Software
Today, Intel announced that it is looking to progress its AI PC Acceleration program further by offering various new toolkits and devkits designed for software and hardware AI developers under a new AI PC Developer Program sub-initiative. Originally launched on October 23, the AI PC Acceleration program was created to connect hardware vendors with software developers, using Intel's vast resources and experience to develop a broader ecosystem as the world pivots to one driven by AI development. Intel aims to maximize the potential of AI applications and software and broaden the whole AI-focused PC ecosystem by aiming for AI within 100 million Intel-driven AI PCs by 2025. The AI PC Developer Program aims to simplify the adoption of new AI technologies and frameworks on a...
Khronos Announces OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenGL 4.3, ASTC Texture Compression, & CLU
As we approach August the technical conference season for graphics is finally reaching its apex. NVIDIA and AMD held their events in May and June respectively, and this week...
46 by Ryan Smith on 8/6/2012Windows 8 Released To Manufacturing
Right on schedule, Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing on the first day of the first week of August. Microsoft has put out a full...
57 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2012Windows 8 Gets A Launch Date: October 26th
After previously announcing that Windows 8 would have a retail launch sometime in late October, Microsoft has nailed down a final date: Friday, October 26th. The launch on a...
39 by Ryan Smith on 7/19/2012Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Goes Gold; GM Released To Developers
In a bit of a double-whammy of operating system news today, word comes that Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion has gone gold. Apple released the Golden Master (GM...
12 by Ryan Smith on 7/9/2012Windows 8 To RTM In August, Retail In October
On the heels of last week’s announcement of Microsoft’s promotional Windows 8 upgrade pricing, Microsoft has announced a tentative delivery schedule for Windows 8 today at their Worldwide Partner...
19 by Ryan Smith on 7/9/2012VLC 2.0 Announced: New UI and Blu-ray Support for OS X
VideoLAN has announced VLC 2.0 and the first release candidate is available to the public today. The biggest changes are in the OS X version but there are a...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 2/13/2012Microsoft Office 15 Reaches Technical Preview Milestone
Apart from a few screenshots leaked early last year, not much was known about the next major release of Microsoft Office codenamed “Office 15”. However, as of yesterday, Microsoft...
20 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 1/31/2012Sparrow: An OS X IMAP Client for Gmail Users
If you’re a Mac power user, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Sparrow, a new IMAP client for OS X that has garnered quite a bit of...
22 by Andrew Cunningham on 4/7/2011Google Chrome: Performance and First Impressions
Google made a browser and we tested it.
106 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/3/2008Eight Months of Gaming
What lies in store for the remainder of 2008? In a word, plenty! We put together a list of sixteen titles we're looking forward to seeing this year. Let's...
59 by Eddie Turner on 5/8/2008Grand Theft Auto IV - Anand's Thoughts
2007 proved to be an amazing year for gaming and 2008 is shaping up to be no different with an early start thanks to Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto...
65 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/30/2008Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
Futuremark's 3DMark graphics test suite returns after a one year hiatus. What's new and what can we look forward to for the coming ORB competitions?
19 by Jarred Walton on 4/29/2008Rocking out with Rock Band: 2/19 & 2/26 DLC Review
We missed a week due to GDC, but we're back to make it up with our latest installment of Rock Band downloadable content coverage.
2 by Derek Wilson on 2/26/2008Rocking out with Rock Band: 2/12/08 DLC Review
Further down the rabbit hole with more rock band commentary and content reviews.
10 by Derek Wilson on 2/12/2008Rocking out with Rock Band: 2/5/08 DLC Review
Delving into the world of musical video games. We begin an exploration of Rock Band's downloadable content.
19 by Derek Wilson on 2/5/2008Futuremark: of Benchmarks and Gaming
Futuremark has been pushing polygons through our 3D cards for over a decade; now they're ready to take a stab at something more than tech demos.
18 by Jarred Walton on 1/30/2008A Messy Transition (Part 2): Windows XP, Vista, and the 2GB Barrier
Based on reader requests we take a look at how Windows XP is affected by the 2GB barrier, with very surprising results
57 by Ryan Smith on 7/19/2007A Messy Transition: Practical Problems With 32bit Addressing In Windows
As applications begin to approach the 2GB barrier in Windows, we take a look at the problems and the solutions
68 by Ryan Smith on 7/12/2007One More Thing: Safari for Windows
Apple brings their web browser for Mac OS X over to Windows, but how does it stack up to the competition?
28 by Ryan Smith on 7/6/2007Windows Vista Update: Build 5472 Preview
Microsoft recently rolled out a new build of Vista. Today we take a look and see what Microsoft has been doing since the initial Beta 2 release.
45 by Ryan Smith on 7/28/2006