Today’s Budget clearly showcases the importance of a digital-first India and the government’s commitment to drive innovation and technology advancement in the country. With the government setting a target to become a $5 Trillion economy in the next 5 years, Intel believes that emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 5G will play a crucial part in this vision.

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When MSI showcased their GS series for the first time, we suspected an Apple or Dell XPS rival. Rather, it was more towards a thin but powerful gaming laptop solution. Fast forward to 2019 and we finally get to meet and greet what could be touted as the first office friendly laptop by MSI (not including the Workstation series). Sleek, understated and very MSI, the PS63 is gearing up to offer the dragon logo to non-gaming consumers and is especially aimed at creators.

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Before we tell you the price of this shiny new GPU by Nvidia, keep in mind it’s not for gaming specifically. Although gaming on this baby is any gamer’s wet dream, those should strictly stay dreams. The Turing Tensor Cores are horse powering 130 teraflops of deep learning performance and 72 RT Turing Cores are dedicated to delivering 11 GigaRays per second of real-time ray-tracing performance. Shooting videos for MKBHD? Then your 8K video edits won’t cripple with this baby.

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Expanding its R&D presence in India, chip maker Intel recently inaugurated a new design facility in Bengaluru. Built with an investment of approximately INR 11 billion, the new design house – called SRR4 – is located at Intel’s campus in Bengaluru. Covering 55741.84sqm of space, the design facility includes 9290.30sqm of lab infrastructure. Sources at Intel said that the new facility will house technologists who work on cutting-edge engineering across hardware and software.

Publication: Electronics For You

The Microsoft Surface Book 2 is arguably the most powerful ultrabook you can buy today. The product comes with Intel Core 6 andi7 processors and Nvidia’s GTX1050 graphics processing unit (GPU). You can buy it in 135-inch and 15-inch variants, and the storage options vary between 256GB and 512GB. You can also choose between 8GB and 16GB RAM.

Publication: Mint

Taiwan-based electronics major ASUS on Wednesday launched a new compact ZenBook series laptops, starting at Rs 71,990. The ZenBook 15 (UX533), ZenBook 14 (UX433) and ZenBook 13 (UX333) are available on both online and offline platforms, the company said in a statement. “We are extremely proud to launch the ‘world’s smallest laptop’ without compromising on performance and focusing on absolute portability,” said Arnold Su, PC and Gaming Head, ASUS.

Publication: Gadget2

You may be familiar with the franchise and its zombie-infested track record but to have a clear understanding of the storyline and plot throughout its 10+ games in the series might be a bit too much for us simpletons. A remake is exactly what we needed to awaken our zombie love and to get us familiar with the series again. We’re happy to report that Resident Evil 2 firmly holds the mantle of what made the older game so good and builds better on the same formula with a 2019 flavour to it.

Publication: Stuff

The Linux Foundation on Friday announced that Click2Cloud, GMO Pepabo, Intel, Internet Initiative Japan and KPN have joined the OpenSDS Project. The new contributors to the OpenSDS project will help accelerate the project’s evolution, including development of flash management, and the adoption of NVMe and NVMe over Fabric in cloud native environments.

Publication: Open Source For U

Whether on a workstation, data center server or virtual workspace, NVIDIA Quadro is the preeminent visual computing platform for professional 3D applications. It enables incredible advancements, such as AI-accelerated rendering and real-time, interactive simulation. Now artists, designers and engineers can tap into the power of Quadro on any device, from any location through the cloud with Microsoft Azure.

Publication: Cell IT

MSI, a world leader in gaming hardware, today announced the launch of its new gaming laptop lineup with the latest NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ GPU in India, including the brand new GS65 Stealth laptop. Recently unveiled at CES 2019, the laptops will be available starting Jan. 29th 2019 at MSI’s exclusive stores across New Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata & Pune. The products will also be available on leading e-commerce websites – Flipkart & Amazon.

Publication: Techphile ; The Unbiased Blog ; The Indian Express ; Digit ; Gizbot

There was a time when for a slim and light laptop you had to sacrifice on performance. However, times have changed. The Asus ZenBook 13, for instance, is a laptop that strikes a balance between performance and portability. The new ZenBook 13 reimagines the laptop, taking cues from the past and present, and applies them to create the modern notebook. It’s slimmer and lighter, has a near border-free screen, a precision keyboard, expansive trackpad, and impressive specifications. Here is our review of the Asus ZenBook 13.

Publication: Financial Express

After being teased for quite some time, Intel has finally made official its behemoth, enterprise sector, workstation-grade processor. The Intel Xeon W-3175X is not a consumer-oriented processor, unlike the 18-core, 36-thread Core i9-9980XE. Instead, it is aimed at the enterprise segment, for workloads that exceed well beyond the ordinary.

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