Posts

According to app analytics firm Sensor Tower, that’s up from just one out of 10 back in early 2016. One well-known mobile gaming specialist that utilizes bots is Zynga. A spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal the developer added bots to Words with Friends in 2019 to ensure players always had an opponent to compete against. Not everyone is happy about being matched up with bots, especially when they were under the impression that they were real people....

Open a new tab: Ctrl + T Open any link in a new tab: Ctrl + middle mouse button click Reopen last tab: Ctrl + Shift + T Close the current tab: Ctrl + W Switch to tab #(1, 2, 3…): Ctrl + Number (“1” goes to the first tab, and so on) Move between open tabs: Ctrl + Tab Open new Private browsing window: Ctrl+ Shift + P Get to the URL address bar: Ctrl + L (or F6) Get to the search box: Ctrl + K Add ....

In the near term, the U.S. smartphone market is shaping up to become a three horse race. The iPhone is topping sales charts on every carrier it’s available from, quite an accomplishment considering it does have some formidable competition. Android devices from Samsung and Motorola are selling well – especially the Galaxy S II, Galaxy Note, and Razr – while the Lumia 710 briefly broke into the top three at T-Mobile....

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY is equipped with a five megapixel camera on the back, complete with flash and autofocus. The user interface of the camera app is very sparse and not as intuitive as the ones found on most HTC and Samsung phones. Pressing on the on-screen shutter button will cause the camera to focus, and lifting your finger off it will snap a photo. You can pre-focus the lens by holding down the shutter button and letting the lens focus, then sliding your finger off the button if the lens does not achieve focus....

Create a compelling product for tech enthusiasts Sell it direct as a loss leader Limit production to create scarcity Build awareness and demand Sell profitable related products and services Scale production once component costs drop Small Chinese companies like Xiaomi and OnePlus were able to create markets even while competitors like Apple and Samsung spend billions in advertising their smartphones. Their success is a blueprint for others to follow, whether you’re running an established smartphone company or starting one....

One of the suite’s coolest applications is called Download Station 2, which allows you to turn the DS2411+ into a 24/7 download center for BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP, eMule, NZB news server, RapidShare and MegaUpload. Even shutting down your computer won’t affect transfers, as files are downloaded directly to the DS2411+. The eMule download service is integrated into the Download Station 2 web interface and you can simply connect to any eMule server on the list and start searching right away....

Every component in the Luxury System guide was thoughtfully scrutinized in order to offer you the most for your money. If the additional cash didn’t bring about a justifiable performance leap, it didn’t make the cut. Neither you or us want to choke up 150% more money to see a 3% increase in oomph. Our full review of the Asus P6T Deluxe can be read here. While the Nehalem (Core i7) line has been a major success and is by far the best performer in the market, Intel is cooking up some new chips....

Is this a good time to buy or build a new PC? It depends on what you do and your actual needs. More people than ever are working from home, which means that the cheapest components in many categories are either out of stock or overpriced to the point of irrelevance. Making matters worse, a lot more people than usual are also spending more time and money toward hobbies such as gaming, not to mention the new wave of cryptomining....

Starting with the budget cards we see that the R7 360 was 6% slower than the GTX 750 Ti at 1080p with an average of just 31fps. The R7 370 also lost out to the GTX 950 as it was 4% slower with an average of 45fps. AMD got its first win in the $200 battle as the R9 380 was 5% faster than the GTX 960 with an average of 58fps....

At the Top of the Food Chain Uber expensive Titan X aside, we find the GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Radeon R9 Fury X. Both are seriously fast, especially at 2560x1600. The GTX 980 Ti is the faster of the two albeit by a slim margin, beating the Fury X on average by 4%. Of the eight games tested the GTX 980 Ti came on top in five of them. Frame rate performance is not the only reason why we feel the GTX 980 Ti is the best buy....

The instrument is simple in concept and operation. Two C-64s are connected via bellows made from dozens of 5.25-inch floppy disks. The bellows control the “airflow” (volume) of the notes played. The keys on each computer act as they would on a standard accordion, with the right one producing the melody and the left outputting chords. Constructing the Commodordion was far from being as straightforward as its operation. Inventor and YouTuber Linus Åkesson started by making the bellows....

Folks playing at 4K will love what the Titan X has to offer and 60fps 4K gaming is now a reality. Although SLI didn’t always impress us with strong scaling, it did take things to the next level. In Mirror’s Edge Catalyst for example, a single Titan X fell just short of 60fps and adding a second card saw the minimum frame rate stay well above 60fps, while stunning titles such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and Star Wars Battlefront pushed well past the 100fps barrier....

While outside of our usual scope, we must recognize that it arguably was an even better year for consoles with hits like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Horizon Zero Dawn dominating discussion for game of the year. It’s nice to talk about all the great games that were released this year, but we’re also not going to let slide the games that really disappointed us, and there’s a few that stick out like a sore thumb....

Let’s start with the origins of the modern tablet. The original iPad played such a strong role in shaping our perception of what a tablet should be, including a 9.7-inch display that we think of standard today. Apple arrived at that size because 9.7-inches was ideal given technology’s constraints at the time like weight, battery life and cost. It was the right size for 2010. The iPad was never designed to be used primarily with one hand, unlike “mini” tablets of today....

In the third edition of this feature we revisit the company’s past, examine the twists and turns in the path to the present, and wonder at what lies ahead for this Silicon Valley veteran. The rise to fame and fortune To begin our story, we need to roll back the years and head for America and the late 1950s. Thriving after the hard years of World War II, this was the time and place to be if you wanted experience the forefront of technological innovation....

Japan’s A64X-based Fugaku system had held the number one spot on the Top500 list for the last two years with its 442 petaflops of performance. Frontier smashed that record by achieving 1.1 ExaFlops in the Linpack FP64 benchmark, though the system’s peak performance is rated at 1.69 ExaFlops. Frontier has some impressive specs: its 74 cabinets each weigh 8,000 pounds and are packed with 9,408 HPE Cray EX nodes. Each node is powered by an AMD “Trento” 7A53 Epyc CPU alongside four AMD Radeon Instinct MI250X GPUs and 512 GB of DDR4 memory....

The rollout of 22H2 marks the arrival of Windows 11’s first major update, bringing with it several features that were part of Windows 10. But it seems that, like every update Microsoft pushes out, this one has introduced several unwanted bugs. Windows Latest does note that compared to previous releases, Windows 11 22H2 is fairly stable, so credit to Microsoft for that, though people affected by the game stuttering are unlikely to be too pleased....

While it appears that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is happy to take your GPU and molester every last pixel out of it, it’s content with letting your CPU sit back and watch in comfort. The AMD FX-9590 isn’t far off the pace of the Core i7 processors, while the FX-8350 is suprisingly close to the Core i5’s. I cannot recall the last time we tested a video game that showed absolutely no performance difference between the Core i7 clocked at 2....

On Wednesday, Sony’s artificial intelligence team published its work on a bot called “GT Sophy” in the Nature science journal. The AI is a neural network that strives for perfection on the race tracks of Gran Turismo Sport through reinforcement learning. It has trained the equivalent of over 45,000 hours and can run a race line to within one millimeter of precision. The team recently tested four GT Sophy bots against four professional esports champions....

It’s been quite an eventful year that’s for sure. We hope you enjoyed our daily dispatch of PC technology news and analysis as much as we’ve enjoyed bringing it to you. Without further ado, here’s our take on 2011. Intel remains unchallenged in almost every segment of the microprocessor market. Their 2nd generation Core processor lineup was recently expanded with the arrival of three new Sandy Bridge-E parts for the enthusiast market, priced from $555 to a bone chilling $990....