Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

At NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC), a whole wave of current and future product announcements were revealed. We caught our first glimpse of Volta in the form of the Tesla V100 compute card, Holodeck real-time collaboration along with scaling deep learning across multiple industries and the software to go with it. Finally a quick look at ISAAC, the robot AI simulation system.

Things are just about ready to start-up at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) held in San Jose, and NVIDIA is already starting the announcements. Virtual Reality (VR) is not just an upcoming feature explosion in the gaming community, but also with professional creatives; VR isn’t just about graphics either. NVIDIA has documented…..

Displays have had a bit of a slow period over the last few years, nothing really caught the public’s attention. While there is a steady increase in interest for 4K resolution, there are now a wealth of additional technologies that have had people upgrading on a more regular basis. Acer has brought…..

It’s been almost a year since the original launch of AMD’s Polaris architecture with the Radeon RX 480, but now we have a new range to look forward to, Veg…. no, the RX 500 series! Not just three new cards, but a mysterious forth that has been long missing, an X50 SKU.…..

Microsoft’s latest major update to Windows 10, called Creators Update, is now being pushed out to the masses. As most major updates to Windows can bring a bunch of immediate confusion, we’ve put together a little guide to help you gain a good footing with the Creators Update before (or after) it’s installed.

Courtesy of Digital Foundry, we’ve been given the first real glimpse at Microsoft’s long-in-development Xbox One update, Project Scorpio. With hardware and chips built from the ground up, the 6 TFLOP monster console has its sights set squarely on real 4K gaming and 60FPS. To do battle with Sony’s recently launched PS4…..

With Shepard’s era coming to an end, a lot of questions remained about Mass Effect going forward. Bioware didn’t leave the franchise sitting idle, as there was a whole universe to explore. Mass Effect Andromeda is a bold new step for the residents of the Milky Way. It’s time to see how we fare in a new galaxy.

Pushing the boundaries of deep-learning, artificial intelligence, and tactical analysis, NVIDIA has made a surprise announcement that will surely take the gaming community by storm. Leveraging the power of thousands of gamers, across thousands of titles, GeForce GTX G-Assist will be the saving grace for gamers the world over. We’ve all been…..

Last week, Intel announced the first Optane product that will launch for enterprise, the DC P4800X, but we now have confirmation of the consumer targeted device, Optane Memory. These are 16GB or 32GB M.2 SSD sticks featuring the 3D Xpoint technology that bridges storage and memory. Our previous news post covers the…..

Optane is Intel’s application of the 3D Xpoint (crosspoint) architecture that was built in conjunction with Micron, and aims to fill the gap between memory and storage. Its support was originally announced with the launch of the Kaby Lake CPU and supporting chipset, but this is the first time the technology has…..

It’s just been over a week since AMD launched its breakthrough Zen architecture to the world with the Ryzen 7 CPUs, but the next phase of the launch is already under way. The key information on the new mid-range Ryzen 5 CPUs has been detailed, including core counts and pricing. Ryzen 5…..

NAS boxes have changed a lot over the years. From dumb storage, to multi-user storage, routing and network services, to web servers, to cloud servers, to full-blown media centers and PCs that can perform all of the above. QNAP is one of the leading NAS providers and it’s now releasing a new…..

Antlion’s ModMic range has appealed to people for quite some time now, and the latest fifth generation is an accumulation of the constant feedback provided by its users. Better cable management, dual capsule design, stronger magnets – let’s find out if the ModMic 5 hits the mark.

It’s here, it’s finally here. The months of hype, guessing, heated debates; AMD finally opens up the floodgates for benchmarks to be revealed on its latest CPU launch, Ryzen. The boost in instructions per clock, the doubling of core counts, smaller manufacture process, new architecture, new socket, new I/O, it’s all new,…..

While it’ll still make a rift in your wallet, Oculus has dropped the price of its Virtual Reality head mounted display, the Oculus Rift, by a cool $200 when bought with a pair of (essential) touch controllers. This works out to a rather impressive 25% off its launch price. Not only that,…..

It was speculated for a while, but it’s finally here. NVIDIA at the GDC 2017 event finally shows off the specifications for the much-anticipated GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, the hyped up version of its top-end GTX 1080. Sporting the usual mix of bumped clocks and more cores, there are a couple of…..

AMD is having a busy year, not only with hardware launches, including Ryzen and Vega, but also in the developer space, getting that hardware to work at optimum efficiency. One of the key focus areas right now, is VR development. At its Capsaicin live stream event held at GDC, AMD talks about…..

For the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s fifth birthday since the launch of the first Pi Model B, a new Pi has been released that will usher in a new wave of extremely small compute projects. Just over a year ago, the original Raspberry Pi Zero was launched, not much bigger than a thumb…..

In probably the biggest security breach that’ll happen this year, web cache service Cloudflare has been leaking text messages, cookies, passwords, IP addresses and other sensitive data for the last few months (the issues were only just brought to light). Exposed by Google engineer Tavis Ormandy, the now dubbed Cloudbleed bug was…..

With some of the details finally coming out from AMD over its latest and most anticipated CPU launch since Athlon 64, its partners are already offering up pre-orders on the new AM4 socket and motherboard platform to go with the Ryzen launch. One such partner is ASUS. After some four years, AMD…..