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A Surveillance Primer: 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, 14 Eyes
As awareness of global surveillance grows, more people are looking for information about the Five Ey...
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Explainer: What are MMX, SSE, and AVX?
Computer technology is no strange to acronyms: CPU, GPU, RAM, SSD, BIOS, CD-ROM, to name but a few....
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Why Building a Gaming PC Right Now is a Bad Idea, Part 2: Insane Graphics Card Prices
We're hardly two weeks into 2018 and it's been a wild ride for the tech industry already (CES notwit...
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Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing, Explained
Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games lo...
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DOOM Eternal PC Graphics Benchmark
Doom Eternal is the series' latest demon-killing romp, bringing more weapon variety, more movement p...
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Is Upscaling Useful at Lower Resolutions? Nvidia DLSS vs Native at 1080p
Today we're taking a closer look at Nvidia DLSS upscaling when used to render games at 1080p. This i...
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Windows 8.1: Six Things Microsoft Got Right and Others That Are Still Missing
Not unlike previous releases of Microsoft's ubiquitous desktop OS, Windows 8 has faced a lot of scru...
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What's New in DirectX 12? Understanding DirectML, DirectX Raytracing and DirectStorage
DirectX has been with us for 25 years, providing developers with the tools to make incredible games....
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Explainer: What is an API?
Direct3D. OpenAL. Winsock. You've probably heard of these, you might have even usedthem before, but...
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Explainer: What Are Processor Threads?
In the beginning, it was just one. Years went by before it became two, and then four. Now you can ha...
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What Ever Happened to GameSpy?
Today, multiplayer gaming is easy. You hop onto a game, press "play online," and in moments, you're...
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Tweaking Windows 10 Privacy Settings
Several controversial privacy issues have kept many users from upgrading to Microsoft's latest opera...