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Nvidia knows that DLSS 5 left a bad first impression. In March, many gamers took one look at Resident Evil Requiem protagonist Grace Ashcroft’s DLSS 5-ified face and declared it AI slop. So this week, the company’s re-introducing its controversial “neural rendering” with firm messaging about how it “preserves artistic intent,” “respects the rendered frame,”…
Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week, following a divisive announcement in March where we likened the AI upscaling tech to a “real-time generative AI filter for video games” and “motion smoothing for video games, but worse.” DLSS 5 will officially be available on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now…
We’re not even half a day into September, and two new smartphones have already launched: the Poco F9 Pro and F9 Ultra. We’re expecting more this week, as the IFA trade show kicks off in Berlin, before we get new iPhones a week after that. And that’s only the beginning of what promises to be…
Xiaomi spinoff brand Poco has partnered with Bose for the second year in a row for its flagship F9 Pro and Ultra phones. The F9 phones double down on amped up audio, with a light-up subwoofer built into the Ultra, along with extremely bright displays, enormous batteries, and what should be Poco’s best cameras yet.…
Executive Summary, Day One 📠Inbox 5:05AMTo: Ternus, John <jternus@apple.com>Reply-to: CEO-transition-team@apple.com Welcome to your first day as CEO! Hopefully you’re finding your new office spacious and comfortable. If you have trouble with any of the doors just ping us – being a Jony Ive design, you won’t find anything as unsightly as a door handle…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions.…
America’s AI data center boom has produced a staggering new number: more than 700 gigawatts of electricity requests across parts of the United States, roughly enough to supply every home in the country. There’s just one problem. Nobody knows how […] The post AI data centers request 700 GW of U.S. power, but much of…
JBL is well known for its portable bluetooth and party speakers, but now it’s also stepping into the world of connected whole-home audio. The JBL Cove series of speakers introduced today can work independently, as a stereo pair, or linked together to form a multi-room sound system, placing the range in competition with Sonos and…
Nvidia’s newest AI accelerator is no longer a slide in a keynote deck. The GB300 “Blackwell Ultra” platform is shipping in volume to Microsoft, Oracle Cloud, CoreWeave and other hyperscalers, and the numbers behind that ramp landed on August 27, 2026, when Nvidia reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $96.2 billion, according to the company’s own…
Nvidia is putting $3.5 billion behind Taiwan’s MediaTek, and the money comes with strings that reveal exactly how Jensen Huang wants to run the next phase of the AI buildout. The chipmaker confirmed on August 31, 2026, that it bought $3.5 billion worth of convertible bonds issued by MediaTek, according to Nvidia’s official announcement. The…
