AMD’s Encoder Tweaks Rival Nvidia, But Intel’s AV1 Reigns Supreme
AMD recently updated its AMF H.264 encoder with a new feature called Pre-Analysis, this feature boosts video quality equal to that of Nvidia’s Turing and Ampere-based NVENC encoder.
Astronomers May Have Found The Youngest Known Planet In The Galaxy Orbiting A Juvenile Star
Astronomers may have discovered the youngest planet ever found in our galaxy. The planet is thought to be orbiting AS 209, a young star in the Ophiuchus constellation estimated to be just about 1.6 million years young.
Research recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
MultiVersus players are facing DMCA strikes for uploading footage with modded character skins
The multiplayer character brawler MultiVersus has seen itself gain plenty of fans and made some strong impressions on two of our own writers. However, the...
Wrath of the Lich King Classic shows off the starter zones of Northrend, Borean Tundra and Howling Fjord
Despite the achievement name in World of Warcraft, there are actually a lot of things boring about Borean Tundra, although thankfully Coldarra isn’t one of...
AMD’s Zen Architecture Is Vulnerable To A New Insideous SMT Security Flaw
Researchers have detailed the SQUIP attack, which is particularly worrisome for users of AMD Zen 1, Zen 2 and Zen 3 processors. Researchers were able measure the precise degree of Scheduler Queue Usage (i.e., occupancy) via Interference Probing, giving the attack its name. Using this technique, it was possible in tests to recover a full RSA-4096
Nightingale announces a delay of its early access launch to the first half of 2023
We’ve all been left wondering about the possibilities of Nightingale, the realm-traveling Victorian-themed survival sandbox from developer Inflexion that first debuted at last year’s Game...
Last Oasis Seasons 5 Impressions
Last Oasis revamped its nomadic gameplay, aiming to fix many of the issues that have plagued the MMO since launch. Have they succeeded? Go to...
Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro Review: Practically Perfect Design
Razer’s DeathAdder V3 Pro is a lightweight wireless gaming mouse that’s highly customizable and incredibly ergonomic.
Vague Patch Notes: No, Little Orbit has not solved the MMO blockchain problem
It looks like we have indeed lived long enough to see the heroes become the villains: Little Orbit, which we once lionized for saving APB...
Intel Graphics Division Lays Out Arc A750 Performance Expectations Across Nearly 50 Games
Intel’s Tom Petersen and Ryan Shrout have given more performance marks for the anticipated Arc A750 in a video released late yesterday, August 10, 2022. The new performance encompasses both Intel’s testing on the A750 and an NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU for comparison. This follows Intel’s announcement earlier this week of its Arc Pro A40 and A50 desktop