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Explainer: What Are Tensor Cores?
For the past three years Nvidia has been making graphics chips that feature extra cores, beyond the...
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When SSD Performance Goes Awry
An unfortunate tale about Samsung's SSD 840 read performance degradationAn avalanche of reports emer...
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And Action! An Examination of Physics in Video Games
Video game physics are something that we often take for granted. If you make your avatar jump, you e...
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I have a confession to make: I've spent several hundred dollars on Steam Controllers
No, I'm not crazy, and I'm not a collector of failed tech, either. Over the past five years, the Ste...
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Anatomy of a Storage Drive: Solid State Drives
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio i...
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The Sims: 22 Years and Counting
Every gamer who was alive at the turn of the millennium has either played, or at the very least hear...
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Patched Desktop PC: Meltdown & Spectre Benchmarked
Following up to our initial testing of the Meltdown patch for Windows 10, today we're looking deeper...
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How to Reboot and Reset Android Devices
Sometimes things go wrong and knowing how to hard reboot or reset your Android device can come handy...
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What Are Chiplets and Why They Are So Important for the Future of Processors
While chiplets have been in use for decades, they've been employed sparingly and for very specific p...
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GPU Pricing Update, Year in Review: Price Trends Charted
Welcome back for our monthly GPU pricing update, the last one of the year. In today's article we hav...
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How 3D Game Rendering Works: Lighting and Shadows
The vast majority of visual effects you see in games today depend on the clever use of lighting and...
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What is Crypto Mining?
On January 3, 2009, the first Bitcoin mining operation went underway, and a 50 BTC reward was sent t...