Intel Confirms Its Game-Boosting APO Tech Is Not Coming To 13th And 12th Gen CPUs

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However, it's currently limited to the company's newest 14th-generation [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Bill Gates On AI: It Will Change How You Use Computers, And Everything Else He Said]( By Alan Velasco on Nov 14, 2023 01:10 pm [Bill Gates On AI: It Will Change How You Use Computers, And Everything Else He Said]( Bill Gates made a surprise appearance on the Artificial Intelligence subreddit in order to share his thoughts on the future of AI and how it will impact computing. Gates is bullish on AI, believing it will entrench itself into various aspects of people’s daily lives. Personal assistants, healthcare, education and productivity will all be transformed [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Amazon Fire TV Deals Light Up Early For Big Black Friday Savings Up To 38% Off]( By Nathan Ord on Nov 14, 2023 12:40 pm [Amazon Fire TV Deals Light Up Early For Big Black Friday Savings Up To 38% Off]( Black Friday is just around the corner, but to try and beat out some of the brick-and-mortar stores, Amazon has deals going live early that may even beat out other shops. This includes a whole slew of Amazon Fire TVs, which are marked down more than normal to save you a buck and up your home theater game. Leading us off is our strongest [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google Pixel Watch 2 Review: An Impressive Sequel]( By Ryan Whitwam on Nov 14, 2023 11:56 am [Google Pixel Watch 2 Review: An Impressive Sequel]( Google Pixel Watch 2: Starting at $349.99 The Google Watch 2 builds on the success of the original with better performance, battery life, and fitness tracking, but its starting price is still relatively high. Bright, sharp display A solid day of battery life Extremely comfortable on the wrist Stylish design Uses proprietary band connector... [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Epic Details Google's $8B Deal To Make Its Apps Default On Samsung Galaxy Devices]( By Tim Sweezy on Nov 14, 2023 11:11 am [Epic Details Google's $8B Deal To Make Its Apps Default On Samsung Galaxy Devices]( Vice President for Partnerships at Google James Kolotouros testified during the Epic versus Google antitrust trial that the search giant agreed to pay $8 billion over four years to Samsung Electronics Company to make its search engine, voice assistant, and Play Store the default on Galaxy devices. Kolotouros testified Google constructed plans [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA's HGX H200 GPU With HBMe3 Is An AI Beast For The Data Center]( By Alan Velasco on Nov 14, 2023 11:02 am [NVIDIA's HGX H200 GPU With HBMe3 Is An AI Beast For The Data Center]( NVIDIA’s AI computing platform got a big upgrade with the introduction of the NVIDIA HGX H200, which is based on the NVIDIA Hopper architecture. It features the NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU that can make quick work of large amounts of data. This is crucial for workloads that require high performance computing, along with generative AI tasks. NVIDIA [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Xbox Is Giving Away A Deliciously-Themed Wonka Console With An Edible Controller]( By Paul Lilly on Nov 14, 2023 10:47 am [Xbox Is Giving Away A Deliciously-Themed Wonka Console With An Edible Controller]( Talk about a tasty giveaway! Microsoft's Xbox team is collaborating with Warner Bros. Pictures on a special Xbox Series X console that looks like a Willy Wonka chocolate bar. The lucky winner will also receive the world's first official edible Xbox controller made of chocolate, which of course will don a signature gold wrapper, plus some other [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Samsung Reveals When These 35 Galaxy Devices Will Update To Android 14]( By Aaron Leong on Nov 14, 2023 10:04 am [Samsung Reveals When These 35 Galaxy Devices Will Update To Android 14]( Samsung has just initiated a pretty aggressive Android 14 update schedule for not only its latest flagships, but also to some surprising models in its lineup. Read on to find out if the well-received Android 14 will be coming to your device. The stable version of Samsung's One Ui 6.0 (based on Android 14) is coming sooner than you think [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NASA's $100K Toolbag Lost In Space Can Be Seen With A Pair Of Binoculars]( By Tim Sweezy on Nov 14, 2023 09:52 am [NASA's $100K Toolbag Lost In Space Can Be Seen With A Pair Of Binoculars]( A NASA toolbag worth an estimated $100,000 is floating in space after being lost during a recent spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS), and it can be seen from Earth with the aid of a pair of binoculars. Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara were conducting maintenance on the space station when the toolbag escaped the [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [AMD Seems To Be Readying More Desktop CPUs With 3D V-Cache]( By Paul Lilly on Nov 14, 2023 09:46 am [AMD Seems To Be Readying More Desktop CPUs With 3D V-Cache]( A reputable leaker who has been reliable in the past suggests that AMD is about to expand its lineup of desktop processors equipped with stacked 3D V-Cache, though they won't be part of the Zen 4 family. Instead, upcoming additions will bolster AMD's previous generation Ryzen 5000 series based on Zen 3. They're also both mid-range SKUs, which [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [GTA 6 Anticipation Builds As Latest Leak Reveals A Surprise Character]( By Zak Killian on Nov 13, 2023 04:13 pm [GTA 6 Anticipation Builds As Latest Leak Reveals A Surprise Character]( Grand Theft Auto is absolutely not a series for children. While the earliest games had a cartoony style and relatively little objectionable content besides the nominative car theft, the games became surprisingly realistic, starting with the fully-3D GTA III on the PlayStation 2. Successive titles over the following years have only added to [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [GTA V Mod Adds DLSS 3 For A Huge Performance Boost, Check It Out]( By Matthew Connatser on Nov 13, 2023 03:59 pm [GTA V Mod Adds DLSS 3 For A Huge Performance Boost, Check It Out]( DLSS modder PureDark just brought DLSS 3 frame generation tech to Grand Theft Auto V, an older but still fairly graphically intensive game for modern hardware, especially when using graphics mods. Although FSR 1.0 was modded into GTA V soon after the upscaling technology came out, DLSS 3 is a much different beast and required PureDark to dig [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Ransomware Gang Leaks 43GB Of Boeing Data After Demand To Pay Up Doesn't Fly]( By Nathan Ord on Nov 13, 2023 03:27 pm [Ransomware Gang Leaks 43GB Of Boeing Data After Demand To Pay Up Doesn't Fly]( The Lockbit ransomware group has breached a number of high-profile organizations and companies, such as TSMC in Taiwan, which is effectively the global leader in silicon production. Most recently, though, the international aeronautic and telecommunications company Boeing seemingly fell victim to the group, and subsequently failed to pay ransom. 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