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Half-Life 2 Will Soon Have Ray-Tracing
22.8.2023
GPU manufacturer Nvidia announced its plans to remaster, with full ray-tracing, Valve’s 2004 first-person shooter Half-Life 2 on August 22. Development will be handled by myriad Half-Life 2 mod teams, including those that made Half-Life 2: VR, united under new studio Orbifold, and it’ll be released...
Half-Life 2 Will Soon Have Ray-Tracing
22.8.2023
GPU manufacturer Nvidia announced its plans to remaster, with full ray-tracing, Valve’s 2004 first-person shooter Half-Life 2 on August 22. Development will be handled by myriad Half-Life 2 mod teams, including those that made Half-Life 2: VR, united under new studio Orbifold, and it’ll be released...
UK to spend $130M on AI chips amid scramble to buy up computing power
21.8.2023
The chips will be used to set up an AI resource as a recent report said 20% of firms can’t get enough computing power for AI
Bankman-Fried Wants to See His Lawyers Outside Jail Five Days a Week
20.8.2023
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is asking to be released from jail five days a week to work on his defense for the fraud trial against him set to begin in October. On Friday, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers complained to a judge in Manhattan that the currently proposed preparation time and regime...
What If Pong, But Really Long?
18.8.2023
If you ever play me in Pong, you will win. Atari’s simple 1972 game is like Dark Souls-level hard to me; I’ve no idea how anyone can react that fast. But, finally, there might be a version of the game with a screen wide enough that I’d have time to respond. It’s currently located in the UK in...
OpenAI launches web crawler 'GPTBot' amid plans for next model: GPT-5
8.8.2023
ChatGPT users have the option to scrap the web crawler by adding a “disallow” command to a standard file on the server
PS5s Got So Hot At Fighting Game Tournament, Things 'Melted'
7.8.2023
Over the weekend, thousands of fighting game fans descended on Las Vegas, NV for Evo 2023, the biggest fighting game event of the year. It was a reminder of how cool esports can be, especially when built of the passion and tenacity of grassroots communities. For some competitors there was just...
Let’s Get Really Nostalgic About The Early Days Of PlayStation
4.8.2023
“There was a sense that video games were toys. And Sony is not a toy company.” That’s how a new mini-oral history about PlayStation revolutionizing console gaming begins over at IGN. The words belong to former head of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shawn Layden, and they ring true for anyone who grew...
‘Computer language that anyone can read’ launches Aeternity compiler
3.8.2023
Lexon now features a compiler that allows users to translate code from it to Solidity, Sophia, or Javascript
Lomesh Dutta, VP of Growth at DFINITY, on Internet Computer, Bitcoin DeFi, and ckBTC | Ep. 252
1.8.2023
In an exclusive interview with cryptonews.com, Lomesh Dutta, Vice President of Growth at DFINITY, talks about the Internet Computer (IC), the future of Bitcoin-based DeFi, and ckBTC....
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Classic Nintendo Systems Get Beautiful Mechanical Keyboard Tribute Dek
31.7.2023
8BitDo has released countless controllers for every console, old and new. Now it’s getting into the mechanical keyboard frenzy with two models inspired by the NES and Famicom. They’re priced at $100 each with a planned ship-date of August 10.Read more
Don’t Go Playin’ Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart On PC Without An SSD
31.7.2023
Early on in the PS5’s life, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’s dimension hopping shenanigans were claimed to only be possible with a solid state drive (SSD). Now that the game is on another platform, one capable of using an old-school physical harddrive, it seems that actually was true.Read more
AWS-Reliant Blockchains Won’t Bring Transparency to AI
29.7.2023
Report: Malware Brings Original Modern Warfare 2 On Steam Offline
28.7.2023
After a recent spike in interest as old servers were brought back online on Xbox, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II was taken offline earlier this week on PC over reports of malicious hacks. According to Techcrunch, players were getting attacked in the 2009 game via “hacked lobbies.”Read more
What is simulation theory? The savage illusion of living in a computer simulation
28.7.2023
Simulation theory proposes that our reality is a sophisticated computer simulation, raising profound questions about the nature of consciousness and existence
99-year-old Hungarian artist's computer generated NFTs sold for $1.2M
27.7.2023
Vera Molnár pioneered the use of computer-generated art in the latter half of the 20th Century
Redditors Vent Their Rage At CEO In Funniest Way Possible
20.7.2023
r/place, the Reddit-based collaborative art project, is back for its third incarnation since the 2017 original. And it couldn’t arrive at a better time for pissed-off Reddit users who have had enough of the message board management’s shit. With everyone able to place only a single pixel every...
ZK proofs could change the internet, not just Web3 — Aleo exec
20.7.2023
ZK proofs could help online privacy by only revealing relevant user information, solving the internet's “biggest problem,” says Brennen Schlueter
SEC’s Classification of So-Called Crypto Securities Amounts to $98 Billion in Combined Value
19.7.2023
Throughout the last year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has identified numerous crypto assets as securities in cases involving Binance, Bittrex, Coinbase, Terra’s Do Kwon, Tron’s Justin Sun, and several more. The aggregate worth of these prominent digital assets...
Internet Computer will be a key alternative to AWS-like services - Dfinity exec
18.7.2023
Dfintiy chief said that Internet Computer would prove to be a boon for the blockchain industry which is currently dependent on centralized ecosystems like AWS