Windows 10 Build 11102 Released to Fast Ring Insiders
I wasn't planning on reporting every Windows 10 Insider build, but I actually have something to say about this one. The last couple of builds were examples of…
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Author: Scott Michaud
Google Releases Chrome 48 with Interesting Features
Web browsers are typically on rapid release cycles so they can get features out frequently. The Web is changing on a constant basis to help it become an effective application…
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GDC 2016 Sessions Are Up and DirectX 12 / Vulkan Are There
The 30th Game Developers Conference (GDC) will take place on March 14th through March 18th, with the expo itself starting on March 16th. The sessions have...
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Phoronix Tests Almost a Decade of GPUs
It's nice to see long-term roundups every once in a while. They do not really provide useful information for someone looking to make a purchase, but they show how our…
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TSMC Allegedly Wants 5nm by 2020
Digitimes is reporting on statements that were allegedly made by TSMC co-CEO, Mark Liu. We are currently seeing 16nm parts come out of the foundry, which is expected...
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Samsung Mass Produces HBM2 Memory
Samsung has just announced that they have begun mass production of 4GB HBM2 memory modules. When used on GPUs, four packages can provide 16GB of Video...
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ECS LIVA Adopts Its Own M.2 Port
Back in November, Sebastian reviewed the ECS LIVA X2. While the device always had an M.2 slot, its storage options were soldered eMMC chips with capacities of their 32GB or...
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AMD High-End Polaris Expected for 2016
When AMD announced their Polaris architecture at CES, it was focused on mid-range applications. Their example was an add-in board that could compete against an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 1080p60...
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Skylake and Later Will Be Withheld Windows 7 / 8.x Support
Microsoft has not been doing much to put out the fires in comment threads all over the internet. The latest flare-up involves hardware support with Windows 7 and 8.x. Currently unreleased architectures,…
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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Insider Build 11099
The second Insider release on the “Redstone” branch has been pushed to Fast ring users. Once again, this has basically no release notes because a lot of features are “under...
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Catalyst Crimson Edition 16.1 Hotfix Drivers Released
AMD's recent “Hotfix” drivers don't seem to mean what NVIDIA's does. In the Green Team's case, they usually fix one or two issues that slipped past QA. While they likely...
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GeForce Hotfix Driver 361.60 Released
NVIDIA has been pushing for WHQL certification for their drivers, but sometimes issues slip through QA, both at Microsoft and their own, internal team(s). Sometimes these issues will be fixed in a…
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