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Nvidia’s DLSS Reaches VR With “No Man’s Sky” and Two Other Titles

Home News (Image credit: Hello Games) Nvidia today announced that Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) has made the jump to VR thanks to support from No Man’s Sky, Wrench, and Into The Radius. The company said “DLSS doubles your VR performance at the Ultra graphics preset and maintains 90 FPS on an Oculus Quest 2… Read more

Spotify will auto-transcribe podcasts over the coming weeks

Spotify announced multiple updates to make its app more accessible across iOS and Android today, including a beta version of a podcast transcription feature. The company says it’ll start auto-transcribing certain exclusive and original shows over the coming weeks as part of a beta rollout. People will be able to read the transcript with or… Read more

Apple’s Phil Schiller gives Epic iPhone testimony

What does ‘locked in’ mean, though? We’ve gotten through the expert witnesses of Epic v. Apple, and as a reward, Phil Schiller — currently an “Apple Fellow,” whatever that is, and previously the senior vice president of worldwide marketing — took the stand like a twinkly App Store St. Nick. To hear him tell it,… Read more

What Is Nvidia DLSS? A Basic Definition

Home News DLSS 2.0 off vs DLSS 2.0 on (Image credit: Nvidia) DLSS stands for deep learning super sampling. It’s a type of video rendering technique that looks to boost framerates by rendering frames at a lower resolution than displayed and using deep learning, a type of AI, to upscale the frames so that they… Read more

Intel Uses AI to Make ‘GTA V’ More Lifelike Than Ever

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto V nearly eight years ago. The game was impressive at the time, but it’s starting to show its age now, especially in the graphics department. Intel’s Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL) took it upon itself to improve those graphics with a new method of making… Read more

Katy Perry’s new music video stars her BFF Pikachu

Katy Perry’s latest video features an electric rat. The pop star released her new video for the single “Electric,” which is a surprisingly charming coming-of-age story about growing up with Pikachu as a best friend. It features a young Perry and her Pichu struggling early on in her career, while the current version of the… Read more

Asus ZenFone 8 review: an Android iPhone mini

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. After a couple of generations making phones with flip-out cameras and increasingly large displays, Asus has taken the ZenFone 8 in a totally different direction: small. The flipping camera concept lives on in the also-new ZenFone 8… Read more

The Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel is the dream computer I’ll never own

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel is a computer I will never own. But I really, really wish I could. Artists, creators, and engineers who are looking for a powerful high-end convertible have all kinds of options on… Read more

Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Bring RT and DLSS to Budget Laptops

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) The GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and GeForce RTX 3050 will almost certainly come to desktops and finish filling out the bottom end of our list of the best graphics cards, but the new GPUs are slated to be mobile solutions first. That can be good or bad news, depending on… Read more

Hans Zimmer isn’t the only composer that can make tech sounds, you know

Today I learned that Hans Zimmer, known for his brilliant scores for movies such as Inception, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Lion King, has also composed driving sounds for BMW. And they’re actually pretty good! You can hear one coming to the company’s M version of its electric BMW i4 cars in this video… Read more

AMD Ryzen “Rembrandt” APUs to come with Zen 3+ cores and RDNA 2 graphics

Home / Component / APU / AMD Ryzen “Rembrandt” APUs to come with Zen 3+ cores and RDNA 2 graphics João Silva 3 hours ago APU Recently, AMD’s upcoming ‘Rembrandt’ 6000 series APUs were expected to ship with Zen 3 CPU cores. As it turns out, this particular line of APUs may go a step… Read more

YouTube has run the numbers to see how vloggers open their videos

YouTube has run the numbers and discovered what greeting its vloggers most use to open videos: “Hey, guys.” Those findings may not be surprising if you’ve watched a lot of YouTube, but the report actually shows a lot more, including what the runners-up are, how greetings have changed in popularity over time, and how video… Read more

How to add voice control to your hi-fi system

Home Advice (Image credit: Bluesound) Voice control isn’t the sole preserve of wireless smart speakers, you know. Barking “Alexa, open Just Eat” at your Echo Dot (or other Alexa speaker), or “Hey Google, what’s in my calendar for today” to your Google Assistant speaker just for the joy of hearing that your schedule is clear,… Read more

The Division Heartland is a free to play spin-off coming this year

Matthew Wilson 3 days ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming In a surprise update released last night, Ubisoft announced that it is working on a new game in The Division franchise. We aren’t getting The Division 3 yet, but Ubisoft is making a free to play spin-off title. Known as ‘The Division Heartland’, this… Read more

Go watch how Marvel’s FX team created a new ‘visual language’ for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Now that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has wrapped and we’re still a few weeks away from the debut of Loki, Marvel has released a behind-the-scenes video on its YouTube channel detailing the CGI effects that made it look like Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) was flying through the air as Falcon [minor spoilers ahead… Read more