Image: Foundry Originally a super-fancy form of upscaling, “DLSS” has become gamer shorthand for a host of allegedly AI-powered graphics tricks exclusive to Nvidia’s graphics cards. In the PCWorld lab, Will Smith has been breaking down some of the different ways that upscaling and other AI tricks work in the latest version of Nvidia’s drivers …
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Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are in a Growing Number of Cities. Here’s Everything to Know Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the driverless arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, expand into more cities — and countries. Waymo currently operates fully autonomous rides for the general public in Phoenix, San Francisco, Los …
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Meet Angel. Also, meet Zeke. They’re two of a kind. Angel and Zeke are the two heads of a single California kingsnake living at the East Bay Vivarium, a reptile store in Berkeley, California. Angel/Zeke (named after two store employees) is around seven months old, a remarkable age for a snake with its rare mutation. …
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Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections puzzle features one of those crazy purple categories, the kind they mock in TikTok videos. The four words all have …
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Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one. Neat theme, and some of the words are short, while others are super long. …
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Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Connections: Sports Edition was half and half for me today. Half of the categories were easy, especially if you like movies. Read on for …
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Image: Acer The Acer Nitro V is easily one of the most affordable gaming laptops you can get these days. Amazon has it down to $625 right now, which is a solid discount on its $849 MSRP. The Nitro V’s highlight is the GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card, which is a phenomenal get for the …
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There’s a quiet vibe shift rippling through marketing circles as the industry comes to terms with the epistemic hangover of its long entanglement with Google. None of this is new, of course — marketers have spent years toggling between frustration and resignation over how tightly Google grips their ad dollars. But now, with the company …
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Forward-looking: As the world faces a data tsunami, with most information destined for long-term storage, one technology could offer a sustainable, low-maintenance alternative. Whether Cerabyte can deliver on its promise of millennia-long durability and ultra-low costs remains to be seen. Still, its boiling and baking tests have already raised the bar in the race for …
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What just happened? It’s a case of another month, another new top GPU on Valve’s Steam survey results. For the first time in over three years, the most popular product among participants is a laptop GPU, which replaces the RTX 3060 as leader. April also saw two more RTX 5000 cards enter the main GPU …
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