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A hardcore graphics card hobbyist has published a video showing off his incredible collection, which includes just about every flagship GPU from each major generation over the past 30 years. The expansive exhibit spans three decades of Nvidia and ATI/AMD graphics cards, starting with the NV1 from 1995 and running …

Following months of uncertainty about whether Nvidia could sell its H20 GPUs to China, we have a new wrinkle in the story: Now, China doesn’t trust the hardware. China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) organization is reportedly investigating whether Nvidia’s GPUs include location tracking and other spying hardware.Although other companies are rushing …

If your PC is starting to flicker and lag in the middle of your epic campaigns, there’s a smarter way to upgrade than replacing your graphics card. Windows 11 Pro brings significant performance upgrades to the table, especially for gamers and power users, and it’s now available for just $14.97.You’ll …

Operating online securely can be an exhausting effort, especially if you’re someone who explores or works on the internet a lot. It also can be quite challenging for traveling professionals to keep themselves protected in every possible way. For a comprehensive, all-in-one cybersecurity solution, consider this Deeper Connect Mini Decentralized …

The ability to rent all sorts of things is a logical step in the evolution of a subscription economy, but renting hardware wasn’t necessarily top-of-mind for startups until COVID-19 hit. Pre-pandemic, a common step in the onboarding process at many VC-funded startups in the Bay Area called for new employees …

(Photo: Intel)Intel has been cranking out new software and hardware for as long as the company has existed, but it hasn’t maintained a central facility for dedicated security tests on its older hardware. That all changed in 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal, as the company began collecting as much …

A stealthy startup co-founded by a former senior designer from Apple and one of its ex-senior software engineers has picked up a significant round of funding to build out its business. Humane, which has ambitions to build a new class of consumer devices and technologies that stem from “a genuine …

    (Credit: onurdongel/Getty Images)New work in robotics research at MIT suggests that long-term bottlenecks in robot responsiveness could be alleviated through the use of dedicated hardware accelerators. The research team also suggests it’s possible to develop a general methodology for programming robot responsiveness to create specific templates, which would …

This year’s incarnation of the CES trade show will be like no other. Last year, nearly 175,000 attendees crammed into the Las Vegas Convention Center and hotels across the Strip to get a glimpse of the latest and greatest gadgets. That obviously can’t happen now. But the show must go …

  Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide high-quality internet video at higher compression rates than those achieved by standards like H.264 and VP9. Typical …