https://www.techspot.comTechSpot News - All Storieshttps://static.techspot.com/images/techspot-rss-logo-small2.pnghttps://www.techspot.comen-usCopyright 2020 TechSpot, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Mon, 2 Mar 2020 19:18 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84233-nvidia-shifting-gtc-2020-online-only-event-due.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84233-nvidia-shifting-gtc-2020-online-only-event-due.html
In an announcement published today, Nvidia revealed that GTC 2020 will be an online-only event due to COVID-2019 (coronavirus) concerns. Nvidia is currently in talks with speakers who were originally scheduled to talk at GTC, and the company hopes to have those talks published online in the "weeks ahead."



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 17:50 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84235-att-tv-launches-nationwide-misses-point-cord-cutting.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84235-att-tv-launches-nationwide-misses-point-cord-cutting.html
AT&T announced last year that it was launching a new streaming service called AT&T TV. Not to be confused with "AT&T Now" (formerly known as DirecTV Now), AT&T TV seems to be a streaming version of a standard cable subscription. The company is rolling out the service nationwide today after...



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 17:16 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84236-new-half-life-alyx-gameplay-videos-highlight-varying.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84236-new-half-life-alyx-gameplay-videos-highlight-varying.html
Valve on Monday shared three new Half-Life: Alyx gameplay videos highlighting roughly 10 minutes of new footage.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 16:52 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84231-apple-settles-iphone-throttling-class-action-up-500.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84231-apple-settles-iphone-throttling-class-action-up-500.html
Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for up to $500 million. The suit was filed in 2017 after the company admitted to throttling older iPhones. Models covered in the claim include iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, 7, 7 Plus, and SE installed with iOS 10.2.1 or...



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 16:17 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84232-overwatch-collegiate-clash-tournament-reward-winning-teams-40000.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84232-overwatch-collegiate-clash-tournament-reward-winning-teams-40000.html
Collegiate Clash will pit several college eSports teams against each other. Eight teams will compete every week, for a total of eight weeks -- that means roughly 64 colleges in total will be taking part in this tournament. The grand prize for each of the winning teams will be $40,000,...



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 15:40 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84230-nokia-names-new-ceo-5g-future-remains-uncertain.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84230-nokia-names-new-ceo-5g-future-remains-uncertain.html
The executive will be replaced by Pekka Lundmark effective September 1, 2020. The significant lead time was likely necessary in order to provide Lundmark with sufficient time to finalize his affairs at Fortum, the energy company where he currently serves as chief executive.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 15:07 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84226-kuo-iphone-production-remain-slow-through-second-quarter.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84226-kuo-iphone-production-remain-slow-through-second-quarter.html
If you go by data from CounterPoint Research, Apple's phones have been selling like hotcakes in 2019, especially its less expensive iPhone XR and iPhone 11 models. This year, however, it's going to be more difficult to get your hands on a new fruity device, as the complex supply chain...



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 13:54 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84229-death-stranding-gets-june-2-launch-date-pc.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84229-death-stranding-gets-june-2-launch-date-pc.html
The PC iteration of Death Stranding will feature a photo mode as well as support for ultra-wide monitors and of course, high frame rates. PC gamers will also have access to some nifty Half-Life-themed cosmetics thanks to a new cross-promotion.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 13:20 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84223-riot-reveals-new-details-about-project-now-officially.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84223-riot-reveals-new-details-about-project-now-officially.html
Riot Games has named its upcoming tactical first-person shooter Valorant. The studio first announced the game under the codename "Project A" last October, along with a slew of other titles in development. Last week, some details of the game leaked, including the name.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 12:39 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84225-reshaping-company-culture-key-leading-turnaround-intel.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84225-reshaping-company-culture-key-leading-turnaround-intel.html
The effort, described by The New York Times as a work in progress, involves pushing a message of unity and urging the company’s 110,000 employees to be more open about issues they may be facing. “If you have a problem, put it on the table,” Swan said.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 12:20 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84228-latest-amd-radeon-drivers-meant-address-black-screen.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84228-latest-amd-radeon-drivers-meant-address-black-screen.html
In our recent opinion piece 'Gamers are ditching Radeon graphics cards over driver issues' we discussed how a portion of Navi-based Radeon owners have been suffering from black screen and other instability issues. We haven't gone through this, but many gamers have. This is a real shame considering GPUs like...



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 11:16 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84224-treyarch-studios-co-head-departs-after-13-year.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84224-treyarch-studios-co-head-departs-after-13-year.html
Treyarch Studios co-head Jason Blundell recently revealed his departure from the studio after 13 years. The retreat seems amicable although a specific reason for his decision wasn’t given.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 10:43 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84221-forget-gaming-chairs-check-out-gaming-bed.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84221-forget-gaming-chairs-check-out-gaming-bed.html
As reported by Kotaku, the bed comes from Japan’s Bauhutte, which specializing in gaming-focused furniture. Rather than being a single product, it’s actually a regular bed with several of the company’s items placed around the outside, including its bed side-board and side table.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 09:42 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84220-parents-allow-11-year-old-drive-car-because.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84220-parents-allow-11-year-old-drive-car-because.html
Police in the Lancaster town of Blackpool stropped a red Vauxhall Astra in a car park in the town center, discovering the minor behind the wheel.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 09:05 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84216-doom-eternal-can-hit-1000-fps-courtesy-tech.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84216-doom-eternal-can-hit-1000-fps-courtesy-tech.html
Doom Eternal's demon-slaying at 4K/60fps will be good enough to satisfy most people, however, like the game's 2016 reboot, the focus is on moving and causing carnage as fast as possible.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 08:15 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84219-alibaba-develops-ai-can-identify-coronavirus-infections-96.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84219-alibaba-develops-ai-can-identify-coronavirus-infections-96.html
Nikkei Asian Review reports that the diagnoses algorithm was developed by Alibaba's research institute Damo Academy, which it established in 2017. It’s been trained on more than 5,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and can identify differences in CT scans between patients infected with COVID-19 and those with ordinary viral pneumonia with...



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 07:05 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84218-apple-sending-care-packages-include-ipads-employees-stranded.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84218-apple-sending-care-packages-include-ipads-employees-stranded.html
According to Chinese social network Weibo (spotted by MacRumors), Apple sent employees stranded in Wenzhou and Hubei gift packages made up of face masks, hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes, coffee, tea, and food. They even include a new 10.2-inch iPad, which Apple says can be used to facilitate children’s online learning...



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 06:06 -0500https://www.techspot.com/review/1993-amd-vega-56-revisited/https://www.techspot.com/review/1993-amd-vega-56-revisited/
Today we're looking at AMD's Radeon RX Vega 56, originally a $400 product that was meant to compete against the GTX 1070 in mid 2017. If you're wondering why is this relevant, we'd say the main reason is that to this very day, you can buy a Vega 56 graphics cards for as little as $250.



]]>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 05:15 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84217-renault-transforming-ev-concept-can-extend-fit-extra.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84217-renault-transforming-ev-concept-can-extend-fit-extra.html
When in its standard “City Mode,” the Morphoz features a 40kWh battery connected to a single motor, giving the car a range of 249 miles that Renault says is perfect for traveling around cities and suburbs. But that distance might not be enough for long journeys, so the car has...



]]>Sun, 1 Mar 2020 10:18 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84214-game-developers-conference-postponed-summer-due-coronavirus.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84214-game-developers-conference-postponed-summer-due-coronavirus.html
GDC has followed Mobile World Congress and Facebook’s F8 developer conference as the third technology expo to be canceled. Hopefully it’ll be the last. The GDC advisory board had no option other than to cancel the event.



]]>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 11:41 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84212-nvidia-gpu-7552-cuda-cores-spotted-benchmark-database.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84212-nvidia-gpu-7552-cuda-cores-spotted-benchmark-database.html
When transitioning from Pascal to Turing, Nvidia halved the number of CUDA cores from 128 to 64 per Streaming Multiprocessor (colloquially, the compute unit). However, while Pascal has FP32 ALUs as the backbone of a CUDA core, Turing pairs an FP32 ALU with an INT32 ALU in every CUDA core,...



]]>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 11:20 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84213-get-extra-17-off-dell-alienware-pcs-weekend.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84213-get-extra-17-off-dell-alienware-pcs-weekend.html
Here's a compendium of tech deals for this weekend. Dell has an extra 17% off code "EXTRA17" that works on several Dell and Alienware PCs. One of the better deals is that it works on the customizable Alienware Aurora R8 gaming desktop, so you can configure it how you wish...



]]>Sat, 29 Feb 2020 09:56 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84211-rockstar-cryptic-new-logo-appears-teasing-something.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84211-rockstar-cryptic-new-logo-appears-teasing-something.html
Case in point: as spotted by GamesRadar and the Reddit community, Rockstar has debuted two new logos. One could attempt to talk this away as a simple brand refresh, a supposition that does have some merit. However, it seems deeper than that.



]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:09 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84210-eve-online-annual-gathering-off-over-coronavirus-scare.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84210-eve-online-annual-gathering-off-over-coronavirus-scare.html
EVE Fanfest 2020 will not be held this year. The company regretfully issued a statement saying it decided to pull the plug on the event due to concerns over the coronavirus. It was previously scheduled for April 2 through 4.



]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:55 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84200-harvard-researchers-built-octopus-inspired-robotic-arm.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84200-harvard-researchers-built-octopus-inspired-robotic-arm.html
The robotics world is full of fascinating ideas that could make the world we live in a lot more convenient, even as it raises valid concerns about the potential negative impact on those who stand to be replaced by robots soon.



]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:10 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84208-netflix-wants-court-genericize-choose-own-adventure-trademark.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84208-netflix-wants-court-genericize-choose-own-adventure-trademark.html
Earlier this week, Netflix revealed the premiere date for its second choose-your-own-adventure-style movie. This time it is based on its Carmen Sandiego series.



]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:23 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84209-microsoft-neutering-cortana.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84209-microsoft-neutering-cortana.html
Andrew Shuman, corporate vice president of Cortana, said the new Cortana experience will feature a chat-based UI that’ll help users better manage their schedule and tasks. For example, you’ll be able to ask about the next entry on your calendar, get a reminder about the next weekly report and add...



]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:43 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84196-popcap-has-oft-launched-plants-vs-zombies-3.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84196-popcap-has-oft-launched-plants-vs-zombies-3.html
The lane-based "flower defense game" has launched in the Philippines on mobile devices now (iOS and Android). That's a slightly odd region to kick off a launch, but no matter -- the rest of the world will get the game soon enough (no exact ETA, though). The good news is...



]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:26 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84207-amd-chiplet-design-affords-massive-cost-cutting-opportunities.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84207-amd-chiplet-design-affords-massive-cost-cutting-opportunities.html
As TechPowerUp highlights, by limiting the components made on 7nm to those that would tangibly benefit from the cutting-edge fabrication process (the CPU cores) while leaving other elements like the I/O on a larger and less expensive process, significant cost savings can be achieved.



]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:33 -0500https://www.techspot.com/news/84206-amazon-bans-more-than-million-products-over-false.htmlhttps://www.techspot.com/news/84206-amazon-bans-more-than-million-products-over-false.html
Amazon this week told Reuters that it has banned the sale of more than a million products in recent weeks that claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus. Tens of thousands of additional listings attempting to price-gouge customers have also been taken down, the online retailer added.



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