Microsoft is continuing its push into Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming by announcing new low-cost Xbox streaming consoles and plans to push Xbox cloud gaming into smart TVs alongside Netflix. https://www.techhive.com/article/3620979/microsoft-xbox-cloud-charge-continues-with-smart-tvs-and-xbox-streaming-hardware.html#tk.rss_all
The Devolo Magic series of home networking products is based on the ITU G.hn standard widely embraced in Europe. https://www.techhive.com/article/3621769/devolo-introduces-new-hybrid-powerline-mesh-network-systems.html#tk.rss_all
Bumping up your resolution or screen size is great, but one of the most important aspects of gaming visuals come down to an essential issue: frame rates. The more frames your graphics card can push out each second, and that your monitor can display without tearing or stuttering, the better the gaming experience. Faster monitors provide a smoother experience during standard desktop usage as well.But did you know that high refresh rate monitors on Windows often don’t maximize their potential ou
Q: I know that buying a used graphics card comes with risk. What makes the gamble acceptable?A: The answer depends. While this purchasing strategy can save a lot of money, we generally advise against used desktop graphics cards. That’s especially so during times like these, when the risk of getting a GPU battered by crypto-mining use is much higher. As my colleague Brad Chacos, our resident GPU guru, likes to point out, discrete graphics cards have a lot of moving parts, and they’re easy to o
Whether you’ve got to put together some lessons for a piece of software or you’re working on capturing a highlight reel to show off to your Discord community, you’re wondering how to video record your screen and doing so has never been easier. The Xbox Game Bar for Windows 10 is here to help.What is the Xbox Game Bar? The Xbox Game Bar is primarily a gaming overlay that allows you to access screen capture and recording tools as well as Xbox social tools without having to tab or close out of y
Nvidia’s $600 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a good graphics card for what it does. But if we weren’t in the middle of a crippling GPU shortage, it’d be hard to recommend.While the ferocious RTX 3080 Ti we reviewed last week bears more resemblance to Nvidia’s flagship 3090 than the graphics card that shares its name, the spec sheet shows that the new RTX 3070 Ti wields only a slightly more powerful GPU than the vanilla 3070. That modest uplift proved true across our gaming benchmarks even after Nvidi
Garmin announced Wednesday that one of PCWorld’s favorite line of dash cams has been upgraded with phone and cloud connectivity. The new dash cams, which are available immediately via garmin.com, include the 1080p Dash Cam Mini 2, the 1080p Dash Cam 47, the 1440p Dash Cam 57, and the 1440p, wide-field-of-view 67W.All except the appropriately named, key-fob-sized Mini 2 feature GPS and a two-inch color display. The Mini 2 is priced at $130, and the top-end 67W at $260.Due to the newfound conne
There’s enough good television entertainment on this streaming service to justify subscribing for at least a few months. https://www.techhive.com/article/3621403/whats-on-paramount-plus-the-10-best-tv-shows.html#tk.rss_all
Alas, erratic performance mars a security camera that aims for the top shelf. https://www.techhive.com/article/3621406/swann-xtreem-review.html#tk.rss_all
In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray blitz through all the news out of Computex, including AMD’s announcement of Zen 3 APUs and a launch date for FidelityFX Super Resolution; Nvidia’s reveal of the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti; Intel’s surprise unveiling of a new gaming mini-PC (kinda); and more.First up is AMD, which dished out much for gamers to look forward to during its 40 minute presentation. The reveals came and furious: the launc