Within NVIDIA's initial rollout of DLSS 5 and its headline feature, 3D guided neural rendering, there was an element of excitement. However, this was quickly undercut by the reveal of the graphics it produces and the uncanny valley it creates. Outside of this, it promised unprecedented realism, geometry reconstruction, and fully realized AI-generated lighting pipelines, which sounded like a generational leap if you can look past the nightmarish AI-generated faces.

Google's recent changes provide strong clues about major changes from the next core algorithm update.The post What To Expect From Google’s Next Search Ranking Update appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

This Asus Googlebook is one of the Intel models that may have issues. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Google has waited until the day its new Googlebook laptops hit the market to admit that Intel-based models may have issues running some Android apps. Before now, Google has emphasized that the Android-based Googlebooks give owners access to the "entire Play Store library" of apps, along with some clever interactions with Android phones and tablets. Today, in a statement to Android Authority, it admitted that while every app is available, some may not offer smooth performance on every Googlebook.The vast majority of Android apps run smoothly across both Intel and Qualcomm Googlebooks right out of the box. Because many Android apps were o …Read the full story at The Verge.

There’s one thing I absolutely love about AI coding. No, it isn’t that coding suddenly takes less effort. It also isn’t the fact that beginners no longer have to spend months teaching themselves how to code. And it obviously isn’t developers losing their jobs to AI tools. I’m majoring in computer science myself, so I have a little too much skin in the game for that one.

Creating a DIY smart display makes for a cool project at home, but how do you solve the problem of it being always on? If energy draw is your biggest concern, an e-ink display can render screens that don't require high refresh rates with minimal draw. However, one clever tinkerer has found another way to save on power: set up a radar that only turns the screen on if someone is close.

I've spent enough time with Jellyfin to understand why people love it, and its free and open-source nature is exactly why I prefer it over every other media hosting service out there.

I've always looked at 4K as the pinnacle of PC gaming. Even back when I had the GTX 1070 a decade ago, I used Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR) just to get a taste of what 4K gaming would look like, even though my monitor was 1080p and the frame rates were horrible. Then, in 2020, when I built a high-end AM4 rig from scratch with an RTX 3090, I finally bought a 4K/160Hz monitor, and it truly felt like I'd reached the endgame. That is, until the performance started bothering me.

A large portion of my workday is spent responding to messages, emails, and typing out the same information over and over again. There are some parts of my emails—especially the sections of pitches where I mention my previous publications—that don't change much regardless of who I'm speaking with, and that means I write that same finite combination of words over and over again throughout the week.

Norbert Wiener, godfather of cybernetics, once said, "The thought of every age is reflected in its technique." For the past century, our thought has been reflected in our computers, including by those in the AI industry. Google's Demis Hassabis calls the brain "a biological approximation to a Turing machine." Elon Musk puts it more bluntly, declaring that "people should just think of the brain as a biological computer." (Musk's brain often worries me.)But humans are more complex than a straightforward comparison to computers gives us credit for - and far more than most of the AI industry seems to appreciate. And as their products push e …Read the full story at The Verge.

I'm a huge fan of KDE Plasma; I want to say it's about 80% of the reason why I stuck with Linux instead of going back to Windows. However, as much as I love it, some people have problems with specific parts of it. Well, the good thing about open-source software is that anyone can contribute to it, and one pet project was so good that people took to the comments to ask them to make it an official commit.

We don't know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. It had leaked previously, but we can clearly see in these images posted by Android Headlines, you can see that Google's rumored fitness tracker sort of splits the difference between the Pixel Watch and the Fitbit Air. It has a small screen that is able to display some widgets, but clearly isn't as expansive as a proper smartwatch. Supposedly, this fitness-first wearable will have a seven-day battery life, as well as built-in GPS and an altimeter, making it far more capable than the minimalist Air. It will also have limited app support f …Read the full story at The Verge.

When I built my PC, I figured a 500GB SSD would be enough. After all, how many games was I actually going to have installed at once? That was a mistake. 500GB is nowhere near enough storage, especially when some games take as much as 226GB on their own (I'm looking at you, Delta Force). I could get my hands on a cheap SSD with a lot more space than an internal SSD, and for a lot less money, too. I gave it a try, and the results surprised me.