Intel Says Its GPUs to Rival AMD and Nvidia Will Be Here By 2020
Intel has stopped dancing around the issue and confirmed in a tweet, as noted by Engadget, that it will be making discrete GPUs and that they will be here by 2020.
The Video Cards of the Future Will Be Able to Give You an Incredibly Shiny Captain Phasma
Right now, even the mightiest graphics card on the market would melt like Mustafar trying to render this new Star Wars short made with Epic Games’ Unreal engine. But in the future, Nvidia hopes new technology it showed off this week will bringing gamers one step closer to some... well, very shiny graphics.
What You Need to Know About  Max-Q, Nvidia's Plan to Make Gaming Laptops That Aren't Monstrosities
When you think gaming and laptops, images of massive, dictionary-thick machines come to mind. Notebook computers purpose-built for PC gaming are only barely portable, but Nvidia wants to change that with a new approach to hardware and software design for laptops called Max-Q that lets mobile gamers have their cake,…
What All of Your Computer's Specs Really Mean
Computer specs can be a baffling mix of acronyms and numbers at the best of times, but it’s worth learning something about them: It’ll help you choose a new computer, troubleshoot your old computer, and generally understand more about the relationship between the specs on the page and the experience you’re getting.
The New York Times Live Presidential Election Meter Is Fucking With Me
The New York Times is currently tracking the state of tonight’s hellish presidential election with what appears to be a ... pressure gauge? Speedometer? SocialFlow resonance meter? ... illustrating the leading candidate’s chances at winning the Electoral College and thus the presidency. As you can see above, as of…
11 Great Apps That Are Even Greater on the iPad Pro
So you’ve got a brand spanking new iPad Pro. You’re probably going to want to take advantage of the 12.9-inch display, the four speakers, and the souped up A9x processor. We’ve made a list of the coolest, most beautiful apps you can get, whether you’re a designer or just someone who appreciates big screens.
AMD's Powerful New R9 Nano Graphics Card Fits In Small Places
This year, I bought myself an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card. It was time to upgrade. And I was pleasantly surprised to find I could buy a mini version of one of the best cards ever made. Now, I can potentially fit my beefy gaming PC into a console-sized case. But a new card from AMD is about to do small and…
Look At How Science Fiction Maps Out Our Future World
Over on Brain Pickings, Maria Popova writes about a timeline created by designer Giorgia Lupi, who mapped out how novels, short fiction and comics have imagined the future and where we’re headed.
A close look at the crazy interfaces from The Avengers: Age of Ultron
One of my favorite things about watching movies is seeing the film’s vision of the user interfaces on screens and computers. They’re almost always over the top (like they were in the first Avengers) but I love to imagine that we’ll see all those exploded graphics in our future and pretend that all that information…
Apple Is Quietly Repairing MacBook Pros With Faulty Video for Free
PSA: Apple has launched a repair program for MacBook Pros from 2011 to 2013 displaying video problems. People with video issues who have the affected models can get them fixed for free, and people who already paid to get their laptops fixed can get a refund. This includes MacBooks with scrambled video, video that…
Snapdragon 810: Your Next Phone's Brains Are Way More Than Just Fast
A new year means a new flagship smartphone brain, and Qualcomm has detailed some of the most fun features of its upcoming Snapdragon 810 chip, which will start popping up in Android and Windows phones next year. It's faster, and it supports better graphics sure, but it also has other tricks up its sleeve. Here's what…
I love this American spaceship lineup graphic
This one is an oldie, but I'm a sucker for NASA's rocket comparison graphics. I cleaned the one above, which I took from this PDF overview of NASA's Space Launch System by the Marshall Space Center. I just wish someone made a high quality vector file to print out in giant format.
What Happens When the Weatherman's Computer Fails
The weather team down at ABCNews4 just made the most of a horrific, live computer crash. Apparently, the computer that generates the graphics for the TV weather forecasts failed recently, but instead of just standing up there and talking in front of a blank screen, the team created some super half-assed chicken…
Just what does it look like when every active satellite orbiting around the Earth is set into motion? Something like this lovely interactive graphic from Quartz, which takes all 1,200 satellites moving around Earth and shows you exactly where in orbit they are — plus what they're doing up there as well as who sent it.
Nvidia's Next-Gen Grass Simulations Are Mesmerizing
When developers are looking for the next jaw-dropping gaming visual to show off their newest titles with, the responsibility usually falls on some shiny, photo-real car porn or a wavy mullet with individual strands blowing in the wind. But the sizzle reels of the future may turn their cameras ground-ward if Nvidia's…
ARM's Next-Gen Mobile Graphics Chips Will Save Your Battery
The English-based chip design company ARM has announced its new silicon, and as well as churning the pixels, its new graphics chips will play nicely with your battery, too.
Alienware 13 Review: The First Futureproof Gaming Laptop
I've owned a grand total of two gaming laptops. It was depressing how quickly they aged. But the new Alienware 13 may not suffer the same fate. It's the first gaming laptop that lets you connect a external desktop graphics card for freaking awesome, truly unheard-of speed.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M: A Graphical Leap For Gaming Laptops
The dirty little secret of GPU marketing is that laptop graphics chips are never as powerful as you'd think. Think you're going to run a game maxed out at 2K resolution with the GeForce GTX 880M in your laptop? Think again—even if it's no trouble for a desktop-grade GTX 780.