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For Pac-Man’s 40th birthday, Nvidia uses AI to make new levels
Pac-Man turns 40 today, and even though the days of quarter-munching arcade machines in hazy bars are long behind us, the legendary game’s still helping to push the industry forward. On Friday, Nvidia announced that its researchers have trained an AI to create working Pac-Man games without teaching it about the game’s rules or giving […]
The Dell G15 15 SE features Ryzen, Radeon and Smart Shift’s “free performance”
The mystery of just how well AMD’s laptop “Smart Shift” technology will perform just got a little less mysterious on Thursday.First, AMD formally shed a little more light on the first laptop to use the Smart Shift feature, Dell’s G5 15 SE. Calling it kind of a “free...
Hands-on: HP Elite Dragonfly, the first laptop with an integrated Tile tracker
It feels like an eternity since I left my apartment for any reason at all, much less for a business trip or a meeting. Still, I recall the icy stab of fear when I thought I’d left my laptop bag behind on a subway car, or the time I almost forgot it after clearing...
Microsoft tests the Surface Book 3 to avoid ‘hot bag’ heat issues
Microsoft is sweating the details with the Surface Book 3, especially when it comes to thermal issues that users experienced with the Surface Book 2 and the original Surface Book. As the company prepares to launch the Surface Book 3 on May 21, it's specifically...
Nvidia’s bleeding-edge Ampere GPU architecture revealed: 5 things PC gamers need to know
Nvidia’s next-generation GPU architecture is finally here. Nearly a year and a half after the GeForce RTX 20-series launched with Nvidia’s Turing architecture inside, and three years after the launch of the data center-focused Volta GPUs, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled...
How coronavirus is speeding up a la carte cord-cutting
When deciding to drop cable or satellite TV, there are two potential paths a cord cutter can take.The first is to replace the cable bundle with a streaming one, using services like YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, or Sling TV. The second is to cobble together various...