Alongside the launch of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, NVIDIA has released a new graphics driver that, one, obviously supports the new card and, two, also rolls in a bunch of optimizations for DirectX 12 titles. The graphics vendor already announced the initiative at last week’s GDC, but it is now released and available for […]
Mozilla released version 52 of Firefox, which brings new security features, as well as support for WebAssembly, a low-level programming language for the web. The new version of Firefox also coincides with a new Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR), which means the Tor Browser will soon benefit from all the security features that have been […]
The Khronos Group announced a new standard, OpenXR, that’s meant to help VR and AR game developers support more hardware platforms with less hassle. The consortium also revealed updates to Vulkan, WebGL, and glTF as well as new working groups devoted to developing these standards. With support from Intel, Oculus, and many other companies, the […]
Futuremark are showing off new benchmarks at GDC and MWC, the two conferences which are both happening this week. We will have quite a bit of coverage this week as we try to keep up with simultaneous news releases and presentations. First up is a new benchmark in their recently released DX12 VRMark suite, the […]
While the main focus of the GeForce 378.66 graphics driver release is support for For Honor, Halo Wars 2, and Sniper Elite 4, NVIDIA has added something major into the 378 branch: OpenCL 2.0 is now available for evaluation. OpenCL 2.0 support is not complete yet, but at least NVIDIA is now clearly intending to […]
Just in time for For Honor and Sniper Elite 4, AMD has released a new set of graphics drivers, Radeon Software Crimson ReLive 17.2.1, that target these games. The performance improvements that they quote are in the 4-5% range, when compared to their previous driver on the RX 480, which would be equivalent to saving […]
HP has hired Christian Slater to front its new web campaign. The end result is a four-part video series called “The Wolf,” directed by BAFTA and Emmy nominee Lance Acord. Slater is a very well known actor having done countless movies since he was a teenager. But it’s his latest work on Mr. Robot that […]
Amazon is starting to cater to specific niches within the business market. The latest of those is video and voice chat. Today, Amazon launched Chime. It’s a “unified communications service” which is meant to make having a meeting with lots of people around the world as easy as possible. In other words, it’s a direct […]
Twitter has added several new tools that users can employ to improve their experience on the social network. To start, Twitter is more aggressively identifying and hiding abusive and low-quality replies. The idea here is to prevent users from seeing potentially hurtful responses to their tweets. Twitter says these responses will still be accessible to […]
AMD released a new Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition driver. Version 17.1.2 fixed several nagging issues with various games and settings, in addition to adding support for a pair of beta-version games. The driver update remedied a handful of known issues, including: Smoke and lighting effect problems in Diablo III using DirectX 9 An issue where […]
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