During the NAB 2017 event, Intel has announced a spruced-up Visual Computer Accelerator, the second of its kind, to take video-crunching to the cloud. With HD and UHD Video workloads in mind, the Visual Compute Accelerator 2  (VCA 2) has been designed with the purpose of creating smooth real-time UHD …

A year, almost to the day, after launching the original Radeon Pro Duo dual-chip workstation-class graphics card, AMD has announced a refresh to its professional line-up. During the NAB 2017 show (an event for the broadcasting industry) in Las Vegas yesterday, AMD announced a new version of the Radeon Pro Duo …

Finding a good NAS system for business can be an important task. Fortunately, it looks like QNAP is pumping out quite a few at the moment. This month, QNAP Systems has introduced three new models, the TVS-1282T3, which focusses on transferring media across Mac and Windows, the TS-431X- a four …

Inside is a quad-core processor, professional NVIDIA Quadro graphics, and two storage devices. Its less than 2kg.

Maker aficionados of the Windows 10 IoT Core persuasion will be happy to know that Cortana has landed. The Windows 10 Creators Update milestone has delivered on a number of new features, including the Cortana voice assistant, which can now be used by makers in their Windows 10 IoT implementations. …

We reviewed Drobo's 5N home/SOHO 5-bay tower NAS last year and now the next generation 5N, the 5N2 has arrived. Drobo claim it's their fastest 5-bay NAS to date with a more powerful processor than the original as well as an additional LAN port to offer improved network performance and …

The DiskStation DS916+ is the latest addition to the the Synology Plus product line aimed at Workgroups and Small & Medium Business users. The 4-Bay DS916+ features a Quad-core Intel processor and expandable memory. Powered by an Intel Pentium N3710 processor clocked at 1.6GHz (burst up to 2.56GHz) the DiskStation DS916+ …

We increasingly live in a surveillance society. But whereas a few years ago this was “them” looking at “us” through fixed street cameras, nowadays everyone is looking at everyone, and the cameras are completely mobile. For the everyday consumer, this will most likely be via your smartphone. But if you're …

Buffalo's MiniStation Velocity range is the flagship of company's portable SSD range of storage drives. Based around an SSD drive, the MiniStation Velocity uses a USB 3.1 (Gen 2) interface and Buffalo claim it to be the slimmest portable SSD of its class at just 8.8mm thick. The 960GB drive is …

Earlier this week, Intel held its own ‘tech day' during which it went over various technologies it is currently working on. One of the major points of the presentation was the upcoming 10nm process node, which Intel claims is a ‘full generation ahead' of the 10nm technology competing chip makers are …

Its less than £600, its 4K, and its 32 inches. Its also got good colour accuracy.

Back in January, we started coming across the first rumours surrounding Intel's next HEDT CPU launch. At the time, we heard that Skylake X and the X299 platform would be launching in August but it seems that things might be further along than we thought as this week, AIDA 64 …

Just last week, Intel kicked off its rollout of Optane products, featuring its long in development 3D XPoint technology. It all began with the Optane DX P4800X SSD for data centres but this week, Intel is launching something more consumer-oriented. In April, Intel will begin shipping Optane Memory in 16GB …

It looks like Qualcomm and Microsoft are teaming up this year to bring huge performance gains to the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform. This newly announced partnership will see the Azure Cloud boosted by Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 platform, which is now powered by 10 nanometer processors, though this particular collaboration should …

This 500 watt unit is ideal for placement in servers or workstations in small business environments.

Snapchat has released a more cautious valuation than expected ahead of its planned public offering and a key investor roadshow set to take place in London on Monday, 20th February. While expected to pitch itself at as much as $25 billion, it instead suggested the company was worth somewhere between …

The TS3210DN is an entry level 2 bay model and is aimed at small business and SOHO users.

Toshiba has confirmed earlier rumours that it would spin off its chip manufacturing business into its own entity. The move will see it seek outside investment to the tune of a 20 per cent stake in the newly independent venture. It's hoped this will help offset major losses in its …

Toshiba may be planning to spin off its chip manufacturing business into its own entity. Rumours suggest that the move may also see Toshiba sell off a 20 per cent stake in the newly independent venture, which would generate around 200 billion yen (£1.4 billion). Toshiba has its fingers in …

Playdead, the developer behind hit indie side-scrollers Inside and Limbo, has teased its next project and it has a similar theme. Dark, shadowy and without much colour, the new game has an art style that should be familiar to anyone who has played Playdead's previous titles, though how it may …

Satellite navigation device maker TomTom, has purchased an autonomous vehicle developer. The Berlin based startup is aptly named, Autonomous and has previously provided research and development consultancy services for a number of automated vehicle systems around the world. Although TomTom is most well known for its navigational systems, it has …

Designed as an affordable and powerful NAS, the 2-bay TS-231P is the mid-range model of QNAP's latest family of NAS drives aimed at SOHO/Home use, the TS-x31P series. It's sandwiched between the single bay TS-131P and the flagship 4-bay TS-431P. All three models in the range are powered by an …

QNAP's latest TVS NAS series, the TVS-473 sits under the company's SMB midrange label and is available as four, six and eight-bay units. The TVS-473 is the 4-bay entry level model of the series; a 4-bay NAS that so packed full of features it can be used for just about …

Following news that months have gone by without many of Crytek's employees being paid at all, the long-time video game company has now announced that it is closing five of its seven studios. While Frankfurt and Kiev-based studios will remain, those in Hungary, Bulgaria, South Korea, China and Turkey will …

Non-profit AI research initiative, OpenAI, has announced a new platform for measuring and training artificial intelligence (AI) that uses games and websites that humans use. It's designed to teach them to learn like we do, through experiences and the usage of tools like the classic keyboard and mouse. Known as …

Although most enthusiasts have thrown some LED fans in their PC at some point in their gaming career, if you want to really customise the look of your case's interior, light strips are the way to go. CableMod's new Widebeam Hybrid LED strips offer a new, multi-purpose lighting solution, with …

Blizzard might have a lot of popular games available to play right now, but only one of them is in the first person perspective: Overwatch. However that may not be the case forever, as it's now created two new job listings for software engineers for an unannounced project built using …

Looking to upgrade your business networked storage and back up solution? QNAP's new quad-core, 16-bay, twin 10 GbE SFP+ NAS is now available and it comes packing a whole host of features. With support for up to 16GB of internal RAM, hardware accelerated encryption and support for all of QNAP's …

As much as roomscale tracking in virtual reality has opened up many doors in terms of the types of games we can play, the difficulty presented by restrictions in real world space is very much apparent in many contemporary releases. IronWolf VR looks to fix that with some unique locomotion …

Microsoft has made another large investment in clean energy by signing two new agreements to purchase additional wind power. These deals will see it acquire a further 237 megawatts of green energy, nearly doubling its total to 500 megawatts. Microsoft considers this another step on the road to making its …