AMD’s Ryzen family has already gone through two generations of chips and motherboards, and has come out pretty strong against the competition from Intel, boosting AMD to around 15% of the CPU market. Where Ryzen was lacking was in options for creative professionals who wanted workstations based on the Zen architecture, but without the high cost of a Threadripper system. …
This past week at MWC 2019 the USB Implementation Forum (USB-IF) announced the release of the USB 3.2 specification, which tacks on another level of speed to the existing USB 3.0 specification. And when I say “tack on”, I really mean tack on. USB 3.2 is basically two USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports that were smashed together to push twice …
Having spent the last few days salivating over the Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X, a question on many people’s minds is battery life. While these two phones may be looking to further cellphone design to something like we saw on HBO’s Westworld, their 4380mAH and 4500mAH packs are not inspiring anyone. Especially given how much power those screens …
This week AMD released their new Radeon Software 19.2.3 drivers. The naming isn’t sexy or catchy, and it looks like any other driver release. But the release notes and AMD’s press notices about this driver are focused on something that AMD users have been petitioning the company for years now: the bundling of their drivers for discrete and integrated graphics …
We have seen remarkable growth in the wearable device market and its starting to get to the point where we can wear entire smartphones on our wrists.
Move over foldable phones, LG thinks the real future lies in having two screens instead.
The Xbox One has not quite been as successful as Microsoft had hoped. Curious decisions aw the Xbox eating PlayStation dust for the bulk of the generation, but it’s something that Microsoft has actively been making amends for. There’s some exceptional forward thinking in effect at Microsoft, as the company hopes to start the next generation on a better footing.
The Kinect struggled to gain traction in the gaming market, but has found some big usage in other industries, something which Microsoft has realised in their next iteration of the innovative device.
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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