Two new tidbits on AMD’s next-generation GPU architectures have surfaced courtesy of LinkedIn — and while that’s not our typical avenue for discovering new data, past information cribbed from profiles has indeed panned out. In this case, it’s a pair of profiles — one from Linglan Zhang, a system architect manager at AMD, and one from Ilana Shternshain, an ASIC physical design engineer. ...
A modern spin on Islamic architecture characterizes the exterior of the I.M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. As a form of practice, Your Shot member Zeqiant Wang tries to capture the museum from different angles and in different light, here shooting in the early evening. “I had already been waiting there for two hours when I saw a Qatari man in traditional clothes walk by,” Wang writes. “I got my camera ready fast. The walking posture ...
Our first painting of 2015 as part of our Great British Art series is by William Turner – this one is called Fisherman at Sea and it’s a beautiful and moody portrait of Britain’s maritime history. It also happens to be Turner’s first painting exchibited at the Royal Academy in 1796. About the painting: The first oil painting Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy, this is a moonlit scene in the tradition of Horace Vernet, Philip ...
One of the most widespread hardware failures to plague consumer electronics was the Xbox 360’s Red Ring of Death, an unfixable light pattern — unaccompanied by an error code, unlike other Xbox 360 failures — that represented one or more hardware components have broken down in some way. A new report claims that GameStop learned how to fix it back in 2009, and has been reselling the refurbished consoles ...
Did you get any awesome gaming gear this holiday season — a PS4 or Xbox One under your tree? Or maybe Aunt Marge and Grandpa Smithers made your day with a pile of gift cards instead. Regardless of your platform of preference, you can always improve your gaming experience with some snazzy new accessories. And if you can subsidize your upgrades with all ...