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NVIDIA gave us a taste of its new Pascal architecture with the P100 graphics card last month, which is aimed at servers for heavy duty computing. Now, it's ready to show off how that technology will be adapted for consumers with its new GeForce GTX 1080 GPU. As you'd expect, it's fast: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that it's faster than its current performance king, the $1,000 Titan X, as ...read more
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We don't know what it looks like. We don't know how it works. But now, we finally know when Nintendo's next system will launch: March 2017. The company's mysterious "NX" platform was first teased more than a year ago, during an investor presentation that also outlined its smartphone strategy. We've heard plenty of rumors since then, including a console-handheld hybrid, a system more powerful than ...read more
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It's been happening in subtle increments, but the transformation is nearly complete. After launching private messaging, Party Chat and profile updates to Twitch, Amazon's livestreaming service will finally become a niche social network with today's announcement: Friends. Twitch users can add up to 500 friends to a list that shows who's online and allows them to send Whispers (private messages) ...read more
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While Apple definitely has us on our toes waiting for the iPhone 7 launch later this year, analysts predict that next year’s model is the one that we’re really gonna want. The 2017 model iPhone is purportedly being overhauled with major design changes which could merit Apple skipping its usual “s” cycle upgrade and offering the iPhone 8. By overhaul, we’re not talking about a spec ...read more
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AMD is expected to rake in $1.5 billion in revenue from three new products, described as “design wins”. AMD's CEO, Lisa Su, told investors that the new products should bring in the revenue over the next three to four years, starting in the second-half of 2016. Earlier this month, we got more information on a new PlayStation console. Now, with AMD suggesting they'll begin to get a revenue from ...read more
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If you’re a Mega user you should backup your data as soon as possible. That warning comes from the company’s original founder, and infamous figure, Kim Dotcom. In a series of tweets sent last night, the notorious internet mogul, Kim Dotcom, is warning users off of Mega. While not explicitly stated as such, Dotcom seems to believe that the data is no longer safe on the company’s servers. ...read more
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Microsoft have floated the idea of future Xbox One hardware before- and recent rumors and leaks seem to indicate that they are indeed testing new Xbox hardware internally. However, we got our first explicit confirmation of Microsoft’s gaming plans beyond just Xbox One in a recent message posted on Xbox Wire by Xbox head Phil Spencer. “Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll be sharing ...read more
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Hopefully it won’t take as long for Nintendo to reveal the secrets of the games company’s next console as it has for all the tricks of NES’ Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out to be discovered. So far all fans have to go on about the Nintendo NX is a sea of rumors and some imaginative yet fake controllers. It’s widely predicted that the NX could bring the big N back from the brink of irrelevance ...read more
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When we finally get to see the NX is anybody’s guess, but for now, the rumors keep on coming. This week’s batch of rumors appears to be more believable and credible than the previous few ones we’ve been getting, if only because they have been posted by a source that has been verified as legitimate by the moderators on Reddit’s NX subReddit. And what exactly do these rumors say? They ...read more
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If you followed Microsoft's developer conference Build 2016 closely or even today's Edge Web Summit, you might have heard casual mentions of a dark theme in Windows 10. A new report from Thurrott.com says that yes, the option for a dark theme is coming to Windows 10 for PCs. The new feature will be available in the upcoming Anniversary Update - formerly known as Redstone - coming this ...read more
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