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Nvidia Shield Tablet Review: A Gaming Beast, But So Much More

Nvidia’s Shield tablet was made for playing games. That’s what it’s best at. But it’s also much more. In fact, it should probably be your next Android tablet no matter how much button-mashing you do. What Is It? The Shield is Nvidia’s first real tablet, and the first tablet at all to be driven by…

Doubling Up LCDs in VR Headsets Can Quadruple Their Pixel Density

Donning a VR headset can be a wonderfully immersive experience, if you can look past the pixels. But new research by Nvidia suggests that merely stacking two LCD systems in front of your eyes can quadruple their pixel density. That could make Oculus Rift—and more importantly, its cheaper DIY competitors—way more immersive. The problem with…

Nvidia Shield Tablet: An Android Tablet With a Game Console Inside

Last year, chip-maker Nvidia entered the hardware dojo with Shield, a weird but interesting Android gaming machine. Its successor has arrived, taking a form that’s a little more familiar. This is the Shield tablet, the first Android tablet straight-up made for games. We spent some time with it, and so far it delivers. At its…

Bloomberg: Microsoft Readying Small Qualcomm and Intel Powered Surfaces

Bloomberg claims that Microsoft is readying a new, smaller version of its Surface tablet which will use Qualcomm chips and another, larger device that will be powered by Intel silicon. Bloomberg suggests the new, small tablet will run Windows RT. It’s unclear what form the Intel device might take, but it could be that Microsoft…

Nvidia’s Got a New Next-Gen GPU and $3,000 Graphics Card

Nvidia is only just starting to put out cards that run on its new Maxwell architiecture, but its eyes are already on the future. Today at its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced its next, far-future architecture: Pascal. Not due to hit until 2016, Pascal is faaaaar from making its way into anything you hope…

Nvidia’s New Laptop Cards Are Battery-Saving Scorchers

Integrated graphics are getting better and better, but if you really want to game on your laptop, ain’t nothing gonna beat discrete. Nvidia’s new line of GTX mobile cards are about as good as it gets, and they’re not just bringing performance upgrades, but better battery life as well. Nvidia’s new GTX outing is a…

Nvidia’s First Maxwell Card Is a Power-Sipping Screamer

Nvidia’sTegra K1 is damned pretty for mobile tech, but the desktop team hasn’t just been sitting around waiting for Tegra to catch up. Say hello to Maxwell—the new architecture on the desktop side—and the GTX 750Ti. It’s a tiny little sucker that’s worth its weight in watts. https://gizmodo.com/holy-crap-nvidias-new-tegra-k1-has-192-cores-1495287484 Maxwell uses the same 28nm process its…

Audi Shows Off the Brains of Its Future Self-Driving Cars

Tonight during its CES keynote detailed what it means about the future of mobility including self-driving cars and connected technologies. Importantly, it detailed the brain that will ultimately allow a car to drive itself—by rolling out its “piloted A7”. The car is gorgeous, as for the brain, it looks like a massive computer motherboard about…

Nvidia took to the fields to help publicize its new Tegra K1 chip, its first with a staggering 192 CUDA cores. The result is this deliciously geeky crop circle, cut into a field two hours south of San Francisco. [Nvidia]

Holy Crap, Nvidia’s New Tegra K1 Has 192 Cores?!

Nvidia’s kicking off this year’s CES madness with the Tegra K1, the first Nvidia chip with freaking 192 CUDA cores. Does that sound like a desktop thing, not mobile? It sort of is. According to Nvidia this bridges the gap between Kepler-based desktop cards and the mobile-based Tegra chips. Not just Tegra 5 but like…

Nvidia GeForce GTX 780Ti: Gaming in Glorious 4K

Earlier this year, Nvidia dropped a bomb on the world of graphics processing with the Titan, a real luducrious powerhouse what cost a whopping $1,000. Now, the monsterous Titan is getting (another) “affordable” twin in the form of the Gefore GTX 780Ti, which Nvidia’s calling the best gaming GPU on the planet. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-a-massive-gpu-that-might-be-u-5985291 The GeForece…

The Nvidia Shield Still Works After Getting Shot with a Gun

Usual disclaimer about not trying this at home and all that but if you were wondering if you could use the Nvidia Shield as a bulletproof vest and then still play with it later, the answer is yes! Well, as long as it gets shot through the screen. And as long as you’re not actually…

All Gadget Teardowns Should End In an Explosion

We’ve seen your typical, sterile, tiny-screwdriver-filled teardown of Nvidia’s Shield that showed there’s actually a lot crammed in there. But Nvidia decided to do a teardown of its own that’s just a little…rougher. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-shield-teardown-a-lots-crammed-into-this-stran-987565085 Admittedly this is pure marketing, what with that exhaustive spec rundown mid-explosion, but that doesn’t take away from the good (clean?)…

Nvidia Shield Teardown: A Lot’s Crammed Into This Strange Device

Nvidia’s slightly crazy Shield gaming device-cum-tablet is now in the wild, and iFixit has done what it does best and torn the sucker apart. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-project-shield-hands-on-a-little-less-weird-tha-5974239 Turns out that there’s a lot squeezed into the frame of this hybrid device. As well as packing a serious GPU, it’s got a huge 7350 mAh battery (previous reports…

Just Look at How Insane Your Phone’s Graphics Will Be Next Year

Project Logan is NVIDIA’s next-gen mobile processor. Inside of it is the Kepler GPU, which NVIDIA claims the fastest, most advanced scalable GPU in the world. Last year, Kepler hit desktops and laptops, and next year your phone and tablet are about to get supercharged. We have seen just how crazy NVIDIA can make graphics…

This Is the ‘Fastest GPU Ever’ Made

NVIDIA has just announced an insane new GPU. Designed for (wealthy) graphic professionals, the Kepler-based Quadro K6000 is, apparently, “the fastest and most capable GPU ever built”. With twice the capacity of the Quadro 6000 that it replaces, the specs on this thing are just crazy: it has 12GB of super-fast DDR5 graphics memory, 2,880…

Nvidia’s Shield just got a liiiittle cheaper. Instead of the original $350, it’s now $300 thanks to popular demand. It’ll be officially available on June 27th, if that price drop got you interested.

Bloomberg: Qualcomm Chips Are Headed For Microsoft’s Surface RT

Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is planning to give its Surface RT tablet an overhaul using chips from Qualcomm. According to “people with knowledge of the company’s plans” some new versions of the tablet will used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor—rather than Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chip which currently drives the device. Once source, however, suggested that Nvidia…

How the Tech Industry Is Quietly Changing the Face of American Cities

When Steve Jobs presented the initial design for his donut-like headquarters to the Cupertino City Council, in 2011, he described the building as a reaction against suburban office parks. “We’ve come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building; which sounds a bit odd,” he said. “But we’ve seen these office parks…

Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M: The New Best Graphics Card For Your Laptop

Intel’s new integrated graphics are better than ever, and AMD’s are nothing to shake a stick at either, but if you really want to game on a laptop, nothing’s gonna beat discrete. And Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 700M series just rolled into town with the best graphics you can put in your laptop. https://gizmodo.com/intel-iris-integrated-graphics-are-finally-awesome-486483980 The…