Day: March 21, 2025

Microsoft's GDC presentation this week offered a glimpse into the future of DirectX ray tracing support. The company claims that DirectX Raytracing 1.2 could help developers double the performance of ray tracing and path tracing. Read Entire Article

However, during an enlightening Q&A session with industry analysts a few days later, Huang shared several insights that suddenly made all the various product and partnership announcements he covered, as well as the thinking behind them, crystal clear. Read Entire Article

Calibre 8.0 improves Kobo support, adds the ability to connect folders and treat it as a device, which is particularly useful for Chromebook users, enhances the ToC editor, and updates book details. It also includes macOS icon updates, Tolino firmware support, and various bug fixes. Read Entire Article

Microsoft might be preparing to integrate Steam and other game launchers into the Xbox app. The company briefly posted a mockup image showing the new Xbox app UI across TV, tablet, and handheld devices, with a "Steam" filter prominently displayed alongside the game library. Read Entire Article

Over the past few days, many viewers have reported that YouTube seems to have gone back to the digital stone age. The 20-year-old video-sharing platform struggles to provide optimal, or even moderately decent, streaming quality, resorting to the lowest video resolutions despite users having ample network bandwidth. Read Entire Article

While data center GPUs are transitioning to HBM3e, the memory roadmaps revealed at Nvidia GTC make it clear that HBM4 will be the next big step. Computerbase attended the event and noted that this new standard enables some serious density and bandwidth improvements over HBM3. Read Entire Article

Google just announced a new AI upgrade to Gmail's search feature. The change, which is already rolling out globally for personal Gmail accounts, will provide the "most relevant" results thanks to AI algorithms. Mountain View developers claim Gmail's search function can no longer return the most desired outcome when dealing......

Microsoft tweaked the performance of File Explorer when extracting zip files in the latest Windows 11 Insiders Preview. The update should boost speed, especially when unzipping a large archive of small files. The change arrives in Windows 11 Build 27818, released to Insiders on the Canary Channel on Wednesday. Microsoft......

Asus revealed the ROG Astral RTX 5090 Dhahab OC graphics card in early February. As the name suggests, the card is a special edition of the regular ROG Astral designed specifically for the Middle East – it features Arabic calligraphy, images of skyscrapers, and motifs representing strength, courage, and unity.......

The world record has been validated by both CPU-Z and HWBOT, and the shared screenshots reveal that the setup was uniquely tuned for extreme overclocking. The record was achieved with only two out of the 24 CPU cores running, and at just 420 MHz. This was done to ensure that......