Facebook, Google and others come together to set benchmarks for AI

A consortium of 40 tech companies, including the likes of Facebook and Google, have come together to release a set of evaluation benchmarks for AI. By measuring AI products against these benchmarks, companies in the field will be able to identify opt...

Huawei was caught cheating on phone benchmarks

You'd think smartphone manufacturers would have learned their lesson after being caught cheating multiple times, but that's apparently not the case. UL Benchmarks (aka the Futuremark team) has delisted Huawei's P20 Pro, P20, Nova 3 and Honor Play fro...

VRMark will tell you if your PC is ready for Virtual Reality

Oculus and Valve's own virtual reality compatibility tests will tell you if your PC is VR-ready, but how ready is a bit of a specification guessing game. Will you be able to run games at their maximum settings, or are you just going to scrape past vi...

The Risk Management Race Goes To Nvidia GPUs


A combination of two NVIDIA GPUs and 2 Intel Xeon E5-2660 @ 2.20GHz (SandyBridge) CPUs was six times faster in a risk management benchmark then CPUs alone. The Securities Technology Analysis Center (...
    






Apple Closes 2013 In Grand Fashion With Truly Innovative, Easy-To-Service Mac Pro


When the cylinder-shaped Mac Pro was announced back in October many scoffed that it was just another glitzy, even odd Apple product, that was no doubt over-priced for what it could potentially...
    






iPad Air Shows Superb Criteria


Apple Incorporated’s latest iPad beats its predecessors hands down. The benchmarks all show that the iPad Air shows close to a 90% improvement over last year’s versions. And the A7 processor it...