Nvidia recently took the world by announcing their new 10 Series GPUs. As Nvidia says " Gaming Perfected" The first to go on the floor was GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1080 but these were Desktop GPUs. These cards were initially introduced as Founders Edition GPUs, which were designed and built by Nvidia themselves and not by its authorized board partners. The GeForce GTX 1080 was first to have vapor chamber cooling. The Founders Edition cards were priced higher than Standard Edition Cards. The micro-architecture of the GeForce 10 series is named Pascal, the 17th century French mathematician Blaise Pascal and was presented on May 6, 2016. What GTX 10 Series has New!!! CUDA Compute Capability 6.0 (GP100 only), 6.1 (GP102, GP104, GP106, GP107) DisplayPort 1.4 HDMI 2.0b Fourth generation Delta Color Compression PureVideo Feature Set H hardware video decoding HEVC Main10 (10bit), Main12 (12bit) ...
In a San Francisco event, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced that the company will be rebranding their mapping service and will be calling it Nokia HERE. While the service will mostly remain the same, Nokia has added some cool new features. First is a feature called Collections, which lets you save locations to your Nokia account so you can quickly jump to them without having to search for them every time. The locations sync across devices after you log into your Nokia account. Collections is similar to the starring feature in Google Maps. Another new feature is 3D maps, where you get a 3D view of several key locations around the world. This feature is identical to the Flyover feature in the new Apple Maps and the data is actually provided by the same company, C3 Technologies. Nokia has also added a maps editor, so users can now update street names and traffic information and the information will be added to the maps for others to see. Nokia also acquired street view mapping com...
The new layout looks like a bit like a combination of Windows RT and Windows Phone; the lines are blurring between the two platforms. Microsoft has been murmuring about sharing applications across mobile and OS platforms, or rather, creating “universal apps”, for a while now. This would mean that the same applications you would use on Windows 8, would be available right on your smartphone. At least, in theory. Now 8.1 isn’t exactly Windows RT, but, it does seem like Microsoft is making a push towards having applications work on all Microsoft devices. What lends more to this idea is Microsoft’s changing 8.1′s installation files to the .appx packaging format, which is the same format that Windows 8 uses. The signs sure are plenty. New to 8.1 is the ability to change your default messaging application, a la Android. There’s also a “Battery Power Sense” feature, support for VPNs, and the re-naming of SkyDrive: it’s now called OneDrive in the OS. There’s also a “Storage Sense” f...
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