Screen tearing is one of the most annoying display issues faced by PC gamers. Variable refresh rate, otherwise known as Adaptive Sync is easily the best solution to this age-old problem. Both NVIDIA (G-Sync) and AMD (FreeSync) have their own respective implementations of adaptive sync. Although they do the same thing (make your gameplay smoother at lower refresh rates), the way they work is fairly different. More importantly, you’ll want to know which one is superior: G-Sync or FreeSync? Should you opt for an AMD FreeSync monitor or one that supports NVIDIA’s G-Sync technology.

Publication: Hardware Times 

According to sources, NVIDIA’s next-gen flagship, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will feature an insane core count of 5,248 cores and a video memory of 12GB GDDR6X. The card will be based on the GA102 die just like the RTX 3080 and come with beefed up ray-tracing capabilities. In comparison, the 3080 is speculated to come with around 4350 shaders and 8GB of GDDR6X memory across a 256-bit bus.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Cloud technology – which is facilitating communication and remote working amid the present COVID-19 lockdown – is also the preferred choice for upskilling for the Indian developers, reveals a survey conducted by TechGig. The preference for Cloud overshadowed other new-age technologies as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The jobs of the future would require expertise in new-age niche skills, and upskilling is the only resolve for a long term career in technology. Hence certification programs are gaining popularity among the IT professionals.

Publication: Express Computers 

While the spread of COVID-19 ensures that any entertainment requiring physical presence of an audience will continue to suffer, esports and online gaming are obviously surging. Many traditional sports fans are turning to esports to fill the sports thrill gap, so that esports organisations are seeing a surge in viewership all over the world. India, for example has become a big consumer with games such as PUBG Mobile and Garena Free Fire, which has become one of the most-watched games on YouTube.

Publication: Indian Express 

The ban on Chinese apps is a great opportunity to build and promote ‘Made in India’ apps which will be in line with government’s Clarion Call of Atma Nirbhar Bharat, said Union minister for Electronics and IT, law and justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday. “Emergency power has been exercised and the legal process has been followed,” he said while reasoning on the app ban. Prasad added that the dependence on these ‘foreign apps with their own agenda for a variety of reasons’ must stop. Prasad added that it was remarkable how the indigenous app economy had risen in the last few days following the ban on Chinese apps.

Publication: The Economic Times 

US-based technology behemoth Microsoft has agreed to set up its third campus in India. The new campus in Noida will be the second-largest among the three in terms of employee capacity, two of which are in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Microsoft MD Rajiv Kumar confirmed the news during a virtual meeting with Uttar Pradesh’s MSME & Export Promotion Minister Sidharth Nath Singh. The state will roll out the “red carpet” facility to Microsoft to make it easier for the company to do business, Singh said.

Publication: Moneycontrol

nternet search giant Google has started testing the Smart Compose feature for messaging apps including WhatsApp, Telegram and Google Messages, according to a report by 9to5Google. As per the report, a new beta version of Gboard was rolled out via Google Play Store and some users who were on version 9.5.12.317844448 discovered that Google Messages is offering suggestions for completing the sentences through Smart Compose just as it does on Gmail right now.

Publication: Gadgets Now 

Dell Technologies has announced the launch of the new Precision 5550 mobile workstation in India. The Dell Precision 5000 series support graphics and data-intensive workloads, packing performance into the industry’s smallest and thinnest 39.6 cm or 15-inch mobile workstation1 design. It features a stunning 4-sided InfinityEdge 16:10 aspect ratio display and a top bezel infrared camera for maximum screen real estate and an improved video conferencing experience.

Publication: BW Businessworld 

Reuters reported last week that goods, including products from U.S. companies Apple, Cisco and Dell were caught up in the border tensions, as Indian ports held up imports from China. Pharmaceutical consignments are also stuck at Chennai and other ports and at an airport, and drug firms have been told their shipments would be released after rigorous scrutiny, a senior industry executive told Reuters last month.United Parcel Service and Amazon India did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding possible shipment delays.

Publication: The Hindu 

Dell Technologies on Wednesday launched a new Precision 5550 mo-bile workstation in India at a starting price of n ,29,999. The 15-inch machine features four-sided Infinity Edge display, advanced thermal innovations and latest 10th Gen Intel Core Processors. Weighing 1.84 kg with a92 per cent display/ body ratio and up to NVIDIA Quadro T2000 (4GB) graphics, the Precision 5550 workstation can handle applications for 3D design and modelling, simulation and analysis and rendering with ease, the company said. It comes with the AI-based performance software that automatically tunes the workstation using machine learning.

Publication: Indian Express 

NVIDIA has now revealed that Death Stranding PC version will indeed have DLSS 2.0 support. In a new press release, NVIDIA says that DLSS on Death Stranding will guarantee 100+ FPS at 1440p or a smooth 60+ FPS at 4K on all GeForce RTX GPUs. That’s quite a statement, and if the game manages to deliver on those expectations, then I’ll be very much looking forward to similarly well-optimized games for next-gen.

Publication: TechQuila