You may not remember this, but it was 2012 when the graphene craze started. A group of scientists experimented with unusual materials and possibilities on Friday, with some fun and crazy ideas. They decided to scratch the lead of a pencil to see what properties it found and they came across the silicon substitute. We ...
Ubisoft has announced a new cloud-native game development technology called Ubisoft Scalar. Using this cloud computing technology, developers will leverage the power and flexibility of cloud computing for Ubisoft’s game engine to reduce reliance on player hardware and open up new possibilities for game development and player experience. The technology takes the components and systems ...
photo: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) The Wall Street Journal is reporting thatfollowing the company’s recent sale to Microsoft, efforts to pursue Activision Blizzard—and its embattled CEO Bobby Kotick—have escalated at both the state and federal level. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, whose initial investigation kicked off this entire thing last yearhave now ...
DJ Khaled (left) to Bobby Kotick (right), probably: “Another one.”photo: Bryan Bedder (Getty Images) Yes, you read that right. CNBC recently uncovered that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick established not one but two secret companies through which he donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to political campaigns. The two companies, 807080A LLC and Norgate LLC, ...
Screenshot: CIties: Skylines Over the last few days, a series of mods for the PC strategy game Cities: Skylines have been removed from Steam after users began fearing that they contained all kinds of nasty stuff, from keyloggers to viruses to bitcoin mining software. The alarm was sounded by this NME story other subsequent Reddit ...
image: BAYC While some publishers like Ubisoft push right ahead with NFTsregardless of how their own workers feel about it, and others like EA are prepared to half-ass their way through the fadone video game marketplace has come out and issued one of the most welcome statements I’m yet to see from within the industry. ...
Ben Palmer is invited to the cookout. Screenshot: Meta / Kotaku It would be so satisfying if corporations and brands more often called out racism and other ills in their comments sections on social media. In the responses to a recent Xbox post on Facebook, it appeared at first glance that the console-maker had done ...
A person can have a pacemaker due to heart disease, well, although it is relatively simple material, it still has to give a response within a certain time. If we are already moving around in the driving environment, we can find a microcontroller responsible for making sure that the whole system is working at the ...
There is no doubt that quantum computing is one of the future potentials of computing, but for it to be a commercially viable reality, various obstacles must be overcome. Well, one of them known as Full Spin Qubit has finally been overcome, so little by little this new way of understanding computing is taking shape ...
AMD has been using the term Compute Unit for over a decade, which encompasses a full GPU core or what we call Shader Unit. However, future challenges to achieve more performance mean that for future architectures internal changes will have to be made. Which in the case of AMD is surprising, especially since for generations ...
