them each day. The ones we do report on don’t usually have happy endings. However, this time around, this particular Kickstarter caught our attention because of the company that set it up: Cooler Master. This isn’t…..

Following up on the August launch of the very well received 2nd generation AMD Ryzen Threadrippers, AMD is now releasing the odd-sized core count chips to fill in the gaps between its 8-core Ryzen CPUs, and the 32-core behemoth that is the 2990WX Threadripper. The 2920X is the 12-core 24-thread, more budget…..

The original Hyper 212 from Cooler Master was released all the way back in 2007, and has remained one of the most popular after-market CPU coolers, even to this day. It’s had numerous tweaks and updates over the years, but has remained one of the most price competitive coolers on the market,…..

Everyone secretly wants an indestructible laptop, but there are circumstances where they are a requirement – thing is, actually making them is extremely tough. Dell’s Rugged range are not new, but are a long-running product line meant to live up to the expectations of some very hard work conditions. Rugged laptops, generally…..

In the tech industry, we expect a fast pace. New CPUs, faster graphics, more memory, faster storage, everything is more and faster. However, the humble monitor is often left behind with the advances. While companies try to push higher resolutions and larger panels, fundamentally they have remained the same for a long…..

In one of the latest in worst-kept secrets in the tech industry, Intel will be releasing its 9th generation Core-series processors, with the flagship i9-9900K being the first CPU in a very long time, to come with a soldered IHS. It seems competition has finally pushed Intel over the edge and forced…..

Wireless naming standards are often a trip hazard for those not familiar with the industry. If you don’t keep up with the latest technology, trying to tell the difference between 802.11ac, 802.11n, a/b/g, and soon ax standards, can get pretty complicated. It’s hard to know which is the fastest or latest; letters…..