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Researchers Stephan Richter, Hassan Abu AlHaija, and Vladlen Koltun at Intel Labs have developed a technique based on machine-learning that adds an astonishing level of photorealism to the game Grand Theft Auto V. The method overlays more natural…

The carbon footprint of using bitcoins to buy a Tesla is so large that it wipes out the car’s zero-emissions environmental benefit. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that Tesla will stop accepting bitcoin as payment for the company’s…

Same pandemic, different year. Last year, the MWC 2020 was cancelled after an epidemic of exhibitor and attendee withdrawals due to COVID-19. This year seems to be a replay of last year, with announcements flowing in regarding MWC 2021. We already…

You may remember we featured Framework in this column: the San Francisco startup whose mission it is to produce a slim, light laptop that is easily upgraded, configured and repaired by their owners. In other words, the opposite of most laptops on…

Razer announced the arrival of a new Razer Blade 15 laptop based on the 11th generation Intel H-series processors (codenamed “Tiger Lake-H”). The high-end Advanced Edition is equipped with an Intel Core i9-11900H processor, an Nvidia RTX 3080 video…

Starting next year, apps on Google Play will have to show details about what data they collect, as well as information about privacy and security practices. The announcement comes just months after Apple established a similar policy for its App…

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, expects that 60% of the company’s roughly 140,000 global employees, who all have been telecommuting for the past year, will spend about three days per week in the office after the pandemic, while around 20% of employees…

Nintendo’s Switch portable console sales were up 44% in the first three months of the year compared to the same quarter the year prior. Today’s figures bring total Switch sales to 28.83 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, up 37% from the…