Category: personal computing

NVIDIA’s Reflex technology promises to reduce input lag on your PC

If you've ever tweaked the settings of a PC game like Overwatch, you've probably stumbled on resources detailing how features like v-sync and triple buffering can add input lag to your favorite games. In the simplest possible terms, input lag is a me… Source

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‘Airplane Mode’ will let you relive the monotony of economy class this fall

If you spend any time at all on social media, you may have seen how much people have fallen in love with Microsoft’s latest Flight Simulator release. And it’s easy to see why. Not only is it a well-made title, accidental 212-story monolith and all, b… Source

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Windows 10 can run apps from your Samsung phone

You’ll soon have access to your phone’s apps on your PC — if you have the right phone, at least. Microsoft is rolling out a Windows 10 Your Phone update with support for running mobile apps on your desktop, as promised when Samsung revealed the Galax… Source

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A typo created a 212-story monolith in ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’

Microsoft’s latest Flight Simulator entry doesn’t do anything small. It’s a title that comes on 10 DVDs and allows you to explore the world in almost its entirety. It turns out that scale even extends to its accidental inclusions. Flight Simulator us… Source

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‘Black Ops: Cold War’ is the next Call of Duty game.

After trying to make a statement about modern warfare, the Call of Duty franchise is returning to a more distant conflict. On Wednesday, series publisher Activision shared the first teaser for Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War (proper title punctuati… Source

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A ‘Firewatch’ movie is in the works, again

In a match made in indie heaven, the independent production house behind movies like Blindspotting and Little Monsters has acquired the movie and TV rights to 2016's Firewatch (via The Hollywood Reporter). This is the second time there's been news of… Source

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