If you’re a PC gamer, or a content creator who lives and dies by the speed of your graphics-accelerated software, your video card is the engine that powers what you can do—or how lustily you can brag. And until just a few months ago, that bragging was really expensive.

Publication: PCMag

The PUBG Lite beta introducing the main PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds gameplay on low-end computers has now expanded to as many as 5 more regions in addition to the geographies that were officially added last week to the list of eligible countries. The latest rollout, of PUBG Lite beta, to 5 countries potentially indicates positive game tester feedback from the regions in which the game was rolled out to prior to the latest announcement.

Publication: Republic World

In a sign of just how arid the DIY retail channel has become for Intel, Tom’s Hardware reports that the new socket flagship LGA2066 HEDT processor model Intel sneaked into its product-stack, the Core i9-9990XE, is restricted to the OEM/SI (system integrator) channel. Even to OEMs, ordering a tray of i9-9990XE chips isn’t as simple as ordering other chips, such as the i9-9900K.

Publication: Tech PowerUp

Intel announced it will provide technology to internet services leader Rakuten* for a new cloud-native network. It will be fully virtualized from radio access network (RAN) to core and will adopt an innovative 5G systems architecture from its launch. The network is significant as it will offer end-to-end automation for both network and services. It is being built to serve millions of subscribers in Japan.

Publication: Cell IT

Nowadays all the works of man which were so much tough and time-consuming can be easily done within a few seconds. Technology is improving day by day and new advanced technologies are launched. Now people can shop almost anything online and get things delivered at their doors.

Publication: All Tech Buzz

HP India on Wednesday unveiled in India the premium laptop range with the HP Spectre Folio and HP Spectre x360 devices. HP Spectre Folio is available in cognac brown at Rs 1,99,990 and HP Spectre x360 in dark ash grey at a starting price of Rs 1,29,990 and in poseidon blue at Rs 1,39,990.

Publication: Hindustan Times ; Tech Androids ; Gadgets Now ; The Economic Times ; The Hans India ; The Indian Wire ; VAR India ; Mint

Ericsson, a leading communications service provider, and Intel Corporation have begun a multi-year collaboration to align ongoing development efforts in software-defined infrastructure (SDI) and Intel Rack Scale Design. The resulting next-generation infrastructure management platform will deliver a new level of cloudlike agility, transparency and efficiency required for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), distributed cloud, and 5G, said a statement from the company.

Publication: Trade Arabia

Announced in 2014 and delayed for years, Microsoft Studios has finally released Crackdown 3 for Xbox One and PC. While it continues to be a sci-fi game in an open world environment like its predecessor, its map is bigger providing players with plenty to explore. The main draw is the single player campaign where you take down the sinister Terra Nova regime.

Publication: Mint

Acer’s Aspire 3 is a big-screen budget laptop that delivers a roomy 15.6-inch display, a comfortable keyboard, and horsepower for productivity work—and even a bit more. Our $529.99 review model (Acer’s identifier is A315-41-R98U), based on an AMD Ryzen CPU with on-chip Vega graphics and an SSD boot drive, dips under $500 at times from retailers, and it keeps pace with other low-end and mainstream machines, including a few priced as high as $700.

Publication: PCMag

A report via PCGamesN places AMD’s stance on NVIDIA’s DLSS as a rather decided one: the company stands for further development of SMAA (Enhanced Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing) and TAA (Temporal Antialising) solutions on current, open frameworks, which, according to AMD’s director of marketing, Sasa Marinkovic, “(…) are going to be widely implemented in today’s games, and that run exceptionally well on Radeon VII”, instead of investing in yet another proprietary solution.

Publication: Tech PowerUp

Results of the January 2019 hardware and software survey done by the popular online game distribution platform Steam are out. As per the survey results, Nvidia dominates the charts with almost 74 percent of the participant’s systems running on the chip maker’s cards. It is followed by AMD at 15.34 percent, and Intel at 10.55 percent.

Publication: Digit

MSI has supersized its popular, super-slim GS65 Stealth Thin 15.6-inch gamer. The GS75 Stealth (starts at $2,099; $2,999 as tested) brings not just a larger 17-inch screen to the arena, but also Nvidia’s new, mobile-ready GeForce RTX “Turing” graphics chips (GPUs) for a performance boost.

Publication: PCMag

NVIDIA today announced that two storied game franchises now support NVIDIA RTX technology, which uses AI and real-time ray tracing to deliver deeply immersive gameplay and powerful performance.  Battlefield V and Metro Exodus both incorporate support for real-time ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS (deep-learning super-sampling). Implementing ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS gives gamers the best of both worlds: Great visuals and great performance.

Publication: Digital Conqurer