Nvidia introduces Shield set-top box with Android TV
Tonight at GDC, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang introduced the latest in the company's lineup of Shield devices: a set-top box running Android TV.
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Tuesday Night Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- Kroll Ontrack survey reveals solid state disk (SSD)
technology highly adopted, but not infallible
- Microsoft: A first look at the Windows 10 universal app platform
- Softpedia: PC gaming expected to grow to 35 billion dollars by 2018
- PC Gamer: Valve announces $50 Steam Link
streaming box and StreamVR for November release
- Polygon: Valve announces Source 2 engine, free for developers
- WCCFtech: Stardock's DirectX 12 game looks so
good that the partners wouldn't believe it was real
- VideoCardz: Khronos releases OpenCL 2.1 provisional specification for public review
- WCCFtech: Find out if Qualcomm's still got it; Exynos
7420 vs. Snapdragon 810 benchmarks analyzed
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With LiquidVR, AMD aims to make virtual reality more fluid
Virtual
reality is a hot topic at this year's Game Developers Conference, and
AMD has its head in the game, too. Today at the show, the chipmaker announced LiquidVR,
a set of tools designed to bring about the holy grail of virtual
reality: a "motion-to-photon" latency low enough to make the experience
subjectively seamless—an effect VR aficionados call "presence."AMD says this quest involves optimizations across "the entire processing pipeline," from the GPU to the display hardware on ...
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Gartner: Apple overtook Samsung as top smartphone vendor last quarter
It's that time again: in the endless horse race of quarterly smartphone sales, we now know who's a nose ahead and who fell off the pace—at least, according to one firm's numbers. According to a new report by market research firm Gartner, Apple narrowly took the per-vendor unit share crown from Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2014. Have a look:
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Unity 5 wants to be the game engine for everyone, everywhere
Today at GDC 2015, Unity released the latest version of its eponymous game engine: Unity 5. The company emphasized the egalitarian philosophy and broad cross-platform compatibility of its engine, and it talked up the power and performance that the new version of Unity brings to developers of all sizes, from indie to AAA.
Key features in Unity 5 include a powerful built-in DAW-class audio editing platform; 64-bit support, which allows for bigger and more complicated game worlds; real-time global illumination ...
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ARM and Geomerics announce Enlighten 3 engine
GDC — In 2013, ARM invested in a company called Geomerics, which provides a middleware lighting engine for real-time graphics and games. This week, at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, ARM and Geomerics announced a new version of that lighting engine, Enlighten 3.
Enlighten is distinguished from other lighting algorithms by its ability to achieve what is more or less the holy grail of real-time graphics: global illumination with multiple bounces, essentially a simulation of how actual light acts in an environment. Of course, given the limits ...
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Vulkan is the low-overhead future of OpenGL
Another piece in the next-gen graphics API puzzle has fallen into place. The Khronos Group has formally announced Vulkan, the API formerly known as glNext. The open standards body revealed its intention to rebuild OpenGL as a low-overhead API in August, and Vulkan is the result. I'll let the press release fill in the details:
In another significant announcement today, Vulkan and OpenCL 2.1 are now sharing core intermediate language technologies resulting in SPIR-V; a revolution in the Khronos Standard Portable Intermediate Representation initially used by OpenCL™, now fully defined by Khronos with native support for shader and kernel features. SPIR-V splits the compiler chain, enabling high-level language front-ends to emit programs in a standardized intermediate form ...
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Video shows Microsoft's Project Spartan browser, Cortana in action
Microsoft confirmed the existence of Project Spartan, its Internet Explorer replacement, back in January. At the time, the company touted the integration of its Cortana digital assistant with the new browser. Now, thanks to a leaked release in the hands of the folks at WinBeta, we know a little more about how Spartan will work with Cortana. Have a look:
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AMD changes plans for public Mantle SDK, hints at evolution of API
At PDXLan in November, AMD Gaming Scientist Richard Huddy reportedly promised
that the firm would release a public Mantle SDK by the end of 2014. The
in-house API has been available as part of a private beta since May, but the nitty gritty details of the supposedly open standard still aren't accessible to the public. Now, an official blog post
attributed to Vice President of Visual and Perceptual Computing Raja
Koduri suggests AMD has changed its plans for the public SDK—and
possibly for the very future of the API.2015 "will be a transitional year for Mantle," Koduri says. He suggests game developers have shifted ...
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End is in sight for Intel's contra-revenue efforts
Intel may soon stop pursuing mobile market share by offering massive discounts on Atom processors. In a press briefing about the new Atom x3, x5, and x7 CPUs last week, Aicha Evans, Corporate VP and General Manager of Intel's Communications and Devices Group, suggested that such "contra-revenue" tactics won't be necessary with some of the new chips—and that, in the future, we shouldn't expect Intel to engage in these tactics at all.
In general, first of all, that was a very calculated move. I think our Chairman—the Chairman of our board—which was a pretty tough moment for us, stood up and said, "Look, ...
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Phanteks announces enthusiast-friendly Enthoo Evolv ITX case
While we haven't yet had an opportunity to review a Phanteks case here at TR, the company has been making waves among enthusiasts with its Enthoo line of cases. Today, the company has added an ITX-only version of its Enthoo Evolv mini-tower to the lineup, the Enthoo Evolv ITX.
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SanDisk unveils microSD card with a whopping 200GB capacity
Moore's Law is an amazing thing, folks. Yesterday, SanDisk announced its latest high-capacity Ultra-branded microSDXC card, which crams 200GB of storage into a card that can fit within the circumference of a penny. That's a bit staggering to think about.
The SanDisk Ultra 128GB microSD card. The 200GB ...
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Unreal Engine 4 now free for everyone
Free-to-play games are all the rage these days, so it's only fitting that development tools appear to be headed in the same direction. Epic has revealed that Unreal Engine 4 is now "available to everyone for free."
The announcement comes nearly a year after Epic started selling Unreal Engine subscriptions for $19/month. The UE4 development community has "grown tremendously" since ...
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Sony's waterproof Xperia Z4 takes on premium tablets
Sony is the latest tablet maker with an uber-slender Android slate. The Xperia Z4 measures just 6.1 mm thick, allowing it to slip into the same dress size as Dell's Venue 8 7000 and Apple's iPad Air 2. It's a relative featherweight, too, at only 13.9 ounces (393 grams). And, unlike most tablets, it can be dunked under water for up to 30 minutes with no ill effects.
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Samsung's Galaxy S6 is ready for battle at the high end
Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2015, Samsung announced the latest updates to its Galaxy S line of high-end handsets: the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. The new Galaxies feature a striking new design that incorporates metal and glass materials, a marked change from the more plastic-y bodies of previous Galaxy S phones.
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