Video coding is just about to get a whole lot more efficient. Fraunhofer HHI has officially released the H.266, or Versatile Video Coding (VVC), standard, which offers improved compression up to a rate of 50 percent over H.265 (HEVC).What it boils down to is a new,...
Mechanical hard disk drives are no longer in fashion as the primary storage medium in a gaming PC, but bulk HDDs still have their place. Primarily, they’re still the best option for bulk backups. They can also be instrumental in managing ever-expanding game...
Microsoft Flight Simulator will draw from air traffic data to simulate the skies exactly as they are, in real time. That’s according to a new video hosted by Asobo CEO Sebastian Wloch, which provides some details on how multiplayer will work.First of all, that...
A distributed computing project called [email protected] has suddenly risen to the height of the world’s fastest supercomputer, and beyond, as more people join the fight to find a cure for Covid-19. It’s now cranking out 470 petaflops of number-crunching...
