Month: January 2022
Gaming-focused Chromebooks are in the works
Google’s ambitions for gaming-focused Chromebooks might be close to reality. After years of teasing Steam for Chrome OS and even Nvidia demoing support for DLSS and ray tracing on Arm-based Chromebooks, references to new gaming Chromebooks have now been spotted in test versions of Chrome OS. Google revealed two years…
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Studio Ghibli’s theme park to open in Japan on November 1st
A theme park based around the work of legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli will open on November 1st in Nagakute, Japan, the company’s official Twitter account has announced. Plans for the park, which shouldn’t be confused with the existing Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, were initially announced in 2017. Ghibli…
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Nvidia’s new tech could boost future GPU ray tracing performance by 20%
Audio player loading… Nvidia’s ray tracing prowess is set to level up with Team Green’s graphics cards in the future, with a research paper outlining a new tech called Subwarp Interleaving which could potentially lead to up to 20% performance improvements. That’s a big jump, of course – albeit a…
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Amazon has disbanded the Twitter army it paid to tweet about how great Amazon is
Amazon has shuttered a controversial influence campaign in which it paid workers to tweet about how much they love working at Amazon, reports The Financial Times. Employees at the retailer’s warehouses (which it calls fulfillment centers) were paid to share positive impressions about the company and to deny widely-reported workplace…
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Lamborghini releases its first NFT, which is the most Lamborghini thing ever
Lamborghini is accelerating into the world of the blockchain with the release of its first NFT (non-fungible token) next month. The Italian automaker, which is in the midst of an ambitious shift to hybrid and electric sports cars, announced that it would auction off a series of NFTs that it…
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BT to hire 600 apprentices and graduates in 2022
Audio player loading… BT is hiring more than 600 graduates and apprentices as part of its intake this September and is recruiting for roles across all divisions. There are positions available in engineering, customer service, applied research and cybersecurity, and will help the telco develop its services for consumers and…
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