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AMD announced a collaborative effort with Valve to provide ATI Catalyst Drivers to Steam client users. Steam will detect which AMD branded GPU you have and provide the relevant updates for it. This is a very important move as Drivers are quite often the number one external factor for games not...

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." Edmund Burke, 1729-1797. It's amusing to think how often we use that quote in one form or another and never take heed of the advice it tries to imbue upon us. Back in 1908, Thomas Edison tried to take control of the movie industry through...

During the International Supercomputing Conference, Intel announced plans to deliver products based on the Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, the successor to the Larrabee and Supercomputer Chip (SCC) projects. The first of which, codenamed 'Knights Corner', will use Intel's 22nm...

Play a lot of Video games? So do we. For those gamers lucky enough to fall asleep at night and inevitably dream, you're more likely to have a lucid dream - a dream which you can control or interact with, according to research. Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in...

You'll see why 2010 won't be like 2010. Valve has been building up to this for some time now and we were all expecting it, but it's officially here, you can now buy and play Half-Life 2 and episodes 1 and 2 on Mac's. In addition, a number of patches have been released enabling achievements and a...

The LucidLogix Hydra chip has been making its way around the Internet for a while, sporting the feature of being able to combine the processing power of different graphics cards from different manufacturers, creating a Hybrid graphics platform where Nvidia and ATI can share the load. The chip...

DRM is a tough topic for all involved, consumers hate it, companies seem to love it, pirates... aren't affected by it. So why go to all the trouble of implementing it in the first place when you can spend that time on the game itself? This is Blizzard's mentality with StarCraft 2, concentrate on...

A Japanese team has developed a material derived from a new crystal form of titanium oxide. The material starts off as a metal and then turns into a semiconductor, this also changes the color from black to brown when exposed to light, resulting in an effective on-off function that can be used...

For the folders amongst you that are lucky enough to have a GTX400 series graphics card and are into folding, a new GPU3 Folding client is now available as an open beta. All you need is the 197.45 drivers and the new client, of which there are a variety of versions, so be sure to get the right...

While this isn't the first time this headline has found its way over the Internet, some interesting details have been made available as to why a Larrabee card won't be made, at least in the short term. A blog by Bill Kircos provides some in-site into this decision and future focus of Intel...

Mercury Research will be releasing an article soon detailing some interesting figures regarding the market share of the various GPU developers. While not officially released just yet, X-bit Labs has listed some of the details including the important number of AMD's market share as of the first...

Deep within Intel Labs Barcelona, a new software/hardware thread acceleration technique has been developed to boost performance of single thread applications on multi-core processors, the catch is we probably won't see it for another couple years. You can read the rest of our post here.

Google purchased the video codec company On2 back in August last year, owners of the VP8 video format. Many believed it to be the first steps from Google to settle the battle of Theora Vs H.264 in the online video codec's for HTML 5. Fast forward to today and Google, Mozilla and Opera announce...

Prof. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser passed away at the grand age of 98. His son has been running the company since 1982, so things will probably continue as they are. It’s a sad day for Audiophiles everywhere...

Firefox has released a beta of the much anticipated plugin isolation, meaning the collapse of flash does not mean the collapse of Firefox as well. I'm giving it a test now, i'll let you know if there are any major failings..... and yes, i think we're all aware of Chrome's ability to do this...

It's prolific and sure, some of you have probably seen it before, but hey, it's still a laugh.

The explosive interest in GPGPU’s is something that has been a long time coming, and it is only now that there is a real push for it. It could unlock some of that latent potential that’s been building up over the years, along with SSD’s to give systems that bandwidth kick. But there is a real...