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Tech Digest daily roundup: US tries to block Nvidia $40bn Arm takeover
Image: Nvidia The US Federal Trade Commission has challenged the proposed takeover of chip designer Arm by Nvidia. The FTC said the proposed acquisition would give Nvidia too much control over computing technology that competitors rely on. Arm licenses its designs and technology to big tech companies, including Apple, Qualcomm, Sony…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Halo Infinite gets early launch for Microsoft anniversary
The latest game in the Halo series has been released three weeks early to coincide with the franchise's 20th anniversary. Halo: Infinite was originally supposed to be released last year but was delayed until December 2021. But on Monday, at an Xbox 20th anniversary event, Microsoft revealed the multiplayer part of the game was being…
Tech Digest daily round up: Donald Trump sues social media
Former US president Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against tech giants Google, Twitter and Facebook, claiming that he is the victim of censorship. The class-action lawsuit also targets the three companies' CEOs. Mr Trump was suspended from his social accounts in January over public safety concerns in the wake of the Capitol riots, led…
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series, the graphics gamechanger
At the CIE 2021 exhibition in September 2020, NVIDIA announced its release of the widely anticipated GeForce RTX 30 series to much fanfare. The RTX 30 series are much more advanced than any other graphics card available for computers. They are located primarily in gaming laptops. They are powered by Ampere, NVIDIA's second-generation RTX architecture.…
#CES2017 – Audi partners with NVIDIA for AI driven Q7 ‘deep learning concept’
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Audi demonstrated its Q7 deep learning concept, a piloted driving car produced in collaboration with NVIDIA. The car orientates itself by means of a front camera with 2 megapixel resolution, and the camera communicates with an NVIDIA Drive PX 2 processing unit, which in turn controls…
Acer announces first Tegra K1-powered Chromebook
Acer has today unveiled the Chromebook 13, which is the first device in its class to be powered by Nvidia's Tegra K1 chip. The Chromebook 13, which is also said to have 13 hour battery life on top of its 13" screen is thought to be one of the most powerful Chromebooks available yet. Something…
Nvidia announces Shield Tablet for mobile gaming
Graphics card-maker Nvidia is expanding its Shield line of handheld Android gaming devices with a new tablet that works with a separate controller. The 8-inch Shield Tablet - which can also stream games from a PC - is powered by a 32-bit Tegra K1 chip with 192 GPU cores. The tablet comes in several different…
Nvidia add live Twitch streaming to their GeForce Experience PC gaming app
Graphics card manufacturers Nvidia have (as of four minutes ago!) rolled out an update to the GeForce Experience PC application – enabling Twitch live streaming for the first time. The GeForce Experience app has been around for some time now,…
Nvidia treat PC gamers to free games (when they buy an expensive new graphics card)
Graphics chip makers Nvidia have a treat for PC gamers this winter – they've announced that they'll be bundling some of this year's most sought-after games with their latest hardware. From October 28th, people who buy the GeForce GTX 660…
Nvidia CEO confirms company is "working really hard" on Surface RT 2
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has confirmed that his graphics chip manufacturing company are hard at work on the development of Microsoft's Surface RT 2 tablet. Speaking to CNET, Huang said that his company were "working really hard" on the second…
