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Nvidia Is Finally Promising Ray Tracing Laptops for $1,000, But Still No RTX 2060 Super

When RTX Super graphics cards arrived for desktops, they provided a great ‘middle-option’ for people who wanted to get the most frames for their budget. The RTX 2060 Super, in particular, kind of made the RTX 2070 obsolete, not because the hardware itself was outdated, but because the RTX 2060 Super had the same amount…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Terrifying Things Happen When an AI Generates Fake Faces Synced to Music

We’re still trying to figure out the best applications for neural networks, machine learning, and all the recent advancements in artificial intelligence. Amongst all the practical research being conducted, there’s also lots of frivolous experimentation being done with results that walk the line between fascinating and terrifying. Automated image processing has emerged as a strong…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Microsoft Just Made It a Lot Easier to Port Cool PC Games to Xbox [UPDATE]

Today, Microsoft announced a new DirectX standard that it claims will not only sync the graphics improvement process in games across both PC and console, but will also be backwards compatible with older PC hardware. If it works as explained it’s going to be a lot easier to port games from PC to Xbox and…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Vulkan API Now Supports Ray Tracing and That’s Great News If You Game

Khronos Group, the company behind the Vulkan application programming interface (API), announced today that it now supports ray tracing, the buzzword friendly feature Nvidia pushed and console makers like Sony and Microsoft seem to be adopting into their next-gen consoles. The support makes it the only cross-OS platform API to do so. The updated Vulkan…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Nvidia’s Game-Streaming Service Is Finally Live

Nvidia’s big game-streaming competitor to Google Stadia and Microsoft Project xCloud, GeForce Now, is finally launching today. While Stadia relies on a cultivated selection of games, and Project xCloud leans largely on Xbox One-only titles, the biggest appeal of Nvidia GeForce Now is the ability to play just about any PC game you want. GeForce…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Nvidia Taught an AI to Instantly Generate Fully-Textured 3D Models From Flat 2D Images

Turning a sketch or photo of an object into a fully realized 3D model so that it can be duplicated using a 3D printer, played in a video game, or brought to life in a movie through visual effects, requires the skills of a digital modeler working from a stack of images. But Nvidia has…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Apple and Nvidia Are Over

The last vestiges of Nvidia and Apple’s long-term relationship are ending shortly. On Monday Nvidia published the release notes for the next update of its CUDA platform and noted that “CUDA 10.2 (Toolkit and NVIDIA driver) is the last release to support macOS for developing and running CUDA applications.” That means all future versions of…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Nvidia’s New AI Lets You Know if Your Pet Would Look Cuter As a Different Animal

Sure, you love your dog/cat/currently trendy animal people are keeping as pets, but is there a chance you might like it more if it were a different breed? You can’t simply trade in your Golden Retriever for a weekend test drive with a Schnauzer, but with Nvidia’s new GANimals tool, you can at least see…

Artificial Intelligence Andrew Liszewski

Nvidia’s Newest Set-Top Box Uses AI to Turn Content 4K

It’s not magic, but when the new Nvidia Shield works, it almost feels like it. The new tube-look revision of Nvidia’s already superb set-top box has taken away a few features, dropped the price, and packed in a new variant of the Tegra X1 chip. This chip is important because it allows the Shield to…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Alex Cranz

Asus Packed a $4,000 Nvidia GPU Into a Laptop

Building on the success of Max-Q design, its guidelines for slim laptops sporting powerful graphics, Nvidia announced a new reference design today dubbed “Ace.” Reference designs are blueprints for building specific devices with a lot of the engineering guesswork already done by someone else. The Ace reference design promises a (relatively) slim and sleek 15-inch…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Razer’s Tiny, Powerful Laptop Finally Gets Real Graphics

The Razer Blade Stealth is an outstanding laptop. There are few laptops under $2,000 that deliver its combination of attractive, compact design, performance, and available inputs. But they do exist, and a 13-inch laptop with a wimpy discrete GPU is no longer nearly as impressive as it once was. Huawei and HP make devices with…

Reviews Alex Cranz

If You Just Bought an Nvidia RTX 2060, You Should Be Super Pissed

When the Nvidia RTX 2060 GPU came out back in January, we marveled at its price (nearly twice its predecessors) and respected its performance (good but nothing spectacular), and if you decided to buy it, I am so sorry. Because today the Nvidia RTX 2060 Super GPU starts shipping, and it’s so much better you’ll…

Gaming Alex Cranz

Nvidia’s Cheapest Graphics Card Gets Nearly Two Times Faster for Better Gaming on a Budget

It might feel like Nvidia has been focused on it’s priciest graphics cards over the last few months, with announcement after announcement related to its ray tracing whizzbang 20-series GPUs, but today the company acknowledges that not all people looking for a gaming device want the best of the best. Sometimes good enough is more…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Stuff Elon Musk Said About Tesla Autonomous Cars on Monday, Ranked

On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke at a company investor day focused on autonomy, relaying news that Tesla had switched to a self-driving computer designed by in-house engineers and dropping some big promises about what, exactly, the future of its Autopilot feature and autonomous driving will look like. And boy, it’s a doozy. This…

Tech News Tom McKay

Google Is Serving Ads on Very Expensive TVs [Updated]

Boy that big gorgeous Sony TV you spent a paycheck on is nice, too bad Google has implemented a “pilot” program that now serves ads on it. Sony’s televisions, as well as the Nvidia Shield and other products running the latest version of Android TV, has been hit with an irritating update from Google that…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Ray Tracing Is Coming to a Whole Lot of GPUs

If you thought ray tracing was only going to be possible on Nvidia’s pricy line of Turing GPUs, you would be wrong. Today the company has announced ray tracing support for a wide range of GPUs ranging from the Nvidia GTX 1060 all the way up to the super beefy Titan V. The 1060 can…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

Nvidia Will End Support for Its 3D Glasses, an Incredible Technology You Definitely Use

Remember back when 3D TVs, movies, live sporting events, and glasses were a thing? Yeah, well, Nvidia realizes you don’t either, and as a result, it’s pulling support for 3D Vision, its platform for gaming with 3D glasses. According to Nvidia, 3D diehards will get the last drivers for 3D Vision in April with Release…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Now Is a Really Good Time to Buy a New GPU

If you’ve been thinking of a graphics upgrade, now is the perfect time to pull the trigger: Fresh new GPUs from Nvidia and AMD promise a lot of bang for not much buck, there’s downward pressure on prices across the board as existing hardware gets older, and we won’t see any new launches for several…

Gadgets David Nield

Nvidia and AMD’s Nerdiest Fight Is the One That Matters Most

At CES earlier this month, Nvidia and AMD traded words, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang saying his GPUs would “crush” AMD’s newly announce Radeon VII. AMD CEO Lisa Su was more measured in her response, but she didn’t pass up the opportunity to make a dig at Nvidia, noting that when her company finally adopts…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

The Nvidia RTX 2060 Is Perfectly Adequate

At CES a reporter had a question for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. What could he say to alleviate the concerns of fans who felt that the new RTX 20-series GPUs were overpriced and trying to force ray tracing technology on customers who don’t have much use for it? Huang smiled, with a mixture of serenity…

Gaming Alex Cranz

Nvidia Is Finally Promising Ray Tracing Laptops for $1,000, But Still No RTX 2060 Super

Terrifying Things Happen When an AI Generates Fake Faces Synced to Music

Microsoft Just Made It a Lot Easier to Port Cool PC Games to Xbox [UPDATE]

Vulkan API Now Supports Ray Tracing and That’s Great News If You Game

Nvidia’s Game-Streaming Service Is Finally Live

Nvidia Taught an AI to Instantly Generate Fully-Textured 3D Models From Flat 2D Images

Apple and Nvidia Are Over

Nvidia’s New AI Lets You Know if Your Pet Would Look Cuter As a Different Animal

Nvidia’s Newest Set-Top Box Uses AI to Turn Content 4K

Asus Packed a $4,000 Nvidia GPU Into a Laptop

Razer’s Tiny, Powerful Laptop Finally Gets Real Graphics

If You Just Bought an Nvidia RTX 2060, You Should Be Super Pissed

Nvidia’s Cheapest Graphics Card Gets Nearly Two Times Faster for Better Gaming on a Budget

Stuff Elon Musk Said About Tesla Autonomous Cars on Monday, Ranked

Google Is Serving Ads on Very Expensive TVs [Updated]

Ray Tracing Is Coming to a Whole Lot of GPUs

Nvidia Will End Support for Its 3D Glasses, an Incredible Technology You Definitely Use

Now Is a Really Good Time to Buy a New GPU

Nvidia and AMD’s Nerdiest Fight Is the One That Matters Most

The Nvidia RTX 2060 Is Perfectly Adequate

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