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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 8/6/2012

Windows 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 8/1/2012

Windows 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 7/19/2012

Mac 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 7/9/2012

Windows 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 7/9/2012

VLC 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 2/13/2012

Microsoft 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 1/31/2012

Sparrow: 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 4/7/2011

Google Chrome: Performance and First Impressions

Google made a browser and we tested it.

106 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/3/2008

Eight 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 5/8/2008

Grand 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 4/30/2008

Futuremark 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 4/29/2008

Rocking 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 2/26/2008

Rocking 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 2/12/2008

Rocking 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 2/5/2008

Futuremark: 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 1/30/2008

A 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 7/19/2007

A 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 7/12/2007

One 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 7/6/2007

Windows 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

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