Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
AMD's shader compiler "ACO" has seen the influx of multiple patches, supporting the next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs. AMD Accelerating Efforts Of RDNA 4 GPU Enablement At Their Platform, Ensuring Complete Support At Launch Linux has seen massive developments in enablement for AMD's upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs, and it looks like Team Red won't stop just yet, as they add in another set of updates targeted at bringing optimal support for AMD users. This time, Valve's open-source developers have brought in additional patches for the ACO compiler, a standard LLVM compiler dedicated to resources such as MESA's RADV Vulkan driver and […]
Intel's Battlemage "Xe2" GPUs continue to receive new support and patches with the latest one exposing the BMG-G21 graphics chip. Intel Battlemage "BMG-G21" GPU Shows Up In LLVM Patch, Lunar Lake With Xe2-LPG Gets Improved Support As Blue Team Preps Unveiling of Next-Gen Graphics Architecture The Intel Battlemage "Xe2" GPU family which is all set to replace the Alchemist "Xe" architecture, isn't far away from its official debut. While Intel has come a long way since its initial discrete GPU launch, Battlemage seems like it will be the "pivot" point for Team Blue. Now, we have got our first glimpse […]
Qualcomm has provided an update on how it is working to ensure steady support for Linux for its Snapdragon X Elite SKUs. Qualcomm Starts To Facilitate The Linux Community Early-On, Providing An Environment For Enablement [Press Release]: The Snapdragon X Elite system on chip (SoC) has been garnering attention for its remarkable performance in Windows on Arm PCs. At the same time, we’ve kept our eye on Linux. We’ve been keeping up our traditional efforts to make it easier to boot Linux on Arm-based PCs by upstreaming a consistent flow of patch sets for the Linux kernel. In this post, […]
Hades 2 arrived via Early Access on Steam and the Epic Games Store on May 6 and already it’s been stirring up a ton of excitement. If you’re looking to take its Greek-mythos-inspired roguelike action-RPG gameplay on the go with the Steam Deck, there ar...
NVIDIA's NVK Vulkan driver on Linux has witnessed the inclusion of implicit pipeline caching, enhancing overall gaming performance. NVIDIA's NVK Vulkan Driver Receives New Set Of Optimizations With MESA's Quarterly Update, Bringing Faster Gaming Performance to Linux Users Phoronix has disclosed that the MESA 24.1 quarterly update has brought significant improvements to the NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver, & one of the most attractive additions is implicit pipeline caching. implicit pipeline caching is an optimization technique for GPUs specifically, where the GPU makes use of existing rendered content or existing pipeline configurations, and this eliminates the need for re-programming the pipeline, […]
Nouveau's lead maintainer of the open-source "Nouveau" linux driver, Ben Skeggs, has reportedly resigned from his position, joining NVIDIA for something much bigger. Nouveau's Lead Maintainer Joining NVIDIA Means That The Company Might Shift Towards Open-Source Approach For those unaware, Nouveau is an open-source graphic driver designed specifically for NVIDIA. The platform has witnessed tremendous growth over the past year, where not only did it receive NVIDIA GSP firmware support, but multiple developments were completed, including the HDMI 2.1 integration, which is a more notable one. However, it looks like the lead developer of the platform, Ben Skeggs, has decided […]
TUXEDO Computers, a German-based firm, has unveiled the world's first laptop featuring AMD's Ryzen 8040 "Hawk Point" APUs & Linux OS loaded default. TUXEDO's Latest Sirius Gaming Laptop Is a Dream For Linux Users Looking To Run Away From Apple's MacBook, features AMD's Ryzen 8040 APUs It's not every day that we see Linux-based laptops surface since the platform is relatively more prevalent among handheld users, particularly Steam Deck. However, the German company TUXEDO Computers has unveiled instead the world's first Linux laptop, featuring AMD's latest Ryzen 8040 APUs and an RDNA 3 dedicated mobile GPU, hence showing an exciting […]
AMD's shader compiler "ACO" has seen the influx of multiple patches, supporting the next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs. AMD Accelerating Efforts Of RDNA 4 GPU Enablement At Their Platform, Ensuring Complete Support At Launch Linux has seen massive developments in enablement for AMD's upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs, and it looks like Team Red won't stop just yet, as they add in another set of updates targeted at bringing optimal support for AMD users. This time, Valve's open-source developers have brought in additional patches for the ACO compiler, a standard LLVM compiler dedicated to resources such as MESA's RADV Vulkan driver and […]
Intel's Battlemage "Xe2" GPUs continue to receive new support and patches with the latest one exposing the BMG-G21 graphics chip. Intel Battlemage "BMG-G21" GPU Shows Up In LLVM Patch, Lunar Lake With Xe2-LPG Gets Improved Support As Blue Team Preps Unveiling of Next-Gen Graphics Architecture The Intel Battlemage "Xe2" GPU family which is all set to replace the Alchemist "Xe" architecture, isn't far away from its official debut. While Intel has come a long way since its initial discrete GPU launch, Battlemage seems like it will be the "pivot" point for Team Blue. Now, we have got our first glimpse […]
Qualcomm has provided an update on how it is working to ensure steady support for Linux for its Snapdragon X Elite SKUs. Qualcomm Starts To Facilitate The Linux Community Early-On, Providing An Environment For Enablement [Press Release]: The Snapdragon X Elite system on chip (SoC) has been garnering attention for its remarkable performance in Windows on Arm PCs. At the same time, we’ve kept our eye on Linux. We’ve been keeping up our traditional efforts to make it easier to boot Linux on Arm-based PCs by upstreaming a consistent flow of patch sets for the Linux kernel. In this post, […]
Hades 2 arrived via Early Access on Steam and the Epic Games Store on May 6 and already it’s been stirring up a ton of excitement. If you’re looking to take its Greek-mythos-inspired roguelike action-RPG gameplay on the go with the Steam Deck, there ar...
NVIDIA's NVK Vulkan driver on Linux has witnessed the inclusion of implicit pipeline caching, enhancing overall gaming performance. NVIDIA's NVK Vulkan Driver Receives New Set Of Optimizations With MESA's Quarterly Update, Bringing Faster Gaming Performance to Linux Users Phoronix has disclosed that the MESA 24.1 quarterly update has brought significant improvements to the NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver, & one of the most attractive additions is implicit pipeline caching. implicit pipeline caching is an optimization technique for GPUs specifically, where the GPU makes use of existing rendered content or existing pipeline configurations, and this eliminates the need for re-programming the pipeline, […]
Nouveau's lead maintainer of the open-source "Nouveau" linux driver, Ben Skeggs, has reportedly resigned from his position, joining NVIDIA for something much bigger. Nouveau's Lead Maintainer Joining NVIDIA Means That The Company Might Shift Towards Open-Source Approach For those unaware, Nouveau is an open-source graphic driver designed specifically for NVIDIA. The platform has witnessed tremendous growth over the past year, where not only did it receive NVIDIA GSP firmware support, but multiple developments were completed, including the HDMI 2.1 integration, which is a more notable one. However, it looks like the lead developer of the platform, Ben Skeggs, has decided […]
TUXEDO Computers, a German-based firm, has unveiled the world's first laptop featuring AMD's Ryzen 8040 "Hawk Point" APUs & Linux OS loaded default. TUXEDO's Latest Sirius Gaming Laptop Is a Dream For Linux Users Looking To Run Away From Apple's MacBook, features AMD's Ryzen 8040 APUs It's not every day that we see Linux-based laptops surface since the platform is relatively more prevalent among handheld users, particularly Steam Deck. However, the German company TUXEDO Computers has unveiled instead the world's first Linux laptop, featuring AMD's latest Ryzen 8040 APUs and an RDNA 3 dedicated mobile GPU, hence showing an exciting […]