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Ever Wonder How the Shazam Algorithm Works?
Your phone's ability to identify any song it listens to is pure technological magic. In this article...
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GPU Availability and Pricing Update: July 2022
This month's update is particularly interesting not only because we continue to see a slide in GPU p...
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21 Years of Hitman: How Stealth Action Got Perfected Over the Last 2 Decades
Coming off the highly anticipated release of Hitman 3, this latest installment has been very well re...
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Sustainable Computing, Explained
When it comes to the topic of greenhouse gas emissions, the traditional culprits usually fall under...
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What Ever Happened to Winamp?
Recently I had a friend over to whom I offered to audition my DIY PC speaker system. The first thing...
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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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How Blizzard Saved Diablo III From Disaster
This is an excerpt from Jason Schreier's upcoming book, "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels," which comes out...
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A Brief History of the Multi
It's hard to overemphasize how far computers have come and how they have transformed just about ever...
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Screen Tearing or Input Lag? To Vsync or Not to Vsync?
Screen tear or input lag? To vsync or not to vsync? For the longest time, this was an either-or ques...
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Anatomy of a Gamepad
Input devices have a key role in the computing and gaming landscape. Today we'll finish our autopsy...
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S3 Graphics: Gone But Not Forgotten
These days, it's rare to see a new hardware company break ground in the world of PCs. However, 30 ye...
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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...