Latest News - Page 2510

NVIDIA has released their financial results for its fiscal 2016 today, as well as its Q4 results ending January 31. NVIDIA has had a stellar year, with record revenues for their final quarter, and across the entire year.

NVIDIA's co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said in a statement alongside the financial results that the excitement around the VR market will boost the demand for its GeForce products. But, it has also noticed that other parts of its businesses are booming, too. Huang said: "PC gaming, VR, deep learning, and self-driving cars" are all big focuses for NVIDIA, but VR is a soft spot for the company - and that has me excited, too.

Huang said in the company's investors call: "We can grow by introducing new game platforms. The installed base of 100 million GeForce gamers in the world has a chance to upgrade when that happens". With NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference right around the corner, we are foaming at the mouth of the rumors for the successor to the Titan X to be revealed, as it'll be a Pascal-powered beast.

The Division's DLC will be coming to the Xbox One a full thirty days ahead of the PlayStation 4. The latest timed exclusivity deal follows a long-running partnership between Ubisoft and Microsoft, which has since culminated in multiple promos like early access to The Division's beta tests.

A new promo video from Gamestop revealed the news, saying that "The Division content on Xbox One will be delivered 30 days before Sony will see it." We're not sure exactly which of The Division's DLC packs are timed exclusive to the Xbox One, but we're betting that the first three paid DLC packs--Underground, Survival, and Last Stand--are bound by the agreement.

It's interesting to see Microsoft continue pushing timed-exclusivity deals in an attempt to move more consoles. Sony's PlayStation 4 has dominated over the Xbox One, forcing Microsoft to change its traditional competitive approach and unify Windows 10 PCs with the Xbox brand. This approach hasn't worked too well for Xbox in the past, so I'm surprised to see it resort to these old tactics.

Google has been letting Yahoo, Hotmail, and Outlook email users plug their accounts into Gmail for about a year now, but it's been without the benefit of arguably the service's most appealing feature: superb spam protection. That changes today with Gmailify, which again lets you link your account to Gmail (without changing the actual address), but this time includes the spam protection as well as Gmail's inbox organization scheme and Google Now cards.

To get started, simply open the Gmail app, sign in to your non-Gmail account, and enable Gmailify. Should you change your mind, you can unlink you account whenever you like.

If you have an email account that isn't with Yahoo, Hotmail, or Outlook but want to take advantage of this service, Google says it will be adding other providers at some point in the future.

Super Bowl 50 didn't just set records on the field, but data-wise as well: a historic 10.15 terabytes of data were transferred over the Levi's Stadium Wi-Fi network on game day, according to provider Extreme Networks. The figure represents a 63% jump over last year's 6.23 TB, and sets the record for most data transferred at a sporting event.

To put things in perspective, 10.15 TB of data is equivalent to more than 6,000 hours of HD video or about 1.2 million 2MB photos.

Levi's features over 12,000 network ports, over 1,200 Wi-Fi access points, about 1,200 Bluetooth beacons, and 40Gbps of bandwidth.

The mobile GPU isn't the simple architecture that it used to be. They're advanced pieces of technology that're capable of rendering a surprisingly amount graphics with the little power that they use. And mobile GPU's are only going to become more powerful and more frugal as the years go by. We can expect PS4 level graphics with the same, or less power consumption, by 2017, says ARM.

Rendered with Imagination Technologies ray-tracing tech

Speaking at Casual Connect Europe in Amsterdam this week, the ecosystem director at ARM, Nizar Romdan had a few interesting things to say about the state of mobile GPU's. "Mobile hardware is already powerful," said Romdan. "If you take today's high-end smartphone or tablet, the performance is already better than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It's catching up quickly with Xbox One and PlayStation 4."

Toshiba has unveiled its new SG5 series of consumer SSDs, which includes the company's first-ever 1TB M.2 form factor SSD.

Toshiba's new consumer-ready SG5 series is built with the company's TLC (triple-level cell) NAND flash memory, and features up to 1,024 GB capacities with a 6.0 Gbit/s SATA interface. The consumer-based series comes in a flexible array of sizes, including 128GB, 256GB and 512GB flavors in M.2 and traditional 2.5-inch sizes. To ensure efficiency, the SG5 line is loaded with Toshiba's proprietary QSBC (Quadruple Swing-By Code) error correction technology.

The M.2 drives come in two designs--the 1TB two-sided variant, and the one-sided option with the remaining capacities. Toshiba lists the SG5 series has sequential read speeds up to 545 MB/s, and write speeds up to 388 MB/s, and a mean time to failure (MTTF) rating of 1,500,000 hours. No pricing or availability details were listed, but check below for a full spec sheet.

While the West is selling $10 and less basic, programmable computers like the Raspberry Pi Zero, India is taking the budget trend much farther. Today it releases the formidable Freedom 251 smartphone at the low, low price of Rs 251 (a little under $4).

The Freedom 251 features a 4-inch display, 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB RAM, 1,450 mAh battery, 8GB internal storage (expandable to 32GB), and .2-megapixel rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel front camera. It runs on Android Lollipop 5.1, and comes pre-installed with the pop stuff like Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp, it has apps like Swachh Bharat (part of a "Clean India" initiative), Farmer (useful for -- you guessed it -- farmers), and Women Safety. It comes with a one-year warranty; customers can take the phone to any of the 650 centers across the country for repairs and the like.

The phone is developed by Ringing Bells, who have developed four phones to date, one $44. The Freedom 251 is tied into the government's Make in India campaign, which supports local manufacturing. It's still not clear as of yet how the phone costs so little, but one might think it's due to government assistance, particularly given the government in 2011 funded $36 Android tablets ($16 for schools, with the aim of promoting electronic education). Unfortunately, those turned out to be nigh unusable.

WWE 2K16 was hanging in the balance for some time, only available on consoles since its release. But now we know that the bourgeois wrestling game will make it's appearance on the PC on March 11th, with all the past DLC added in completely free.

2K Sports says that it's been a "great success across PlayStation and Xbox platforms since its worldwide launch in October of last year," and they're eager to expand upon that. The DLC included will also have what was supposed to be a pre-order exclusive bonus of Arnold Swarzenegger as The Terminator, now not so exclusive. You'll also get the New Moves Pack, Legends Pack, Future Stars Packa nd the 2015 Hall of Fame Showcase.

Theoretically the game will be optimized for the PC, letting you increase the fidelity by a good amount. Resolutions of at least up to 4K should be supported. For the age of the engine and its ability to scale on older and newer consoles, it's actually a surprisingly good looking game. WWE 2K16 will be on sale, and available for pre-order, via Steam and other retailers quite soon for $49.99. We couldn't find the listing quite yet, however, so look for it soon.

As the phone encryption debate rages on, Apple CEO Tim Cook has published an open letter to the company's customers, detailing in full its stance on the personal right to privacy. The letter comes shortly after the US government has ordered Apple unlock phones at its discretion for criminal and intelligence purposes, which Apple has opposed.

Disconcertingly, the feds are employing the use of the 227 year-old All Writs Act -- which says courts can "issue all [written orders] necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law" -- in a bid to win its case.

"We were shocked and outraged by the deadly act of terrorism in San Bernardino last December," writes Cook. "We mourn the loss of life and want justice for all those whose lives were affected. The FBI asked us for help in the days following the attack, and we have worked hard to support the government's efforts to solve this horrible crime. We have no sympathy for terrorists.

Leap Motion just announced their new motion tracking product specifically made for VR and hand tracking, the Orion.

This new development is a leap forward in tracking your appendages while moving about in a 3D virtual world. Not only does it track, but the sensors are sensitive enough to allow for full, natural interaction with your hands and fingers. With this, you don't need a separate controller. You are the controller.

The problem with VR has always been immersion. How do we fully feel like we're actually in another world. Especially when we're holding a controller, yet climbing a mountain, avoiding dinosaurs as best we can? The feeling isn't complete when you're not using your hands to do the actual climbing, especially when you can certainly seem them there. It can prevent you from fully suspending your belief, an important aspect in enjoying a VR experience.

Something technologically spectacular is going to happen with The Simpsons this year. At the end of an episode in May the creators are going to have a live, interactive, animated segment where Homer will comment on the daily events and answer fan questions.

The segment won't last that long, only three minutes, but it'll make use of some novel motion-capture technology, impressive compute power and the magic of improvisation by the voice of Homer, Dan Castellaneta. The events that'll be discussed in those three minutes will be from that particular day, but the questions will be chosen from a list of tweets received between May 1st and May 4th.

The undisclosed motion-capture device will be used to track Castellenata's facial expressions and generate a simulacrum in the guise of Homer in real-time. "As far as I know, this is the first time that's been done by any animated show," Al Jean, the show runner told The Holywood Reporter. And indeed it is.

Passwords are quickly becoming an archaic creation in the minds of many a security researcher. There're definitely better, more secure and easier to use ways to authenticate yourself and login to your favorite sites. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) wants to change with a new open standard to help make the Internet just a little bit more secure. And not too terribly more complicated either.

The password itself is usually the weakest link in any secure system. Most people don't want to put int the required effort to create a properly complex password, or they don't follow proper password etiquette and change them, substantially enough, at regular intervals. And really, who wants to have a super long password anyway. Sometimes even strong passwords get exposed and added to rainbow tables, rendering them absolutely useless anyway. So what does one do?

Make multi-factor authentication a thing, and a common, easy to use thing at that. That's what the W3C intends to do with their FIDO 2.0 based authentication standard. They want to make an API easy for web developers to implement that can allow for many different types of authentication.

Kanye West has been on another Twitter tirade. He's recently asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for a $1 billion investment and an Australian airline's account was even hacked and used to abuse him. With all of this action surrounding his 'Life of Pablo' album release, many are upset that West's new tracks are destined to be avaialble to Tidal users only.

This exclusive offering hasn't sat well with most, with Torrent Freak now estimating that his album has already been illegally downloaded over 500,000 times. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been hot on the case of hosts, reportedly issuing 20 takedown requests to Google over this matter, especially seeing as many paying Tidal users are still unable to access this new content themselves.

"I haven't seen numbers this high before for a music release - not with Adele either" claimed Ernesto from Torrent Freak to the BBC, likely directly due to the botched release and exclusivity deals.

NVIDIA's Pascal is quite the elusive GPU, not even actually physically shown at CES this year despite silicon rumored to be in testing and quite ready. Performance can only be speculated, however a new academic paper seems to have information regarding the actual theoretical compute performance of the Pascal Flagship.

The paper itself is a treatise on the benefits of new memory technologies and their impact on the compute landscape. In one of the slides the author, Manuel Ujaldon, compares Micron's Hybrid Memory Cube (HBM), GDDR5, DDR3 and HBM technologies. Surprisingly, one of the slides seems to have the theoretical double and single precision performance numbers for the flagship Pascal GPU compared to other compute devices, Kepler, Fermi, Xeon Phi and even a Bulldozer based Opteron. The DP performance is even slightly more than the SP numbers for GK110, and only 2000 GFLOPS less than the Titan X's SP performance. On the single precision front, it's simply off the charts.

Looking at the sources confirms that this particular fellow of CUDA indeed talked with NVIDIA, so his numbers aren't necessarily completely made up, and are likely based off of low estimates gained from internal testing. Of course, these are theoretical numbers and don't always translate into how a particular GPU actually performs in real-world tasks, but that's a lot of compute power. Even more than AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X

Announced recently, Call to Arms has now ascended into beta status, available through Steam's Early Access program.

Digitalmindsoft has given players the opportunity to complete the first half of its singleplayer campaign with this new update, further allowing for new multiplayer game modes, new menus, engine improvements and other various feature additions. Currently listed with 910 user reviews and 73% of those positive, many users have toted this game as somewhat of an 'arcade RTS' platform, rather than a strategy FPS as it is often claimed to be.

If you're interested in this title, expect to pay around $24.99 for the standard edition or $34.99 for the deluxe edition from Steam here.

A rather fantastic bundle of classic SEGA games is waiting on Steam for you, and it's completely free to download. No restrictions and no catches. Just click, download and enjoy some of the best games from SEGA's heyday.

What a nice surprise to wake-up to on a usually drab Wednesday morning. SEGA's historical catalog of games is full of some very interesting and unique games from back when they were competing in the console wars with the likes of Nintendo and even Sony. The games and ideas they had can sometimes be considered the pre-cursors to a lot of the

You can enjoy several of those classic games for free. In the bundle you'll find Golden Axe, Jet Set Radio and the Hell Yeah! series of games. Not a tremendous amount, nor does it include anything from the pervasive Sonic franchise, but the selection is a preview of the kind of mastery that SEGA was capable of when they put their collective corporate minds to making curious and compelling games. Retro they may be, but incredibly fun they certainly are. And free. Free is the best price ever.

A scammer has stolen $15 million worth of Bitcoins from one of the internet's most 'un-loved' celebrities, pharmaceutical man Martin Shkreli. Contacting Shkreli and pretending to be part of Kanye West's entourage, a scammer promised an early release of West's new album 'Life of Pablo' to Shkreli personally, setting the price at a hefty 37,000 Bitcoin.

Taking to Twitter in order to voice his frustrations over getting scammed, Shkreli claims to now have "quit rap," stating that "This is the worst day of my life. My mom said don't deal with these kinds of people. Nothing good comes from rap music."

Seemingly having some friends in high places, Shkreli told all of his followers that they are 'idiots' and he has "gotten in touch with Sitoshi (Bitcoin's creator) and he's agreed to help me get my money back. I always win." He ended his Tweet tirade by announcing that "And second of all I can make the money back faster than anyone so the joke is on YOU if you think I even care."

Nintendo has opened up the preregistration for their new My Nintendo Account service so you can start reserving your names on the new system. This new account system is a way for them to unify their entire ecosystem, including their upcoming foray into other mobile platforms.

The first game to fully make use of this cross-platform integration is their first upcoming mobile game, Miitomo, a social experience centered around the creation and care of your Mii avatar.

Nintendo is intent on changing the social experience through technology. The site describes Miitomo as a way to learn more about yourself and to potentially open up more freely, and in a vastly different way than you might well be used to. Preregistering also lets you earn Nintendo Platinum Points, the new currency for their redesigned rewards program. The catch is that those earned with preregistration expire six months after the official launch of My Nintendo.

Believed to be 'ROR[RG]', this hacker has been named by Anonymous as a person to successfully infiltrate Turkish national police servers, stealing private information that includes a multitude of database files.

The files have been explained as related to MySQL by International Business Times, known to be so as they are mostly presented in .myd, .myi and .frm file extensions. Available as a 2GB torrent file online, once extracted the data becomes a large 17.8GB cache of illegally-gathered information.

This breach was announced by 'TheCthulhu', further using its official Twitter account to announce "Hey #Turkey, I have something to show you tomorrow. See, if you fight your citizens, they will bite back. #standby." This isn't ROR[RG]'s first operation, being known as the hacker to infiltrate Adult Friend Finder back in 2015, releasing personal information regarding four million members.

Sony is implementing their own preview program for software updates, letting the public sign-up to participate in future updates.

It seems that Sony was able to learn a lot from the huge response they received when they asked for gamers to lend a hand with the drastically new update that was released last September. Being able to test in large variety of situations and get data they otherwise wouldn't have been able to, to make sure the software update was as stable as possible, was a huge help.

So they're doing it again. But this time it's a proper beta test program that they're implementing that's open to a wider variety of people than the Xbox One Preview Program. All you have to do is sign-up at this link and join the forums. Just remember that they're looking for people to give actual feedback in addition to monitoring the vitals of your system when things go wrong.