[ad_1] Commissioned by cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct, “The Persistence of Chaos“ was created by artist Guo O Dong, who told The Verge that the piece is a way to give abstract cyber threats physical form. It contains viruses like WannaCry, which infected more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries and caused nearly $4 billion in […]
Category: personalcomputing
NVIDIA certifies another 16 gaming monitors as ‘G-Sync Compatible’
[ad_1] Initially, NVIDIA said it would test monitors for a baseline VRR experience, that is, no blanking, pulsing, flickering or ghosting. Now, it claims 273 of the monitors it tested lacked the desired VRR range, meaning gamers were unlikely to get the benefits of the GeForce graphic cards. Another 202 failed due to poor image […]
Watch AMD’s Computex 2019 event in nine minutes!
[ad_1] Computex has kicked off in Taipei today, so probably before you were even awake, AMD revealed its ambitious new CPU and GPU hardware additions. It’s going after NVIDIA’s middle-weight RTX 2070 graphics with the Radeon RX 5700. Not only will it be the first 7nm consumer video cards out there, the series will also […]
ASUS’ latest WiFi 6 router looks appallingly normal
[ad_1] Spec-wise, these new routers use Broadcom chipsets and support up to tri-band 6,600Mbps WiFi connectivity. That’s significantly faster than the maximum 4,804Mbps speed on their predecessor, the RT-AX92U in the AiMesh AX6100 kit. Furthermore, the new routers use WiFi 6 for both backhaul (between mesh routers) and front-haul (between routers and client devices) connections, […]
ASUS releases a 30th anniversary edition ZenFone 6 and ZenBook
[ad_1] In the case of the ZenFone 6, it sports ASUS’ classic concentric-circle finish on a curved matte black body, and it’s maxed out to 12GB of RAM plus 512GB of storage (these were originally capped at 8GB and 256GB, respectively). The phone is otherwise identical to the rest of the series, featuring a Qualcomm […]
AMD isn’t ruling out ray tracing for its new Radeon RX 5000 GPUs
[ad_1] Back at CES, AMD CEO Lisa Su mentioned that they were working on ray tracing from a hardware and software end. When today’s announcement came and went without any mention of the technology, I started to worry that it wouldn’t make it into this generation of cards. But based on discussions with CEO Lisa […]
Acer brings NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX 5000 to its ConceptD 7 laptop
[ad_1] Acer hasn’t felt the need to mess around with the existing system, which makes sense since the ConceptD line was only announced in April. That means it’s still offering a ninth-generation Core i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVME storage and that 15.6-inch, Pantone-validated 4K display. The one thing that Acer neglected to mention — yet […]
Razer updates the Blade with NVIDIA’s new Quadro RTX 5000
[ad_1] A 4K OLED touchscreen will ship on the 15-inch model, which will carry a (ninth-generation) Intel Core i7-9750H CPU inside. The larger of the pair gets a 120Hz 4K panel and Intel’s (ninth-generation) Core i9-9880H CPU, up from the Core i7 currently available. If users are still hungry for power, then both models can […]
Lenovo’s Project Limitless 5G laptop makes a lot of promises
[ad_1] We still haven’t been able to verify any of those claims in the real world, but we continued to get more demos of how powerful the 8cx is supposed to be. Here in Taiwan, Qualcomm again showcased a reference design laptop with the “extreme” chipset pushing out streaming to two 4K displays in addition […]
ARM’s latest chip designs promise 60 percent faster AI on phones
[ad_1] The Cortex-A77 CPU design is ultimately a refinement of last year’s 7-nanometer A76, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The new hardware claims 20 percent faster instructions-per-clock performance without hurting efficiency, and that translates to roughly 35 times faster machine learning performance than the old A55 (for context, ARM was celebrating a 28-fold […]