We’ve definitely seen changes throughout Snapchat over the years, including some of our favorite filters, embarrassing texts, and face swaps with cats. Lately, other applications have adopted features similar to Snapchat like Facebook’s Messenger Day Continue reading “Snap Inc. Introduces Snap Map”. …more
By Immanuel Decano •
Jun. 22, 2017 at 1:17pm
AMD has officially unveiled the new Radeon Instinct family accelerators for deep learning datacenter applications this week in Austin, Texas. The flagship model that is getting the most attention is called the Radeon Instinct MI25. Continue reading “AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 Leads New Class of Deep Learning Accelerators”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jun. 21, 2017 at 10:29pm
When the AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor was announced at Computex 2017 no pricing guidance was given and in recent weeks we’ve seen a number of rumors where that price might land. Last night at the Continue reading “What AMD EPYC Pricing Means for AMD Ryzen Threadripper Processors”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jun. 21, 2017 at 5:15pm
The last time we talked about the coming DLC for Diablo III called Rise of the Necromancer was in November of last year. All we knew at the time as far as the launch date Continue reading “Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer to Launch June 27”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 21, 2017 at 2:48pm
Since Twitch is part of Amazon if you are an Amazon Prime member, you are a Twitch Prime member as well. You might not be into streaming your gaming session and perhaps you didn’t even Continue reading “Blizzard/Twitch Partnership Means Free Golden Loot Box for Overwatch Players”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 21, 2017 at 1:08pm
AMD wants to drive home the message that they are capable of delivering awe-inspiring performance from a single socket server with a number of demos this afternoon at the EPYC launch event in Austin, Texas. Continue reading “One AMD EPYC Processor Reaches 57 GB/s of Random Storage Bandwidth”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jun. 20, 2017 at 8:01pm
Aside from the issues several Android users encountered when upgrading to Nougat, cellphone users across the United States came across issues regarding their ability to connect to the internet and make calls. Several users have Continue reading “Reports of Cellphone Internet Outages Across the US on Monday”. …more
By Immanuel Decano •
Jun. 20, 2017 at 5:18pm
The latest sales ranking charts from NPD have been published, and Sony has taken the top spot for hardware sales back from Nintendo. For May 2017, the Sony PS4 was the best selling game hardware Continue reading “PS4 Nabs Top Spot in NPD’s Best Selling Hardware Rankings for May”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 20, 2017 at 2:30pm
During E3 last week Nintendo of America head Reggie Fils-Aime sat down with a bunch of gaming publications to answer questions. It seems that each of the publications that interviewed Fils-Aime asked some of the Continue reading “Vague Answers Muddy the Waters on Nintendo Switch Virtual Console”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 20, 2017 at 1:06pm
For a long time the Hitman franchise has been part of Square Enix, but with IO-Interactive posting a massive loss and Square Enix wanting no more to do with it and no buyers for Io-Interactive Continue reading “Hitman Goes Indie as No Buyers for IO-Interactive Step Up”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 19, 2017 at 2:43pm
Back in the early days of gaming if you wanted to play a videogame at home there was only one console to get your hands on and that was the Atari. That old-school Atari 2600 Continue reading “Atari to get Back into Game Console Business”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 19, 2017 at 1:05pm
Intel is offering up some details on its new “mesh” on-chip interconnect that is the future of the data center. The details on the new architecture come ahead of the launch of the new Intel Continue reading “Intel Outlines New Xeon Mesh Architecture for Data Centers”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 16, 2017 at 2:12pm
Back during Computex Gigabyte announced some new enthusiast level motherboards in the X299 Aorus line for gamers that supports all the cool new stuff that Intel is doing. The mainboards support the Intel Core X Continue reading “Gigabyte Offers X299 Aorus Mainboard Pre-Order Bonus Options”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 16, 2017 at 1:40pm
If you had cable TV back in the day when set top boxes were a novelty, you might remember how the channels you didn’t pay for were scrambled. This scrambling meant that the image was Continue reading “Synaptics Talks Data encryption vs. Data Scrambling”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 15, 2017 at 2:28pm
Samsung has announced that it has kicked off volume production for its latest advanced memory technology in the form of the 64-layer, 256Gb V-NAND flash memory. That flash memory will be used in an expanding Continue reading “Samsung 64-layer, 256Gb V-NAND Flash Memory Volume Production Begins”. …more
By Shane McGlaun •
Jun. 15, 2017 at 1:50pm