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By Desire Athow Businesses spend countless hours trying to figure out how to improve the productivity of their workers even by a fraction of a percent. That’s because every single process that can be tweaked, every second that can be shaved and every step that can be finetuned brings tangible benefits in terms of overall…

By Mike Jennings Introduction Nvidia has wowed the computing world with its new GeForce GTX 1080: a monster graphics card that promises a 30% performance increase over the last generation while reducing power consumption by 28%. They’re stunning numbers, but the GTX 1080 comes with another big headline figure: its launch price of £619 (around…

By Mike Jennings Introduction Nvidia has wowed the computing world with its new GeForce GTX 1080: a monster graphics card that promises a 30% performance increase over the last generation while reducing power consumption by 28%. They’re stunning numbers, but the GTX 1080 comes with another big headline figure: its launch price of £619 (around…

By Lewis Leong Google believes artificial intelligence (AI) is the future, so much so that it started making its own custom processors to allow its algorithms to learn faster. Google calls these chips Tensor Processing Units (TPU), which are basically microprocessors that are specifically tailored for machine learning. The TPU is small enough to only…

By Lewis Leong Google believes artificial intelligence (AI) is the future, so much so that it started making its own custom processors to allow its algorithms to learn faster. Google calls these chips Tensor Processing Units (TPU), which are basically microprocessors that are specifically tailored for machine learning. The TPU is small enough to only…

By Darren Allan Some hard disks are more reliable than others, and a new report has cast further light on which drives are less likely to fail. Backblaze produces regular reports on hard disk reliability and the latest one for Q1 2016 was conducted using over 61,000 HDDs in data centers, with no less than…

By Darren Allan Some hard disks are more reliable than others, and a new report has cast further light on which drives are less likely to fail. Backblaze produces regular reports on hard disk reliability and the latest one for Q1 2016 was conducted using over 61,000 HDDs in data centers, with no less than…

By Darren Allan HP has announced that it’s now taking orders for its Jet Fusion 3D printers, with the hardware expected to begin shipping from late 2016. The company claims that its Jet Fusion 3D Printing Solution revolutionises prototyping and printing by delivering “superior quality” end products at half the cost, and up to 10…

By Darren Allan IBM has made a breakthrough in researching memory technology when it comes to developing ‘universal memory‘ that falls somewhere between DRAM and flash, and could revolutionise storage across the board. The breakthrough involves phase-change memory (PCM) which IBM has successfully achieved storing three bits of data per cell for the first time,…

By Darren Allan AMD is now bundling Total War: Warhammer for those buying a Radeon R9 390 graphics card or AMD FX 8-core CPU (or in certain cases, a qualifying system containing one of those components). This fresh bundle becomes available today and the offer runs through until August 15 – either that, or when…

By Kevin Lee The new king Nvidia dropped the mic when it announced the Nvidia GTX 1080. The fledgling Pascal part beats the pants off of any previous graphics card Nvidia has made before including the all-mighty Titan X – with twice the level performance no less. However, beyond the simple raw power, Nvidia has…

By Darren Allan Cooler Master has revealed a trio of new products in its premium ‘Maker’ range which include a modular case, along with a CPU air cooler and power supply. The MasterCase Maker 5 aims to let enthusiast PC builders start their rig truly from scratch by designing the case which uses what Cooler…

By Gabe Carey While console gaming sees the rivalry of Xbox One vs PS4, PC gaming has had a war of its own waging for far longer. In building a computer, you might not think picking out a GPU would be as painful a process as it actually is. Ask any DIY veteran for advice…

By Darren Allan AOC has revealed a new slick looking 27-inch monitor with a QHD resolution which is tidily slim and has a ‘borderless’ panel. The AOC Q2781PQ is borderless on all four sides (meaning it has extremely thin bezels – 5.7mm all round save for the bottom border which is a smidge thicker at…

By Parker Wilhelm Samsung is striking down “low storage” warnings with a vengeance, announcing a microSD card that can hold as much space in a fingernail-sized chip as the hard drive of the laptop this story was written on. Planned for release this June, EVO Plus 256GB microSD card sports a staggering 256GB of storage…