When Nvidia rolled out its RTX family of GPUs last year it was all about gaming. The new Ray Tracing (RT) cores aimed to create more realistic game experiences, assisted by inferencing (AI) cores that enabled the acceleration of low-noise ray tracing. This year at SIGGRAPH, Nvidia is touting how RTX is making progress with creative professionals. Specifically, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Boxx are rolling out 10 new RTX Studio laptops, adding to the 17 previously announced. The new crop makes Turing GPU performance much more accessible to a wide range of users. The new laptops span both Nvidia’s family of consumer and professional RTX GPUs, with some sporting GeForce RTX models (2060, 2070, and 2080) and others Quadro RTX (3000, 4000, 5000) versions.
What could be better than a 55-inch 4K TV with quantum color for $548? How about an Intel Core i5 laptop for under $400 or a 512GB portable SSD for just $78? This 55-inch 4K TV features quantum color technology that improves color and image clarity above and beyond the standard 4K TV. It also features 90 light dimming zones, which helps to produce richer blacks and reduce light bleeding. Right now it’s marked down from $798.00 to $548.00 at Walmart. This inexpensive laptop, with its quad-core processor and 8GB of RAM, offers solid performance for everyday home tasks like web browsing and school work.
The Windows PowerShell is a powerful tool that gives you in-depth access to the Windows operating system. It gives you a greater degree of control and eases the task of managing multiple PCs. For system administrators and power-users, PowerShell can prove an invaluable asset, but relatively few people actually know that it exists. Udemy’s “” ($29.99) course aims to correct this oversight by teaching a wide audience of PC users how to use the PowerShell to their benefit. Course Overview The lecturer kicks things off by showing you how to install and start PowerShell.
T-Mobile and Sprint announced their intention to merge more than a year ago, but the behind-the-scenes legal wrangling delayed the federal approval. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got on-board with the deal months ago, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) was more skeptical. The carriers have now that allow the merger to move forward. While the deal is billed as a merger, T-Mobile plans to swallow up the smaller carrier completely. The Sprint brand will go away, and the new carrier will simply be known as “T-Mobile.” The sticking point for the DOJ was the loss of a fourth wireless carrier in the US.
Today’s top deal is a TV that uses quantum dot technology to create images with up to 115 percent more color than your standard 4K LCD TV. Vizio’s P659-G1 features quantum dot technology to provide 115 percent more color than competing LCD TVs. This model also comes equipped with a built-in Chromecast and hands-free voice controls, and it supports Dolby Vision HDR. This TV is typically priced at $1,398, but you can currently get it from Walmart marked down to $998. This well-rounded laptop features a quad-core Intel Core i5-8265U processor with Hyper-Threading technology and a 1080p display.
Google announced Android TV years ago, but only a few device makers even attempted to make boxes running the software. Some, like Razer, saw their efforts fall flat. Nvidia has seen some success with its line of Shield Android TV boxes, and a new version may have just visited the FCC. The FCC docs call this mysterious piece of hardware the “NVIDIA Corporation SHIELD Android TV Game Console P3430.” Nvidia has produced two revs of the Shield Android TV. The first one launched in 2015 with a remote and a game controller. In 2017, Nvidia with a smaller footprint and the option of purchasing without a game controller.
There are precious few first-person shooter franchises as iconic or beloved as Doom. With the series enjoying a resurgence of late, gamers are increasingly interested in going back to replay the classic games that got it all started. They can do that now on current-generation game consoles. However, these decades-old games . The Doom games follow the exploits of the unnamed “Doomguy” as he does battle with the forces of Hell in the distant future. Doom’s unrelenting action and creepy visuals made it a massive success. Along with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom helped define first-person shooters with features like 3D graphics, multiplayer, and more.
The question of when Apple will switch to building its own custom ARM CPU cores for its software ecosystem rather than using Intel and x86 comes up on a regular basis. On ET, we first covered the topic in 2011, and I’ve hit it several times in the intervening years. My answer has typically been some flavor of “theoretically yes, but practically (and in terms of the near future), no.” A recent AppleInsider does a good job of rounding up the reasons why Apple really might be taking this step soon. We’ve previously heard rumors that the company could launch such a product in 2020, and while rumors are not the same thing as a definite launch date, the piece is solid.
A little over seven years ago, I wrote a story called “.” The argument it made, in essence, was that the realities of process node scaling were steadily going to worsen and overclocking headroom would continue to decline. A recent update from Silicon Lottery makes the same argument, in starker terms. is a website that sells binned CPUs at specific frequencies and voltages, for both AMD and Intel products. Think of it as a one-stop shop for overclockers who prefer to pay for a CPU at known-good frequencies rather than a chip they’ve still got to take a chance on themselves.
