Tesla’s AI Day is a yearly event where the company showcases upcoming technologies and lays out its roadmap for future development. While the technology demonstrations are a big draw for any Tesla enthusiast, the event focuses on attracting new talent to join Tesla and supporting the company’s ever-growing technology portfolio. This year, the presentation concentrated on Tesla’s robotics efforts and full self-driving (FSD) developments. Unlike Musk’s initial announcement in 2021, the presentation opened with a look at Tesla’s current prototype robot, Bumble C....

Putting the blinders on and looking specifically at Ashes of the Singularity, is Nvidia as doomed as AMD fanboys would have you believe? No, we wouldn’t say so. Although Nvidia does go backwards in DX12 as AMD goes forward, the margins are far from catastrophic. Take the GTX 980 Ti vs. Fury X battle at 1080p for example. Under DX11 the 980 Ti is 15% faster while it is just 2% faster when using DX12....

There were reports that Nvidia was considering walking away from the acquisition last month. Now, the company has confirmed that “the parties agreed to terminate the Agreement” due to the “significant regulatory challenges” it faced. “Arm has a bright future, and we’ll continue to support them as a proud licensee for decades to come,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “Arm is at the center of the important dynamics in computing....

There are plenty of factors to examine: appearance, size, cost, features, thermals, and so on. But we’re here to make the process easier and narrow things down to some truly excellent options for you to consider. Our latest round-up of the best cases covers various form factors, prices, and target audiences. We base our choices on expert and user reviews, buyers’ comments, and our own impressions, separating the best from the rest....

We’ve been reviewing and covering gaming monitors and putting together recommendations for distinct categories including 1080p, 1440p and 4K gaming monitors for the past few years. In this guide, we’re going to go through everything we’ve learned so far and all the latest models we tested to give you comprehensive advice on gaming monitor shopping. In the past year we updated our monitor testing methodology, testing 60+ displays. As we’ve discussed before, we tend to discuss and recommend only the monitors we’ve tested and know to be good, or monitors that are very similar to products we have tested (same panels, etc....

When it comes to graphics cards, we go in-depth. Every year we test dozens of GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia to see which ones are worth your money, and which are dead on arrival. To ensure our information is always relevant, we continue to evaluate them as new games, drivers, and card-specific features are launched. Editor’s note: The graphics card market has been hit by several challenges, but supply chain and overflowing demand from gamers was only the beginning....

The GeForce GTX 650 Ti struggled at 1680x1050 when running the Sleeping Dogs benchmark, with an average of just 21fps. Evidently it didn’t struggle as much as the Radeon HD 7700 series, as the GeForce GTX 650 Ti was 11% faster than the 7770 and 50% faster than the 7750, though it was 19% slower than the 6870. The GeForce GTX 680 averaged 36fps at 1920x1200 making it 14% slower than the Radeon HD 7970 and 22% slower than the 7970 GHz Edition....

Users in the enthusiast category are a particularly tough crowd to please, as they not only expect the finest in terms of build quality and typing experience, but also treat keyboards as objects of personal expression. No, not just by typing words and sentences like the rest of us, but with their choice of bespoke switches, colorful key caps, and trendy designs. Some even go as far as solder one from scratch, but one-off builds like those are a topic for another day....

Many who mined early and actually kept their haul suddenly realized they were millionaires. Others kicked themselves for not jumping in sooner but one thing was clear: everyone wanted in on the action – and not necessarily to get rich quick. For hardware enthusiasts like me, it’s just another opportunity to build and optimize a system, though I wouldn’t complain about making a few bucks in the process. There are two ways to get into Bitcoins: buy them or mine them....

Sabrent is known for its fast and increasingly popular Rocket SSDs, but every now and then the company comes up with some rather outlandish products for NAND enthusiasts and professionals who need the fastest possible storage for scratch files. The latest is the aptly-named Rocket 4 Plus Destroyer 2, and it combines several Rocket 4 Plus SSDs into a monstrosity that is likely to be just as fast as the money disappearing from your bank account as you place an order for one....

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The GTX 660 Ti cards averaged 57fps when testing Max Payne 3 at 5040x1050, a 19% lead over the HD 7970 and 30% on the GTX 680, and the HD 7850s fared almost as well at 54fps, which was 13% faster than the HD 7970 and 23% faster than the GTX 680. The SLI pair still managed an average of over 50fps at 5760x1080, making them 19% faster than the HD 7970 and 31% faster than the GTX 680, while the Crossfire cards were 14% and 27% quicker....

Detective Inspector Michael O’Sullivan of the City of London Police said a 16-year-old and 17-year-old have each been charged with three counts of unauthorized access to a computer with intent to impair the reliability of data, one count of unauthorized access to a computer with the intent to hinder access to data and one count of fraud by false representation. The 16-year-old has additionally been charged with one count of causing a computer to perform a function to secure unauthorized access to a program....

The first thing I want to point out is you must switch the monitor into its sRGB mode from the default color mode if you want sRGB accuracy. The default mode is basically a ‘user’ mode that allows you to change various settings and make adjustments to performance, while the integrated color modes lock down settings to adhere to factory calibration. The only disappointing aspect to the sRGB mode is that brightness is locked to 120 nits, which is fine for most office use, but it doesn’t give users the flexibility to adjust brightness to suit their usage conditions....

That’s a fair suggestion since Ubuntu is frequently updated and supports a lot of hardware. But when there are so many other Linux distros out there, users may be curious about what else might work for them. Fortunately, there is a quick guide… Ubuntu alternatives Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux and uses the GNOME desktop environment. A desktop environment can make or break the user experience, but there are other versions of Ubuntu with different environments, so you can pick one that’s right for you....

What is Thermal Throttling? When your GPU takes on a heavy workload, such as gaming, it generates a load of heat. When your cooling solution can no longer dissipate heat fast enough to keep temperatures within a safe range, your graphics card starts to dump performance to shed heat. The core and memory frequencies begin to drop—along with your framerates—until temperatures drop to a safe operating range. All modern GPUs have this feature in place to protect the electronic components from damage....

For the final installment of our series, we’re looking at the whole picture. We’re not just talking about other components but the product cycle and timing for building a new gaming PC in early 2018. Solid state storage pricing crept up a little bit late last year, but nothing really worth talking about. As it stands right now, a quality 1TB SSD such as the Crucial MX500 will set you back just 25c per gigabyte and that’s about as low as I’ve seen them get....

This feature is intended as a convenient way for workers to carry their corporate environments with them, but having your own copy of Windows on a thumb drive could be handy for backup purposes, too, or if you frequently use public machines that lack your preferences/applications or that have a restricted OS. For a long time this was a neat thing you could do with many Linux distros (we plan to cover Linux Live on a separate article soon), but barring driver complications and hardware limitations, a Windows To Go drive should boot from “most” computers....

Playing full-fat PC games at 60Hz can drain the Steam Deck’s battery substantially – PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon managed to go from a full charge to a measly 20 percent just over an hour into a Deathloop session. Since the Steam Deck is being marketed as a portable gaming console, it’d be ideal if it lasted a little longer. As it turns out, you can squeeze some extra battery life out of the device, but it requires some doing....

Within Android’s settings, users can select “Always-on VPN,” which is supposed to restrict any connections to the device without a VPN active. This feature is helpful for Android consumers who prioritize their privacy, especially those storing or transferring sensitive data with their devices. A VPN creates a virtual “tunnel” between two points on the internet through which encrypted data can travel privately without getting intercepted. An analogy would be rolling a ping pong ball across a tabletop to another person....