It’s the last weekend before Microsoft releases Windows 10, which means that any of you planning to take advantage of the new operating system had best be moving to do so soon. Come July 29, the new operating system will cost significantly more and if Microsoft has plans to offer it for free again, it hasn’t been willing to share them. When Microsoft ...
AMD reported its second-quarter results today and they came in extremely well, relative to the general state of the PC market. Revenue was $1.027 billion, up 23% from Q1 and 9% compared to the same period in 2015. The company’s non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) operating income was $3 million, while it recorded an $8 million loss by GAAP standards. Net income was $69 ...
Nvidia has been launching GPUs at a rapid-fire pace this summer. The GTX 1080 and 1070 debuted in late May and early June, the 1060 dropped earlier this week, and now the full-fledged Titan X is shipping by August 2. The new GPU was announced by Jen-Hsun Huang last night and sets a speed record for fast turnarounds between the launch of a new architecture and the debut of its top-end GPU. ...
Last week, Futuremark released Time Spy, a new DirectX 12 benchmark that takes full advantage of DX12’s features and capabilities, including asynchronous compute. While the release of a new benchmark is typically of modest interest, there’s been a great deal of confusion, uncertainty, and doubt over Time Spy’s benchmark results and what those results mean. Futuremark has since published an ...
Pokémon GO has been an unbridled success since it launched about two weeks ago, and that comes amid sometimes crippling server issues. Developer Niantic was forced to slow its global rollout so it could add server capacity, and there are still some days that the game just won’t connect. This past weekend was particularly bad, and now a hacking group called OurMine is claiming responsibility for ...